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Thoughts on the job market in the age of LLMs

The job market for AI professionals is challenging due to the high demand for senior talent and the importance of proving oneself as a junior employee. Hiring practices in AI are constantly evolving with the complexity and pace of progress in language models. Open-source contributions and meaningful.. read more  

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Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker

Go’s linker stitches together object files from each package, wires up symbols across imports, lays out memory, and patches relocations. It strips dead code, merges duplicate data by content hash, and spits out binaries that boot clean - with W^X memory segments and hooks into the runtime... read more  

Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker
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The State of Java on Kubernetes 2026: Why Defaults are Killing Your Performance

Akamas just dropped fresh numbers: over60% of Java apps running on Kubernetesstick with default JVM settings. That means sluggish memory use, GC thrash, and CPUs getting choked out. Even with "container-friendly" Java builds out there, most teams still skip setting GC types or heap sizes. Kubernetes.. read more  

The State of Java on Kubernetes 2026: Why Defaults are Killing Your Performance
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Migrating from Slurm to Kubernetes

SkyPilot drops a clean interface that blendsSlurmwithKubernetes. AI/ML teams get to keep their Slurm-style comforts - job scripts, gang scheduling, GPU guarantees, interactive workflows - but pick up Kubernetes perks like container isolation and rich ecosystem hooks. It handles the messy bits: pods,.. read more  

Migrating from Slurm to Kubernetes
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Zero-Downtime Ingress Controller Migration in Kubernetes

Ingress-nginxis heading for the exits - end-of-life drops March 2026. That puts Kubernetes operators on the hook to swap in a new ingress controller. The migration path? Run both old and new in parallel. Use DNS cutover. Point explicitly with Ingress classes. Done right, the switchover hits zero dow.. read more  

Zero-Downtime Ingress Controller Migration in Kubernetes
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LLMs on Kubernetes: Same Cluster, Different Threat Model

Running LLMs on Kubernetes opens up a new can of worms - stuff infra hardening won’t catch. You need a policy-smart gateway to vet inputs, lock down tool use, and whitelist models. No shortcuts. This post drops a reference gateway build usingmirrord(for fast, in-cluster tinkering) andCloudsmith(to t.. read more  

LLMs on Kubernetes: Same Cluster, Different Threat Model
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Adventures in Neural Rendering

A graphics dev took a swing at encoding rendering signals - radiance, irradiance, depth, AO, BRDFs - using tightMLPs in HLSL. They benchmarked size, storage, and runtime cost. Turns out, MLPs beatL2 spherical harmonicsfor packing radiance. But they stumble on irradiance and specular BRDFs. Bring inR.. read more  

Adventures in Neural Rendering
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Why Trying to Secure OpenClaw is Ridiculous

OpenClaw, an open-source autonomous AI agent with full device access, racked up 179K GitHub stars - and walked straight into a security nightmare. It shipped wide open: default ports exposed to the internet, its plugin hub laced with malicious packages. Slapped-on fixes followed, warning labels, Vir.. read more  

Why Trying to Secure OpenClaw is Ridiculous
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Building a TUI is easy now

Hatchet usedClaude Code, a terminal-native coding agent, to build and ship a real TUI-based workflow manager - fast. Like, days-fast. Powered by theCharm stack(Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, Huh), it leans hard into CLI-heavy development. Claude Code handled live testing intmux, whipped up frontend views fr.. read more  

Building a TUI is easy now
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GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics

GPT-5.2 Pro spotted something wild: a nonzero gluon scattering amplitude in the half-collinear regime. That’s supposed to vanish, according to standard QFT gospel. Not anymore. OpenAI’s own model backed it up with a formal proof. Humans triple-checked it analytically. And yep - it holds. Now it’s bl.. read more  

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
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