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Global Intelligence Crisis
A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,188 posts.
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Japanese Death Poems
by haiku poets
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Six Math Essentials
Just a brief announcement that I have been working with Quanta Books to publish a short book in popular mathematics entitled “Six Math Essentials”, which will cover six of the fundament…
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I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
Over the past decade, I've worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe:
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Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic
Most linux software just work on FreeBSD
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Fix your tools
Last week I had to diagnose a bug in an open source library I maintain. The issue was gnarly enough that I couldn’t find it right away, but then I thought: if I set a breakpoint here and fire up the debugger, I will likely find the root cause very soon… and then proceed to mercilessly destroy it! So I rolled up my…
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Git's Magic Files
Magic files and where to find them: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .mailmap, .git-blame-ignore-revs, .lfsconfig, and more.
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Attention Media ≠ Social Networks
When web-based social networks started flourishing nearly two decades ago, they were genuinely social networks. You would sign up for a popular service, follow people you knew or liked and read updates from them. When you posted something, your followers would receive your updates as well. Notifications were genuine…
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Back to FreeBSD: Part 1
Containers ran in production on FreeBSD thirteen years before Docker. So why does nobody talk about it?
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How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
The research-plan-implement workflow I use to build software with Claude Code, and why I never let it write code until I've approved a written plan.
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Why is Claude an Electron app?
If coding agents make native ports cheap, why does Anthropic still ship Claude as an Electron app? Because code is cheap but maintenance isn’t.
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Aesthetics of single threading
This essay explores the cost of multitasking through computer science concepts like context switching and advocates for the focus found in single-threaded moments.
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Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust
Applying the type-driven mindset to rust via the "Parse, don't Validate" pattern
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How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
A startup called Taalas , recently released an ASIC chip running Llama 3.1 8B (3/6 bit quant) at an inference rate of 17,000 tokens per seconds. That's like writing around 30 A4 sized pages in one second. They claim it's 10x cheaper in ownership cost than GPU based inference systems and is 10x less electricity hog…
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macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025)
AVAILABLE NOW OpenAI, Anthropic, and Chrome ship it. Apple deprecated it. Nobody documented it. Until now. → sandbox-exec: The Miss...
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Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme
A blog about software craft and quality
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Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
Andrej Karpathy tweeted a mini-essay about buying a Mac Mini ("The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused") to tinker with Claws: I'm …
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24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
I found a one-line JavaScript bug in the 24 Hour Fitness unsubscribe page and built a working alternative. The official page has since been fixed.
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Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents
AI agents are good at doing one thing at a time. Give Claude a focused task and it performs. But real work isn’t one task. It’s a tree of tasks with dependencies, parallelism, and context that needs to flow between them.
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Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.
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Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)
Git only tracks files, not directories. It will only create a directory if it contains a tracked file. But sometimes you need to “track” a directory, to ensure it exists for fresh clones of a repository. For example, you might need an output directory called build.
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Turn Dependabot off
I recommend turning Dependabot off and replacing it with a pair of scheduled GitHub Actions, one running govulncheck, and the other running CI against the latest version of your dependencies.
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I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer
What happens when you responsibly disclose a critical vulnerability exposing personal data - including that of minors - and the organization responds with legal threats instead of a thank you?
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Facebook is cooked
Through the mirror into the lightly-clothed AI gooniverse
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Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet
Why controlling total luminance is a better bet
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Lil' Fun Langs
a pungent monad odor that attracts mathochists
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