PC Mag: Is Perplexity Better Than Google Search? I Switched for a Week to Find Out. “To test its functionality, I put Google aside for a week and relied solely on Perplexity AI. As a tech and science writer, I use search a lot to provide context for topics or to deep-dive into topics like scientific principles and manufacturing histories.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/14/pc-mag-is-perplexity-better-than-google-search-i-switched-for-a-week-to-find-out/

Harvard Business Review: ChatGPT vs. DeepSeek: What 5,000 Chinese Stocks Reveal About AI’s Limits. “ChatGPT, owned by US-based OpenAI, issued far rosier forecasts—with higher price targets and more ‘buy’ recommendations—than its Chinese rival DeepSeek when each platform evaluated nearly 5,000 publicly traded Chinese companies, says research by Harvard Business School’s Charles C.Y. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/21/chatgpt-vs-deepseek-what-5000-chinese-stocks-reveal-about-ais-limits-harvard-business-review/

Spotted on Hacker News: Search Bench. From the announcement: “I built Search Bench as a small experiment to compare search engines without showing which engine produced which results. It was inspired by the idea behind the LLM Arena, but applied to search.” I did two searches, one with a common word (cows) and one with a much rarer word (agrivoltaics). The cow query was a close choice but I […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/23/spotted-on-hacker-news-search-bench/

ZDNet: I tried vibe coding an app as a beginner – here’s what Cursor and Replit taught me. “Startups such as Cursor, Replit, Lovable Labs, Harness, Windsurf, Augment Code, All Hands AI, and Microsoft, with its Visual Studio with GitHub Co-pilot, all offer programs that can drastically reduce the hand-coding humans need to do. And so I wondered: Could a newbie like me, with limited programming […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/20/zdnet-i-tried-vibe-coding-an-app-as-a-beginner-heres-what-cursor-and-replit-taught-me/

Search Engine Journal: 19 WordPress Alternatives: From Simple Builders To Enterprise CMS. “This guide provides an overview of leading WordPress alternatives across key website categories. We explore user-friendly website builders that offer drag-and-drop simplicity. We look at flexible open-source options for developers and tech-savvy users. We also cover blogging-focused options, ecommerce […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/19/19-wordpress-alternatives-from-simple-builders-to-enterprise-cms-search-engine-journal-2/

ZDNet: I’ve used nearly every browser available and these are my top 4 (spoiler: Chrome is out). “Over the decades, I’ve tried almost every browser that’s come to market, from the most basic, terminal-based ones to the very complex and bloated. Within that spectrum, there are some browsers that rise so far above the rest that there’s no comparison between the bad, the mediocre, and the good. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/14/ive-used-nearly-every-browser-available-and-these-are-my-top-4-spoiler-chrome-is-out-zdnet/

Search Engine Journal: 19 WordPress Alternatives: From Simple Builders To Enterprise CMS. “This guide provides an overview of leading WordPress alternatives across key website categories. We explore user-friendly website builders that offer drag-and-drop simplicity. We look at flexible open-source options for developers and tech-savvy users. We also cover blogging-focused options, ecommerce […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/11/19-wordpress-alternatives-from-simple-builders-to-enterprise-cms-search-engine-journal/

MakeUseOf: I tested 5 open-source music players and this is the only one I kept. “There are many open-source music players for Android out there, and I’ve tried a handful of them, including Harmony Music, OuterTune, and PixelPlay. In fact, GitHub users rounded up 24 free and open-source music players for Android in a repository, so they’re easy to find and navigate. However, if you’re new to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/05/makeuseof-i-tested-5-open-source-music-players-and-this-is-the-only-one-i-kept/

MakeUseOf: I tested 5 major Google Maps alternatives — this is the one I’m keeping. “Over several months, I relied entirely on five popular navigation apps—Sygic, Magic Earth, OsmAnd, HERE WeGo, and Waze [Waze?] —for everything from urban navigation to foreign city breaks and far-flung motorcycle trips off the beaten track. After plenty of traffic jams, reroutes, and signal drops, some […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/26/makeuseof-i-tested-5-major-google-maps-alternatives-this-is-the-one-im-keeping/

Ars Technica: We asked four AI coding agents to rebuild Minesweeper—the results were explosive. “To see how effective these modern AI coding tools are becoming, we decided to test four major models with a simple task: re-creating the classic Windows game Minesweeper. Since it’s relatively easy for pattern-matching systems like LLMs to play off of existing code to re-create famous games, we […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/20/ars-technica-we-asked-four-ai-coding-agents-to-rebuild-minesweeper-the-results-were-explosive/