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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,713 posts.
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We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole
What the **** does that mean?
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Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle
I'm writing 30 posts in 30 days at Inkhaven. This is number 26.
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A4 Paper Stories
I sometimes resort to a rather common measuring technique that is neither fast, nor accurate, nor recommended by any standards body and yet it hasn't failed me whenever I have had to use it. I will describe it here, though calling it a technique might be overselling it. Please do not use it for installing kitchen…
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Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2
The home of Code & Visuals
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CPU Counters on Apple Silicon: article + tool
Last time I wrote about profiling in Zig on Apple Silicon, I touched on PMU counter profiling. This time I decided to go further and create my own tool to fetch all available counters for Apple Silicon processors (M1, M2, and later). Brief explanation of PMU counters PMU (Performance Monitoring Unit) counters are…
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I Cannot SSH into My Server Anymore (and That's Fine)
To kick off 2026, I had clear objectives in mind: decommissioning my trusty VPS and setting up its successor. Embracing a complete paradigm shift, I built myself a container-centric, declarative, and low-maintenance setup for the years to come.
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The Q, K, V Matrices
At the core of the attention mechanism in LLMs are three matrices: Query, Key, and Value. These matrices are how transformers actually pay attention to different parts of the input. In this write-up, we will go through the construction of these matrices from the ground up.
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My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed
My personal website and blog
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Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is
a tale about a young transgender intern
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Are we tired of social media? (2025)
I've been asking this question to myself a few times now. When ...
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Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics
Recently, a friend recommended BioGaia Prodentis to me. It is a DTC oral probiotic you can buy online that is supposedly good for oral health. I thought it would be interesting to do some sequencing to see what, if anything, it did to my oral microbiome.
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Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin & Wireguard on Hetzner
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“Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders
Have you ever noticed that the food graphics in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders are flat “billboarded” stock images of food? This artistic decision from director Masahiro Sakurai has per...
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Dude, where's my supersonic jet?
3 innovators reimagining how we fly
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Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
Three months ago I would have dismissed claims that AI could replace developers. Today, after using Claude Opus 4.5, I believe AI coding agents can absolutely replace developers.
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Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
The current state of app bloat.
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65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform
Sentiment analysis of 32,000 Hacker News posts shows 65% skew negative and earn 27% more points. Six transformer and LLM models tested, full data included.
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The Post-American Internet
On December 28th, I delivered a speech entitled " A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet " for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany. This is the transcript of that speech.
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GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button
My little corner of the internet.
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I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022)
Recently Ben Hoyt published a blog post claiming that contrary to popular belief, I/O is not the bottleneck in typical programming interview problems such as counting word frequencies from a stream. Sequential read speed has come a long way, while CPU speed has stagnated.
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Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?
Exactly one year ago, Sam Altman made a bold prediction: “We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents ‘join the workforce’ ... Read more
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Google broke my heart
For years, I thought of Google as a trustworthy helper on the Web. Especially where it mattered most, removing pirated copies of my books from Google...
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Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly
Ever since a spate of mergers in the 1990s, Westlaw and LexisNexis have dominated legal research. And that might be why searching legal cases is so costly, even in the age of AI.
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So, you want to chunk really fast?
How we built memchunk - a blazing fast text chunking library using SIMD and memchr for RAG pipelines
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CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022)
Every time I hear someone complaining about how much CSS sucks, I have one question: Did you ever learn CSS? The words want to burst out of my lips but I stay silent and keep to myself. When I was muc
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Dealing with abandonware (2024)
reverse engineering, abandonware
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I switched from VSCode to Zed
For many years VSCode has been my day-to-day IDE for everything: Python, Go, C, occasional frontend development, and what not. It was never...
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All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)
When OpenAI released the first version of Sora, I was excited. For years, I'd had this short story sitting on my hard drive, something I'd written long ago and always dreamed of bringing to life as a
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It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe