Open Source enthusiast, building Web3 future, prev Co-founder @NetworkSubspace, prev Lead Software Engineer @Restreamio
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Finally published a bunch of stuff for general use.
Most likely the fastest Rust Merkle Tree implementation on crates.io, RISC-V interpreter, BLAKE3 hash functions that work in const fn and more.
abundance.build/blog/2026-03…
@NetgateUSA this is better than nothing: netgate.com/blog/critical-ph…
But not having ANY indication in the UI that there is anything to update (only manual checking of installed packages showed WireGuard update) is VERY confusing.
Critical holes in Linux networking stack, then anyone able to issue TLS certificates for any domain, another critical hole in PHP.
I keep finding security updates to install across machines multiple times a day.
Turns out security was an illusion all along, wasn't it?..
Be careful what you wish for I guess 🤯
I asked Kimi to enable ipv6 in the background as I was doing something else.
Turns out it was not enabled on my router so, not having the admin password, it naturally then found the firmware online, decrypted it, extracted the lua bytecode, found out the opcodes were shuffled, updated the decompiler to work with it and found a stack-overflow in a binary it launched to get access.
Still didn't succeed though, since it figured attempting to trigger it would be ""crashing = disruption"" 😭
Nazar Mokrynskyi retweeted
This is the doom I predicted a few days ago, coming for Photoshop. A clean-room open-source reimplementation.
No prizes for guessing that they decompiled Photoshop to source code, processed that to some kind of non-code specification language, then fed the spec to an LLM with an instruction to generate Rust.
Adobe just got nuked. And closed source is dead, dead, dead.
github.com/storytold/photocr…
Nazar Mokrynskyi retweeted
the history of the domestic cat is the history of a species’s encounter with an alien superintelligence in which that superintelligence is quickly aligned and its forces used to secure superabundance and lasting prosperity
Nazar Mokrynskyi retweeted
AI is rapidly getting smarter.
Now, humanity can too.
Today, @nucleusgenomics is announcing Vitruvian, our newest set of genetic optimization models.
Vitruvian’s intelligence model can optimize embryo DNA for 14 IQ points — nearly a standard deviation.
The models were trained on 1,000,000+ people, validated across 40,000+ siblings, and used more than 7 million genetic markers.
In Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom proposed genetic optimization as a key way for humanity to keep pace with rapidly advancing AI.
Bostrom’s vision is no longer theoretical.
Genetic optimization, like AI, has followed a scaling law: as datasets have grown, so have model capabilities. This trend will continue.
Parents across the world now have the choice to substantially increase their child’s intelligence.
And the next generation can choose to do the same.
AI is no longer the only intelligence that will compound.
Humanity can now direct its own evolution.
Something I've been spending a lot of time thinking about in the last few months
abundance.build/blog/2026-08…
Why would anyone watch a video on Spotify instead of, let's say, YouTube?
They had a job to make a good audio player and only managed to build serviceable one with lots of obvious (to me) bugs. Even YouTube has, in some ways, a better audio player, despite being a video player.
With a bit of experience and a bit of luck compiler performance issues turn from "oh shit, I have no idea what any of this is" to careful "we can probably just fix this in LLVM for everyone".
What a time to be alive!
A really interesting article! And I tend to agree.
Though the only issue I personally have with system/light/dark switching is that many, MANY websites that have it, including those that have "system" option, for some unexplainable reason default to "light" anyway, despite my browser already tells the website what I want.
This also affected some GTK-based GNOME-aligned apps IIRC. So for the desktop app I developed I simply didn't implement the switch at all, it just follows the system preference. If you want the whole OS look one way and my app the other way I can live with not satisfying your quirky desires.
Same thing with the language choice. My browser already send Accept-Language with the priority list of languages, yet the websites keep inferring (incorrectly) it from my IP address, using hardcoded default despite having more relevant option and/or asking me with an annoying popup.
🔥 New blog post: Dark mode toggles that expose three visible states (system, light, dark) seem like the best option.
Until you think about user goals, that is.
Before rushing to disagree, hear me out.
lea.verou.me/blog/2026/dark-…
PS: As a data point, @jaffathecake was converted after reading this 😅
Every time I have a chance to explain normies how to use CEX I'm amazed crypto has any adoption at all.
The UX is so bad, it is kind of impressive in its own way.
Don't even get me started with crypto wallets...
Today I tried to enable sccache in CI to improve testing time further.
Along the way I discovered that:
* It doesn't work on Windows with latest Rust nightly: github.com/mozilla/sccache/i…
* taiki-e/install-action can't be used concurrently: github.com/taiki-e/install-a…
* I think I found the reason why checkout breaks when used concurrently (sometimes): github.com/actions/cache/iss…
And this is nice too:
xitter.cf/elonmusk/status/208071…
Upgraded heavily customized Ubuntu from 21.04 to 21.10, rebooted, installed ubuntu-minimal package just in case afterwards 🙃
Okay, I decided to try Pipewire again in 2026, and it... seems to just work?
This is with 1.6.2 shipped in Ubuntu 26.04.
768 kHz / 32-bit USB DAC playback works without issues so far (though required config changes to select it, default config forbids anything other than 48 kHz).
Pulseaudio only worked correctly with default 44.1 kHz and Pipewire had issues with anything other than default 48 kHz last time I tried it. So this is a massive improvement!
Yet to test if they also fixed microphone input in Firefox, but looks promising so far.