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We are working on new articles to share our latest findings, so stay tuned! Overall our outlook continues to be bullish. Almost all software problems yield to a combination of the …

Hi, I'm one of the trio from the StrongDM AI Lab. Just a minor thing I want to clarify about the Weather Report [1] - it's framed in kind of a negative light in the article ("spars…

I'm testing a theory that large-scale (LoC) generated projects in Rust tend to have fewer functional bugs compared to e.g. Go or Java because Rust as a language is a little stricte…

> The Go to Rust rewrite is interesting - was that driven by performance or more about the ecosystem/tooling for this kind of work? I'm testing a theory that large-scale (LoC) gene…

(DTU creator here) I did have an initial key insight which led to a repeatable strategy to ensure a high level of fidelity between DTU vs. the official canonical SaaS services: Use…

Yes, Claude code.

Can this work for Claude? I think it might be raw API only.

(StrongDM AI team member here) This is great feedback, appreciate you taking the time to post it. I will set some agents loose on optimization / purification passes over CXDB and s…

I'm one of the StrongDM trio behind this tenet. The core claim is simple: it's easy to spend $1k/day on tokens, but hard (even with three people) to do it in a way that stays relia…

https://jaytaylor.com (personal site) All of my web properties have been ad-free since the beginning, going on 25 years. Cheers.

(Co-creator here) This is one of the use cases for Leash. https://github.com/strongdm/leash Check it out, feedback is welcome! Previously posted description: https://news.ycombinat…

Leash does it via eBPF today. Are you open to a collab?

This is a really neat project . At my company (StrongDM) we recently open-sourced a tool in this space called Leash: https://github.com/strongdm/leash By default it runs in docker,…

Have you seen Leash? https://github.com/strongdm/leash It even has a --darwin macOS-native mode which goes beyond the capabilities and guarantees of sandbox-exec and bubblewrap. Fu…

https://jaytaylor.github.io/hn-live2 Enjoy!

X-Mouse Button Control (XMBC for short) is a handy Windows app to override mouse buttons to do arbitrary other actions on a program/App -specific basis. https://www.highrez.co.uk/d…

Years ago I made a Go library called `html2text' just for this: https://github.com/jaytaylor/html2text/ https://jaytaylor.com/html2text It takes HTML as input and generates markdow…

Hygroscopic, an interesting new word to me! Thank you :) > hy·gro·scop·ic > adjective > (of a substance) tending to absorb moisture from the air. relating to humidity or its measur…

I didn't know the word internecine, it's actually really useful and relevant in many situations, thank you! > internecine, adj.: > destructive to both sides in a conflict.

Underscores aren't technically valid in URLs or domain names ;D That minor implementation detail aside... You make a good point. Perhaps MD5 or SHA256 hashes will become a last res…

> I’ve often thought about getting together with some friends to pay into a fund to house our websites after we die. I don’t think setting that up would be too hard — the math arou…

The Klingons were hella cool! Wish I could have appreciated it more as a kid, but at the time (early 90s) I didn't even know what I was looking at or how special it was :D