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Teaching LLMs how to solid model
It turns out that LLMs can make CAD models for simple 3D mechanical parts. And, I think they’ll be extremely good at it soon.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,109 posts.
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Graphics livecoding in Common Lisp
Developing a Boids program from scratch without restarting it.
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The Future of MCPs
MCPs—Model Context Protocols—are set to transform AI from passive chatbots into powerful, action-taking agents. But the real story isn’t what MCPs enable—it’s who controls them.
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AI Horseless Carriages
An essay about bad AI app design
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They made computers behave like annoying salesmen
They made computers behave like annoying salesmen | exotext
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How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2
After over two decades, players are now forbidden from flying a seaplane, all thanks to undefined code behavior.
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How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare
I’ve been using Obsidian for all my writing lately, and it’s been a game changer. The local-first model means everything lives as plain text on my machine, and with the Minimal theme, the interface stays clean and distraction-free. My vault lives in iCloud (Dropbox or Google Drive work too), so notes sync seamlessly…
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Collatz's Ant
This is a brief continuation of a previous post ( Repo ), which introduced such visualization for collatz sequences based on Langton’s Ant .
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Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use
Pick the cheapest geocoding API provider for your project. An impartial comparison of pricing for HERE, Google Maps Platform, Azure Maps, OpenCage, TomTom Maps, LocationIQ, and Nominatim.
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Advanced Python Features
A collection of advanced Python features that I've found interesting, underrated, or unique - as someone who's seen a lot of Python code.
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Pixel is a unit of length and area
When measuring the size of a two-dimensional digital picture, the unit pixel is used in a weird overloaded way. Sometimes, it is used as a unit of linear length. For example, each frame of an animation is 1920 pixels wide and 1080 pixels tall. The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) web standard has px as a unit of length…
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Why Does My eBPF Program Work on One Kernel but Fail on Another?
How to Build Truly Portable eBPF Programs
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How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)
How long it really takes to create a new habit, not 21 days.
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Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024)
High-degree polynomial features aren’t inherently unstable: the power basis and unscaled inputs are. This post shows how regularization and Bernstein polynomials make polynomial regression behave.
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I should have loved biology too
How I went from hating it to being obsessed, the allure of great writing, and a post-scuba-dive moment of clarity
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Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of)
Personal blog and portfolio site
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The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great
When I got my first job in technology journalism, my grandmother used to call the magazine where I worked “your catalog.” I winced. But in retrospect, she wasn’t that far off. Back then, if you wanted to buy a computer product—this was the early 1990s, before the web changed everything—the odds were pretty decent that…
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Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon Musk ‘s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) transferred gigabytes of sensitive data from agency case files in early March, using short-lived accounts configured to leave few traces of network activity. The NLRB…
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Attacking My Landlord's Boiler
How it took several months for me to get warm...
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The Future of Compute: Nvidia's Crown Is Slipping
Demand consolidation, changing compute mix, custom silicon, and distributed training will hurt NVIDIA's pole position.
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Cheating the Reaper in Go
Even though I am a C++ programmer at heart, Go fascinates me for none of the reasons you think. Go has made several interesting design decisions:
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A M.2 HDMI capture card
Have you ever looked at an NVMe drive and thought to yourself, 'Hey, this would be 31.7% cooler with HDMI ports?'
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Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii
If you are reading this message, the experiment below is still ongoing. This page was served to you by a real Nintendo Wii.
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LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them
How LLM-powered programming tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replace them
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AI assisted search-based research works now
For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the …
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Tabular Programming: A New Paradigm for Expressive Computing
I've been exploring the m8 Dirtywave tracker for a few months now, and it's been a fascinating experience. If you're not familiar with it, the m8 is a portable music sequencer built on the Teensy platform that combines a minimal 8-button interface with a powerful tabular workflow. What makes it special isn't just its…
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Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
Free-standing function call syntax considered kind of suboptimal.