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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company.
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Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google.
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Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
Figma and Adobe no longer see a path toward regulatory approval
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My Youtube earnings
How much money I have made with my Lego YouTube channel? Let’s go through the YouTube Analytics. Whether you’re a colleague or an aspiring Youtuber, you may find this information valuab…
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The Cloud Computer
Announcing the world's first commercial cloud computer.
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Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
This year has been extraordinary for Kagi. We had tremendous support from our customers, and we want to start this by taking a moment to say thank you. We really appreciate it. Since we launched Kagi,...
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If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
20 years ago, I got in a (friendly) public spat with Chris Anderson, who was then the editor in chief of Wired . I'd publicly noted my disappointment with glowing Wired reviews of DRM-encumbered digital devices, prompting Anderson to call me unrealistic for expecting the magazine to condemn gadgets for their DRM:
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The Tyranny of the Marginal User
why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time
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Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know
This controversial decision coupled with poor messaging has created anxiety the Open Source community. Learn what's happening and how we can move forward.
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Google to reduce workforce by 12k
As an almost 25-year-old company, we’re bound to go through difficult economic cycles.
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Factorio: Space Age
Hello, long time no see! Today we are going to talk about the expansion which is called Factorio: Space Age.
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Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat
The U.S. Patent Office has proposed new rules about who can challenge wrongly granted patents. If the rules become official, they will offer new protections to patent trolls. Challenging patents will become far more onerous, and impossible for some. The new rules could stop organizations like EFF,...
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New models and developer products
GPT-4 Turbo with 128K context and lower prices, the new Assistants API, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, DALL·E 3 API, and more.
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Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu...
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Taking over a Dead IoT Company
5 years after NYCTrainSign collapsed, I investigate why the company failed and end up writing an exploit to take over their fleet.
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Datomic is Free
Nubank is making all editions of Datomic free of licensing fees, released under Apache 2.0 and available directly from Maven Central, no signup required.
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I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars
I saved my company half a million dollars in about five minutes. This is more money than I've made for my employers over the course of my entire career because this industry is a sham. I clicked about five buttons.
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Modules, not microservices
Dissecting why everybody keeps talking about microservices.
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Beeper Mini is back
Bug fixes and other improvements We’ve created an updated version of Beeper Mini that fixes an issue that caused messages not to be sent or received. You can get the update directly from beep…
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(next Rich)
It is with a mixture of heartache and optimism that I announce today my (long planned) retirement from commercial software development, and my employment at Nubank. It’s been thrilling to see Clojure and Datomic successfully applied at scale.
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What I learned getting acquired by Google
Our 10 person startup gets acquired by Google, we rebuild our product the Google way, and begin to understand that amazing things are possible at Google, if you play the Google game
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Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate
Digitec Galaxus is blazing a trail. The Swiss online retailer now displays how often customers return products, how often products break during the warranty period and how long it takes for a warranty claim to be settled. With that, Galaxus and Digitec now serve as a reference work for the product and service quality…
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Meta plans to lay off 10k employees
Mark Zuckerberg announces steps to make Meta a better technology company and improve our financial performance.
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Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake
Trying to see the world more clearly
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Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
Here's a fun experiment to try. Take an open source project such as yt-dlp and try to find it from a very generic term like "youtube downloader". You won't be able to find it because of all of the content farms that try to rank at the top for that term. Even though yt-dlp is probably actually what you want for a tool…
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Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It
I quit my job towards the end of last month. When I started this blog, I told myself, “Don’t talk about work.” Since my employment is in the rear view mirror, I’m going to b…
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100K Context Windows
Claude's context window expands from 9K to 100K tokens, roughly 75,000 words, letting it process hundreds of pages in under a minute.
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Cisco Acquires Splunk
Splunk is taking the next step in our journey to realize our vision for the future of security and observability by joining forces with Cisco.
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Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow
Old law proposes to turn the Bay Area's zoning system into something like Japan's in just two days.