Open-Source
A $4 ESP32 can now see you breathe through walls — and that's both a miracle and a problem
The README line that made me put down my coffee
There’s a GitHub project that surfaced on r/github this week, and it opens with a sentence that reads like it was written by someone who has fully understood the implications of what they built and decided to lead with the facts:
“Turn any …
Stack Overflow lost 99% of its questions — and the reason is more uncomfortable than 'AI killed it'
The number that made me stop scrolling
There’s a chart that’s been making the rounds on r/programming this week, and I’ve now looked at it maybe forty times, and it still does something unpleasant to my stomach every single time.
The number at the top of the story is this: Stack …
DeepSeek V4 Pro and the harness that ships with it — open weights aren't enough anymore
The day a model launch stopped being just a model launch
Yesterday, DeepSeek dropped V4 Pro, and the most interesting part wasn’t the model. That’s a strange sentence to write, because on paper the model is genuinely impressive: a Mixture-of-Experts behemoth with 1.6 trillion total …
Should open source ban AI? The r/opensource debate and the copyright question nobody can answer
The moderators had to ask
There’s a pinned post on r/opensource right now that reads like a community bracing for a flood. The moderators are asking the subreddit to define a policy on AI-assisted contributions — specifically the thing everyone now calls “vibe-coding” — and the …
Thermite SIMD — write your kernel once, let Rust melt every CPU you own
“Melt your CPU” is a joke. The library is not.
I have a soft spot for projects whose tagline is slightly unhinged. Thermite SIMD, a Rust library that popped up on r/rust this week, describes itself with four words: “Melt your CPU.” The README then immediately clarifies that …
Redis → Valkey: the exodus has begun — and it's bigger than a database migration
The moment the dam broke
On March 20, 2024, Redis Ltd. announced that Redis would no longer be released under the BSD license. Future versions would use a dual license: the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and the Server Side Public License (SSPLv1). The blog post framed it as a natural …
Stop speaking Claudish, Claude — a plugin that translates AI verbosity into plain English
The problem everyone feels but nobody names
There’s a moment in every Claude Code session where I want to throw my laptop out the window. It’s not when Claude gets something wrong — errors are fine, errors are fixable. It’s when Claude gets something right but takes three …
The Open Source Endowment — a $750K bet that FOSS doesn't need VC money
The problem we’ve been pretending doesn’t exist
Open source has a funding problem. Not a small one. A structural one.
The numbers are absurd. cURL — probably the most deployed HTTP client in human history, running on billions of devices — was maintained by one person, Daniel Stenberg, …
Rust banned LLM-generated code — and it's the right call
The news
On August 5, 2026, five teams in the Rust project adopted a policy governing how Large Language Models can be used when contributing to rust-lang/rust. The TL;DR: LLMs are fine for asking questions, analyzing, distilling, reviewing. But not to create.
The policy doesn’t ban LLMs …