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An introduction to diffusion language models and the research advances that underlie today's diffusion LLMs. We describe the building blocks of recent open-source models, starting from simple masking diffusion, and including techniques for iterative refinement, post-training, and variable-length generation. Material is adapted from workshop talks and lectures at <a href='https://realm-gen-workshop.github.io/'>ICLR 2026</a> and <a href='https://cfe.columbia.edu/content/mlss2'>MLSS 2026</a>.

And the media environment that didn’t catch this is getting this issue wrong

Why independent science will depend on compute, not just funding, and why providing it is the best bet we can currently make.

https://gregwolanski.com/emails/

Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.

Why and how we at Tempo decided to adopt the AT Protocol.

As web designers, we concern ourselves with how users move from page to page, but forget the needs of those whose purpose is to be still. Learn the design techniques that create a mental space for …

Different politics, identical structure: wealthy insiders, community infrastructure they didn't build, and openness performed just long enough to matter. The establishment always wants its own internet.

Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks.

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.

Your digital UI can come from the physical world.

Robin Sloan wished for a HyperCard that could build a family app in a day. That world showed up.

Personal websites as an atproto onboarding strategy

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

I wired my homepage up with playhtml so dragging a sticker, waving the hand, or starting a song all happen for everyone who's on the page at the same time. Notes on what I built and why I keep chasing this "we're all here together" feeling.

Why do we still call it "social media"?

The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.

xrpcs are cool i think

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html

Collaborators grow tired of my magic hacks.

AT Protocol (atproto) is the right mix of useful, practical, personal, and fun. I think it could save the internet.

A from-the-ground-up walkthrough of how modern LLMs work, from tokens to transformer blocks to the next-token loop

What’s up with this? The spirit, of course, is “I want my Google Reader back.” I should be careful though: I imagine if we really did have it back exactly as it was, it would prob…

AI is empowering a generation of vibe coders to build exactly what they want. The personal software revolution is here.

In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processed answer” direction that “AI Overviews” have established (you know, those AI snippets in current Search that are wrong about 10% of the time). So they […]

"We've been describing it as tech journalism for humans who like fun."

Tangled could become GitHub for agents Software agents need a place to work. Not just a chat box. Not just a filesystem on a rented VM. They need durable...

Posted on Wednesday 29 Apr 2026. 1,087 words, 19 links. By Matt Webb.

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6nue7_v1

Software brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying.

We launched a complete archive of all eight years of the festival, along with a limited-edition merch collection to mark the occasion.

How the maintainer of the popular For You feed serves it from their living room!

If you wanted to host a website, you could use any one of a number of online services, or spin up a server on a spare computer at home. If you’re a bit more daring, you could also do what [Te…

What I expect to come next and why, focused on the open-closed gap.

Comparing Leaflet to Radio Userland

https://kentwalters.com/posts/corners/