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My role as a founder-CTO: year 8
2025. What a year it has been. If a normal year as a startup founder already feels like four or five regular years, this one felt closer to a full decade. Th...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,109 posts.
2522
College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe
My son is a college baseball player. One of the singular aspects of having kids is that they open your eyes to facets of humanity that you might not have seen otherwise. I was not a college athlete (and knew little of even baseball until he got the bug at age seven), so I have learned much along the way. You — perhaps…
2523
AI Ethics is being narrowed on purpose, like privacy was
A few days ago, OpenAI released an open-source language model for the first time in a very long time. It had been promised for a while, but the deadline kept being pushed for “safety” concerns.
2524
Getting silly with C, part (void*)2
They won't be able to find bugs in your code if they can't figure out how it works.
2525
Isn't WSL2 just a VM?
My take on Windows NT subsystems and the thin line between VMs and subsystems.
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Prepare for That Stupid World
Prepare for That Stupid World par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
2528
Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler
A brief description of our task scheduling system
2529
A M.2 HDMI capture card
Have you ever looked at an NVMe drive and thought to yourself, 'Hey, this would be 31.7% cooler with HDMI ports?'
2530
Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin
In the early 2000s, we used to write a lot of CGI programs. This was the primary way to make websites dynamic at the time. These CGI programs were usually written in Perl, but sometimes in C to increase performance. The CGI mechanism is conceptually simple but powerful. When the web server receives an incoming request…
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Local-First Software Is Easier to Scale
The title of this post is somewhat misleading. Local-first software rarely needs to be scaled at all.
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Caesar's Last Breath
Caesar’s Last Breath — Charlie Sabino.
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Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL
An in-depth guide to listening to Postgres database changes through the WAL. Covers logical replication, publications, replication slots, and an Elixir implementation.
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20 Years of YC / HN
I saw recently that YCombinator celebrated its 20th anniversary. Hacker News is slightly younger, but to me the two go hand in hand. As far as I can tell, I actively started reading Hacker News around 2011. I don’t remember how I heard about it. It was probably on Reddit or Digg. Once I found it, I started reading…
2535
I Found Malware in a BeamNG Mod
An analysis using Process Monitor and WinDbg, dealing with JavaScript, WASM, and Windows shellcode.
2536
A Map of Python
PyPi, the Python Software Foundation's package repo, counts over half a million open source projects. Since I use many of these every day, it seemed appropriate to get to know this set of packages better, and show some appreciation. The index website provides nice search and filtering, which is good when looking for…
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AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu
The economy will literally double every year afterwards
2538
I'm Done with Ubuntu
A few busted upgrades and the heavy-handed push of a software packaging solution has ruined Ubuntu for me.
2539
Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)
Frank Lloyd Wright was an outspoken advocate for low-density cities without skyscrapers. With this in mind, it’s hard to believe the tower design pictured above came from Wright. It’s called The Illinois , and it was planned to be a mile (1,609 meters, or 5,280 feet) in height. That’s more than fou
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Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin
GIMP 3.0 is almost out, and I'm thrilled. Not only will this version bring new features and improvements, but it finally modernizes the technology stack in two important ways:
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Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
For a while now I’ve been hearing from engineers who run multiple coding agents at once—firing up several Claude Code or Codex CLI instances at the same time, sometimes in …
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Under the hood: Vec<T>
Let's look at Vec<T> to get a better understanding of its inner structure.
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How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method
you need to sit for this one for 48h
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Software Development at 800 Words per Minute
How I develop software at 800 words per minute with a screen reader
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Rust Any part 3: we have upcasts
Some good news is coming in Rust 1.86
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DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum
reject clever
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Ego, empathy, and humility at work
In our daily lives empathy and humility are obvious virtues we aspire to. They keep our egos in check. Less obvious is that they're practical skills in the workplace, too. I think, for developers and technical leaders in particular, that the absence of ego is the best way to further our careers and do great work.
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Go Cryptography State of the Union
I delivered my traditional Go Cryptography State of the Union talk at GopherCon US 2025 in New York. It goes into everything that happened at the intersection of Go and cryptography over the last year.
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From multi-head to latent attention: The evolution of attention mechanisms
From Multi-Head to Latent Attention: The Evolution of Attention Mechanisms What is attention? In any autoregressive model, the prediction of the future tokens is based on some preceding context …