Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming https://viksit.substack.com/p/optimizing-tool-selection-for-llm
Substack
Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows: Differentiable Programming with PyTorch and DSPy
How local, learnable routers can reduce token overhead, lower costs, and bring structure back to agentic workflows.
What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate https://blog.alexoglou.com/posts/database-decisions/
Costa on Software
What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the Planetscale vs. Neon debate
Lately I have been observing the constant picking of Neon, mainly I presume for its performance from Planetscale’s CEO, and the X/Twitter community.
Here are some of the many tweets I have encountered, but I didn’t save them, so a simple search resulted on…
Here are some of the many tweets I have encountered, but I didn’t save them, so a simple search resulted on…
Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/cgi-bin-performance/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin
Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLite CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to …
Haskell, Reverse Polish Notation, and Parsing https://mattwills.bearblog.dev/haskell-postfix/
Matt Wills
My Side Quest into Haskell, Reverse Polish Notation, and Parsing
My Journey into Haskell: Building a Reverse Polish Notation Calculator
Introduction: A Side Quest
In my attempt to get my first paycheck, aka get a job, ...
Introduction: A Side Quest
In my attempt to get my first paycheck, aka get a job, ...
Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi https://electrek.co/2025/06/29/volvo-delivers-5000th-electric-semi-with-little-fanfare-sending-a-big-message/
Electrek
Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi with little fanfare, sending a BIG message
With 5,000 electric semi trucks on the road logging more than 100 million real-world miles, Volvo is sending a big message.
Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250702-colombia-narco-submarine-starlink
France 24
Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna
The Colombian navy on Wednesday seized its first unmanned narco-submarine, equipped with a Starlink antenna, off the Caribbean coast. No drugs were found, but officials and regional security sources…
ClojureScript from First Principles [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An-ImWVppNQ
YouTube
ClojureScript from First Principles — David Nolen
Recorded at Clojure/NYC meetup on June 4th, 2025.
Yet Another Zip Trick https://hackarcana.com/article/yet-another-zip-trick
The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-force-feeding-of-ai-on-an-unwilling
Honest-Broker
The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public
This isn't innovation, it's tyranny
MI5’s falsehoods in the case of neo-Nazi spy who abused women https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w4nwdwywno
Bbc
How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in court in the case of a spy who abused women
Security Service continued to provide misleading evidence even after its lie was exposed, BBC can reveal.
July 5, 1687: When Newton explained why you don't float away https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/when-newton-explained-why-you-dont-float-away/
The Multiverse Employee Handbook Podcast Quantum Physics Meets Comedy
July 5, 1687: When Newton Explained Why You Don’t Float Away
On this day in 1687, Isaac Newton published the Principia—a book that explained why apples fall, why planets don’t wander off, and why NASA is still lighting enormous tubes on fire to fling humans into orbit 337 years later.
Get the location of the ISS using DNS https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/get-the-location-of-the-iss-using-dns/
Terence Eden’s Blog
Get the location of the ISS using DNS
I love DNS esoterica. Weird little things that you can shove in the global directory to be distributed around the world instantly(ish). Domain names, like www.example.com usually resolve to servers. As much as we think of "the cloud" as being some intangible…
Show HN: I made Logic gates using CSS if() function https://yongsk0066.github.io/css_if_logic_gate/