The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,822 posts.
There is a strange thing that I noticed as I progressed from a junior engineer to mid-career to senior. When you’re a new engineer, still learning the basics, you are given a task or you have an idea, and you proceed to implement exactly that idea. Very simple, point A to point B, whatever gets the job done. You hate…
How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration.
Okay, campers, rise and shine...
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Xe Iaso's personal website.
A very good friend of mine has been experimenting with trying to coax Chat-GPT4 to successfully do basic coding tasks. So have a lot of people these days, of course. In an idle moment, though, my friend submitted the following query:
Version 4.0.0 is available! WeeChat now follows a practical semantic versioning and there are breaking changes in this release, please read carefully the release notes. See
A look at TypeScript’s structural type system, and we how we can effectively use it to our benefit.
Like almost all rules, there are cases where breaking them is a good idea and seasoned writers may well object with "but" responses for some of these. Thus, consider the rules below as mental rumble strips - you should probably slow down and think if you encounter these cases.
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Embeddings, why they’re useful, and how we can store and use them in Convex.
We investigate how the data cache influences the performance of your program, talk about ways for you to write faster programs by better leveraging the data cache.
A different view on two's complement math.
Did you know that ground stations transmit signals to satellites 22,236 miles above the equator in geostationary orbits, and that those signals are then beamed down to the entire North American subcontinent? Satellite radios today serve hundreds of channels across 9,540,000 square miles. Unless you’re working at a…
I've spent most of the last decade exploring this area (mainly to design Vale 's memory safety) and I've discovered some surprising things .
Run sqlite3 dbs in multiple regions with rsync
Clojure makes me more efficient and extends my reach as a designer. And it protects me from complex design workflows...
Updated performance, developer experience, and site
A fully commented disassembly of Video Chess
Understand how using UUIDs as primary keys can affect PostgreSQL performance, and how to tweak your index to avoid UUID performance pitfalls.
Our FIRST Robotics team struggled with autonomous code for years. Coroutines were the missing piece.
Oh my… 2023 has been such a trek so far… If you have missed my previous article about my thoughts about editors and development platforms, I think it’s probably the moment to have a look at it.
Apple today announced the availability of new software tools that enable developers to create groundbreaking app experiences for Apple Vision Pro.
Go 1.21 RC brings language improvements, new standard library packages, PGO GA, backward and forward compatibility in the toolchain and faster builds.
28-Nov-2018: I’ve added a small update at the end on how to prevent‘handle collisions’ with a per-slot generation counter
Why RLHF may still win out and why we haven't seen it yet in open-source.
