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California needs to learn from Houston and Dallas about homelessness
Houston and Dallas reduced street homelessness dramatically not by being more compassionate or cruel than California, but by building working systems
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 949 posts.
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Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
A small change to operations may undermine a key differentiator for the anime streamer.
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You Want Technology with Warts
I normally skip presentations because I prefer reading, but Building the Hundred-Year Web Service (YouTube) was worth the time. 1 1 Note that despite “htmx” featuring in the title, very little of the presentation is actually about htmx. It is about choosing and using technology in such a way that it won’t require…
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What makes 5% of AI agents work in production?
Beyond the Prompt: Notes from the Context Frontier
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Why most product planning is bad and what to do about it
OKRs created more ceremony than clarity, so we built Problem Driven Development: a 4-day quarterly process focused on problems, not solutions.
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DHH Is Worse Than I Thought
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
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How the AI Bubble Will Pop
The artificial intelligence boom is the most important economic story in the world. But the numbers just don't add up.
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Announcing Tinker
Introducing Tinker: a flexible API for fine-tuning language models.
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Don't avoid workplace politics
Most engineers think workplace politics is dirty. They’re wrong. Refusing to play politics doesn’t make you noble; it makes you ineffective.
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Walmart U.S. moves to eliminate synthetic dyes across all private brand foods
Strengthening customer trust: Walmart is eliminating synthetic dyes and 30+ ingredients from U.S. private brand foods.
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TigerBeetle is a most interesting database
This read goes behind the scenes of how TigerBeetle came to be, the incredibly novel software they’ve built, and all of the wacky, wonderful things that make them so special.
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The gaslit asset class
James Grant invited me to address the annual conference of Grant's Interest Rate Observer . This was an intimidating prospect, the previous...
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Answering questions about Android developer verification
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Cerebras systems raises $1.1B Series G
Cerebras powers the world's fastest AI inference on the biggest wafer chip. Cerebras CS-4 delivers up to 30x faster inference than GPUs.
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Kagi News
A comprehensive daily press review with global news. Fully private, with sources openly curated by our community. News is broken. We all know it, but we've somehow accepted it as inevitable. The endless notifications. The clickbait...
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Selling Lemons
Personal site of designer Frank Chimero
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Companies are lying about AI layoffs?
Companies are saying that the economy and AI are causing the large amount of tech layoffs, but Vanessa Wingårdh looked at the H-1B visa data and noticed that the companies are lying. She argues that...
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There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers
In the last 3 months, I've interviewed 134 engineers - students, mid-level, seniors and even CTOs.
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Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol
We’re taking first steps toward agentic commerce in ChatGPT with new ways for people, AI agents, and businesses to shop together.
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the best coding model in the world, strongest model for building complex agents, and best model at using computers.
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Why friction is necessary for growth
Why I think comfort leads to stagnation and overcoming friction leads to growth.
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To AI or not to AI
A two-week experiment building an app with full AI assistance, exploring both the promise and frustrations of LLM-based development workflows.
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Primer on FedEx's Distribution Network (2024)
With a map!
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The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh
Like you, I'm sick to the back teeth of talking about AI. Like you, I keep getting dragged into discussions of AI. Unlike you‡, I spent the summer writing a book about why I'm sick of writing about AI⹋, which Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish in 2026.
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Thoughts on Cloudflare
Thoughts on its role and impact on the web’s landscape.
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Users only care about 20% of your application
I often destroyed our home computer when I was a kid. Armed with only 2GB of storage, I'd constantly hunt for files to delete to save space. But I learned the hard way that .ini files are actually imp
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Moondream 3 Preview: Frontier-level reasoning at a blazing speed
Think deeper, detect smarter, run just as fast.
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How insurance risk is transformed into investable assets
Riskvest is currently undergoing maintenance.
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Raspberry Pi 500+
A complete desktop PC built into a high-quality mechanical keyboard, with 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD for high performance under heavy load.