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Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10
fresh OI install, clean slate, let's see how well the updated OI Sun Ray support works
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,710 posts.
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Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond
At NAB, I found a demo of Wi-Wi STAMP, a wireless time synchronization protocol that came out of Japan's NICT. Wi-Wi stands for Wireless 2Way interferometry, and it uses the 900 MHz band for picosecond-level time sync, and mm-level distance accuracy, in a tiny box, currently the size of a smartphone. The system is…
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Software, from First Principles
How electrons flowing through billions of microscopic switches etched into silicon become arithmetic, memory, and the software you use every day.
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Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure
Homescale, PlanetScale at home.
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The simple geometry behind any road
How does the geometry of a road unfold?
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ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs
I've been a happy ready-player user for some time now. I consider the Emacs package fairly feature-complete, for my needs anyway. Well almost. While I...
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Codeberg Divides
Codeberg drew a democratic, but suboptimal line.
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I'm tired of being on the network
You can tell how tired someone is of the always-online life pretty easily. When they get home, watch the distance between the phone and the body. The people who love being connected never let the thing leave them be it pocket, palm, face-down next to the fork. Everyone
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I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers
So I built local.vibe — a friendly dashboard and local .vibe hostname for every local web app on your Mac. No more localhost:3000 vs localhost:5173 roulette.
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Should QA exist?
There are a lot of challenges in the way QA and engineering work together. Many eng leaders think you shouldn't have QA. I dig in.
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The Doom Justifies the Valuation
I’ve been in Berkeley for the last 2 weeks. I haven’t really been back here for a while, and it’s worse than you can believe. This is a cult of atheistic hedonists needing AI doom to be true to justify their life choices. Or acceleration. Or something. They need to make impact. I mean, narcissism of small differences…
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Good people refuse to do bad things
On the responsibility of engineers
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I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months
A business report from a 3D printing enthusiast
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Image of our satellite-choked night skies
To create this composite image, photographer Brendan Larsen captured almost 600 photographs over a two-hour period and then manually stitched them together. Thi
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Code is run more than read (2023)
Code is read more than written, code is run more than read. I think this line of thought can be extended beyond code-writing, and used as a rule of thumb to identify problems and make decisions.
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Five memorable books about programming (2008)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Saving Jet Fuel
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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Chain of Thought for Humans
These past few weeks, I’ve been conducting interviews, and I often open with “make sure you articulate your thoughts out loud, so I can follow along with your thinking”. This is primarily because I…
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LLMs predict my coffee
Why not benchmark with physical experiments?
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Why Mathematica does not simplify sinh(arccosh(x))
When Mathematica seems to not to know how to simplify an expression, it may be doing the right thing, being more sophisticated than you expect.
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Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer
Tauformer is a topological transformer (see paper ) that replaces dot‑product attention with a Laplacian-derived scalar (taumode) per token/head, then attends using distances in that scalar space. Below is a post-style overview of the idea and the first training signals from a 30M-parameter run.
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Competition is not market validation
How to not fall into the fallacy of seeing competition as a proof of Product-Market Fit
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Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops
Formal verification gates for AI coding loops, in the language you're already shipping.
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Introducing: ShaderPad
Riley J. Shaw is a programmer and designer. Rooted in repair and craft, he creates transparent, remixable tools for a sustainable and accessible future.
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Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change
1 in 4 American workers stay in their jobs because of the healthcare. It suppresses wages and working conditions - and prevents innovators from heading out on their own.
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I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored
I made 20 GDPR data deletion requests in the past year. 2 complied immediately. 6 complied after I filed complaints with data protection offices. 12 still haven't. The regulation exists, the enforcement doesn't.
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The future of independence is interdependence
Every one of us depends on others; the only difference is how visible that dependence is.
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I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does
The origin and the evolution of the most confusing modifier key
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Just Put It on a Map
An underrated strategy for urbanist persuasion, powered by open source tools