1951
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1952
Software Pump and Dump
A new worrying amalgamation of crypto scams and vibe coding emerges from the bowels of the internet in 2026
1953
1954
Paul Graham Keynote at PyCon
Here are my raw notes from the keynote. Update: PG posted this talk in essay form. It’s not much longer than my notes; you should probably read that instead. big startup ideas are actually t…
1955
Pixar's Chris Horne Sheds New Light on Monsters University
No, literally. Pixar's lighting/rendering systems were completely redone for their new film Monsters University. In my correspondence wi...
1956
Successful machine learning models: lessons learned at Booking.com
150 successful machine learning models: 6 lessons learned at Booking.com Bernadi et al., KDD’19 Here’s a paper that will reward careful study for many organisations. We’ve previously looked a…
1957
1958
OKRs masquerade as strategy
Desire is not a Strategy
1959
1960
Why construction projects always go over budget
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Boston, Massachusetts is one of the oldest cities in America, founded in 1630, more than a few years before the advent of modern motor vehicles. In the 1980s, traffic in downtown Boston was nearly unbearable from the tangled str
1961
The case for ending Amazon’s dominance
It should not be difficult to love Amazon. To consumers, it offers choice and convenience. Countless internet ventures have relied on its cheap, flexible cloud computing services to start and scale…
1962
When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
I try not to write anything even vaguely political on this blog because we have a variety of views on a variety of subjects and no one is ...
1963
We’ll call it AI to sell it, machine learning to build it
An AI Public Service Announcement
1964
A/B test of banner ads vs. traffic
9 months of daily A/B-testing of Google AdSense banner ads on Gwern.net indicates banner ads decrease total traffic substantially, possibly due to spillover effects in reader engagement and resharing.
1965
Discipline Doesn’t Scale
If programmers were just more disciplined, more professional, they'd write better software. All they need is a code of conduct telling them how to work like those of us who've worked it out. The above statement is true, which is a good thing for those of us interested in improving the state of software and...
1966
Tarsnap price cut
This will no doubt annoy my friends Patrick McKenzie and Thomas Ptacek , who for years have been telling me that I should raise Tarsnap's prices. But while Thomas accuses me of running Tarsnap like a public utility rather than a business, and thinks this is a characteristic to be avoided, I see this as a high…
1967
Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle
Amazon removed purchased e-books from Kindles when a publisher had second thoughts about online distribution.
1968
PayPal phishing scam uses invoices sent via PayPal
Scammers are using invoices sent through PayPal.com to trick recipients into calling a number to dispute a pending charge. The missives — which come from Paypal.com and include a link at Paypal.com that displays an invoice for the supposed transaction — state that the user’s account is about to be charged hundreds of…
1969
1970
Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned
Recalls at major automakers cost hundreds of millions of dollars a year. It’s a huge issue. To mitigate it, our company created an analytics department solely focused on categorizing warranty claims into actionable problems.
1971
Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated
With the release of Claude Fable, it is clear that Anthropic is progressing from poems to enterprise-scale narrative objects.
1972
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat is one of the most widely used software libre XML parsers written in C, specifically C99. It is cross-platform and licensed under the MIT license .
1973
How is search so bad? A case study
Personal site for Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer - Svilen Todorov
1974
Incompetent but Nice
A question I’ve never been able to answer to my satisfaction: how do you manage people who are nice but can’t do the work?
1975
221 Cannon is Not For Sale
Like most people, I’ve had my identity stolen once or twice in my life. It’s annoying, but thankfully I’ve avoided some of the more catastrophic outcomes when criminals begin impe…
1976
RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums , an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015. The DOJ also charged the alleged…
1977
The Founder Visa (again)
Nearly 5 years ago, Paul Graham first proposed the founder visa. There has been a lot of discussion since, but nothing has happened. Maybe he was too ambitious in asking for 10,000 startup...
1978
ThoughtWorks has been sold to private equity
Thoughtworks is acquired by Apax Funds. The current management team will continue to run the company as before.
1979
Pushing back against contract demands is scary but please try anyway
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
1980