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OP posted his rollercoaster tycoon inspired simulator that explained how chips are fabricated. Comments were full of people pointing out inaccuracies and hallucinations. The proble…

You can focus on elevator music, doesn't make it not elevator music.

Because that html page needs a full browser to render and browsers have accumulated decades of bloat for everything from webgpu to drm. There's a reason we can't write new web brow…

10 apss using 100mb each plus 600mb shared use less ram than 10 apps using 200mb each.

> My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models th…

Except where will be the programmers paying for overpriced coffee?

If 0.0000125% of the population understands "the general ideas" I wouldn't call it accessible.

I have ~100 repos on github and only a few of them with LLM assistance. Aside from a few comments and a PR here and there throughout the years nobody cares about them. I have to as…

There's a reason we have expressions like "train of thought". Going from one idea to another is pretty much how we think. Much like going from one token to another.

https://omp.sh/ - It's maintained by the author of the article.

According to some benchmarks has the coding capability of Opus at the price of Sonnet, supposedly will be open weights and is not subject to random trade wars with allied states. C…

As someone with very little knowledge of economics, I played with the idea of writing a kind of wealth simulator, where money acts as voltage and keeps the economy running. It woul…

Which is why Zig's top feature on its webpage is "No hidden control flow."

Is Tracy complicated enough? Because it's imgui. https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy

Co-authored-by: Claude Co-authored-by: Codex Co-authored-by: Composer Co-authored-by: Cursor Grok 4.5 How do you get so many agents to co-author a single commit?

Im constantly surprised by the disk size required by rust builds. It takes over 50G to compile zed IIRC.

This is exactly how I feel about performance. Unrelated to any programming language, including my own optimizations. The higher the speedup the more we cheer, however most optimiza…

> If someone was wrong, I wanted them to know it, and I wanted them to know exactly why. I collected counterarguments the way I collected patches. I believed that if I just laid ou…

And they still find ways to drink themselves to alcohol induced comas. There's no real substitute for education and parental nurturing only best effort band-aid solutions. Children…

Protecting kids online requires attention from their parents, not from the government.

I would try to generate puzzles that don't involve plurals at all. It happened twice that the word I missed was the plural of a word I already found. After finding a word I don't f…

Sure, and the article mentions the AI in elden ring is scripted in lua which is loaded at runtime, meaning it's not hardcoded.

LLMs can be described as "hardcoded weights for generating the next token". All code is "hardcoded". I think AI for game NPCs is perfectly valid terminology. The actor senses the s…

Ginger Bill, the Odin language developer, is openly hostile against package managers (he wrote a post called "Package Managers Are Evil") so he maintains his own wrappers of popula…

CEO of a company that failed to become an AI giant says we can't let the companies that succeeded take their slice of the pie.