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The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)
Don't update positively on your extremist beliefs whenever you hear a bad argument against them
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,961 posts.
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When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs
From Situational Awareness’s Blow-up to Materials Science to the HuggingFace Hack
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I hate compilers
You'd think that given the same bytes of input you'd get the same bytes of output. lol. lmao. No, you don't. It's complicated.
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Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)
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747s and coding agents
Comparing a career flying the 747 and a career coding with AI assistance.
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What would a serious AI product look like?
Every “AI” tool is missing critical features that you would need if you wanted to do real work with them. What would those look like, if they existed?
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Bayesian statistics for confused data scientists
A gentle introduction to Bayesian statistics for data scientists who, like me, are confused by it.
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Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1
Floréal Technologies: Open software, French touch, International reach.
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Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy
Infomaniak transfers the majority of its voting rights to a Swiss public-benefit foundation. Your cloud remains sovereign, independent, and true to its values. Forever.
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Move Slow and Fix Things (2024)
Growing up as a kid in rural Bavaria, I always …
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Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum
In the late 80s, I spent an embarrassing number of hours hunched over my ZX Spectrum, typing in Sinclair BASIC programs and rudimentary assembler routines copied from magazines, trying to re-create the Amiga crack intros I’d seen round at a friend’s house. Obviously, they never came even slightly close - but now, many…
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An idiot’s guide to lead optimisation for proteins
Lead optimisation is the step in drug design where you take a molecule that sort of works and try to make it actually work, and it’s arguably the step where most real-world design campaigns succeed or die. Due to the influence of a couple of my pals , I have recently become interested in using machine learning to do…
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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
From my experience, people like functions like "map" and "filter", but not "reduce".
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OLED, Not for Me
When I switched from an iMac to a Mac mini in late 2024 I choose an ASUS ProArt 5K PA27JCV (24", 60 Hz) for the monitor and while it looked great, it…
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I hate: Programming Wayland applications
If you want to program a graphical application for linux, your primary choices are using either X11 or Wayland. According to Wikipedia, X11 had its first release in 1984. X11 follows a client-server-model. I assume it's because the whole computational environment, was very different back then. If you have a central…
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Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?
I care about Bun. I have been rooting for it since the initial release in 2022. I switched all my development from Node to Bun. I used it in the development of the Nue framework and now with my new project Hertta .
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IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE
The new processor is being developed to allow organizations to run Arm-native Linux environments simultaneously with z/OS and Linux on IBM Z, while benefiting from IBM’s established security, reliability, and scale.
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Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy
Most think social media leads to manipulation and division, but they also say it informs people and gives them a voice in politics.
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The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)
Using the wiki on GitHub makes life more difficult for your users, and you as a maintainer. Use the `/docs` folder and GitHub Pages instead and keep your docs in sync with code
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C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers
Anyone who's written C knows that full ISO C standard-adhering code is an impractical rarity. Most real world C code out there relies on non-standard behaviors and language extensions to varying extents, and a lot of this isn't for extra features, but just to work around bugs and gaps in different compilers and…
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Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
Actinide becomes the first startup to enrich natural uranium into HALEU, advancing a secure, scalable fuel supply for next-generation nuclear reactors.
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Submarine cable resilience
The estimated 1.5M kilometres of subsea communications cables underpins our global telecommunication services. This critical infrastructure faces serious challenges in the coming years.
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Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git
Semantic understanding on top of Git. Diff, blame, impact, log. Functions, not lines.
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I’m writing again
I'm Writing Again For those of you who are still here — and given how long it's been, "still here" is a real act of patience — thank you. I haven't written a column since 2022. Just like everyone else, I've been busy all this time on Artificial Intelligence, founding with two partners a company
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Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell Scripting
Spotting differences in code is an important part of what we do, Delta is by far the best CLI diff tool I ever used.
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Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels to PyPI
We are pleased to announce the Pyodide 314.0 release. This release focuses on standardization and packaging, marking a significant milestone in the Python-in-the-browser ecosystem. PEP 783 is Accepted: What Does It Mean? The acceptance of PEP 783: Emscripten packaging marks perhaps the most exciting change in the…
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Traces Of Humanity
...or welcome back! I’ve been silent for the last 7 years and now I’m trying to resurface with this new blog :-) Some of you might remember my previous work on Qubes OS1, a paranoid-security OS, which I started back in 2009, and led its development for the