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What Kills Open-Source and Nonprofit Projects: The Name, the Domain, Publish Rights, Ownership
Anyone can take the code; these four exist only once. Bus factor is uncorrelated with stars, the xz time gate admitted the attacker on schedule, and curl’s flood grew after the bounty died — the structural half.
2026-07-27 · 10 min read ReadCan Fine Cutting Be Handed to AI? The Boundary Isn't Model Precision — It's What Defines the Cut
The parts already automated get their frame accuracy from signal processing, not AI; what actually blocks the rest is that nobody can score whether a cut is good
2026-07-24 · 21 min read ReadBuilding a High-Quality Agent Skill From Scratch, and Running It as an Open-Source Project
The field that decides everything is the description line, yet its failure mode is being dropped wholesale; and once open-sourced, zero adoption is the default and code quality barely decides it
2026-07-24 · 21 min read ReadUser Personas and Modeling: What Actually Predicts Behavior, and What's Just Ritual
Most persona dogma is unvalidated; what predicts behavior is revealed preference, not an imagined user
2026-07-16 · 10 min read ReadGiving an LLM a Persona: An Evidence Review of Product Requirements Judgment and Routing
Removing role prompts hurts most in ablations — yet independent tests catch the PM agent rewriting your requirements
2026-07-15 · 8 min read ReadSpeech Without Text: Executing Tasks Directly from Audio Vectors
So-called end-to-end speech models are still quietly transcribing under the hood
2026-07-14 · 8 min read ReadCI/CD and E2E in the AI Era: From Software Products to AI-Enabled Hardware
Probabilistic evals, multi-artifact delivery, and testing hardware you can't roll back
2026-07-10 · 13 min read ReadAutomated Trading on Prediction Markets: Mechanics, Market Making, Arbitrage, and Execution
From market-making to arbitrage: a complete map of prediction-market quant
2026-07-08 · 21 min read ReadThe Complete App Beta-Testing Workflow: iOS, Overseas Android, and Domestic Channels
Why must a brand-new Google Play account wait out a full 14 days?
2026-07-08 · 11 min read ReadThe Hidden Piece of True Solar Time: The Equation of Time and the BaZi Hour Pillar
True solar time with only longitude correction can throw the hour pillar off by one
2026-07-08 · 8 min read ReadAutomatically Judging Day-Master Strength in BaZi: Using Blind Human Review to Surface Two Kinds of Systematic Error
Where does an algorithm judging day-master strength most often go wrong?
2026-07-08 · 10 min read ReadHow to Make Sure an LLM Returns JSON That Strictly Matches the Expected Format
json_object is not a schema guarantee — a layered defense architecture
2026-07-08 · 20 min read ReadBusiness
Token Relay Stations: The Architecture, Market, and Trust Crisis of the AI API Resale Ecosystem
Nearly half the endpoints tested swap out the model you paid for
2026-07-08 · 9 min read ReadDistribution vs. Demand: When “Building It” Gets Cheap, the Real Battlefield of Product Competition
The wheel is copyable; nailing the idea into a self-growing channel is not
2026-07-08 · 17 min read ReadMoving Supply Chains Out of China: To Cut Costs, or to Spread Risk?
Mostly de-risking, but cost decides where it lands — a China+1 hedge
2026-07-08 · 8 min read ReadCloning an OzBargain: Three Separate Ledgers — Technology, Cold Start, and Australian Compliance
Easy code, hard community, hidden compliance mines — three ledgers for a deals site in Australia
2026-07-08 · 12 min read ReadNo research matches “”. Try another term.