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Very cool interface and reminiscent of figma/excalidraw in the way they provide an infinite 2d canvas for shapes and figures. Most tools of these types tend to implement layers as …

In an age of malicious agentic AI, this level of access is negligent. A lack of engineering controls preventing this from happening at all means that a simple phishing or supply ch…

This sort of conversion gets coverage every once in a while and it's been neat to see old frames getting chopped onto new electric drivetrains. I spoke with one of the people inter…

sounds like a good opportunity to bring back "letters of marque." These were less about authorizing ships to fight back against pirates, and more about authorizing private to your …

For the skeptics here, this is the exponent thats driving the development of datacenters in space. The data has utility but it will be stuck in orbit. Space-based storage and proce…

I agree. I've been researching a lot of this tech lately as a part of a C2PA / content authenticity project and it's clear that the math are outrunning practicality in a lot of cas…

You seem to have missed requirement #3 -> tracking and identifying reuse. An 18-year-old creating an account for a 12-year-old is a legal issue, not a service provider issue. How d…

We are missing accessible cryptographic infrastructure for human identity verification. For age verification specifically, the only information that services need proof of is that …

Maybe code is free, but code isn't all that goes into building software. Minimally, you have design, code, integrate, test, document, launch. Claude is going to help mostly with co…

At 16k tokens/s why bother routing? We're talking about multiple orders of magnitude faster and cheaper execution. Abundance supports different strategies. One approach: Set a dead…

I agree completely. It's a mistake to anthropomorphize these models, and it is a mistake to permit training models that anthropomorphize themselves. It seriously bothers me when Cl…

I've made many business cases for internally-built SaaS tools, and they always rest on the idea that our probability of success is higher if we staff a team and build the _exact th…

100% of my LLM projects are written in Rust - and I have never personally written a single line of Rust. Compilation alone eliminates a number of 'category errors' with software - …

If software engineers can agree on anything, it's that LLM experiences are wildly inconsistent. People have similar inconsistencies. We have different experiences, intellects, educ…

At current rates of emissions, we’re only about 20 years away from people needing to install CO2 scrubbers in their homes. Soda lime, or calcium hydroxide, is the current state of …

This approach kind of reminds me of taking an open-book test. Performing mandatory verification against a ground truth is like taking the test, then going back to your answers and …

Trains and airplanes are fundamentally different from cars. A car accident is unlikely to kill you. A plane crash will. A car accident is unlikely to kill your entire family. A pla…

This is not a controversial take, the evidence already exists. There's a website tracking deaths associated with Teslas, including 61 autopilot fatalities. This has not deterred pe…

I don’t disagree with including user attestation in addition to hardware attestation. The notion of their being a “analog hole” for devices that attest that their content is real i…

Jacked up prices isn't what is happening here. There is a psychological effect that Heroku and other cloud vendors are (wittingly or unwittingly) the beneficiary of. Customer expec…

It's GPU performance. Spin up ollama and run some inference on your 5-year-old intel macbook. You won't see 4000x performance improvement (because performance is bottlenecked outsi…

Modern video codecs are what broke the telco monopoly on content and gave us streaming services in the first place. If the cdn bill is make or break, the service isn’t going to las…

The 'cost of a bad hire' is received wisdom that needs to go away. The first order effects of your team's time investment are easy to see and make good content for your engineering…

I pay for Kagi for search, my family uses Kagi. I pay for NextDNS to block ads, all of my family's devices use NextDNS. I pay for credits on OpenRouter and host an OpenWebUI instan…

What makes node supply chain attacks so dangerous is the CI/CD pattern whereby all dependencies are downloaded from the internet every time a build is created. NPM attacks move fas…