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My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine
Translator and proofreader’s note: There are large parts of this document that don’t parse well either from Chinese or from Naomi’s written…
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 11,894 posts.
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Work Hard (2007)
Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced … the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously… this feeling may last for hours at a tim…
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HARC
We’re excited to announce YC Research’s newest project: the Human Advancement Research Community (HARC). This came out of a conversation that started between Alan Kay and me more than a year ago about how to invent future computing technologies; I’m delighted to finally be officially working with him and his group. He…
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From Design Patterns to Category Theory (2017)
How do you design good abstractions? By using abstractions that already exist.
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Kagi raises $670k
Kagi has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our first external fundraise to date. This was made possible with the participation of 42 accredited investors, most of whom are actual Kagi users....
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Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
A paper from Anthropic describing persona vectors and their applications to monitoring and controlling model behavior.
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Moving Atom to React
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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An update to storage policies across your Google Account
Over the past decade, Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos have helped billions of people securely store and manage their emails, documents, photos, videos and more. To…
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Introducing Copilot+ PCs
An on-demand recording of our May 20 event is available. Today, at a special event on our new Microsoft campus, we introduced the world to a new category of Windows PCs designed for AI, Copilot+ PCs. Copilot+ PCs are the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built. With powerful new silicon capable of an…
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Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026
Announcement for the sunsetting of Gemini CLI in favor of Antigravity CLI, a more robust, agent-first platform designed to handle the multi-agent complexities of 2026.
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Dangerous domain corp.com goes up for sale
As an early domain name investor, Mike O’Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. Some he sold over the years, but for the past 26 years O’Connor refused to auction perhaps the most sensitive domain in his stable…
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Our Software Dependency Problem
For decades, discussion of software reuse was far more common than actual software reuse. Today, the situation is reversed: developers reuse software written by others every day, in the form of software dependencies, and the situation goes mostly unexamined.
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The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2019404 points166 commentscited by 6History & Retro Computing details
(Note: Thanks to the effort of a kind reader, this post is now available in audio format! The playlist for the entire series may be found here.) This is the first part of a six-part (II, III, IV, V…
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Light Table's Numbers, And What's Happening Next
All I can say is “wow”! The response to Light Table has been far more positive and far greater than I could’ve imagined. To put it into perspective, here are some aggregated numbers at the time of this writing:
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Basecamp doesn’t employ anyone in SF, but now we pay everyone as though all did
If you want to be amongst the best paid people in software, you have to move to San Francisco. Or do you?The roots of Basecamp are in Chicago. It’s where the business started, it’s where our only o…
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What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit
Security researchers have recently uncovered security issues known as Meltdown and Spectre.
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AI's $600B Question
The AI bubble is reaching a tipping point. As we continue to follow the GPUs, navigating what comes next will be essential.
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Mousetrap: Keyboard shortcuts in Javascript
Mousetrap is a simple keyboard shortcut/event library written in Javascript.
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Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community
A while back at the awesome maintainerati Ichatted with a few great fellow maintainers about how to scale really big opensource projects, and how github forc...
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Game Loop
If there is one pattern this book couldn’t live without, this is it. Game loops are the quintessential example of a “game programming pattern”. Almost every game has one, no two are exactly alike, and relatively few programs outside of games use them.
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It’s mostly a demand shock, not a supply shock, and it’s everywhere
Monetary Policy 3 created a self-reinforcing demand explosion that is getting harder, not easier, for supply to keep up with.
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Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019)
Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. We conducted a large-scale study, analyzing ~53K product pages from ~11K shopping websites to characterize and quantify the prevalence of…
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When patents attack Android
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part IV
After beginning a compiler for the Apple M1 GPU , the next step is to develop a graphics driver exercising the compiler. Since the last post two weeks ago, I’ve begun a Gallium driver for the M1, implementing much of the OpenGL 2.1 and ES 2.0 specifications. With the compiler and driver together, we’re now able to run…