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More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke
Answering questions and concerns.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,696 posts.
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Jev meets the Trolley Problem
I asked Jev and 13 other decision models the Trolley Problem.
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How to Train Your Robot
The enormous advance in AI capabilities over the last several years has in large part been driven by the availability of vast amounts of training data.
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I know why the mathematicians weep
On technological grief
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C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions
In the article about Standard Library hardening, we looked at checks for invalid Standard Library container access and other broken preconditions. I mentioned that those requirements are expressed in terms of “contracts”. But what about our code? In this post, we’ll explore contracts from C++26. We’ll start with a…
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AI was great until it was not
A cautionary tale.
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Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive
I sell fentanyl six days a week under the El at Kensington and Somerset, and every bag I sell is net life-positive. Each bag carries a small but real chance of killing whoever buys it. Each bag also sends $1.80 to the Against Malaria Foundation, which GiveWell estimates saves a child’s life for about $5,500. My…
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Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
It is important to provide credit.
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Fancy Curl Sites
So a good while ago I added a fun curl version of my site, meant for viewing in the terminal. Try running these commands!
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Things to know when you get cancer
Personal website and portfolio
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I electrified my push scooter with a power drill
My blog about my project cars and other contraptions
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How the Military Will Hack the Election
Task Force Raider’s role in 2026 elections has military officers uneasy
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Has AI tells
A little AI tells detector helps us promote good writing.
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Why do LLM pelicans look like this?
Why do LLM pelicans look so alike? A visual look at diversity collapse and our research on creativity in UI design.
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Passkeys are not a trap
A post called Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them. has been doing the rounds over the last few days, making it pretty high on Hacker News, and I've had it sent to me many times with an 'is this true?' kind of vibe. It's written for
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AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary
AI is now able to decompile games and software in a matter of days. That's scary... but kind of exciting.
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Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012)
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?
The theft last week of an estimated $100 million in crypto using a hardware backdoor planted in Ledger wallets points to a sophisticated and systematic attack aimed at subverting crypto wallets sold by legitimate resellers in Asia and Europe
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The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire
I am one of those people who think about the Roman Empire daily – possibly out of my worrying addiction to Crusader Kings III and similar games. I also spent some time working on estimating economic complexity , a neat measure that can be used to explain economic development trajectories. One fateful day, I was…
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How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
You don’t have to shop on Amazon to pay Amazon's high prices.
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Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
For my piece on Catholic miracle apologetics , I read (correction: skimmed) a 25,000-word post by rationalist blogger Scott Alexander. My piece, which cited (but does not focus on) his, ended up being a cool 2,700 words. I don't think it would benefit from being longer, and it was the result of me cutting around 70%…
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Recreational Programming
Learn more about Christopher Phiri work experience, education, connections & more. Software developer, UX/UI, Illustrator
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Yet another way to invoke functions in JavaScript without parentheses
i found yet another way to invoke arbitrary functions in javascript without using parentheses
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Monte-Carlo Simulations
Monte Carlo simulations (or methods ) is the technique of applying randomness and the Law of large numbers to the solution of various scientific and engineering problems. One of its first documented uses was by Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann for nuclear weapon simulations after WWII [1] .
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Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation
An aggregation is some kind of summary of a set of data. This can be the sum, length, minimum, etc. It is quite common to want to calculate such a summary repeatedly, e.g. “the maximum noise level in dB for the past 30 seconds” for a nuisance detector. In such a case we say there is a sliding window over our data, and…
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How to engineer an AI harness for game development
Exploring practical ways to make your game more legible to AI agents and how to make agentic iteration faster.
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Your C is not standard C
this is an incomplete list of some incompatibilities between c as it's written in the standard and c as it exists in the real world for people who use gcc/clang + glibc/musl.
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It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360
I purchased a Matrix CoolRunner Rev D back in 2017. This little chip is called a glitcher and it’s a type of modchip. Its sole purpose, the reason it was designed, is to deliver a short pulse of energy (~ 100 nanoseconds) to an Xbox 360 Console.