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The Blowtorch Theory: A new model for structure formation in the universe
How early, sustained, supermassive black hole jets carved out cosmic voids, shaped filaments, and generated magnetic fields
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,109 posts.
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Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code
These LLMs are shockingly good at deobfuscation, transpilation and structure to structure conversions. I discovered this back around Christmas where I asked an LLM to make me an Haskell audio library by transpiling a rust implementation. An “oh fuck” moment in timeOver the Christmas break I’ve been critically looking
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The Hobby Computer Culture
[This post is part of “A Bicycle for the Mind.” The complete series can be found here.] From 1975 through early 1977, the use of personal computers remained almost exclusively the province of …
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Pee If You Want to Go Deeper (2021)
While I’m usually blogging about triathlon, today I want to discuss one of my other hobbies, scuba diving. Diving in the UK usually requires diving in a dry suit (not always, but trust me, it’s a LOT more comfortable). One of the biggest concerns that many have is about how to deal with the bladder
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Getting More Strategic
Strategy – how to be strategic, and how to be seen as strategic – is one of my ongoing obsessions. Years ago, I read Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, and it’s guided my thinking ever s…
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Why does Britain feel so poor?
Plus chaos chasers, ghost motorways, the secret symbols hiding in your street, and a rationalist death cult.
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MCP vs. API Explained
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that connects AI models to tools and data sources efficiently. This guide breaks down MCP’s architecture, benefits, and how it differs from traditional APIs
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JJ Cheat Sheet
I’ve been learning Jujutsu a.k.a. jj , a version control system that’s compatible with git repos. It’s clicked for me in a way that git hasn’t even after many years of use.
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Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person'
Link to: https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23765914&cid=65583466
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Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected
Recently, Google introduced E2E encryption in Gmail. It went bad.
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The /o in Ruby regex stands for "oh the humanity "
Your code using the /o modifier Source: wikipedia Hi there! Do you like Regex? Do you like performance? Do you like creating confounding bugs for yourself rooted in the mechanics of the Ruby VM itself? If you said yes to all of the above, have I got a feature for you! But first, let’s start with a story. The cliffs of…
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How to build Intrinsic Motivation: a review of the science
I dig into the research on intrinsic motivation. Super interesting subject. Long but hopefully quite thorough.
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Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process
How one million chessboards works
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In Defense of C++
Why C++ remains a powerful and relevant programming language in today's tech landscape.
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Open source can't coordinate?
I was taking a shower this morning, and was pondering yesterday's problem, where I suspect that I have an outdated version of hotspot Linux profiler, but I can't just go and download a fresh release from GitHub, because hotspot is a KDE app, and I use NixOS. And NixOS isn't a problem --- it's a solution.
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The good times in tech are over
For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun. Every company offered lots of perks, layoffs and firings were almost unheard of…
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What’s new in Swift 6.2
Raw identifiers, backtraces, task naming, and more.
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I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it
i went to a show in november of last year (it’s may right now) and ever since, i have tinnitus. i don’t recommend it.
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The Zizians and the rationalist death cult
What is the deal with Rationalism and cults?
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Real Chilling Effects
A extraordinary pattern of government censorship and threats to speech
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Customizing tmux
I have been exploring some new tools here and there. When I started watching Primeagen, I took a note of several tools that he was using and advocating for. One of them was tmux. What is tmux? tmux is a terminal multiplexer. What that means is you can have many terminals in one. According to tmux wiki: tmux is a…
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Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game
Reverse Engineering: I discovered a serious Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in a popular game that could let attackers run code on your PC. Watch how I found it, reported it, and what you can do to stay safe.
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How Apple designs a virtual knob (2012)
💡 Author's note: This unpublished post was originally written in May 2012, and refreshed for publication in November 2022.
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AI agent benchmarks are broken
Benchmarks are foundational to evaluating the strengths and limitations of AI systems, guiding both research and industry development.
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The Future of MCPs
MCPs—Model Context Protocols—are set to transform AI from passive chatbots into powerful, action-taking agents. But the real story isn’t what MCPs enable—it’s who controls them.
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Xcode constantly phones home
Building StopTheMadness Pro in Xcode is usually very fast, because my project doesn't use any Swift. It's a combination of Objective-C, which compiles much more quickly than Swift, and JavaScript, which doesn't need to be compiled. However, sometimes the builds were very slow for some strange reason. Checking the…
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Build your own Siri locally and on-device
That doesn’t spy on you