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The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)
My neighbor introduced me to The Office back in 2005. Since then, I've watched every episode of both the British and American versions. I've watched the show…
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 460 posts.
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The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)
Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the ACM copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the Association for Computing…
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Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot
Tutorial for tying the Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot, in which the laces are formed into two loops, both of which are passed through the “hole” in the middle.
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Perlisisms (1982)
2. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
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Detecting and Preventing Distillation Attacks
We identified coordinated distillation attacks using ~24,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude's capabilities.
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Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)
In the summer of 1994 Naughty Dog, Inc. was still a two-man company, myself and my longtime partner Jason Rubin. Over the preceding eight years, we had published six games as a lean and mean duo, b…
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Welcome to Gas Town
Happy New Year, and Welcome to Gas Town!
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Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
Track Claude Code's daily performance on SWE-Bench-Pro as we collect an Opus 5.5/high baseline.
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Rewriting Bun in Rust
Why & how we rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust
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Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, pt. 1 (2013)
Ever wondered how Clojure's persistent vector actually works? This is part 1 of a blog series which aims to explain them.
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Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities
Technical details on how we tested Claude Mythos Preview, a model strikingly capable at computer security tasks, and what we found.
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Wolves, sheep, and gypsies
In 2012, the first Danish wolf in nearly two hundred years was discovered in the northwestern part of the country. Their numbers increased slowly in the years that followed, and by 2020, fewer than ten wolves were still being tracked. But then the population began to rise sharply: around 14 in 2021, 30 in 2022, as…
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METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident
Two METR staff members and a Redwood Research contractor investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned message board.
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Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)
Results and speed for other programs on enwik8 and enwik9 are available at the Large Text Compression Benchmark .
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On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.
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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.
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A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015)
What is machine learning? See how it works with our animated data visualization.
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Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure—from a former Azure Core engineer.
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The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama
Ollama gained traction by being the first easy llama.cpp wrapper, then spent years dodging attribution, misleading users, and pivoting to cloud, all while riding VC money earned on someone else's engine. Here's the full history, and why the alternatives are better.
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Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
In Brief: Two motions regarding
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AI Coding Agent Benchmarks & Leaderboard
We measure real-world performance of coding agents on software engineering tasks, including cost, token usage, and execution time. We compare how performance changes across agents, models, and execution settings.
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OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.
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Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
A new initiative to secure the world’s most critical software and give defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity.
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xAI joins SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
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We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
How a team of 16 parallel Claude agents wrote a Rust-based C compiler from scratch, capable of compiling the Linux kernel, and what it taught us.
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What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
Lessons I learned while building my own coding agent from scratch.
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Give Up GitHub – Software Freedom Conservancy
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
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Data Compression Explained (2012)
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