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Creepy Crawlies
You've probably heard me complain about the "AI crawlers" before, but now I actually have some hard numbers I can put up to show their im...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,939 posts.
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Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role
Starting at Engine brought back the urge to prove myself quickly, and the difficulty of knowing what to change before I understood the context.
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Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
AI definitely helps with productivity, but only when you have the right culture in place first!
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Quantifying Colour
A visual description of the CIE 1931 colour spaces.
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You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
FDR has always been one of my favorite presidents, second maybe to Lincoln. Both were men the establishment assumed were one of them until, to their horror, they governed like they weren't. Both could trash the opposition in one breath and take the moral high ground in the next.
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Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX.
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Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?
A statistical test of whether the Sumerian King List's antediluvian reigns line up with paleoclimate events better than chance.
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I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis
Why I stopped trying to give LLM agents a better memory and instead built Lemmalog, a Datalog engine that maintains an agent's knowledge as analysis state, with provenance, retractions and incremental evaluation, plus what happened when I benchmarked it on LongMemEval and LoCoMo.
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Highlighting My Code Based on How Much I Care
I never questioned why code should be highlighted until I tried to make my own theme.
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Stopping the smart TV from being used against you
Smart TVs are everywhere! But who is the master? Amid the electronics boom driven by A.I., one piece of electronics has remained almost unchanged financially. That is the digital display or flat-panel monitor. With good reason! The entire entertainment and streaming industry wants one of these devi
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Damn fine tiny cafe
I love them miniatures. It started off with Rolife series, where the first hit had come from a [[https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/mini-libra...
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Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days
Thinking through how the conventional OSS security embargoes no longer buy us time, and what open source maintainers might do instead to respond
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It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
It all started in the winter of 2024. There was a burglary in our apartment building and we decided we needed to invest in our home’s security. The …
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Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio
Qwen3.8 27B benchmarked on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra: Ollama and llama.cpp numbers, the 1-bit quant tested, RAM math, and the hardware that actually fits.
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GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
GUI applications should be fully driven by the keyboard using shortcuts
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Don't use musl if you care about performance
I've spent most of my career working inside the JVM, with a sidebar of Python. So the first time I hit incompatible libc with containerized Bifrost, and GPT suggested musl as the solution, not only did I jump on it, I moved my other Rust projects to musl as
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Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need
An attempted improvement that only makes things worse. It is time we start naming this phenomenon in software engineering.
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Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits
I've been moving my home storage over to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 as part of a larger ...
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Htmx 4.0
Release announcement, 2026-08-28.
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I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again
I let AWS Cognito gaslight me for three weeks so you don't have to. Here's the unfiltered autopsy.
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An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations
An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations.
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“It works better in the app”
The monkey-punchers at Google never quite seem to finish any of their apps. There's always some useful bit of work left undone, or showstopping bug which remains unfixed, a thousand jagged edges as yet unsolved by the greatest minds of their generation. I wanted to subscribe to an events calendar. I had a URl. I had…
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Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently out of scope.
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Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice
Luanti has been removed from Google Play due to a DMCA notice from Tracer.AI. We have filed a counter-notice, but this isn't the first time.
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Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak
We’re building new Portals for audio, network, VPNs, and more!
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Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV
Successful contributions to open source projects are a kind of currency. GitHub in particular encourages this in a number of ways: by showing avatars of contributors on repository pages, by showing your contributions to your followers via the activity feed and by signalling contributions per day on the activity graph…
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Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows
A benchmark for evaluating AI agents on research workflows across scientific domains
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Select * from Internet.blogposts
Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while the atproto makes the Internet more open.
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Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlash
The backlash against data centers is difficult to understand if your salary depends on your not understanding it.