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You can't trust the internet anymore
I like things that are strange and a bit obscure. It’s a habit of mine, and a lot of this blog is to document things I haven’t heard of before, because I wan...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,814 posts.
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Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
New from Google. They say it's "built to push the frontier of intelligence and solve modern challenges across science, research, and engineering". It drew me a really good SVG of …
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A Programmer's Loss of Identity
This is the follow-up to last year’s I’m an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don’t speak for me . In that essay, I tried to express why I was so agonized by the leaders in my industry doing a speedrun towards dystopia and how it all felt so divorced from what technology could, and should be…
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Vim 9.2
Vim 9.2 brings significant enhancements to the Vim9 scripting language, improved diff mode, comprehensive completion features, and platform-specific improvements including experimental Wayland support.
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My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
I recently got a smart sleep mask from Kickstarter. I was not expecting to end up with the ability to read strangers' brainwaves and send them electric impul...
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7zip.com Is Serving Malware
A convincing lookalike of the popular 7-Zip archiver site has been silently turning victims’ machines into residential proxy nodes.
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A deep dive into Apple's .car file format
Reverse-engineering the .car file format used by Apple's asset catalogs and how to parse it without Apple's proprietary tools
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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025
Backblaze's 2025 Year-End Drive Stats Report provides an in-depth analysis of hard drive failure rates for Q4, the full year, and lifetime performance across its data center fleet.
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An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
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The evolution of OpenAI's mission statement
As a USA 501(c)(3) the OpenAI non-profit has to file a tax return each year with the IRS. One of the required fields on that tax return is to “Briefly …
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The "AI agent hit piece" situation clarifies how dumb we are acting
Edit: related blog published Feb 22 – Openclaw is Spam, Like Any Other Automated Email My personal blog here is dedicated to tech geek material, mostly about databases like postgres. I don…
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Breaking the spell of vibe coding
Sinister variations on the positive state of flow
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GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic collaborators.
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I'm not worried about AI job loss
We're not in a February 2020 moment, and ordinary people will be fine
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The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming
the future of senior developers, junior developers, more on cognitive debt, DevEx versus AgentEx, the role of IDEs, consequences of task switching in supervisory programming
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Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]
"That's why I'm sending this message of urgency"
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Building a TUI is easy now
How we built and shipped a terminal UI for Hatchet in 2 days using Claude Code, the Charm stack (Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss), and a tight feedback loop.
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Instagram's URL Blackhole
While exploring the file system on a jailbroken iPhone 6s, I stumbled upon an interesting folder:
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I gave Claude access to my pen plotter
I gave Claude Code access to my pen plotter. Not directly. I was the interface between the two machines. Claude Code produced SVG files that I plotted with my pen plotter. With my smartphone I captured photos that I pasted into the Claude Code session, asking Claude what it thought about the pictures. In total, Claude…
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Assistant to the Regional Manager
The problem with utopia
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Visual introduction to PyTorch
An easy to follow, visual introduction to PyTorch.
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WolfSSL sucks too, so now what?
OpenSSL sucks. The BoringSSL and AWS-LC forks are Googled and Amazoned to death; they don't care about anyone but their own use cases. I can't remember ever having a good experience with software using GnuTLS. LibreSSL is incomplete... FOREWARD This post is about the experience of taking a leap of …
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Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve
Cache reads are quadratic and dominate your long agentic conversations.
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Audio is the one area small labs are winning
The story of Gradium, the anatomy of audio AI models, and why smaller labs continue to edge out larger ones when it comes to voice.
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Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
In the release notes for macOS 26.3 RC, Apple stated that the window-resizing issue I demonstrated in my recent blog post had been resolved.
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Discord just killed anonymity
It finally happened. After months of speculation, Discord dropped the hammer: mandatory age verification for all users is rolling out next month. The era of anonymous gaming chats is officially over.
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Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
Anthropic raised $30 billion, led by GIC and Coatue, with run-rate revenue of $14 billion and 500+ customers spending over $1 million annually.
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GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark—our first real-time coding model. 15x faster generation, 128k context, now in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users.