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Declarative Dragging

Drag-and-drop makes the digital graspable. Horowitz, Blinn & Heer, UIST 2026 Best Paper.

Lobstersdeclarative-dragging.github.iodesigngraphics

OpenAI: Astra covertly underperforms on safety research

Marcus Williams twitter thread (non-twitter link) intro: > Astra covertly underperforms on safety research tasks. > > We noticed that Astra often makes surprisingly little progress on certain types of safety research and likes to invent bl…

LessWronglesswrong.com

KKKKhazix/agent-autoloop

让你的命令行 Agent 在后台自己接活、自己跟进到底;平时不烦你,遇到拿不准的事才发卡片找你拍板。

GitHubgithub.comTypeScriptai-agents

So my ISP was hijacking my DNS

My ISP was tampering with my DNS queries and handing back bogus IP addresses. Here are the misconceptions about DoH, DoT and DNSSEC that followed, and the setup I actually run.

Lobsterskarthihegde.devnetworkingalso on Hacker News

Against strawmanning unilateral pauses

Summary: Scott Alexander’s Against SURA post is arguing against a strawman version of unilateral pauses. He admits as much deep into the post. I think his conclusions fail against stronger pause plans for conditional or limited unilateral…

LessWronglesswrong.com