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How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice
Stop re-learning things you've already figured out. Two simple ways to document any process, and find it again when you need it.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,710 posts.
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You don't have to
"In the year 5555, your arms are hangin' limp at your sides, your legs got nothing to do, some machine doin' that for you." Zager and Evans sang these words in 1969. Now, thirty-five centuries ahead of schedule, it's never been easier to tell the world "I didn't care about this and I don't care about you."
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Why does C have the best file API
Ok, the title is a tongue-in-cheek, but there's very little thought put into files in most languages. It always feels a bit out of place... except in C. In fact, what you get is usually a worse version of C.
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Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering
How we bypassed CoreML and talked directly to the hardware
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When does MCP make sense vs CLI?
I’m going to make a bold claim: MCP is already dying. We may not fully realize it yet, but the signs are there. OpenClaw doesn’t support it. Pi doesn’t support it. And for good reason.
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AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
Writing code is easier than ever. Being a software engineer is harder than ever. The paradox nobody talks about, and what engineers and leaders should do.
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Ape Coding [fiction]
Ape coding is the software development practice where a human developer deliberately hand-writes source code.
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RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#
around a year ago, we built a regex engine in F# that not only outperformed the ones in dotnet, but went above and beyond competing with every other industrial regex engine on a large set of industry-standard benchmarks. it also supports the full set of boolean operators (union, intersection, complement) and even a…
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Microgpt explained interactively
Walk through Karpathy's 200-line GPT from scratch. Tokenize names into integers, watch softmax convert scores to probabilities, step through backpropagation on a computation graph, explore attention heatmaps, and see a tiny model learn to generate plausible names.
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Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB?
Why is my first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB?? It’s the ’emergency pool’ for exceptions, here’s how I uncovered it using GDB and digging through the source code of libstdc++, glibc and Valgrind!
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Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat
My thesis on the AI-first society and the future of software
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Guilty Displeasures
When disliking something clashes with your identity
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Microgpt
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter
Pooya Esfandiar's Home Page
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You can use newline characters in URLs
We locate web content using special addresses called URLs. We are all familiar with addresses like https://google.com. Sometimes, URLs can get long and they can become difficult to read. Thus, we might be tempted to format them like so in HTML using newline and tab characters, like so: <a…
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MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO
MinIO’s repo is officially archived and abandoned. And how AI Agents helped bring it back from the dead. This post explains how a community fork restores the admin console and ships binaries via CI/CD pipeline.
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Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts
Although I have to have a machine running macOS Tahoe to support our customers, I personally don't like the look of Liquid Glass, nor do I like some of the functional changes Apple has made in macOS Tahoe.
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Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state
Introduction: Fascism at the End of Industrial Civilization This essay argues that the United States is drifting toward a distinctly twenty‑first‑century form of fascism driven not by mass parties …
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The whole thing was a scam
The fix was in, and Dario never had a chance.
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DOS Memory Management
The memory management in DOS is simple, but that simplicity may be deceptive. There are several rather interesting pitfalls that programming documentation often does not mention.
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Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
A systems analysis of how AI-assisted development creates a gap between output speed and understanding, and why organizations cannot see it happening.
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What AI coding costs you
What's the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?
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Why Objective-C
In my previous post I talk about how I got rid of hundreds of thousands of lines of Objective-C code while at Audible and I explain why keeping Objective-C code around is a terrible idea. And I explain that…
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The Future of AI
The Parents’ Paradox: AI, Ethics, and the Limits of Machine Morality This post is based on a talk I gave at The AI & Automation Conference in London on February 25, 2026, and my slides. A…
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Rust is just a tool
A programming language should not be your identity.
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Cash issuing terminals
In the United States, we are losing our fondness for cash. As in many other countries, cards and other types of electronic payments now dominate everyday commerce. To some, this is a loss. Cash represented a certain freedom from intermediation, a comforting simplicity that you just don't get from Visa. It's funny to…
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Disable Your SSH access accidentally with scp
Here's an interesting bug I ran into recently: After transferring some files to my server via scp, I couldn't log in via SSH anymore - my key was rejected by sshd.