Coming of a New Sun

Sundae Labs PBC

We, the makers of the machines, are more than the sum of our parts. Let’s domesticate tech to aid human flourishing.

Dark Factories: Rise of the Trycycle – Dan Shapiro's Blog

Companies are now producing Dark Factories – engines that turn specs into shipping software. The implementations can be complex and sometimes involve Mad Max metaphors. But they don’t have to be like…

Extreme Harness Engineering for Token Billionaires: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code, 0% human review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI Frontier & Symphony

We shed light on OpenAI's first Dark Factory for the first time.

Everything is about to “go dark”

I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaini…

Katie Zacharia Was Linked to an AI Rare-Earths Startup. It’s Even Weirder Than It Sounds

The short-lived White House press secretary was listed as an adviser to a Kristi Noem-linked company that aims to use AI for mining. Both the company and she say she never worked there.

Bright Spots | Jan Rosenow | Substack

Jan Rosenow's newsletter on the energy transition. Oxford Professor. Energy policy advisor. Energy transition optimist. Cutting through the noise to show how the clean energy future is possible. Click to read Bright Spots, by Jan Rosenow, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 on Twitter / X

Milei “said he wants to…allow companies run by machines” & has also “announced a ‘social digital twin’ program, which wld use publicly available citizen data to create simulations intended to inform public policy...” (Peter Thiel recently moved to Argentina.) 6/5/26 … 1/ pic.twitter.com/2mWcHaj84L— JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) August 2, 2026

Dark Forestry | Henry From Online

Seasons are changing for technologists, and the industry we work in isn't the same as it was a decade ago. We have new realities and new responsibilities to accept.

Gergely Orosz on Twitter / X

What can us, engineers else learn from designers and design engineers? Turns out there’s lots, based on talking with one of the best design engineers in the industry, @Mappletons.Timestamps:00:00 Intro03:24 From anthropology to tech10:18 What does a designer do?18:23 How… pic.twitter.com/wFlNLnUdTI— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) September 23, 2026

Pretty State Machine Patterns in Rust

A computer scientist working in open source towards a more hopeful future.

Future Knowledge | Mass Surveillance and the Loss of Fun

In this episode of Future Knowledge, Alexis Durante-Tierney and Helen Vogelsong-Donahue, hosts of the Born Digital podcast, explore how growing up under constant surveillance may be changing the wa...

What I learned by living without artificial light

Linda Geddes decided to live for weeks in only candlelight — no bulbs, no screens. Along the way, she discovered simple things that everyone can try to sleep and feel better.

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewi…

What Sun got wrong | The Observation Deck

We have the whole Oxide team coming to Emeryville this week for our annual OxCon meetup. For a remote company, an in-person meeting is uniquely energizing, and in preparation for that, we made some t-shirts featuring Oxide logos that are an homage to past computer companies. Thanks to our designer extraordinaire, Ben Leonard, all of these homage shirts are amazing — but one of them was simply too hot to leave as a surprise:

WESTENBERG | Substack

Field Notes on the Machine Age. Click to read WESTENBERG, by JA Westenberg, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths | Los Angeles Review of Books

Erik J. Larson thinks about “Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” which traces Robert Skidelsky’s philosophical reckoning with AI, automation, and the illusion of progress.