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GPT-6 Astra helped decode an 1809 cipher letter to General Marmont and find counterexamples to Grad's 1967 plasma conjecture. What happened, and what it means.
Soumen Samanta
Why sites built by AI coding agents look alike, and the tools that help: Hallmark, Impeccable, the 21st.dev MCP, Archify for diagrams, and asking for variants.
Souvik Samanta
Why we built FeedKeeper, a Chrome extension that hides the kinds of YouTube videos you choose from your home feed and Up next, and how its three modes work.
Soumen Samanta
Eight open-source AI tools from this month's GitHub trends, checked against their own docs: what each does, what it costs, how to install it, and the catch.
Soumen Samanta
Three frontier models launched in three days. Prices, limits, benchmarks, cost per task and availability for Gemini 4 Argon, GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Souvik Samanta
Agent skills and MCP servers run with your permissions. Real incidents, what to check before you install one, and how to limit what it can reach.
Souvik Samanta
Kolkata Gold Price is a free site with recorded 18K, 22K and 24K gold rates for Kolkata, price history and a jewellery calculator, in English and Bengali.
Soumen Samanta
OpenAI's dots are always-on agents with their own cloud computer. What they do, who can use them, the Pro plan changes and how the open-source clones compare.
Soumen Samanta
PhotoCraft, FilmCraft and ten sister apps are free, open-source look-alikes of Photoshop, Premiere and more. What they are, how ready, and who should try them.
Soumen Samanta
How to run several coding agents at once without collisions: git worktrees, Orca, herdr, the Codex plugin for Claude Code, OmniRoute, and the terms to check.
Souvik Samanta
Whistle is 17 MB and Phonon-2 is 164 MB, and both transcribe speech offline without a GPU. Sizes, languages, accuracy, speed and how they compare with Whisper.
Souvik Samanta
How the ByteShades website is built: Next.js 16 with Cache Components, one interface for product data, small JavaScript islands and pages made for search.
Souvik Samanta