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A Theory of Deep Learning
Where noise hides when deep neural networks generalize.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,704 posts.
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A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms
The OpenAI algorithm for the FFT is less a breakthrough and more a malicious exploit.
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AI code and software craft
Update (Feb 17, 2026)—I no longer agree with many statements made in this blog post. I am leaving it here unmodified. See my follow-up: AI can sort of code, can't write .
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Make.ts
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How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine
If you’re reading this, there’s a very good chance you’ve seen this famous image of three iterations of SpaceX’s Raptor rocket engine.
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GitHub and the crime against software
An investigation into collapse of Github and how the decay of our tech infrastructure is a crime against software. Detailed comparisons of Github, Gitlab, Codeberg, and more from a distributed systems and software performance expert.
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Microsoft mishandling example.com
TL;DR: Since at least February 2020, Microsoft's Autodiscover service has incorrectly routed the IANA-reserved example.com to Sumitomo Electric Industries' mail servers at sei.co.jp , potentially sending test credentials there.
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A week of using Codex more than Claude
Claude goes above and beyond what is asked and guesses what you might want. Codex does what you tell it and stops at the first sign that it might be done. Ten impressions from a week of using Codex more.
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Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive: In retrospect, he said, the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected,” and that the company’s bets on the new structure “haven’t come to fruition yet.”
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NP-overrated
If you learned about NP-hard problems in university, your takeaway was probably this:
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Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning
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I don't want your PRs anymore
Notes by `dpc`
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If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe
A concrete example of why using native HTML as much as possible is better than slapping ARIA on top of things.
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Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon
Coming to a Panther Lake notebook near you!
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3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
3D-knitting makes a whole sweater in one piece on a four-bed machine: no seams, no cutting, and 99% of the material ends up in the finished garment.
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Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
After 10 years of on-and-off work, I’m releasing a full reverse-engineering of the 1998 Ultima Online demo server: https://github.com/draxinar/ouo . About 5,000 functions disassembled from MSVC x86 and translated into portable C99, with each function compared instruction-by-instruction against the binary.
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Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025)
Catgirls can have little a RCE, as a treat
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Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy
A papyrus fragment of Homer’s epic The Iliad has been discovered inside the wrappings of Roman-era mummy . The mummy was found in a necropolis the ancient site of Oxyrhynchus (modern-day El-Bahnasa) in Egypt’s Minya Governorate. Archaeologists were able to remove the papyrus and identify the text as the “Index of…
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Should you wash your solar panels?
I have a small solar farm and the panels have got visibly dusty. Is cleaning them worthwhile? How much difference does it make? Let's find out.
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Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps
Edit: This was a hit on HackerNews and I received a ton of valuable feedback. I’ve put markers for the amendments I’ve made
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Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)
Short answer: because math. Longer answer: because prime numbers don’t divide into each other evenly. To understand what follows, you need to know some facts about the physics of vibrating st…
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I just want simple S3
I just want S3. My needs are pretty basic. I don't need to scale out. I don't need replication. I just need something that can do S3 and is reliable and not slow. Minio is dead, they pulled the plug after axing the interface. They archived the repo so they …
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The "AI agent hit piece" situation clarifies how dumb we are acting
Edit: related blog published Feb 22 – Openclaw is Spam, Like Any Other Automated Email My personal blog here is dedicated to tech geek material, mostly about databases like postgres. I don…
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The Valley of Webhooks
I've built the same webhook consumer three times at three companies. The fourth time, I want a better primitive.
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Successful companies go blind
The Mexican cavefish kept its eye genes for over a million years after the eyes themselves disappeared. Something similar happens to companies once they achieve success.
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Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship
Thomas Dullien’s guide to software and SaaS B2B entrepreneurship.
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Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)
I discuss several commonly held perspectives on the complex numbers and explore how their differences engage with several aspects of structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics.