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Grok Code Fast 1
We're thrilled to introduce grok-code-fast-1, a speedy and economical reasoning model that excels at agentic coding.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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The day Return became Enter (2023)
A deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard
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Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
Claude Free, Pro, and Max users can now opt in to having conversations used to improve models, with a five-year retention period for participants.
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An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia
Since I love collecting questionable analogies for LLMs, here's a new one I just came up with: an LLM is a lossy encyclopedia. They have a huge array of facts …
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The Qweremin
In the summer of 2022 I built a C64-based theremin, described and explained here . The theremin, of course, is one of the oldest electronic instruments. Its main drawback—and strength—is that it's incredibly hard to master. The performer has ultimate control over volume and pitch, but it takes months of practice…
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RSS is awesome
Evan briefly discusses rss
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A review of Nim 2: The good and bad with example code
I've been using Nim for about 1-2 years now, and I believe the language is undervalued. It's not perfect, of course, but it's pleasant to write and read. My personal website uses Nim .
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Sometimes CPU cores are odd
TL;DR: all the assumptions you have about processor design are wrong and if you are unlucky you will never run into problems that users do through sheer chance.
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The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood
Together, the Bitter Lesson and Scaling Laws reveal that the god of Compute we worship is yoked to an even greater one — the god of Data.
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Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with
An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.
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Some thoughts on LLMs and software development
a short post
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Building your own CLI coding agent with Pydantic-AI
How to build a CLI coding agent
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Making Minecraft Spherical
Discover the unique design challenges of creating a spherical planet out of Minecraft-like blocks.
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Uncertain<T>
GPS coordinates aren’t exact. Sensor readings have noise. User behavior is probabilistic. Yet we write code that pretends uncertainty doesn’t exist, forcing messy real-world data through clean Boolean logic.
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China is eating the world
and the West lost its appetite
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Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually
Learning to Think Again, and the Cost of AI Dependency.
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How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi
Now that Joel0 in the TrueNAS community has created a fork of TrueNAS that runs on Arm, I thought I'd give it a spin—on a Raspberry Pi. I currently run an Ampere Arm server in my rack with Linux and ZFS as my primary storage server, and a Raspberry Pi with four SATA SSDs and ZFS as backup replica in my studio. My…
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That boolean should probably be something else
One of the first types we learn about is the boolean. It's pretty natural to use, because boolean logic underpins much of modern computing. And yet, it's one of the types we should probably be using a lot less of. In almost every single instance when you use a boolean, it should be something else.
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Rendering a game in real time with AI
Discover the process of transforming an ASCII game into real-time AI-rendered graphics with fal.ai
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Charting Form Ds to roughly see the state of venture capital “fund” raising
Above is a graph that displays the amount of Form Ds filed, where the entity (read: company/firm) name contains the phrases "fund I", "fund II", "fund III", and "fund IV". The x-axis is not the prettiest, but it is broken down by quarter. You can see that the line for "fund I" sees by far the greatest peak around…
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The Math Behind GANs (2020)
Generative Adversarial Networks refer to a family of generative models that seek to discover the underlying distribution behind a certain data generating process. This distribution is discovered through an adversarial competition between a generator and a discriminator. As we saw in an earlier introductory post on…
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Important machine learning equations
A reference guide to fundamental machine learning equations with correct implementations and clear explanations of how they connect to each other.
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Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?
Deconstructing the real costs of running AI inference at scale. My napkin math suggests the economics might be far more profitable than commonly claimed.
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I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS
Authoritarianism is on the rise throughout the globe. Governments wants to monitor your social media accounts so they can make you disappear if you engage in wrongthink such as opposing wars or genocide. This is worsened by misguided laws like Chat control that would mandate scanning of all digital communication…
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Lesser known mobile adtech domains where data is sent
AppGoblin has now run over 40k apps in an emulator, tracking millions of API calls thousands of advertising domains. Unfortunately, some of them are dark, meaning they have no landing page of any kind, and I’m unclear who controls these domains.
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Open Source is one person
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points. It’s very upsetting. But anyway, let’s look at some receipts. If you’re…
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CDC officials’ resignation emails
The end of an era.
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The National Design Studio is a scam
Joe Gebbia has no business designing government services.