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AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services
Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust
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You can’t build a moat with AI (redux)
Using LLMs doesn't make a product special anymore
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Obsidian is now free for work
Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore organizations that support Obsidian on our new Enterprise page.
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Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control
Figure was founded with the ambition to change the world.
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Customizable HTML Select
An early look at the new customizable select feature.
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FAQ on Microsoft's topological qubit thing
Q1. Did you see Microsoft’s announcement?A. Yes, thanks, you can stop emailing to ask! Microsoft’s Chetan Nayak was even kind enough to give me a personal briefing a few weeks ago. Yest…
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Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson
Congratulations to the xAI team—and the advocates of the scaling laws
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Rust, C++, and Python trends in jobs on Hacker News (February 2025)
How are Rust, C++, and Python trending on Hacker News in the job market? As a proxy measure for programming language trends, let’s analyze the frequency of programming language mentions in the mont…
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AI killed the tech interview. Now what?
How can we do better interviews in the age of AI
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Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries
In the previous posts, we've explored the SQLite file format and built a simple SQL parser. It's time to put these pieces together and implement a query…
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Five Kinds of Nondeterminism
Or four kinds, or six kinds, I'm not picky about how you count them
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Typst 0.13 is out now
With Typst 0.13, we wanted to improve the day-to-day experience of using Typst. We fixed some of the most long-standing bugs and made Typst even more flexible to...
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An inside look at NSA tactics, techniques and procedures from China's lens
Since I reside in a Five Eyes country (Australia) and have publicly presented four cases I led on China’s APT41 attacking organisations in ASEAN , particularly concerning China’s cyber and political strategies, I was curious to explore what China publishes about Five Eyes operations. This led me down a rabbit hole of…
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When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
By examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing scalability of the system.
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Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor
Majorana 1 from Microsoft is the world’s first Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) built with a topoconductor. Discover more.
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Microsoft's Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing
Majorana 1, the first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture
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Relaxed Radix Balanced Trees (2024)
I’m adding immutable vectors to my language, Ivan, and needed to pick a suitable data structure to implement them. Clojure uses Persistent Vectors (PVs) which support lookups, updates, and appends all in ‘effectively’ constant time. However, it doesn’t have efficient insert or merge operations. Relaxed Radix Balanced…
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Apple Debuts iPhone 16e
Apple today announced iPhone 16e, a new addition to the iPhone 16 lineup that offers powerful capabilities at a more affordable price.
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Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger
Russia state-aligned threat actors target Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services.
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Seeing Through the Spartan Mirage
Why does this ancient society capture the modern imagination?
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Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, sensors, and dmidecode
About a year ago, Hetzner launched the AX162 server line. It offered better price / performance than its predecessor, AX161. We were very excited to adopt it, but we soon encountered serious reliability issues. We observed that the new servers had 16 times higher annual failure rates.
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Thoughts on Daylight Computer
on the Amtrak from Denver to Sacramento When I get to write or read on a screen that’s reflecting the sun back at me instead of needing to be shielded from it, I get a dose of this feeling that this is what all computing could feel like. I want so much more of this in my life. This is a piece of hardware that makes me…
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Implementing LLaMA3 in 100 Lines of Pure Jax
Hi, welcome to my website! This is where I share my thoughts on things that interest me, mostly tech, philosophy, history, and math.
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Parsing JSON in 500 lines of Rust
Finally sitting down to learn Rust and how to write parsers.
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Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference on April 29
We’re here with a couple save the dates to reserve some space on your calendars.