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Code like a surgeon
A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,192 posts.
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Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways
Personal website talking about some stuff I've made and technology
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Interstellar Mission to a Black Hole
If DM could form a BH at the center of a planet, wouldn’t that then collapse the planet into that BH, consuming it? Wouldn’t the same apply to stars, extinguishing them?
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Singing bus horns in West Sumatra
Sound: Kalason oto (often simply “ kalason ”) Location : Alahan Panjang, Kab. Solok, West Sumatra This post is dedicated to Pak Budahar - a real Minang musical legend who literally spread music across Sumatra, providing sweet solace to his passengers for decades. Next time you honk your horn,
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/dev/null is an ACID compliant database
/dev/null is web scale
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When is it better to think without words?
Non-verbal, blurry thinking is faster and can search in a broader way, but it is more error-prone than verbal thought.
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What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
A long rant about Apple's design choices.
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Can “second life” EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?
Colin Campbell explains how Redwood drains every drop of capacity from used batteries before they are recycled.
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A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it
a loss plateau that looked like my mistake turned out to be a PyTorch bug. tracking it down meant peeling back every layer of abstraction, from optimizer internals to GPU kernels.
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Spinning Up an Onion Mirror Is Stupid Easy
I recently spun up a .onion mirror of this website.
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How I stopped worrying and started loving the Assembly
Or why robots are playing DOOM now
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Context engineering is sleeping on the humble hyperlink
The dream of hypermedia can come to fruition in a world where clients can not only parse, but navigate with intent.
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I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D
In this post I’ll just rambling about ASN.1; parts of the compiler implementation, and some of the tool’s output rather than the tool itself as its still too WIP to really advertise on its own yet.
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Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Version of Uber H3 in Rust
Since this article will probably have more reach than my usual rambling, It'll be written in English (but let's not make a habit of it).
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Be Careful with Obsidian
Just a few personal thoughts. Notes to myself, to people who use and love this app everyday.
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Programming with Less Than Nothing
Lambda calculus is for wimps. Real programmers use combinatory logic.
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Clojure Zippers (2021)
In this article, we will discuss zippers in the Clojure language. These are an unusual way to work with collections. Using a zipper, you can traverse a data structure arbitrarily and modify its content as well as search in it. A zipper is a powerful abstraction that pays off over time. However, it is not as…
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Why SSA?
If you’ve read anything about compilers in the last two decades or so, you have almost certainly heard of SSA compilers , a popular architecture featured in many optimizing compilers, including ahead-of-time compilers such as LLVM, GCC, Go, CUDA (and various shader compilers), Swift 1 , and MSVC 2 , and just-in-time…
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Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”
The popular book from the "world's most famous living psychiatrist" is riddled with blatant misrepresentations
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Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs
We found vulnerabilities in the FIA's Driver Categorisation platform, allowing us to access PII and password hashes of any racing driver with a categorisation rating.
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I see a future in jj
In December of 2012, I was home for Christmas, reading Hacker News. And that’s when I saw “ Rust 0.5 released ."" I’m a big fan of programming languages, so I…
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Look, Another AI Browser
Yesterday, OpenAI announced Atlas, its AI browser. To the surprise of literally nobody, it’s Chromium with AI slapped on top. Perplexity also has a …
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SATisfying Solutions to Difficult Problems
This post covers the same material as my !!Con 2024 talk , for which the slides are here .
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Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
I've written a number of little scripts over the years, many of which I use every day. Here's a little collection.
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Linux Capabilities Revisited
Technical blog by Stephan Berger (@malmoeb)
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Democracy and the open internet die in daylight
O bviously there have been many editorial changes at the formerly venerable Washington Post, a tawdry saga which I don’t intend to recap here.
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Living Dangerously with Claude
I gave a talk last night at Claude Code Anonymous in San Francisco, the unofficial meetup for coding agent enthusiasts. I decided to talk about a dichotomy I’ve been struggling …
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Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites
Save and Share: Click. Ugh. Another one. You know the drill. You land on a new website, eager to read an article or check a product price, and before the page even finishes loading, it appears: the dreaded cookie banner. A pop-up, a slide-in, a full-screen overlay demanding you “Accept All,” “Manage Preferences,” or…
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A Word on Omarchy
An in-depth look at the currently trending Arch Linux configuration that is Omarchy.