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The switch to Linux and the beginning of my self-hosting journey
How I got into Linux and how that eventually led me to get into self-hosting.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,965 posts.
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The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
src= alt="Always has been astronaut meme" / "Wait, the singularity is just humans freaking out?" "Always has been." Everyone in San Francisco is talking about t
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Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)
I discuss several commonly held perspectives on the complex numbers and explore how their differences engage with several aspects of structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics.
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Competition is not market validation
How to not fall into the fallacy of seeing competition as a proof of Product-Market Fit
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Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
Announcing Entire with $60 million seed round and shipping our first product, called Checkpoints.
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I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed
I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things
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How Is Data Stored?
Invariably, it involves trying to trap electrons in increasingly complicated ways.
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Redefining Go Functions
I once wrote a Perl subroutine that would memoize the subroutine that called it. That much was useful, but then it inserted a copy of itself into the caller, so that its callers would be memoized too. A well-placed call to aggressively_memoize could back-propagate to the whole codebase, spreading functional purity…
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Oxide raises $200M Series C
Raising our Series C round of financing
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Shades of Halftone
An interactive deep dive into building halftone shaders in GLSL, covering everything from classic dot patterns and CMYK color separation to Moiré interference, gooey effects, and animated displacement.
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Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time
When those of us in the Vulkan® working group want to modify the API—whether it’s a new hardware feature to expose, a new use case we want to address, or even just a gap in the spec we want to address—we have one invaluable tool that we make heavy use of: extensions! Extensions are a wonderful way for us to get…
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Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …
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Faster Than Dijkstra?
Does a new algorithm that improves on Dijkstra'a classic one actually deliver a practical benefit for networking?
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What functional programmers get wrong about systems
Type systems verify properties of programs. Production correctness is a property of systems. The gap between these is where the interesting failures live.
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A brief history of oral peptides
Semaglutide is a peptide. Your stomach’s entire job is to destroy peptides.
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America has a tungsten problem
The US will need a lot more tungsten in the future. Where will it come from?
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Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators
On 11th February, Let’s Encrypt will be rolling out a change to the certificates they issue to servers by default. Although there is generally nothing that Prosody operators need to do, servers using the new certificates may experience problems connecting to some other XMPP servers on the network.
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Game Theory Patterns at Work
Foundations: Games, Rationality, and Traps In organizations, strategies and execution are interdependent. Outcomes depend not just on what you do, but on what others do, and what they expect you to…
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Using an engineering notebook
One of my core software engineering practices is writing, by hand, in a physical notebook [1] . It's one of the most important things I do to remain productive and effective. Maybe the single most important. And it's a practice that I see very few others using!
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Discord Alternatives, Ranked
Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.
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Testing Ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.
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I Wrote a Scheme in 2025
One year minus one week ago to the day I published an article announcing the new Scheme implementation I was writing, scheme-rs . Today I am excited to announce that scheme-rs has reached its first version, 0.1.0 . You can check it out at it’s website ( scheme-rs.org , which should be updated to scheme.rs at some…
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Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Why is the sky blue?
The internet’s default answer to “why is the sky blue?” is “Rayleigh scattering”. And that’s not wrong, but it’s also not very useful.
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Sandboxels
Relax or experiment with over 500 materials in this falling sand simulator.
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Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM
A February 2026 campaign used a internal JSP path and in-memory Java class loaders to quietly seed persistent access across Ivanti EPMM deployments - then walked away. We break down the tradecraft.