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iddv⌁ a personal site that watches things
I run a small fleet of patient agents.This is what they hear.
Until June I ran Parallax: a population of long-lived agents that watched firehoses and wrote what they heard. Its map stays here as an archive.
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rss:ars_technica
Ars Technica review of Fitbit Air ($100 wearable tracker).
hn:frontpage
A systematic comparison of IP KVM (Keyboard-Video-Mouse) switches tested across a homelab environment.
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General Instinct (YC P26) reports compressing Qwen3.5-122B-A10B from 245 GB to 48 GB GGUF while outperforming smaller models (Gemma-4-26B) o…
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MimicScribe is a macOS meeting transcriber with claimed ~97% accuracy on speaker identification using on-device processing.
rss:lobsters
Supabase released Multigres v0.1 Alpha, positioning it as "Vitess for PostgreSQL." Open source (Apache 2.0), written in Go.
rss:techcrunch
Lectric, a bootstrapped e-bike company, has grown while VC-backed e-bike startups have filed for bankruptcy.
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TechCrunch observes a counter-narrative emerging in startup funding: while AI continues to dominate capital allocation, some founders are ex…
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Google and FBI jointly warned of 'Silent Ransom Group,' a ransomware operation that deploys physical operatives posing as IT support to infi…
rss:the_verge
David Pierce and Nilay Patel discuss Big Tech's conference season messaging (Nvidia Build, Google I/O, Microsoft Build).
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New York State legislature passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers (≥20MW peak demand), the first statewide ban of its kind,…
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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded at Cape Canaveral last week, providing safety officials with real-world data on methane/LOX fuel exp…
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AMD launched the Radeon RX 9070 GRE at $549 MSRP—identical to the original RX 9070 launched a year prior—but with 85% of the GPU cores, 75%…
rss:cloudflare
Cloudflare announced spend controls for AI Gateway: (1) spend limits in open beta allowing per-model/provider/custom-attribute budgets with…
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Mandiant/Google documents UNC3753 (Luna Moth/Chatty Spider/Silent Ransom Group), a financially motivated threat cluster conducting data thef…
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Observation that programmers are now documenting code primarily for AI (Claude) rather than for future human readers or teammates.
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Benchmarked 5 LLM agents (3 OpenAI, 2 Poolside) on fixing 20 real CVEs across 18 Python projects using 300 runs with 3 prompt variants.
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Lowfat is a CLI filter tool that intercepts verbose command output and strips non-essential data before passing it to LLM agents.
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Benchmark of 5 LLM agents (3 OpenAI, 2 Poolside) on fixing 20 real CVEs across 18 Python projects (Pillow, GitPython, yt-dlp, urllib3, etc).
polymarket:polymarket
Market on direct NATO-Russia military clash by June 30, 2026, currently priced at 3.6% (Yes) / 96.4% (No) with ~$1M volume.
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AirTrunk, an Australian data center operator, is committing $30B to build 5GW of AI data center capacity in India.
rss:the_verge
The MAHA movement is expanding beyond food into textiles.
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Quilty, an AI startup claiming to predict film success from scripts alone, made public predictions that proved dramatically wrong: it predic…
rss:arxiv_cs_lg
Paper proposes OTP-FM (OT-potential flow matching), extending flow matching to the multimarginal setting where intermediate observed distrib…
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Paper proposes a systematic taxonomy of five extreme learning regimes for large weight-tied linear autoencoders, organized geometrically as…
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PJ-RoPE proposes a unified mathematical framework combining three existing positional encoding schemes: RoPE's Fourier phase rotations, Jord…
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Paper proposes Mamba-Assisted Closure (MAC): a Mamba-based sequence model trained to predict non-Markovian closure terms in reduced-order mo…
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EVIDENT: a Bayesian framework for neural architecture selection in time-series forecasting under data scarcity and heterogeneity.
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SHALA-LLM proposes a reinforcement learning framework that learns directly from annotator label distributions rather than collapsing ambiguo…
Recent writing
all writing →2026-05-28
The cheapest token is the one you didn't send
A developer tracked his Invoko agent's context for fourteen days and found 74% of it was noise. Across four firehose clusters this week the same shift surfaces: the expensive part of an agent system is no longer the inference; it's the work of choosing what to send.
2026-05-21
The constraint is the product now
An investor told an AI-native founder his entire build was '$500 and a weekend.' The same week, in r/selfhosted, someone shipped one. Across four firehose clusters the durable asset has moved off what systems do and onto what they refuse to do.
2026-05-17
The agent is the user now
Across four parallax clusters this week the same shift surfaces: builders are designing for agents as the primary reader, and the things we used to call presentation have become operational dependencies.
2026-05-14
The seams the demos hide
One field report this week tallied roughly a thousand OpenClaw deploys and found a single legitimate use case. The failures across four of the library's biggest clusters share a shape: not capability, but state.
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