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Will scaling work?
Data bottlenecks, generalization benchmarks, primate evolution, intelligence as compression, world modelers, and other considerations
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The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market
The housing market is even worse in Canada than it is here.
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Canadian internet bill S-210 is a step closer to becoming law
After years of battles over Bills C-11 and C-18, few Canadians will have the appetite for yet another troubling Internet bill. But given a bill that envisions government-backed censorship, mandates age verification to use search engines or social media sites, and creates a framework for court-ordered website blocking…
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“Yes” means “no”: The language of VCs
A failed founder’s survival guide
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The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)
Stockpicking of unloved and undervalued Japanese companies using the Graham and Dodd framwork of value investing.
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Carl Braun on communicating like a grown-up (2016)
Industrial genius Carl Braun believed that clear thinking and clear communication go hand in hand. Here the guide on writing productively to get things done.
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The tech downturn seen through Hacker News comments
Yesterday, I ran my script to check how many comments on the monthly Hacker News Who's hiring post mention a remote option. Remote jobs reached a level of 75 % - 80 % and stayed there (it doesn't look like that's going to change soon), but what's striking is the drop in the …
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A developer's view of Vision Pro
Last week at WWDC I was extraordinarily fortunate to be one of the very few people in the world to try out Vision Pro for myself. The 30 minute session I had with it has been described in tremendous depth in lots of places (the best likely being Myke’s discussion on Cortex ), so I won’t go into the content of that…
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The life and death of open source companies
More thoughts on Open Source licensing and companies.
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2023: Focusing on a single product pays off
The first year where I managed to keep my focus entirely on a single project.
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The least impactful way to spend $300M?
Buying status is as close to bad as a good act can be.
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Apple's Pro Display XDR takes Thunderbolt 3 to its limit
I like Thunderbolt a lot. Mostly because USB's land of optional features is a mess which makes choosing a cable/peripheral difficult. With thunderbolt you have a single number to get right. And then you are supposed to be golden. However the idyll with Intel's interface took a hit when I tried to make sense of Apple's…
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CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs
This is a story consisting of several little building blocks and they occurred spread out in time and in different places. It is a story that shows with clarity how our current system with CVE Ids and lots of power given to NVD is a completely broken system. CVE-2020-19909 On August 25 2023, we got … Continue reading…
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When did SVB insiders begin to realize they were in trouble?
When did Silicon Valley Bank insiders begin to realize they were potentially in trouble?
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Track HN: Survival Rate of Show HN Stories
Spoiler alert: many of the good projects didn’t survive
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Tech companies are irrational pop cultures
How to make better software with systems-thinking
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The Market for Lemons
New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?
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Time to subsidize e-bikes?
We offer tax credits for electric cars — but ebikes are arguably even more transformative
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How Duolingo reignited user growth
The story behind Duolingo's 350% growth acceleration, leaderboards, streaks, notifications, and their innovative growth model
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When Google paid websites to promote Firefox
Having grown up in the 2000s, I love discovering that things I presumed were banal back then were, in fact, part of a bigger story.
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Time to end the speed limit in US airspace?
It's time to end the speed limit in US airspace
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Shopify elevated the non-manager career path and ditched meetings
The difference between crafters and managers and how Shopify rages against meetings
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Kagi finally let me lay Google Search to rest
Google Search is dead to me. Here's how and why Kagi's high quality results and compelling value proposition allowed me to fully make the switch.
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First look at Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft has made tons of noise about their Microsoft 365 Copilot toolset. They’ve made a lot of promises about its capabilities to enhance individual and team productivity, but access to it…