Why there’s no European Google? – And why it is a good thing!
Via lobste.rs:
You are not even trying. When you try alternative such as Comaps, you discover that there are many many ways in which Google Maps sucks: ever tried planning bikepacking trips or walking treks with Google Maps? Ever used Google Maps in a forest? It sucks. Every solutions shines in a given context. Saying "but Google Maps is superior" is simply false. The fact that most people, including those in tech, cannot see it is a huge problem.
How to Think About Asia in 2026.
Asia is no longer primarily an arena – it is an actor (or a set of actors) capable to effect change not just in Asia, but around the world.
Naaaa!1.
Build a better mousetrap. Have an enviable marriage. Start a country. No one is born with it, everyone can learn it, and it’s never too late.
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Not another article about AI. ↩
“An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me.”
An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.
buntesAT ist eine Monatszeitschrift, die in Österreich produziert wird. Schwerpunkt der Zeitschrift ist die Sichtbarmachung von unterrepräsentierten Menschen, Themen und Meinungen im Land.
AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder for Developers.
Reading and understanding other people's code is much harder than writing code. AI-generated code is other people's code. So we've taken the part developers are good at (writing), offloaded it to a machine, and left ourselves with the part that's harder (reading and reviewing), but without the context we'd normally build up by doing the writing ourselves.
I had no idea Nigerian Funk is such a cool thing1.
Peter Abdul: Don’t you know.
Relevant: Ibibo Sound Machine.
Note to self: I should add the CommonMark footnotes extension…
…and a stunning website operating system! 😲
We make dev tools for product engineers.