Russ Cox

swtch.com

21 October 2026 14:59

Happy Global Encryption Day to those who celebrate. This year's events are brought to you by the number 4 and its friends 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, and 237. I'm glad we got everything patched yesterday and can sit back and relax today.

Russ Cox

swtch.com

15 October 2026 17:10

Me: would this idea work? Kimi: Yes — and it’s a much better idea than it has any right to be.

Firefox for Web Developers

webdevs.firefox.com

13 October 2026 13:51

Firefox 158 landed today! For web devs: 🎉 JPEG XL support, including full progressive rendering. 🎉 'navigate' on notifications, so they can go to a URL without firing events. 🎉 WebGPU's float32-blendable 🎉 WebGL's EXT_polygon_offset_clamp And more! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/M...

A. H. Zakai

kripken.com

11 October 2026 23:13

Even with a stage 3 trial + a Lean proof of some new drug, we want humans to do some checking. Not necessarily to 100% understand the entire proof or the entire drug mechanism. But to carefully rule out large misalignment risks. Some amount of human understanding remains critical.

L. David Baron

dbaron.org

09 October 2026 12:45

I think it counts as bad planning when an elementary school does picture day photos after lunch on a day when the school lunch was spaghetti and meatballs and marinara sauce. (...looks at a few tomato stains on kid's shirt a little below the collar...) (I'm sure planning this stuff is hard...)