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Idea: We should let people vote
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- July 7, 2026
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Winston Peters called voting a “privilege” that should be reserved for citizens. Counterpoint: it’s actually our foundational democratic right. New Zealand First put forward an original idea to fix the country’s problems on Sunday. It wasn’t to do with housing, the health system crisis or even the ungodly price of mince. Instead the party has […]
Why Is NZ Spending Far More On Responding To Climate Disasters Than On Reducing Future Risk?
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- August 19, 2026
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Only 3% of spending on natural hazards focuses on reducing risk, allowing governments to shift liability but leaving communities unprepared.
Sina’s open model VibeThinker-3B aims to show reasoning compresses well but factual knowledge doesn’t
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- June 28, 2026
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Sina Weibo’s VibeThinker-3B has just three billion parameters but matches models like DeepSeek V3.2 and Kimi K2.5 on math and coding benchmarks. Those models are up to 333 times larger. The secret isn’t size but multi-stage post-training. The researchers propose a hypothesis based on their findings: logical reasoning compresses well into small models, but broad […]
What a User Story Actually Costs in a Dark Code Factory
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- September 2, 2026
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Between March and July 2026, I built a production application of 861,601 lines of code. This included 696 user stories and 779 merged pull requests over 105 days, but I can’t tell you what it cost. The first version of an autonomous SDLC framework driving Claude Code did the work. That generation didn’t record usage, […]