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Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up
Mozilla is in an absolute state: high overheads, falling usage of Firefox, questionable sources of revenue and now making big cuts to engineering as their income falls.
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An oral history of Bank Python
The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks
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We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis
How simple structured data trumps clever machine learning
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S3 is files, but not a filesystem
"Deep" modules, mismatched interfaces - and why SAP is so painful
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Async Python is not faster
Async Python is slower than "sync" Python under a realistic benchmark. A bigger worry is that async frameworks go a bit wobbly under load.
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It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription
The mental minefield of capex and opex
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The Amazon Premium
How the biggest cloud companies deliver the worst value
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Where's the fastest place to put my server? How much does it matter?
Using my own web server accesslogs and public latency data to get a quantitative answer and why roundtrips are such a pain.
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Agent memory as a file format
Memoryfields - a vastly simpler way to do agent memory
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Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider
Against dependency cooldowns as a response to supply chain attacks
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No general method to detect fraud
The parts of a convincing deception
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Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
A casual, roughly bimonthly Sunday coffee meetup for Hacker News posters in Helsinki. Open to anyone with 64+ HN karma.
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The Troublesome Active Record Pattern
How inappropriate data access patterns massively slow down programs and how the same problems arise with RESTful APIs.
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The industry structure of LLM makers
The Netscapes of AI
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There aren't that many uses for blockchains
Criteria for judging when a blockchain is applicable
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Staying Out of TTL Hell
Cache strategies that don't trade-off correctness for speed
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“Disregard That” Attacks
Why you shouldn't share your context window with others
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Applying Mypy to real-world projects
Some hints and tips for getting started with Mypy and introducing it to existing projects