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Learning to code is still worthwhile
Literally no one is uttering what we thought were the immortal lines “learn to code,” right? I don't think that sentence has been spoken for many months now in Silicon Valley
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,700 posts.
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GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
GLM 5.2 is the first open weights model I'd call a genuine competitor to Opus and GPT for agentic work - at ~15-20% of the price. Part one of why AI inference margins are about to collapse.
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Kernel anti-cheat is an overreach
Modern PC games make you install a ring-0 anti-cheat driver you can't audit.
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Girls just wanna have fast MPMC queues with bounded waiting
Disclaimer: An earlier version of this post claimed the structure is wait-free, this is incorrect. Being wait-free requires that failure or suspension of any thread can’t cause failure or suspension of another thread. This queue in fact does not fulfill that requirement. The main section which discusses the wait…
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Price per 1M tokens is meaningless
It stops being all about the vibes when the API bill hits you. Many companies are now discovering that AI can indeed be pricey. One habit that might be driving up your AI bill is comparing models by $X per 1M tokens ....
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Linux on the Atari Jaguar
The challenges around porting Linux to an old videogame console by Atari
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Pros and cons of solo development
I created and maintain Luxury Yacht, a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters. Think Headlamp, Lens, and k9s. It's that kind of app. Luxury Yacht is a ...
1418
Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian
Goodbye, old friend. We’ve been traveling together since 2010, and you’ve faithfully served all my virtual machine needs well, first with VirtualBox and then later with libvirt and KVM . But, as they 1 say, all good things must pass.
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Aluminum foil (2021)
It’s typically 10 μm thick and 400 mm wide, giving it an aspect ratio of 40000 in that dimension, and rolls are commonly some ten meters in length, for an aspect ratio of 1 000 000; heavy-duty versions can reach 30 μm or more. Despite their thinness, foils of 25 μm or more are impermeable to oxygen, water, and light…
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NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta
A signals-and-noise course left me writing Monte Carlo math on paper and wishing the notation itself would run. Nine years later, with an AI agent doing the heavy lifting, NoiseLang became a real Monte Carlo language that runs the same fused kernel on the GPU, on every CPU core, and on WebAssembly.
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Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps
Edit: This was a hit on HackerNews and I received a ton of valuable feedback. I’ve put markers for the amendments I’ve made
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When AI Costs More Than the Engineer
Anthropic spends 2.3x payroll on compute. Top software firms spend 0.4x. Three scenarios for where the rest of the market lands by 2029.
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The Private Capture of Public Genius
Essay I of Upstream of Everything
1425
Has_not_been_viewed_much
Museum APIs and the art that hasn't been viewed much.
1426
Composite Video on the NES: Why's it so wobbly?
The Nintendo Entertainment System. Is it the platonic ideal of an 8-bit video game system? Well, only because it’s so prominent and successful– it’s actually...
1427
Completing a computer science degree on Coursera
A short write-up on my experience completing a Computer Science BSc from my bedroom.
1428
Cursed circuits #5: capacitance multiplier
Capacitor vendors don't want you to know this! Save money on capacitors by spending more on other components
1429
You need a webring
Yes you! You need a webring
1430
It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
PlayStation announced that they will stop making discs. People are rightfully mad about this, but it's not actually about physical media. It's about owning your games.
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Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
Published: 05-07-2026 20:33 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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Scheme Is a Hoot
Lately I've been spending time learning Scheme and using it to implement the concepts I'm learning in my physics classes as time permits. One of the most exciting things I've been doing with this is getting my Scheme to compile to the Web thanks to Hoot. One of the biggest challenges has been the fact that Hoot is…
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Web-based cryptography is always snake oil
Nowadays, there is an epidemic of web applications purporting to offer “end-to-end” encryption. Examples might range from a file upload service, which allows you to upload and share files of arbitrary size and promises “end-to-end encryption”; or a web-based password safe service which claims that it can't see your…
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Programmers need to start meditating
For over 20 years, the meditative focus of programming has been one of the best parts of my job. Every week I’d spend countless hours in a flow state, which quiets the default mode network. The DMN is responsible for daydreaming/reflection but also rumination/worrying, so quieting it settles your mind. If I didn’t…
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Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter
Adventures in programming, hardware, DSP, and chiptune
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I Accidentally Started a Small Business Three Weeks Ago
My Happiest, Most Grounded Distraction
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If you're a button, you have one job
A blog about software craft and quality
1438
Better Models: Worse Tools
About an aggravating tool-calling regression in newer Claude models.
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AI has torched the market for junior programmers
Junior programmers are getting destroyed by AI — down 19%, while devs over 40 thrive. Meanwhile, millions of non-developers are shipping real software without the job title. The credential market collapsed; the activity exploded. The problem: nobody's building the next generation of senior engineers.
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Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches
EDIT 2026-07-08: Gizmohub, despite the announcements, did not stop working on the 7th. Instead, a Verizon tech called me, and told me that they were not going to take Gizmohub down until they'd resolved these issues. They also walked me through getting set up, including getting me the 2FA code that was not coming…