AI Tools & Research

Can I Track Instagram Follower Growth Over Time Without Maintaining a Scraper?

My original Instagram tracking script broke when I tried to turn a few manual profile checks into a …

I benchmarked TimesFM 3.0, Chronos-2 and Toto 2.0 on market time series. None beat simple baseline. [P]

I may be naive, but I've been curious whether the recent wave of time-series foundation models can a…

How to Save a ChatGPT Conversation Without Losing Tables, Code or Formulas

You ask ChatGPT for a comparison table, a block of code and one equation. The answer is exactly what…

What Does a Senior Product Manager Audit on Day 1? The Shadow Spreadsheet Diagnostic

What Does a Senior Product Manager Audit on Day 1? The Shadow Spreadsheet Diagnostic The rookie Pr…

I Left Two Claude Code Agents on a 3D Island for 30 Hours. It Was a Kind World.

There's an MIT paper I can't stop thinking about: "Is this machine playing?" (machineplaying.org, ar…

Teaching a support agent what Sui errors mean, one correction at a time

If you run support for a Sui app, you've answered the same ticket a hundred times. "My transaction f…

Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized chips

Google's new tensor processing units (TPUs) broaden its chip portfolio to more use cases: confidenti…

Build Buddy, Day 4: I gave an AI agent my database, read-only first

Day 4 of MLH Global Hack Week: Builders Week. Yesterday I put Build Buddy's benchmark results in a T…

ODROID-N2+ vs Orange Pi 5: Benchmarks, Architecture & Real-World Decision Guide

The Architectural Dilemma When it comes to single-board computers (SBCs), the choices can be overw…

Hacktoberfest is not about open source pull requests

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine …

Record What You Rejected, and Make Your Agent Check It: Lessons from 495 ADRs

In karasu, the architecture-diagram tool I develop, I keep design decisions as ADRs (Architecture De…

I built a video background remover that exports real transparency

Finding out that the "transparent video" you exported is actually a black-background MP4 is a specia…