Arnaud Sahuguet

How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)

fascinating read: blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-d...

@simonwillison.net ignoring IP issues with John Grisham, a good name for your newsletter would be ´The Pelican brief’.

The Phone Setting That Every Parent Should Try I stumbled on a feature in my iPhone’s settings late at night, and I was delighted the next morning by what awaited me.

www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

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Unfit for Work: The startling rise of disability in America In the past three decades, the number of Americans who are on disability has skyrocketed. The rise has come even as medical advances have allowed many more people to remain on the job and new laws hav...

eye opening: apps.npr.org/unfit-for-wo...

The cryptography behind passkeys This post will examine the cryptography behind passkeys, the guarantees they do or do not give, and interesting cryptographic things you can do with them, such as generating cryptographic keys and sto...

A really good overview of passkeys.
blog.trailofbits.com/2025/05/14/t...

Great read about LLM and coding
matthewsinclair.com/blog/0178-wh...

Why the Paperwork Reduction Act needs to go, Part 2 We're the only country that has tried to reduce burden this way, and it hasn't worked. Especially with capacity being gutted, we should learn from what the rest of the world is doing.

"Government agencies don’t ask for the same information twice because it's illegal to store it twice." (Estonia)
www.eatingpolicy.com/p/why-the-pa...

Why training AI can't be IP theft you can't reserve the right to learn

Fascinating read about legal issues around LLM training
blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/04...

MUST READ, from 2003.
faculty.washington.edu/ss1110/IF/Bu...

Python Polars: The Definitive Guide Welcome to the official website of the book Python Polars: The Definitive Guide by Jeroen Janssens and Thijs Nieuwdorp.

polarsguide.com

GitHub - jamespfennell/transiter: Web service for transit data Web service for transit data. Contribute to jamespfennell/transiter development by creating an account on GitHub.

Check also github.com/jamespfennel...

If light rail (and subway) counts, check the GTFS standard.

ZML.ai - High Performance AI Inference High performance inference. Any model. Any hardware. No compromise.

Have you looked at zml.ai or textsynth.com/index.html .

AI That Quacks: Introducing DuckDB-NSQL, a LLM for DuckDB SQL - MotherDuck Blog Our first Text2SQL model release! | Reading time: 5 min read

You mean running something like motherduck.com/blog/duckdb-... on your own cloud/server?

Home away from home: Cancun airport 🥐🇫🇷🇲🇽

London Transport 25: ride 25 different forms of transport in one day Rail, Crossrail, Woolwich ferry, deep tube, bus, DLR, tram, subsurface tube, overground, Thames Clipper, cable car... the London Transport 25.

www.girlonthenet.com/london-trans...

The US Tourist Attractions With The Worst Mobile Internet Speeds | Digg Good luck sharing an Instagram story at these tourist spots.

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Any conference where they reference Black Mirror (Nose Dive) is a good for me.

At CivicHall to hear about AI innovation in government

Great read about company culture
handbook.duolingo.com

A tiny satellite showed it can take high-res pics from space Can your smartphone do that?

tiny is beautiful
www.theverge.com/news/608297/...

Stop Using Zip Codes for Geospatial Analysis Uncover deeper insights beyond ZIP codes with geospatial analysis. Explore the limitations of ZIP codes and discover alternatives for spatial understanding.

Great article about zip codes
carto.com/blog/zip-cod...

Announcing DuckDB 1.2.0 The DuckDB team is happy to announce that today we're releasing DuckDB version 1.2.0, codenamed “Histrionicus”.

Xmas comes early and this is only January.
duckdb.org/2025/02/05/a...

Opinion | DeepSeek and the Dangerous A.I. Nonsense That Trump and Biden Fell For This is not a Sputnik moment. It’s way past that.

Another excellent read on AI

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

The End of Programming as We Know It

www.oreilly.com/radar/the-en...

Quickstart - Mirascope Mirascope streamlines LLM development with a unified interface supporting major providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, and more. Build powerful AI applications faster with flexible, develo...

So many great examples of using LLMs programmatically

mirascope.com/tutorials/ge...

Interesting resource for LLM enthusiasts
rlhfbook.com

Ozempic is causing trouble on Savile Row The city’s most celebrated tailors are overwhelmed. Their customers’ bespoke suits and shirts are suddenly baggy and require drastic readjustment. Tom Chamberlin reports from the high-end front line o...

An example of a rich people's problem
www.thetimes.com/life-style/l...

After DeepSeek, Venture Capital Investors Face Questions About Their A.I. Bets Venture capitalists plowed money into A.I. start-ups like OpenAI and Anthropic. But the rise of the Chinese A.I. start-up DeepSeek has called that funding frenzy into question.

[…] foundation models are “the fastest depreciating asset in human history”

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