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Andrej Karpathy's talk on the future of the industry
Transcript of Andrej Karpathy's YC AI SUS talk at Y Combinator on June 17th, 2024.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,218 posts.
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Amazon software engineer interview
Sobit Akhmedov is a staff software engineer with 14 years experience building e-commerce, financial and cloud storage solutions for startup and Big Five companies.
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How I automate my home
Home IoT devices and programming
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Parametric CAD in Rust
I keep designing physical parts for our robots. Motor mounts, sensor brackets, wheel hubs. Every time, the workflow is the same: open a GUI CAD program, click a
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My multi-decade quest for rural broadband
No corporate parables or historical insights this week, just the odd and sometimes amusing tale of the author's multi-decade quest for internet connectivity.
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Whose Computer Is It?
Patrick Wardle highlighted a tweet by Maxwell (" Some Apple apps bypass some network extensions and VPN Apps. Maps for example can directly access the internet bypassing any NEFilterDataProvider or NEAppProxyProviders you have running "), sparking an extensive HN discussion on Apple's ham-fisted tactics (not unlike…
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999)
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Open Publication License, version 2.0.
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Be Relentlessly Resourceful
March 2009 A couple days ago I finally got being a good startup founder down to two words: relentlessly resourceful. Till then the best I'd managed was to get the opposite quality down to one: hapless. Most dictionaries say hapless means unlucky. But the dictionaries are not doing a very good job. A team that outplays…
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Economists study what happens when people stop using Facebook
In the most recent issue of the prestigious American Economic Review, a group of well-known economists published a paper titled “The Welfare Effects of Social Media.” It ... Read more
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No more JavaScript frameworks
Stop writing Javascript frameworks. Translations: Chinese Japanese Russian Here's the talk, based on this essay, that I gave at OSCON 2015. [Slides] The 100-line templating library presented as a Gist has been cleaned up, documented, and published as the Stamp library. JavaScript frameworks seem like death and taxes…
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Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole
Learn how to use your Raspberry Pi for ad-blocking with Pi-hole and enjoy a distraction-free browsing experience on the Web and other services. Just a simple installation away!
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Glory is only 11MB/sec away (2023)
One thing is certain in life: if you’re getting something for a steal, someone is getting screwed, and it’s probably you elsewhere. This isn’t an anti-capitalist rant, it’s just the truth. Companies don’t exist if they don’t make money. Unless there’s some innovation, rest assured that you’re overpaying somewhere else.
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The Moral Economy of Tech
This is the text version of remarks I gave on June 26, 2016, at a panel on the Moral Economy of Tech at the SASE conference in Berkeley. The other panel participants were Kieran Healy (whose remarks are here ), Stuart Russell and AnnaLee Saxenian .
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You might not need Redis
Redis is arguably the most well regarded tech of all. But many times you do not need Redis. Here are 3 examples from my last 3 jobs.
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Useful engineering metrics and why velocity is not one of them
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers
A quick, well crafted Google search returns “About 86,800 results” for publically accessible HP printers.
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Show HN: QBE – a new compiler back end
QBE is a compiler backend that aims to provide 70% of the performance of industrial optimizing compilers in 10% of the code. QBE fosters language innovation by offering a compact user-friendly and performant backend. The size limit constrains QBE to focus on the essential and prevents embarking on a never-ending path…
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Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions – Chrome edition
Modern processors have instructions to process several bytes at once. Effectively all processors have the capability of processing 16 bytes at once. These instructions are called SIMD, for single instruction, multiple data. It was once an open question whether these instructions could be useful to accelerate common…
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The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude
A deep dive into how a 'one-shot' Claude headless loop (paired with scoring, defensive tooling, and a simple bash driver) massively accelerates matching decompilation of Snowboard Kids 2 on the Nintendo 64.
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I Gave My Child Autism
This website is for sale! backfromnature.org is your first and best source for information about backfromnature. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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Lets talk about changelogs (how I loathe 'bugfixes and performance improvements)
Published: 02-01-2021 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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The Secret Button
There's a secret button hidden in Windows 7. At least, it's a secret to some people. Many modern users won't know about it, whereas some like me have used it every day for over 25 years.
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Vmail - A Gmail client in Vim
Why Vmail? Because some people are 1000 times more productive and happy in Vim than in any web browser or GUI program.
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Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time
tl;dr: I believe HN Who is Hiring? posts are down; scroll to the bottom for the chart, code lives here. Hacker News. The Orange Site. Since April 2011, it’s had a thread every month, which dares potential employers to answer one question: who is hiring? I take a quick skim through this thread every month. ... Hacker…
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Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries
Small local libraries are now becoming travel destinations
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Communicating with people on psychedelics
About 18 months ago I had a really cool idea: What if we could communicate with people who are high on LSD in such a way that sober people can’t understand?* I call this idea psychedel…