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Paperbacks and TikTok
In 1939, Simon & Schuster revolutionized the American publishing industry with the launch of Pocket Books, a line of diminutive volumes (measuring 4 by 6 ... Read more
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,817 posts.
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The Algebra of Loans in Rust
The heart of Rust borrow-checking is this: when a borrow is taken, and until it expires, access to the borrowed place is restricted. For example you may not read from a place while it is mutably borrowed.
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The Illustrated Transformer
Discussions: Hacker News (65 points, 4 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (29 points, 3 comments) Translations: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified) 1, Chinese (Simplified) 2, French 1, French 2, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Spanish 1, Spanish 2, Vietnamese Watch: MIT’s Deep Learning State of the Art lecture…
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Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot
Interesting things about passkeys in webauthn
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Archiving Git branches as tags
I have a spicy git alias that allows me to "archive" old git branches by converting them to tags, making them less visible across git tooling. # ~/.gitconfig…
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I know you didn't write this
Exploring the ethics and productivity impacts of undisclosed AI-generated content in professional work, and why verification overhead is now the hidden cost of AI adoption.
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NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut
If you were 5 microseconds late today, blame it on NIST. Their facility in Boulder Colorado just had its power cut for multiple days. After a backup generator failed, their main ensemble clock lost track of UTC, or Universal Time Coordinated. But even if you used the NTP timing servers they run, they were never off by…
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Your Supabase is public if you turn off RLS
I was chatting with a close friend of mine and he sent me a link to his new SaaS that he's developing.
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Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases
Where to focus investments to best leverage AI tooling
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Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal
My startup for terminals wrapped up mid-2025 when the funding ran dry. So I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career convincing terminals they are actually GUIs.
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One year of keeping a tada list
Sometimes called a to-done list.
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Project Vend: Phase Two
How Claude turned around its failing vending machine business
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The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
And a surviving example of one surfaced in December 2024.
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Italian Competition Authority Fines Apple $115M for Abusing Dominant Position
The Authority found the App Tracking Transparency (“ATT”) policy to restrict competition The policy lays down the privacy rules imposed by the company on third-party developers of apps off...
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If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)
A client once responded to one of my questions by saying, "Oh Greg, I am too busy living to think about life!” His off-the-cuff comment named a trap al ...
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A year of vibes
A personal recap of 2025 and a year of a new style of engineering.
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I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me
After maintaining a total stance of public silence for months, I recently publicly announced my unexpected divorce on Instagram. I shared a picture of the divorce cake that my friends got for me, and shared a brief essay I had drafted the day before about the news. I had to edit it down slightly from my original draft…
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CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields
A couple of months ago, I received a request from a random Internet user to add CSRF protection to my little web framework Microdot, and I thought it was a fantastic idea.When I set off to do this…
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Your inbox is a bandit problem
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi
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I wish people were more public
On sharing more of yourself.
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Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf
Disney introduced a next-generation robotic character representing Olaf, the beloved snowman from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Frozen.
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The gift card accountability sink
The gaps scammers exploit in gift cards are the result of deliberate policy tradeoffs.
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A guide to local coding models
What you need to know about local model tooling and the steps for setting one up yourself
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More on whether useful quantum computing is “imminent”
These days, the most common question I get goes something like this: A decade ago, you told people that scalable quantum computing wasn’t imminent. Now, though, you claim it plausibly is immi…
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I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
Microsoft has deprecated windows 10, yet million of users still use it. They say the hardware is not supported, yet they keep pestering us with endless pings.
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You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving
“Those who have a ‘Why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘How’.” ― Viktor Frankl quoting Friedrich Nietzsche, Man’s Search for Meaning Let me guess: Viktor Frankl calls this feeling the “existential vacuum” in his famous book Man’s Search for Meaning. Frankl was a psychologist who survived the Holocaust, and in this…
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