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Notes on OpenAI o3-mini
OpenAI’s o3-mini is out today. As with other o-series models it’s a slightly difficult one to evaluate—we now need to decide if a prompt is best run using GPT-4o, o1, …
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Alpha Centauri
In the spring of 1996, Brian Reynolds and Jeff Briggs took a long, hard look around them and decided that they’d rather be somewhere else.
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Technicalities of Homeworld 2 Backgrounds
Just kidding. Of course, I have something to say about this. In the company, we look at the art of Homeworld from time to time and bow to the creators of this masterpiece. Once, we talked about how great the background look and how interesting this sketched style is. There is something…some details seem…special to us:
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CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy
This little postage stamp is actually a full Raspberry Pi Zero 2, complete with eMMC storage and WiFi. But you can't get one. Well, not unless you buy the CM0NANO development board from EDAtec, or you live in China. This little guy doesn't have an HDMI port, Ethernet, or even USB. It's a special version of the…
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I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone
One of my weirder hobbies is trying to convince people that the idea that companies are listening to you through your phone’s microphone and serving you targeted ads is a …
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Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory
From April 2026, only verified devices can send or receive end-to-end encrypted message on Element.
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Public static void main(String[] args) is dead
Holy fucking shit did this suck 1 . There is a comments section below. Give your eulogy for that piece of shit sorcerous incantation there or wherever else.
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Sam Altman's pants are on fire
Even for him, his latest whopper is something
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The appropriate amount of effort is zero
Most people put too much effort into everything they do. Here’s a good example from Kristijan around tension in his hands when touching and holding things: Something clicked about inhibition and non-doing (in Alexander Technique), and the strongest effect has been a relaxation of my hands. Like I was touching...
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Short Little Difficult Books
Novels that challenge with style, story, or form that you can read in a day.
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MCP: An in-depth introduction
Understand the building blocks of the Model Context Protocol - tools, resources, prompts, transports, sampling, and roots - and how they fit together.
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I made a floppy disk from scratch
Polymatt decided he was going to make a 3.5” floppy disk from scratch — and actually did. I’m not sure how many of you have actually cracked one of these things
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NixOS 25.11 released
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
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The FAIR Package Manager: Decentralized WordPress infrastructure
In December, I wrote about the state of leadership in the WordPress ecosystem. I shared how too much power rests with one person, and how the lack of transparen
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GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
Introducing agent mode for GitHub Copilot in VS Code, announcing the general availability of Copilot Edits, and providing a first look at our SWE agent.
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We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube
the existential crisis we all share imagine this: you've just spent $640 billion training the chonkiest language model known to humanity (lol) and decide...
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Disable AI in Firefox
Quick reference for how to turn off AI features in Firefox
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10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life
A few thoughts regarding my climb from 0 to 10,000 pushups in less than a year.
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How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023)
Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) developed a method of computing determinants which has some practical advantages.
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The value of hitting the HN front page
I’ve been a member of Hacker News (HN) since 2012. You can see my profile here . (Thanks to Jeff Beard for introducing me to it so many years ago.)
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Aggressive bots ruined my weekend
The web-scraping arm race continues
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The G in GPU is for Graphics damnit
As is true for everything, a lot of things need to happen for anything to happen, and so it’s true for this blogpost as well. Out of all of these everything that needed to happen, 3 are these:
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AWS Built a Security Tool. It Introduced a Security Risk
Discover how AWS’s Account Assessment tool introduced a serious security risk through its default deployment guidance & key steps to detect & remediate it.
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Google's Genie is more impressive than GPT5
It was a busy week in the AI world.
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World-first experimental cancer treatment paves way for clinical trial
An experimental treatment for an aggressive and lethal brain cancer has been published in Nature Medicine, paving the way for a clinical trial by researchers at The Brain Cancer Centre.
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Hidden Messages in Emojis and Hacking the US Treasury
On December 30th, while most of us were preparing for a New Year’s Eve celebration, the US Treasury was prepping a notice to lawmakers to notify them that their systems, which (obviously) contain highly sensitive, confidential data, had been compromised.
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Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI
We're excited to announce an enhancement to Gemini CLI that makes your workflow more powerful a...