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I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure
I have recordings and emails showing attacks months before Coinbase's 'discovery'. Timeline, headers, and audio evidence.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 949 posts.
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The fate of "small" open source
By far the most popular npm package I’ve ever written is blob-util, which is ~10 years old and still gets 5+ million weekly downloads. It’s a small collection…
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Three kinds of AI products work
The very first LLM-based product, ChatGPT, was just the ability to talk with the model itself: in other words, a pure chatbot. This is still the most popular…
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When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
I try not to write anything even vaguely political on this blog because we have a variety of views on a variety of subjects and no one is ...
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Mag Wealth (2024)
Mag World: an intuitive sense of scale, using orders of magnitude
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Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back
Kiro, Spec-kit, Bmad, Tessl, and other SDD frameworks turn business analysts into Markdown reviewers. Isn't there a more agile way to use Coding Agents?
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Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
Samsung’s 60% DRAM price hike tightens supply. Learn how rising DDR5 and DDR4 prices impact buyers, sellers, and used RAM markets in 2026.
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AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering
AGI is a harmful and wasteful fantasy that runs counter to the principles of efficient and effective engineering.
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Zed is our office
From the Zed Blog: A look at how we use Zed's native collaboration features to run our entire company.
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Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs
Our statement detailing an incident concerning a legacy system. We outline our commitment to transparency, accountability, and planned investment in cyber security research.
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Android developer verification: Early access starts
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Valve is about to win the console generation
Valve does nothing and still wins
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GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
We’re upgrading the GPT-5 series with warmer, more capable models and new ways to customize ChatGPT’s tone and style. GPT-5.1 starts rolling out today to paid users.
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How Much OpenAI Spends on Inference and Its Revenue Share with Microsoft
EDIT: I am updating this post to reflect that these numbers are based on accrual accounting, meaning that these amounts are from the quarters I am referencing. Anyone telling you otherwise is misinformed. As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium
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Anthropic invests $50B in US AI infrastructure
Anthropic is partnering with Fluidstack to build data centers in Texas and New York, creating roughly 800 permanent and 2,400 construction jobs.
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Micro.blog launches new 'Studio' tier with video hosting
The core of Micro.blog’s mission is to make it easy for people to own their presence on the web. At first, it was a simple blog host that also
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What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO
Linus Torvalds worked for them after he completed his degree, but left in 2003
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Collaboration sucks
If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go alone too. (mostly)
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The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed
Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS). The DoW has pivoted from optimizing cost and performa…
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Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work
When I make something good, I often spend most of my time making thousands of high-precision edits on an artifact that I thought should have been finished hours ago.
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Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025
A practical guide for hiring a developer as a small indie studio. How we, a three-person team, managed 159 applicants using a streamlined, time-efficient process. The article covers designing relevant take-home assignments and a simple Gmail labeling system for high-volume candidate triage.
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ClickHouse acquires LibreChat, open-source AI chat platform
We are excited to announce that ClickHouse has acquired LibreChat, the leading open-source AI chat platform.
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Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Thurs, 6 Nov) reminded passengers that from Wed (12 Nov) it will move to 100% digital boarding passes. This means that from Wed (12 Nov) passengers will no longer be able to download and print a physical paper boarding pass but will instead need to use the digital boarding pass…
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Time to start de-Appling
I ‘ve done such a thorough job of de-Googling that I forgot to show up for a meeting with someone, because I hadn’t checked my Google calendar in ages. (No, they were not amused.) In my defense, I proceeded to explain to them that having de-Googled, I was also in the process of de-Appling, which is a special bonus…
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Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned
Recalls at major automakers cost hundreds of millions of dollars a year. It’s a huge issue. To mitigate it, our company created an analytics department solely focused on categorizing warranty claims into actionable problems.
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How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry
From roughly the end of the US Civil War until the late 1950s, the United Kingdom was one of the biggest shipbuilders in the world.
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Bull markets make you feel smarter than you are
Bull markets make you feel smarter than you are. Bear markets make you feel dumber than you are.
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Operating Margins
Divide a company's income by its revenue, and you get the operating margin. For some volume of sales that comes into the business, it gives an idea of what percentage is left as cash in the end. Barring some accounting shenanigans regarding where the bottom line is....