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Founding is a snowball
It can happen to anyone.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,981 posts.
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Ratchets in software development (2021)
So there's a thing we use at work which I call a ratchet. In our codebase, there are "patterns" which we used to use all the time, but we decided to stop using them, but removing all of the existing instances at once is too much work. We want to remove all of these instances eve...
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A lot of population numbers are fake
Do we have any idea how many people there are in the world?
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The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just a scapegoat
The Tech Market is Fundamentally Fucked Up - AI is Just a Scapegoat
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UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M
Or, as they like to call it, the 'AI Skills Hub'. Which was built by PwC because of course it was
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Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way
I wrote a piece a long time ago about The Wolf. It's my personal take on the mythical 10x engineer, except that they aren't a myth. They exist. I've seen them.
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The age of Pump and Dump software
A new worrying amalgamation of crypto scams and vibe coding emerges from the bowels of the internet in 2026
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Software Pump and Dump
A new worrying amalgamation of crypto scams and vibe coding emerges from the bowels of the internet in 2026
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RIP Low-Code 2014-2025
Agentic coding presents an existential threat to a broad set of low-code tools.
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TSMC Risk
If hyperscalers and chip companies don’t build up a TSMC competitor they are set to forego billions of dollars in revenue and stunt the AI revolution.
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Apple, What Have You Done?
I've been an Apple user for over a decade and generally very happy with that life choice, but since iOS / iPadOS 26 and MacOS Tahoe were released a few month...
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First, make me care
Writing advice: some nonfiction fails because it opens with background instead of a hook—readers leave before reaching the good material. Find the single anomaly or question that makes your topic interesting, lead with that, and let the background follow once you’ve earned attention.
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Two Weeks Until Tapeout
Chronicles of a bad idea. Or how I designed a systolic array with in-silicon debug infrastructure from scratch in under two weeks, and taped it out on Global Foundry 180 nm though a Tiny Tapeout experimental shuttle.
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The tech monoculture is finally breaking
A personal look at the return of excitement in technology, from the gadgets of the 1990s to AI tools and a break from the tech monoculture.
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The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing
Recently, I felt like I was seeing more "Show HN" stories, and many of which were generated with LLMs. So I analyzed the data to see if that was true. Also I included the average score per month to see if people enjoy seeing them (because I don't :P).
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Without benchmarking LLMs, you're likely overpaying
We benchmarked 100+ models on our actual task and found a much cheaper alternative that works just as well.
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Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
One of the questions of the 2026 acx prediction contest is whether Nvidia’s stock price will close below $100 on any day in 2026. At the time of writing, it trades at $184 and a bit, so going down to $100 would be a near halving of the stock value of the highest valued company in the world.
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Targeted Bets: An alternative approach to the job hunt
A simple personal website and blog
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The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets
Slot machines on the Las Vegas Strip return about 93 cents on the dollar. This is widely considered some of the worst odds in gambling. Yet on Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated prediction market, traders have wagered vast sums on longshot contracts with historical returns as low as 43 cents on the dollar. Thousands of…
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Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro
When you think Microsoft you probably don't think sense of humor. And yet, I'm convinced that Microsoft is going to do a very specific *very* funny thing within our lifetimes.
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My first year in sales as technical founder
Looking back at the last 12 months feels surreal. I have learned so much about selling, it's insane.
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America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws
Zoning and food safety laws add up to outlaw tiny restaurants operated by one or two staff.
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The Dilbert Afterlife
Sixty-eight years of highly defective people
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Data is the only moat
How different adoption models drive better applications
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Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well
A sampling of recent news
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The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
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