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AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding
Blindspots in LLMs I’ve noticed while AI coding. Sonnet family emphasis. Maybe I will eventually suggest Cursor rules for these problems.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,109 posts.
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I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
A reaction and assorted observations about Apple's September 9 Awe-Dropping event.
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Why xor eax, eax?
Why do compilers love xor-ing registers so much?
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Progressive JSON
Why streaming isn't enough.
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Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
A font that's only 2px tall, and somewhat readable! Uppercase and lowercase have some different variants, in case you find one more readable than the other. Numbers (sort of) and some punctuation marks are included.
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Nice things with SVG
Exploring SVG and its visual effects applications
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Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com
A security researcher at Snyk published 5 malicious software packages to the NPM registry. These packages appear to target Cursor.com
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Bored of It
Please, make it stop.
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Making video games (without an engine) in 2025
Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games
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What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes?
What’s the strongest model I can train on my MacBook Pro in five minutes? I’ll give the answer upfront: the best 5-minute model I could train was a ~1.8M-param…
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That fractal that's been up on my wall for years
Warning: Math, Handwaving I spent a lot of time doodling in middle school instead of whatever middle schoolers are supposed to do. Somewhere between the Cool S’s and Penrose triangles I found a neat way to fill up graph paper by combining and copying squares.
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I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
Update: This post received a large amount of attention on Hacker News — see the discussion thread.
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Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
So my journey with these earbuds started after I saw them on this Mrwhosetheboss video about pointless tech. This device seems to be also popular on TikTok. My suspicions were confirmed, this runs android. So of course i went ahead and bought them. 245 euros later... and they finally arrived!
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Live Stream from the Namib Desert
https://www.looduskalender.ee/n/en - check these as well (not so exotic, but still a lot of fun)
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New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
Can optical illusions take you outside the human color gamut?
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The blissful Zen of a good side project
One of life's greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.
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The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks
This is the story of our three year long journey to turn a fleet of laptops into what can only be described as the world's most unhinged video wall.
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Why is Zig so cool?
I can’t think of any other language in my 45 years long career that surprised more than Zig . I can easily say that Zig is not only a new programming language, but it’s a totally new way to write programs, in my opinion. To say it’s merely a language to replace C or C++, it’s a huge understatement.
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I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
Disqus turned my clean blog into an ad-riddled mess. Here’s why I pulled the plug—for your privacy and reading sanity
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Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
Monster Cables, which makes extremely high-priced stereo cables, has apparently sent a cease-and-desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable, alleging various kinds of infringement. Bad move – the pres…
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Learning music with Strudel
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore
If you are a current or former career Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employee, especially if you’re a legacy IT programmer with years of experience and especially if you are a COBOL programmer currently working on the PAM, SPS or any other adjacent team, contact me over email or
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Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?
Link to: https://tidbits.com/2025/12/17/compromised-apple-gift-card-leads-to-apple-account-lockout/
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Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
On many Unix-based operating systems, rsync is a command line tool for transferring and synchronizing files on a computer, either between storage attached directly to the computer or between anothe…
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Game design is simple
So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design.
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The future of large files in Git is Git
Large files bloat Git’s storage, slow down git clone , and wreak havoc on Git forges.
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You’re a slow thinker. Now what?
Figuring out how to lean in to my thinking style
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A minimax chess engine in regular expressions
I wrote a (list of) regular expressions that will play a (not very good) chess game by running a 2-ply minimax search.