1. Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
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Zed released Claude Code integration in public beta using its new Agent Client Protocol (ACP), letting Claude Code run inside Zed as an ACP-compatible agent. ACP is an open standard to connect agents to editors. A Claude Code adapter wraps its SDK to ACP’s JSON RPC, so Claude Code runs as a separate process with Zed’s UI and can co-exist with Gemini CLI and other ACP agents. The adapter is open-sourced under Apache. Neovim support via CodeCompanion is planned. More features (Plan mode, etc.) are coming as Anthropic expands SDK. Download Zed on macOS/Linux and try beta.
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The author praises Zed’s native Claude support, noting they previously used a workaround. They find Zed’s AI autocomplete weaker than Cursor’s (formerly SuperMaven), with Cursor delivering more accurate predictions and file search. They’re encouraged by Zed’s funding from Sequoia, which could foster real competition to Cursor and promote a high-quality IDE not based on VSCode.
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A reader is weighing editors (Zed, Helix, Vim modes). Zed appeals, but Helix feels immature; Vim mode is tempting, yet they can’t abandon Helix, especially after tweaking Helix’s input config. They compare current editor choices to pre-LSP days that focused on language features, and suggest a universal editor interface to support common editing primitives across editors, aiming to reduce friction when adopting new tools.
2. Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources
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Nuclear is a free, open-source desktop music player that streams from free online sources and offers a GUI, akin to mps-youtube but with a larger free library. The project provides official site, downloads, docs, and support channels, plus a place to submit feedback and vote on features. It is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 or later and uses SponsorBlock data under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Localization is managed via Crowdin, with development and contribution guidelines available for contributors.
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The article notes that the main website’s testimonials are unusual and directs readers to https://nuclearplayer.com/.
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The author argues that criticisms of Electron are vague and outdated, noting that claims of high memory usage or it being “just a browser” are no longer accurate since Electron’s memory has improved. They tested Nuclear (AppImage) and experienced an immediate 300MB RAM hit, concluding they’ll pass on it.
3. Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels
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Researchers explored whether frontier AI models can automatically generate optimized Metal GPU kernels for Apple devices to speed up ML inference. Using 8 models from Anthropic, DeepSeek, and OpenAI, they generated kernels for 215 PyTorch modules from KernelBench (31 unsupported by MPS excluded). Across the set, AI-generated Metal kernels achieved about 1.87x speedup vs baseline PyTorch, with some workloads hundreds of times faster. GPT-5 delivered notable Level-2 gains (4.65x on a Mamba 25 model); one o3 case reached 9000x latency reduction. Autonomous kernel optimization appears feasible and nearly instant, though not always faster.
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The article argues that unoptimized PyTorch inference isn’t indicative of deployed performance; models with custom kernels, whether handcrafted or AI-generated, are faster. PyTorch inference is suited for training and metrics, not deployment. For deployment, export to ONNX and compile it to the device’s native format. If you’re unfamiliar with ML deployment, this parallels the difference between interpreted and compiled code.
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The passage expresses curiosity about how AI-generated kernels would compare to kernels produced by the TinyGrad project on GitHub.
4. Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1
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Microsoft BASIC for the 6502 microprocessor, Version 1.1, is the complete assembly source code for an early, pivotal software piece. Developed by Microsoft circa 1976–1978, it includes conditional compilation for multiple pioneering systems and a detailed revision history showing active development. The source underpins the early personal computer era, shaping techniques, patterns, and business models that influenced the modern software industry. This document is a landmark in computing history, helping launch the PC revolution and establishing Microsoft as a software industry leader.
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An Easter egg named ‘WAIT 6502,X’ is hidden in the code. The message ‘MICROSOFT!’ is printed by lines 6530–6539, and line 4914 contains the logic that checks the address passed to WAIT to trigger the print. The concealment is subtle, so a source licensee wouldn’t spot it with a quick skim. The article cites a footnote linking to pagetable.com for more details.
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The piece humorously notes that the project’s initial commit dates back 48 years.
5. We’re Joining OpenAI
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Daniel and Alex announce joining OpenAI’s Codex team, moving from building Cursor for Xcode to scaling with Codex. They celebrate creating the best coding agent for iOS/macOS and express pride in their work. They will continue servicing existing users but will stop new downloads on October 1, with no new features. They thank beta users, customers, investors, and the Apple developer community, and note Codex CLI.
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A reader who doesn’t use “Alex” says this issue won’t affect them, but notes OpenAI’s plan to keep serving users. The reader then asks how many months it will take before OpenAI no longer feels the impact.
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The piece argues that given current conditions, starting a company and getting acquired (an aquihire) is more viable than applying for traditional jobs. It also critiques OpenAI, likening its rapid progress to Facebook’s early phase and suggesting they may be running out of new ideas.
6. Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)
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This blog recounts building a 500-line Python C compiler with a single-pass design: emit code while parsing, no ASTs or multi-pass IR. It targets WebAssembly, despite quirks like blocks instead of goto and the need for an in-memory stack alongside WASM’s stack. It implements a meaningful subset of C; many features are omitted, and the c-testsuite passes 34 of 220 tests. The post outlines architecture, what was cut, and representative code (e.g., prefix ~ parsing produces instructions directly) to keep the code approachable.
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I can’t access the linked article’s content from here, so I can’t provide an accurate summary without the text. If you paste the article or its main points, I’ll summarize in under 100 words. Alternatively, I can offer a generic brief: it discusses building a tiny C-like compiler in 500 lines of Python, covering a compact compiler pipeline (lexer, parser, AST, code generator) and the trade-offs of such a lean implementation.
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The article clearly breaks down compiler concepts, giving the author confidence they could write a C compiler for AVR, though it’s likely not easy. It also notes that learning about compilers feels surprisingly akin to studying linguistics.
7. Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example
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The article presents a transparent visualization of Transformer internals using a deliberately simplified model and dataset. A decoder-only model with 2 layers, 2 attention heads, 20-d embeddings, and about 10k parameters is trained on 94 words and 7 validation words (fruits and tastes). After 10k steps it achieves low loss and correctly predicts “chili” after “i like spicy so i like.” Visualizations render each token’s 20-d embedding as stacks of boxes to show layer-wise transformations and attention. The dataset/code are MIT-licensed.
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The reviewer was excited by the opening but didn’t gain any new understanding. They started with only a basic grasp: what embeddings are, that transformers operate via matrix multiplication, and that models resemble a multi-threaded Markov-chain generator with pretrained embeddings.
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The author promotes a recent article on LLMs, saying they read it in full and understood it completely. They reference a Hacker News discussion titled “How can AI ID a cat?” and provide the link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44964800.
8. Poor man’s bitemporal data system in SQLite and Clojure
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Aditya Athalye’s post experiments with fusing SQLite, Clojure, and ideas from Datomic/XTDB to build a “poor man’s” bitemporal DB, as a playful antidote to overengineering. Dubbed a WIP, it riffs on Henderson’s Tenth Law: any sufficiently complex data system ends up with an ad-hoc, slow half-implemented bitemporal layer. He argues for a proper time-oriented data model and sketches a general approach using an EAV-like schema with a time dimension, treating all data as part of evolving processes. The takeaway: accountants were right; imitate their disciplined, time-aware methods.
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The author, citing their domain experience, calls bitemporality uninteresting and criticizes the push to realize a fetch-as-of capability.
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The piece laments Clojure’s hermeticity and argues that bitemporality deserves more attention. It notes how often one needs to query historical results (for example, P&L for March using data available on Apr 4) and laments the scarcity of database designs that support such time-aware queries.
9. VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model
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VibeVoice enables expressive, long-form, multi-speaker audio from text (e.g., podcasts). It tackles scalability, speaker consistency, and natural turn-taking in TTS. Its core innovation is continuous speech tokenizers (Acoustic and Semantic) at 7.5 Hz, preserving fidelity while boosting efficiency for long sequences. A next-token diffusion framework uses an LLM to capture context and dialogue flow, with a diffusion head delivering high-fidelity acoustics. It can synthesize up to 90 minutes with four speakers, surpassing typical 1–2 speaker limits. Timestamps derived from audio may contain errors.
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Although comments praised the voices as life-like, the reviewer found the samples underwhelming. The voices are decent but suffer from off intonation and robotic modulation; while better than older TTS, they’re not convincing today. The AI voice popular on YouTube Shorts is at least as good as most samples. The only impressive part is the English–Mandarin sample, which switches languages smoothly, though judgments are hindered by unfamiliarity with Chinese pronunciation and different writing systems. The singing component is especially painful and questioned in purpose.
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The text envisions Microsoft naming an open-source coding agent “Microsoft VibeCode,” and/or pairing “Lo” with “Phi” to form “Lo Phi” for “Vibe code.” It also links to Microsoft’s Phi4 blog post, which introduces Phi, the company’s newest, smallest language model focused on code completions.
10. What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
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An article notes that the term “batfished” was coined from a paper to describe the misperception of subjectivity in AI. Batfishing is defined as being fooled into ascribing consciousness to non-sentient actors (AI), highlighting anthropomorphization of machines. The piece links to a related article on partiallyexaminedlife.com titled “What is it like to be batfished” (2025-06-30).
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The piece uses Vonnegut’s edge-of-reality idea to argue that true understanding of being may require nearly becoming something else (a bat). It then references Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire, where imago-machines merge with others’ identities, creating not a simple sum of selves but a new person containing a lineage of selves—revealing selfhood as a multilevel, composite phenomenon.