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Today's topics:

AI revives classic math applets - Terence Tao says AI coding agents helped port old Java math applets to JavaScript in hours, restoring interactive educational tools and even catching bugs. Keywords: Terence Tao, AI coding agents, JavaScript, math visualization, educational software.

Tools to inspect AI agents - Mindwalk turns coding-agent logs into visual replays, while a Common Lisp experiment shows agents creating new capabilities at runtime with eval. Keywords: AI agents, trace visualization, Common Lisp, eval, developer workflow.

Vint Cerf on AI protocols - Internet pioneer Vint Cerf is retiring from Google and warning that AI agents will need real interoperability standards, not just natural-language exchanges. Keywords: Vint Cerf, Google, AI standards, interoperability, protocols.

Peer-to-peer GPUs for inference - Mesh LLM proposes a decentralized way to pool GPUs and memory across machines behind one API, reducing dependence on centralized cloud inference. Keywords: distributed AI, GPU pooling, OpenAI-compatible API, peer-to-peer, local inference.

Tiny thumbnails with Handsum - Handsum is a new low-quality image placeholder format focused on tiny, fixed-size previews that load fast and fit neatly into storage budgets. Keywords: Handsum, LQIP, image placeholder, web performance, compression.

Modern engine meets original Xbox - A developer ported a modern-style game engine to the original Xbox, showing the effort needed to bridge current workflows with legacy hardware and toolchains. Keywords: original Xbox, game engine port, retro development, preservation, legacy toolchains.

-Tao Uses AI Coding Agents to Revive Old Math Applets and Build New Visualizations
-Ghostel Brings Ghostty’s Terminal Engine to Emacs
-Vinton Cerf Retires After Shaping the Internet
-Mindwalk Visualizes Coding-Agent Sessions on a 3D Codebase Map
-Mesh LLM Brings Distributed AI Inference to iroh
-Brazil Woman Rescued After 55 Years of Domestic Slavery
-Buf Launches protobuf-py, a Complete and Idiomatic Python Protobuf Runtime
-Developer Ports Custom Engine and Modern Assets to the Original Xbox
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