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Ten lines of code that changed my world
Front-end antics and typographic mischievousness
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,421 posts.
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You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
Git packfiles were designed for mmap and local disk, so pulling one object out of a bucket means guessing at a byte range. I wrote a new format instead.
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Patching my guitar amp's firmware
I’m having a lot of fun with reverse engineering lately, so when I was looking over the service manual for my guitar amp, a Yamaha THR10c, and saw references to a UART header in the schematic, I got excited. I wondered if anything cool was hiding in there. Next to it was a JTAG header. I knew next to nothing about…
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Working with Git Worktrees in Magit
I’ll admit that until fairly recently I had no idea git worktrees existed. They’ve been part of git for a decade1 and I never once needed them. Feature branches did the job just fine - create a branch, do the work, merge it, delete it, and start over. What finally introduced me to worktrees was, of all things, AI…
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LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language?
In Part 1, I described how duplicating a block of seven middle layers in Qwen2-72B — no weight changes, no training — produced the #1 model on the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard. The method, which I called RYS (Repeat Your Self), was discovered using nothing but hard math probes and EQ-Bench on a pair of RTX 4090s.
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CJIT: C, Just in Time
Run, compile, and link C programs instantly with CJIT.
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Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory
You can go far without writing TLA+ syntax now, but you still need to understand temporal logic.
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Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift
There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly use existing C libraries from your Swift code.
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SBCL Fibers – Lightweight Cooperative Threads
A draft design document describing lightweight userland cooperative threads for SBCL.
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The quadratic sandwich
If you have ever tried to minimize a function with gradient descent, you probably noticed that some functions are a joy to optimize and others are a nightmare. The difference often boils down to two properties: strong convexity and L-smoothness. These two concepts define a “sandwich” of quadratic bounds around your…
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Nobody ever got fired for using a struct
Rust struct serialization problem caused by many nullable SQL columns.
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Reflections on 30 years of HPC programming
This summary of Brad’s HIPS 2025 keynote looks at how HPC programming has (and has not) changed over the past 30 years
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Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log
a personal blog
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Cohere's First Model for Developers
Meet North Mini Code, Cohere's first open-source agentic coding model: a 30B MoE that codes strongly on minimal hardware.
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Inverse Kinematics and Foot Locking
Computer Science, Machine Learning, Programming, Art, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Short Fiction
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Why Objective-C
In my previous post I talk about how I got rid of hundreds of thousands of lines of Objective-C code while at Audible and I explain why keeping Objective-C code around is a terrible idea. And I explain that…
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Deno 2.9
`deno desktop` for building native desktop apps from web tech, first-class migration from npm/pnpm/yarn/Bun, CSS module imports, snapshot and parameterized testing, smaller `deno compile --bundle` binaries, and Node.js 26 compatibility.
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Orchestrating AI code review at scale
Learn about how we built a CI-native AI code reviewer using OpenCode that helps our engineers ship better, safer code.
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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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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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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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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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Why building a Rust LSP is hard
Rust LSP that doesn't eat memory for breakfast
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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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21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)
Eight long held and common beliefs about the network have been shown, time after time, to be false. What are they, and what do they mean?
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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.