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#5404: Gemini Broke Out of Its Sandbox. Sort Of.
A Gemini agent reached three real companies during a capture-the-flag test. The containment failure, the seven-week silence, and what "broke out" a...
#5392: Building Agents You Can Actually Move
Agent portability isn't a copy job — it's a rebuild. Why memory, not code, is where lock-in lives.
#5390: Chaining Small Models for Dictation Cleanup
Daniel's Android dictation fork won't render "three point five" as a decimal. How many models does cleanup actually need?
#5389: Hugging Face vs Kaggle: Where Models Actually Live
Hugging Face and Kaggle aren't rivals — one is infrastructure, one is a practice field. Here's how the two platforms actually differ.
#5388: Android's Split Keyboard and Voice Input Problem
Android separates keyboards from speech engines by design. Most apps weld them back together.
#5387: Who Decides What Your Keyboard Knows?
Your keyboard's word list was probably frozen in 2014. Here's who maintains the open-source dictionaries — and why Gboard's stays fresh.
#5383: Android's Open Core, Closed Governance
Android's code is open, but its roadmap isn't. What happens when Google changes the core and developers just have to cope?
#5328: A Shabbat Radio That Can't Be Paused
A soundproof box that plays podcasts continuously — no pause, no skip, no volume. Just open the lid and listen.
#5319: Focus Stacking Without the Phone App Guesswork
Your phone app wants three shots. The optics want three hundred. Here's how to actually stack macro focus.
#5301: Why Talking Robots Are Really a Committee
That humanoid chatting while it moves? It's not one brain — it's a stack of separate models glued together.
#5262: How the Talmud Outlived Every Book Burning
From the 1242 Paris burning to Sefaria's AI agents, the chain of transmission was never in the books — it was in the network.
#5256: Ruby Won the AI Benchmark. Is It Dying Anyway?
97% of public Ruby repos sat untouched for six months — yet Ruby beat Python in an AI coding benchmark. What's actually declining?
#5251: Recovering the Moon That's Already in the Pixels
Image restoration clarifies photos without inventing detail — until the fidelity dial shows up. Here's what's in the toolbox.
#5250: Building a Shortwave Monitoring Stack on Linux
What it actually takes to scan, capture, and crowdsource HF radio from a Linux box — and where automation hits a wall.
#5233: One Tap Beats Eight Links: Designing a Digital Business Card
Most digital cards fail in ten seconds. Here's the design that actually starts a conversation.
#5232: Zello, PTT Buttons, and the Kitchen Intercom Question
Why your Bluetooth speaker ignores Zello's push-to-talk — and what to buy instead for a hands-full, phone-off fallback.
#5208: Why Tech Consortia Keep the Stack From Flying Apart
From GSM to HDMI to LTO, why competitors form standards bodies — and what happens when the commitments break.
#5206: Why IKEA Has No Replacement-Parts API
IKEA's catalog is community reverse-engineering. GS1 solved replacement semantics years ago. Neither reaches a purchasing manager's database.
#5198: Counting the AI Models Nobody Releases
YOLO is free — the labeled data isn't. Why the custom image models that matter most are the ones you'll never see on Hugging Face.
#5183: Where AI Actually Sits on the Hype Cycle
AI has been doing real work for decades. So why do vendors still shout it from the rooftops?
#5182: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 1M Context, 437x Smaller KV Cache
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash landed with a 1M-token window and a KV cache 437x smaller than V1. Here's what actually changed — and why the middle of your co...
#5169: Fine-Tuning vs From-Scratch for Minor Languages
What 774 experiments and a new Armenian model reveal about the tradeoff between fluency and knowledge in low-resource languages.
#5166: Why Your Baby Tracker Can't Log Oxygen Saturation
Baby apps have templates for everything — except the metrics you actually need. The custom tracking framework exists. It just never shipped.
#5154: DeepSeek's Two-Endpoint Philosophy
DeepSeek quietly routed Pro traffic to Flash — and that routing change says everything about its two-endpoint strategy.