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Recently I’ve often wondered if LLM productivity gains (for coding) could end up mirroring the productivity gains of a good monitor setup. That is, table stake on the one hand (nob…

I’m posting this comment 8 hours after the post so I can be in the better half of the distribution.

Damn. I never knew that way to search things. I used to do « Share / Search on this page » which was already obnoxious, which has now become « … » / « Share » / « Search on this pa…

As a daily Safari on iOS user, I don’t care about any of this, but since iOS 26 basic Safari features such as bookmarks and text search have become so buried deep underneath, they …

As a father of an 8 years old, this is very moving. While Terence is -without a doubt- born with prodigious abilities, I think credit should also be given to his parents Billy and …

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Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46604250

A dream of mine was that in order to get a PhD, you would not have to publish original research, but instead you would have to _reproduce existing research_. This would bring the P…

I am not very familiar with Triplebyte but I really appreciated this (seemingly) candid yet lucid writeup about how it was all went down from the inside. These kind of insider pers…

To avoid something called the thundering herd problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem For instance, a bunch of clients all make a request to a server at th…

LIFO queues with a timeout, and a retry after an exponential backoff with jitter is/was kind of standard for implementing queues at Google. More info in the Google SRE book: https:…

> Say you add a new source file. Wouldn’t it be great if your build system just picked it up? > Alas, it cannot; the list of stuff to build is passed from the meta build system to …

To me, a good cover letter is about being actually motivated to apply to a specific job and then simply explaining why. AI doesn’t help because if you can articulate your genuine m…

> I’ve never heard of a family being divided because its members dance different styles, but I am in one divided by political and religious opinions. Being a dancer (lindy hop) wit…

To me, Internet's permanentness should be treated according to Murphy's law: you should plan for everything you wish would go down to stay up indefinitely and everything you wish w…

Vim is available on a lot of Windows machines through WSL. I agree this would not be my go-to editor on Windows though.

Vim is basically the only editor you can safely assume to be available on any machine you’ll ever interact with. In my opinion, this fact makes it a requirement for virtually any d…

Back in 2014 I was doing music production semi-professionaly for almost a decade. I tried out a brand new pair of headphones, and after an evening of listening to loud music with t…

One last comment though: I didn’t realize you were the author of the post (great work!!). This let me think you know your stuff, and you know something that I don’t and I need to t…

Again, the idea is not to find a specific hash value, but any $hash for which the property md5($manifest_content, $hash, $random_bytes) = $hash is true. You don’t need to match a s…

This is indeed a preimage attack if the manifest content (besides its own self-referenced hash) is fixed. However this is not the case in practice: to pull off this trick you could…