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Blog about things you don't understand yet
Every post I publish represents at least two things I’ve learned: the thing that prompted me to write the post, and the thing I learned in the course of writing…
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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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Productive Procrastination
Productive procrastination is real. But understanding why we avoid the work we actually love might be the key to getting more of it done.
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Intuiting Pratt Parsing
You already know that a + b * c + d is calculated as a + (b * c) + d. But how do you encode that knowledge precisely enough for a machine to act on it?
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Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler
Most supply-chain attacks against RubyGems exploit a narrow window: an account is compromised, a malicious version ships, and any bundle install in the minutes that follow resolves straight to it. ...
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An opinionated take on how to do important research that matters
An opinionated perspective on how to do important research that makes a difference (and sometimes win awards).
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Fun With Pinball
Fun With Pinball small board assembly instructions explanations flipper solenoid stepper video
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Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities
OpenAI is strengthening monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models. See how new safeguards are guiding the pace of model development.
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I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”
I recently tried refine, an AI tool for refining academic articles, developed by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.
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Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?
Library maintainers may feel overwhelmed by the plurality of type checkers that exist. We offer some guidance on how to focus their efforts where they matter most.
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New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
Apple today announced the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, delivering more performance, powerful on-device AI capabilities, and faster connectivity.
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OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break
We made a YouTube video showing how NonBioS can deploy OpenClaw on a fresh Linux VM automatically - zero human intervention, about 7 minutes start to finish.
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Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model
Why SaaS business is now a harness one.
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I dumped Apple’s word list
macOS ships a VulgarWordUsage.db and a dictionary that rates every word as vulgar, offensive or sensitive. Dumped for 199,000 English words and a dozen other languages.
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Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one
A very primitive version of recovery.
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Extinction-Level Capitalism
Matthew Butterick
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ASCII-Driven Development
~15 years ago, we had Balsamiq Mockups (2008). Deliberately sketchy. Intentionally low-fidelity. The comic-sans-looking wireframes were a…
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Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs
GOG is great. I bought a few old games from them: SimCity 2000, Theme Hospital, Syndicate Plus. And by old games, I mean games from my childhood that still
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Notes on Software Quality
“The absence of problems” is the best definition I can come up with for quality.
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Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers
Compare Jev decision models with Red Hat guardrails to evaluate AI safety performance, cost, and latency for enterprise implementation.
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An iroh powered smart fan
Putting iroh on a bare ESP32 to build a temperature-driven smart fan you can check on from anywhere.
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Japanese Death Poems
by haiku poets
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NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute
We've achieved 10x data efficiency with NanoGPT Slowrun within a few weeks. An ensemble of 1.8B parameter models (18B total params) trained on 100M tokens matches what would normally require 1B tokens with a standard LM baseline. Data efficiency matters because compute grows much faster than data . Since our current…
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OCaml Onboarding: Introduction to the Dune build system
Welcome to all Camleers We are back with another practical walkthrough for the newcomers of the OCaml ecosystem. We understand from the feedback we have gathered over the years that getting started with the OCaml Distribution can sometimes be perceived as challenging at first. That's why we keep it ...
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A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel
A system freeze led us deep into Linux spinlock internals, where we helped find not one but three bugs in the kernel's resilient locking code used by eBPF.
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CPU Counters on Apple Silicon: article + tool
Last time I wrote about profiling in Zig on Apple Silicon, I touched on PMU counter profiling. This time I decided to go further and create my own tool to fetch all available counters for Apple Silicon processors (M1, M2, and later). Brief explanation of PMU counters PMU (Performance Monitoring Unit) counters are…
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Refuse to let your doctor record you
By: Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney At a recent appointment, Emily’s physical therapist (who knows some about her research) said, “Before we get started,...
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Lovable raises $400M Series C
Lovable has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT.
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