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So you want to use OpenRouter?
Might seem simple on the face of it, but unfortunately it's pain all the way down.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,798 posts.
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Avoiding homework with code and getting caught
The eventful tale of me getting fed up with my homework
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Poisson's Equation
If you aren’t used to staring at math, Poisson’s equation looks a little intimidating:
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PHP: A fractal of bad design
(This article has been translated into Spanish (PDF, with some additions) by Jorge Amado Soria Ramirez — thanks!) Preface I’m cranky. I complain about a lot of things. There’s a lot in the world of technology I don’t like, and that’s really to be expected—programming is a hilariously young discipline, and none of us
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Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD Today, we’re announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date. Qwen3-Coder is available in multiple sizes, but we’re excited to introduce its most powerful variant first: Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct — a 480B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 35B active…
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How to make a friend fast
Believe-it-or-not, we actually know exactly how to create friendships in the lab!
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The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start Without Machine Learning
Why this is the first rule, some baseline heuristics, and when to move on to machine learning.
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I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Google reported 21 installs in a day. The admin panel said 1. What the other 20 were, how a bot farm gets paid, and what we changed.
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ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
OpenAI's ad collector at bzr.openai.com sets a cookie called __obi, scoped to .openai.com. The value is while you are on ChatGPT and tied to your ChatGPT account. __obi is then sent to OpenAI from ordinary websites you visit. Any company that buys ads on ChatGPT installs
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Mercury Spill
On July 1st I discovered a puddle of liquid mercury in our house. It was the evening before the holiday weekend and I was preparing to do some more demolition for the bathroom I've been working on. I was putting down plastic to make cleanup easier, and when I got to the corner there was a dusty little puddle. That…
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Structured Outputs in the API
We are introducing Structured Outputs in the API—model outputs now reliably adhere to developer-supplied JSON Schemas.
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Willingness to look stupid
Looking foolish is underrated.
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Pixels don’t care
There's plenty of discrimination and intolerance in our world, but never forget that pixels don't care.
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Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate
The Australian government has new laws on the books to hack your computer, your online accounts, and just about any piece of technology and networks you come into contact with. It can happen without a warrant and without you ever knowing. That’s just the start of it. Outraged? Good.
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GPT-4 API General Availability
GPT-3.5 Turbo, DALL·E and Whisper APIs are also generally available, and we are releasing a deprecation plan for older models of the Completions API, which will retire at the beginning of 2024.
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The Google Willow Thing
Yesterday I arrived in Santa Clara for the Q2B (Quantum 2 Business) conference, which starts this morning, and where I’ll be speaking Thursday on “Quantum Algorithms in 2024: How Should…
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Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), a leader in innovative memory and storage solutions, today announced its decision to exit the Crucial consumer business, including the sale of Crucial consumer-branded products at key retailers, e-tailers and distributors worldwide…
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See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser
I work with U.S. law firms as a non-testifying technical consulting expert on matters involving the Apple platform and iOS apps. Learn more about my litigation consulting.
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Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
Update: The retired, out-of-support Internet Explorer 11 desktop application has bee
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How to build a personal webpage from scratch
An opinionated introduction to designing and deploying a modern static webpage.
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Building Effective "Agents"
Practical guidance from Anthropic on building reliable AI agents, from simple composable patterns to fully autonomous systems.
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Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap
We spent years working on this game. We're betting our family's future on it. So. Why does it look so bad? We've been writing indie game...
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Git undo: We can do better
Update for future readers: Are you looking for a way to undo something with Git? The git undo command won’t help with your current issue (it needs to be inst...
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If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it
Everyone knows a horror story about PayPal, I’ve had several painful experiences with them over the last decade, but now I’ll never have to…