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The AI bullshit singularity
I’m sure we are all familiar with the idea of a technological singularity. Humans create an AI that is smart enough to create an even smarter successor. That successor then creates an even sm…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 776 posts.
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The industry structure of LLM makers
The Netscapes of AI
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Rim/Blackberry tales – reply all
Names and emails (even Sumit’s) have been redacted to protect the innocent and the guilty. But you know who you are. Who is Sumit B? I...
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Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)
Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long tim…
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Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?
I realize that many people may not know or care who or what Matt Mullenweg and WordPress are, or why some people are upset about them, but after giving it a lot of thought (okay, about 10 minutes of thought) I decided to write about it anyway. I'm writing
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Mosaic REALMAP: Explore Prague in detail with 1.26M images
Access 15 terapixels of Prague's detailed imagery for your research, for computer vision, photogrammetry, point cloud generation, 3D modeling and more!
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The End of Finale
Updates 07/23/2026 @ 5:00PM ET: The Finale to Dorico crossgrade is no longer available from the Finale eStore. Please head […]
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Google Cloud files complaint due to Microsoft's anti-competitive licensing
Google Cloud has filed a complaint with the European Commission regarding Microsoft’s anti-competitive licensing practices, which restrict customer choice, stifle innovation, and harm European businesses.
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Signs you're about to be acquired (2020)
Over the course of my tech career thus far, I’ve been through two acquisitions. In each case, I was just a normal employee without any special inside knowledge, and found out only a few days before the deals were publicly announced. In retrospect, however, there were some clear signs in the weeks leading up to the…
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WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org
Pending their legal claims and litigation against WordPress.org, WP Engine no longer has free access to WordPress.org’s resources.
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Why Slight Failed: A Slight Post-Mortem
My best guesses as to why our early stage data startup failed. This isn’t a retrospective, but something closer to advice for past me. Or maybe just exorcism.
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Byte Interviews the Apple Lisa Dev Team (1983)
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of Apple's Lisa.
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The Rise of the Forever Renter Class
On those who are unable or unwilling to buy a house in 2024 and what to do about it.
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The Guide to Stock Options Conversations
Why every manager should talk to their employees about stock options
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The danger of the mediocre success when testing startup hypotheses (2023)
Or, how to ensure you learn absolutely nothing.
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A living replacement knee to be tested in clinical trials within five years
Columbia biomedical engineers are collaborating with orthopedic surgeons to build a living replacement knee to be tested in clinical trials within five years.
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Lessons from history's greatest R&D labs
A historical analysis of what the earliest electrical and great applied R&D labs can teach Answer.AI, and potential pitfalls
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Another AI company wrote us and here’s our response
Read the new story by War and Peas! This never-ending webcomic of woefully funny stories will leave you cry-laughing or the other way around.
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JEDEC publishes GDDR7 graphics memory standard
ARLINGTON, Va., USA – MARCH 5, 2024 – JEDEC Solid State Technology Association , the global leader in the development of standards for the microelectronics industry, is pleased to announce the publication of JESD239 Graphics Double Data Rate (GDDR7) SGRAM. This groundbreaking new memory standard is available for free…
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OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board
Nakasone brings cybersecurity experience to growing Board of Directors; will join the Board’s Safety and Security Committee
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Modos Paper Monitor Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply
A fast, low-latency, open hardware e-ink monitor and dev kit
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How Does OpenAI Survive?
Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to accumulate money and power, the desperation of the most powerful executives to maintain control and rapacious growth, and the speciousness of the latest hype cycle — but at the end of