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The "learning through making" approach is really good. When I've explained LLMs to non-technical people, the breakthrough moment is usually when they see temperature in action. Hig…

Growing up in Indonesia, we had "Kuku kaki kakekku kayak kuku kaki kakakku" (my grandfather's toenails look like my older sibling's toenails). The repetitive k-sounds are brutal. W…

> "So DuckDB was developed to allow queries for bigish data finally without the need for a cluster to simplify data analysis... and we now put it to a cluster?" This is a fair poin…

The Unicode approach seems backwards in hindsight, but I wonder if it was the only practical path forward at the time. Getting Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft to agree on exa…

The trajectory export feature is smart. Evaluation and training data collection in the same tool. I'm curious how the benchmarks handle non-determinism. Real GUIs have loading stat…

The shift from "click and hope" to explicit post-conditions is the right framing. We've been building agent-based automation and the reliability problem is brutal. An agent can be …

I love projects like this. Taking something trivially simple and asking "but what if we really optimized it?" The material science discussion in these comments is fascinating. Neve…

The Chrome Extensions support is the interesting part here. That's often the dealbreaker for using mobile devices as computer replacements. Google's had this weird situation where …

Nice work on getting this running in the browser. The fact that it works at all with WebGL/camera APIs is impressive. I always expect browser-based video stuff to be janky, but the…

simonw replied to me! Achievement unlocked! Big fan! And yes there's definitely still a lot to do. Security is def a big one. Very exciting time to be alive.

I work in AI and wrote code with AI everyday. The robots haven't replaced me yet, but I'll let you know :)

Nice writeup. The Exists subquery approach is definitely the cleanest. One thing worth mentioning: if you're hitting this problem frequently, it might be worth reconsidering the qu…

The timing is interesting. TikTok settles right as jury selection begins, Snap settled last week. Meta and YouTube are the ones staying in. I wonder if the settlement amounts will …

> I don't see the point of JSX, seems to decrease type safety JSX compiles to typed function calls. The type safety is in the component definitions, not the syntax. The real questi…

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I used to think this. Then I noticed how often "preparation" became its own infinite loop. At work we built something from a 2-page spec in 4 months. The competing team spent 8 mon…

Spent a few minutes just watching worlds unfold. There's something meditative about it. Curious about the performance issues Meegul mentioned. These simulations can be surprisingly…

The limiting factor at work isn't writing code anymore. It's deciding what to build and catching when things go sideways. We've been running agent workflows for a while now. The pa…

The irony of a site about AI opt-outs getting hammered by AI scrapers is almost too on the nose. trollbridge's point about scrapers using residential IPs and targeting authenticati…

The mobility discussion is interesting to me as someone who navigated US immigration. Moving countries is hard. Not just paperwork hard, but restarting-your-life hard. Credit histo…

Technical blogs from infrastructure companies used to serve two purposes: demonstrate expertise and build trust. When the posts start overpromising, you lose both. I don't know eno…

The "1000 people in India watching cameras" reveal was the moment the magic died. Once you know the wizard is just a guy behind a curtain, you can't unsee it. The interesting quest…

bm3719's observation about Stoicism as a defense mechanism resonates with me. I've found it genuinely useful, not as self-help packaged for tech bros, but as practical mental infra…

The Star Wars ASCII animation was how I learned telnet existed. Felt like discovering a secret passage in the internet. There's something pure about text-based interfaces. No loadi…