The newer one is from late May: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23735

What an amazing quote!

Is Rust still "non-mainstream"? Because it's extremely well suited for AoC. The ergonomics of a high-level language with the performance of C++.

> The ergonomics of a high-level language

Is there a way to drop into a repl like with python and pdb.set_trace()? I couldn't find one last time I played around with Rust.

https://github.com/evcxr/evcxr (evcxr is short for "evaluation context and REPL")

I don't think it has a debugger but if you just want to try out something in Rust quickly: play.rust-lang.org

I was never really a fan of Cursor. I'll use this if it's free and eventually gets generous free quotas.

Bless this man! I despise Goodreads but continue to use it, because there are no real alternatives. It feels like they outsourced the creation of that website to some cheap consulting agency in a low cost location and then left it at that. For example, Goodreads hasn't updated its outdated version of React in years.

For a while now I have really wanted good book recommendations matching my tastes. The LLMs suck at this (likely due to the mode collapse that Karpathy mentioned in his excellent podcast appearance on Dwarkesh) and Amazon is very good but only recommends based on the current book you're browsing.

I will try this out now! But could you increase the number of books fed to the recommender or maybe get the top-64 highest rated books instead of just the most or least recent 64?

I like your idea of doing some amount of uncomfortable work every day, internalizing it until it becomes second nature. Any tips on how to start? (other than just do it) :)

I was expecting something ugly but these actually look beautiful!

Why not use Deno instead of Node.js for the backend? For a product like this could the extra security that Deno's sandbox provides help?

You could also just run the node.js process via a `systemd` service and sandbox it that way using hardening directives.

Off topic but does anyone know what exactly Sutskever's SSI (mentioned in the article and with a valuation of $32B...) is up to? They have released... well... absolutely nothing in the year+ of existence.

Should we assume "GPT-5" still just means the LLM? It could mean 'GPT-5 the system' which means the model has RAG, tools to use it, and maybe fine-tuned to call those tools.