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A Random Walk in 10 Dimensions (2021)
The geometry of random walks in high dimensions provides the power behind deep learning and may be the secret to intelligence.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
From the Zed Blog: You asked, and here it is. Use Claude Code in public beta directly in Zed, built on the new Agent Client Protocol.
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For all that's holy, can you just leverage the web, please?
The personal blog of Thomas Steiner
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John Coltrane's Tone Circle
An article about the John Coltrane Tone Circle, a 5-octave Circle of Fifths and a double-ring Hexatonic Circle as well. Interpretation, explanation ...
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Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)
How to build realtime blurs on the GPU and how the best blur algorithm works - "Dual Kawase"
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Finding thousands of exposed Ollama instances using Shodan
We uncovered 1,100+ exposed Ollama LLM servers—20% with open models—revealing critical security gaps and the need for better LLM threat monitoring.
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Kernel-hack-drill and exploiting CVE-2024-50264 in the Linux kernel
Some memory corruption bugs are much harder to exploit than others. They can involve race conditions, crash the system, and impose limitations that make a researcher's life difficult. Working with such fragile vulnerabilities demands significant time and effort. CVE-2024-50264 in the Linux kernel is one such hard bug…
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Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser
Zig Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which I am proud to say makes extremely efficient use of monetary resources . Unlike many of our peers, our primary expense is direct payments to contributors for their enhancements to the Zig project.
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Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips
If there is one thing the Unreal Engine doesn’t suffer from, it is it’s lack of features. Over the past years it has been transformed from “just” a game engine into an ̵…
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I want to be left alone (2024)
Seriously. Please just leave me alone.
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%CPU utilization is a lie
I deal with a lot of servers at work, and one thing everyone wants to know about their servers is how close they are to being at max utilization. It should be easy, right? Just pull up top or another system monitor tool, look at network, memory and CPU utilization, and whichever one is the highest tells you how close…
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Indices, not Pointers
There is a pattern I’ve learned while using Zig which I’ve never seen used in any other language. It’s an extremely simple trick which - when applied to a data structure - reduces memory usage, reduces memory allocations, speeds up accesses, makes freeing instantaneous, and generally makes everything much, much…
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The maths you need to start understanding LLMs
A quick refresher on the maths behind LLMs: vectors, matrices, projections, embeddings, logits and softmax.
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This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)
An absolute mammoth post about how I am running this blog site from a Google Pixel 5 Android phone using only Termux. It includes what inspired me, what I'm using for the setup, and my longform notes on the entire project.
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You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title
I once had a job interview for a backend position. Their stack was Node.js, MySQL, nothing exotic. The interviewer asked: "If you have an array containing a million entries, how would you sort the dat
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A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
This started as an internal Sanity workshop where I demoed how I actually use AI. Spoiler: it's running multiple agents like a small team with daily amnesia.
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Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig
Vijaye Raji will step into a new role as CTO of Applications, reporting to CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, following the acquisition of Statsig.
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Introduction to Ada: a project-based exploration with rosettas
Discover Ada through a fun, project-based tutorial! Learn the language’s clarity, safety, and modern features while building an SVG rosetta generator. A…
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Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?
A deep-dive into the challenges and misconceptions surrounding async programming in Python
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Anthropic raises $13B Series F
Anthropic has completed a $13 billion Series F led by ICONIQ, co-led by Fidelity and Lightspeed, valuing the company at $183 billion post-money.
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Twitter Shadow Bans Turkish Presidential Candidate
The X account of a Turkish opposition leader with 9.7M followers is restricted in Turkey. Although his new account is not restricted, many users say they don't see his posts on their homepages.
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Static sites enable a good time travel experience
A static site with version control history enables me to travel into any point in the project’s past and serve the site as it was back in the day.
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You don't want to hire "the best engineers"
I think this might be the meanest thing I've ever written.
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Passkeys and Modern Authentication
Some thoughts in support of simple solutions.
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Take something you don’t like and try to like it
it offers lessons on your nature
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RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use
RubyMine, a JetBrains IDE for Ruby and Rails, is now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.
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How big are our embeddings now and why?
Embedding sizes and architectures have changed remarkably over the past 5 years
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What's New with Firefox 142
Take your stand against an industry that’s selling your data to third parties. Stay smart and safe online with technology that fights for you.