Readlog

2024-07-23

• a very short book about copying
  • Bill Gates later reflected on these cases: “we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox … I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that [Jobs] had already stolen it.”9
• All the existential risk, none of the economic impact. That’s a shitty trade

2024-07-22

• The Matasano Crypto Challenges
• Workload: Broadcast

2024-07-18

• LLM agents and integration dead-ends
• Intelligent agents guided by LLMs
• The Objects of Our Life
• Panic! at the Job Market
• Browser company values based on roadtrips

2024-07-17

• Hey, That’s My Model! Introducing Chain & Hash, An LLM Fingerprinting Technique
  • Following this, each question in the chain is hashed

2024-07-16

• My pet theory of how great software gets started

2024-07-15

• The Fascinating and Complicated Sex Lives of White-throated Sparrows
• We need visual programming. No, not like that.
• The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection
• Hi there!
  • I don’t really enjoy dance music. I don’t partake, I don’t pump it in my car… I don’t get excited about it.
• What if Sequoia, Goldman and Barclays are all wrong about the AI bubble?
• Just be Rich: Critiquing Paul Graham’s essay
• How To Know When It’s Time To Go

2024-07-13

• Use A Work Journal To Recover Focus Faster And Clarify Your Thoughts

2024-07-11

• The Joy of Reading Books You Don’t Entirely Understand

2024-07-09

• Nick Brown Smelled Bull
• Entering text in the terminal is complicated
• How we tamed Node.js event loop lag: a deepdive
• Three Filters Needed to Think Through Problems
• Mental Models: Getting the World to Do the Work for You
• How I turned seemingly ‘failed’ experiments into a successful Ph.D.
• Made in USA

2024-07-08

• Successful people tend to be persistent.

2024-07-07

• Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel
• Hyrum’s Law
• How malloc broke Serenity’s JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery

2024-07-05

• Async Rust Is A Bad Language
• Insights from over 10,000 comments on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring” using GPT-4o & LangChain

2024-07-06

• Free and Open Source Software–and Other Market Failures

2024-07-03

• Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites

2024-06-27

• The Half-Truth of First-Mover Advantage
• on shortification of “learning”

2024-06-26

• crushes are often just misplaced ambition

2024-06-25

• First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us

2024-06-24

• Meet WebAgent: DeepMind’s New LLM that Follows Instructions and Complete Tasks on Websites

2024-06-23

• Where Are the Elites?
• After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (and I was completely clueless)

2024-06-22

• Current state of LLM Risks and AI Guardrails

2024-06-18

• The better the models get, the harder it is for me to form a mental model of what goes on inside of them.
• Estimating Work Lag
• The Story of Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2012
• Unskilled and unaware: second-order judgments increase with miscalibration for low performers

2024-06-17

• How I Made Trading Cards with E-Ink Displays
• Let Tim Cook

2024-06-15

• The bitter lesson

2024-03-04

• Live vs dead players

2024-02-04

• How Inuit children are taught anger control
• You are what you love
  • This article was interesting, But, I loved this perspective from HN “This is such a privileged take”, because most of the population is unable to or cannot “love their job”. Most jobs are, by design menial and are outsourced because the person cannot be bothered with those jobs. like, pushing carts, or
• How profanity check was made

2024-01-31

• https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2023/google-bard-data-exfiltration/
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12173
• https://promptarmor.substack.com/p/data-exfiltration-from-writercom

2023-09-02

• Category:United States in rem cases

2023-08-31

• Search by text, voice, or image

2023-08-27

• In This Essay I Will: On Distraction

2023-08-26

• Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee (Guest Blog Post)

2023-08-24

• Privacy UX and privacy culture

2023-08-23

• Privacy Sandbox: Noise Lab

2023-08-22

• The Redis Protocol is pretty great.

2023-08-21

• Programmers At Work John Warnock-1986

2023-08-18

• https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf
• What is Google Zanzibar?
• Dear Sir, You Have Built a Compiler
• 🔥When human knowledge becomes feedstock
• THE DIGITAL PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION ACT OF INDIA, EXPLAINED

2023-08-17

• Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode

2023-08-16

• Finbarr Timbers Blog Books Advice Prompt engineering How is LLaMa.cpp possible?

2023-08-14

• https://www.meity.gov.in/writereaddata/files/The%20Digital%20Personal%20Data%20Potection%20Bill%2C%202022_0.pdf
• If you succeed; you will fail 2022/07/21 (1242 words)

2023-08-10

• Many temptations of an open-source chrome extension developer #670

2023-08-09

• https://cpu.land/
• Network byte order and host byte order
• int getsockopt(int socket, int level, int option_name, void *option_value, socklen_t *option_len);
• https://build-your-own.org/redis/02_intro_sockets

2023-08-08

• WEI? I’m a frayed knot
• The fuck you pattern
• Creative industries
• Turning my hobby into business made me hated it

2023-08-07

• Is this all the medicine we were promised?

2023-06-01

• distcc: a fast, free distributed C/C++ compiler
• Why would anyone learn this stuff

2023-05-31

• We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down our site.
• Feedback: I try to answer “how to become a systems engineer”
• Privacy Enhancing Technologies: An Introduction for Technologists

2023-05-30

• A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward
• Stallman isn’t great, but not the devil
• Overton window

2023-05-29

• Head-Trapped – Descartes, Dawkins, Hobbes, Marx, Mill, Darwin, And The Myth Of Western Civilisation
  • Charles Darwin wrote in his autobiography: ‘My mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years… Now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry… I have also almost lost any taste for pictures or music… I retain some taste for fine scenery, but it does not cause me the exquisite delight which it formerly did…
• Reflections on Ten Years Past The Snowden Revelations
• Tom Hanks on the Rewards and “Vicious Reality” of Making Movies

2023-05-28

• Rent-seeking
• Bell System
• Reflections on Ten Years Past The Snowden Revelations

2023-05-27

• The only things you HAVE to know are how to make enough of a living to stay alive and how to get your taxes done. All the fun parts of life are optional.
• talk given by John Ousterhout about sustaining relationships
• How a mind-controlling fungal parasite turns insects into zombies – Harvard Gazette
• The Birth of the Self | The Hudson Review

2023-05-25

• “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
• Years back I worked with a senior guy whose motto was “feedback as a gift“

2023-05-24

• The Study Newsletter #052
  • I’ve been thinking lately about the illusionary mindsets

2023-05-22

• Same Stop

2023-05-21

• Memory allocation for char array
• Next Steps for Neeva
• Understanding storage of strings in C++ - Part 1…. Stack or heap?

2023-05-18

• What are the differences between a pointer variable and a reference variable?

2023-05-16

• 5 things I wish I heard at the graduation I never had
  • you are never too smart to be confused.

2023-05-15

• Cathedral and the bazaar

2023-05-14

• Whispers of Immortality

2023-05-11

• I encountered Wrong Answer/Runtime Error for a specific test case. When I test my code using this test case, it produced the correct output. Why?

2023-05-06

• High Variance Management

2023-05-05

• Staff engineer archetypes.

2023-05-04

• Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”

2023-05-03

• Elite overproduction is a concept developed by Peter Turchin, which describes the condition of a society which is producing too many potential elite-members relative to its ability to absorb them into the power structure.
• I want to talk about WebGPU
• Explaining tech’s notion of talent scarcity
• Normal distribution
• The competitive advantage of these companies lies not in a select number of top performers, but in the strength of its processes, built on specialized knowledge that is refined through years of practice.
• Workers’ roles are clearly defined and rarely change. They need to be competent and reliable,
• individualism is gently discouraged, as it threatens the resilience of the process.

2023-05-02

• on kernel management style
• Linus on kernel management style
• The scapegoating of Peter Thiel
• The Karikó problem: Lessons for funding basic research
• ``You and Your Research’’
• You don’t have to tell other people, but shouldn’t you say to yourself, ``Yes, I would like to do something significant.''
• ``You would be surprised Hamming, how much you would know if you worked as hard as he did that many years.''
• I thought hard about where was my field going, where were the opportunities, and what were the important things to do. Let me go there so there is a chance I can do important things.
• if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you don’t know quite know what problems are worth working on;
• The people who do great work with less ability but who are committed to it, get more done that those who have great skill and dabble in it, who work during the day and go home and do other things and come back and work the next day.
• if you adopt the present method and do what you can do single-handedly, you can go just that far and no farther than you can do single-handedly. If you will learn to work with the system, you can go as far as the system will support you.'
• After all, if you want a decision No', you just go to your boss and get a No’ easy. If you want to do something, don’t ask, do it. Present him with an accomplished fact. Don’t give him a chance to tell you No'. But if you want a No’, it’s easy to get a `No'.

2023-04-30

• Steve Jobs negotiates Apple’s deal with Microsoft
• If you’ve ever wondered “how do they make landing pages @stripe ?”,
• “A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept”
• How to be consistent

2023-04-29

• My product is my garden

2023-04-28

• Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam

2023-04-27

• Less TikTok, More Screaming

2023-04-24

• principles - Nabeel Qureshi
• Searching for outliers | benkuhn.net

2023-04-23

• My High-Flying Life as a Corporate Spy Who Lied His Way to the Top
• For Better and for Worse When my husband was finally diagnosed with dementia, I vowed to take care of him. Then he filed for divorce.

2023-04-21

• Chekhov’s gun
• Go’s Error Handling Is a Form of Storytelling
• Revisiting The Fast Inverse Square Root - Is It Still Useful?

2023-04-18

• Startup CEOs learned Engineering Management from Captain Kirk
• My Biggest Regret As A Programmer
• Implementers, Solvers, and Finders
• You’re not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard
• You didn’t just do that, Heroku

2023-04-17

• My Marriage Didn’t End When I Became a Widow
• ‘ I l o v e P a u l f o r e v e r ’
• Five years later: Lucy Kalanithi on loss, grief and love
• How Long Have I Got Left?
• Paul Kalanithi, writer and neurosurgeon, dies at 37
• A Strange Relativity: Altered Time for Surgeon-Turned-Patient
• B e f o r e I g o

2023-04-16

• My favourite quote of all time is a misattribution.

2023-04-14

• The early days of Linux

2023-04-13

• How the U.S. Air Force Deployed Kubernetes and Istio on an F-16 in 45 days
• A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs
• Got Milk? How the iconic campaign came to be, 25 years ago
• CMake vs. Make: What’s the Difference?

2023-04-12

• ManyCam dishonored my lifetime license
• Barnum effect - Wikipedia
• Digital twins: From one twin to the enterprise metaverse
• 201. Does your company serve “weenies” or “shrimp”?

2023-04-10

• 50 Ideas That Changed My Life
• What does a research grant pay for?
• The Story of a Lonely Orca

2023-04-09

• The Cello in Soho Square

2023-04-07

• Everything is a Practice There is no finish line. There is no winning, no losing.

2023-04-05

• What is Computational Biology?
• Computational biology
• What is Gene Therapy?
• Impeller & Flutter

2023-04-03

• SAFARI RELEASES ARE DEVELOPMENT HELL
• Free the internet from mass surveillance. With the Mullvad Browser.
• Programs are dead
• Drawing parallels to a previous generation, services are the new process
• There’s Just No Getting around It: You’re Building a Distributed System
• The Data Delusion
• The Inner Ring
• The Status Trap
• how-software-companies-die

2023-04-02

• The Priest in the Arena

2023-03-30

• A miracle drug sold over the counter
• Who’s Good At Data Privacy?

2023-03-29

• You Are You. We Live Here. This is Now. - Freddie deBoer ⭐️

2023-03-24

• I Bought Back My Acquihired Startup

2023-03-22

• The Age of AI has begun

2023-03-21

• Netflix, Shein and MrBeast
• Building ClickHouse Cloud From Scratch in a Year
• The real thing: my battle to beat a 27-year Diet Coke addiction | Soft drinks | The Guardian
• Lessons from a Pessimist: Make Your Pessimism Productive | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings
• Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought

2023-03-20

• Report Cards
• Meta layoffs

2023-03-19

• Design of GNU Parallel
• Anki-fy Your Life

2023-03-18

• a Nirav or a Naval? - that is the question
• “do not change minds, just open a little wider.”
  • it turns out that I have preferences about theories and theoretical styles. I like phenomenology and Gestalt psychology more than I like analysis. I don’t like to reduce cognitive processes to flow charts and to mathematical models. I have a strong preference for facts over theory and I like irony. These stylistic tastes matter because they determine the character of the work I do.

2023-03-17

• I said that old people don’t really kick themselves. Their regret is wistful, almost pleasant. It’s not emotionally intense. We ran an experiment, and everyone was wrong. It turned out that delayed regret is mostly wistful, but it can be intense.
• NIGERIA’S TECH WORKERS GOT USED TO GOOD SALARIES AND HIGH DEMAND. THEN CAME THE CRASH

2023-03-16

• Uber Go Style Guide

2023-03-15

• 11 Reasons Not to Become Famous (or “A Few Lessons Learned Since 2007”)
• “I WILL SLAUGHTER YOU”
• My Startup Banking Story
• MITCHELL HASHIMOTO
• Grow: How Perfectly Imperfect’s snowball growth started with word of mouth

2023-03-14

• Schemaless Databases Don’t Exist
• Why was Hippo Chips Discontinued? | Hippo Chips Failure
• Table Maintenance after Bulk Modifications
• Fragility & Boundary Conditions
• Good Pressure, Bad Pressure
• WebAssembly serverless functions in AWS Lambda
• The serverless revolution deserves more than just a serverless database
• A RedMonk Conversation: Why the future of serverless databases is distributed document-relational.

2023-03-12

• C++ Casting, or: “Oh No, They Broke Malloc!”
• Laptop Class (noun):
• Career Growth Speed, Deconstructed

2023-03-11

• What is size_t for? How do I iterate over an object in C?
• What is Systems Programming, Really?
• ‘printf’ vs. ‘cout’ in C++
• Why Choose Process Goals? (Over Outcome-Based Goals)
• Why Turborepo is migrating from Go to Rust
• The Bones of Time

2023-03-10

• Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight ChatGPT

2023-03-09

• Alvy Ray smith to ed catamul on pixar
• The complexity of success and failure: the story of the Gimli Glider
• Luck based medicine: my resentful story of becoming a medical miracle

2023-03-08

• Fixing the Next 10,000 Aliasing Bugs
• Metrics for Success: Why and How to Evaluate Privacy Choice Usability
• What is Secure Multi-Party Computation?

2023-03-07

• UUIDs to prevent Enumeration Attacks
• The LLaMA is out of the bag. Should we expect a tidal wave of disinformation?
• Reliability: It’s Not Great
• Retail, search and Amazon’s $40bn ‘advertising’ business

2023-03-06

• 5 Years of Indie Hacking

2023-03-05

• What is Polymorphic Encryption?

2023-03-04

• Infosys co-chair Nilekani quits to join govt
• Is the Entire Economy Gentrifying?
• Is the Entire Economy Gentrifying?
• Salt-Seeking
• Mental Pivot #81: Imperfect Tools, Luck, Anti-Goals
• Gartner hype cycle
• Personal finance
• Ai: Startup vs incumbent value
• Masayoshi sun may quarter update
• Signal: You were the chosen one [video]
  • https://media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-196-signal-you-were-the-chosen-one-
• The untold story of sqlite
  • https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/# ✅
  • notes
    • 100,000 unique test cases. > 1B unique test cases.
    • Modified condition Decision coverage (MCDC) is a way to test the condition of a decision.
    • Writing everything from scratch to maintain freedom and control. SCM, Query parser, TH3, etc.

2023-03-03

• The vertical farming bubble is finally popping

2023-03-02

• The Playing Field
• Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers

2023-02-26

• What is Amazon?
• AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value

2023-02-25

• We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit

2023-02-24

• See No Evil: Loopholes in Google’s Data Safety Labels Keep Companies in the Clear and Consumers in the Dark
• This implant lets those with severe paralysis send texts and use the internet with just their minds

2023-02-23

• Why going viral caused us to rip out everything in a weekend
• Gossip Glomers

2023-02-22

• Synthetic Users — A Start
• It’s TCP vs. RPC All Over Again

2023-02-21

• Rust by Example
• Dots Will Be Connected

2023-02-20

• It is recommended but not mandatory that mail servers treat John.Smith and john.smith as the same user
• There doesn’t have to be a one-to-one correspondence between addresses and mailboxes: A mailbox can be identified by several addresses, and an email sent to a single address can be delivered to multiple mailboxes.
• explained from first principles
• Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming

2023-02-19

• Voice AI Stole open source code
• Lost in the Stock
• The Identity Hoaxers
• The Stutterer
• What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

2023-02-18

• From Bing to Sydney
• Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’
• Over the Course of 72 Hours, Microsoft’s AI Goes on a Rampage
• Text is All You Need
• What are carriage return, linefeed, and form feed?
• Mental Pivot #80: Motivation, Envy, Solitude

2023-02-17

• The maze is in the mouse
• Why Did I Leave Google Or, Why Did I Stay So Long?

2023-02-16

• Friday’s App is shutting down
• Microsoft exec: “my recent discussions with Steve [Jobs]”

2023-02-15

• Waiting for a visa
• Canonical vs. non-canonical terminal input
• The TCSAFLUSH argument specifies when to apply the change: in this case, it waits for all pending output to be written to the terminal, and also discards any input that hasn’t been read
  • The ECHO feature causes each key you type to be printed to the terminal, so you can see what you’re typing.
  • We can set a terminal’s attributes by (1) using tcgetattr() to read the current attributes into a struct, (2) modifying the struct by hand, and (3) passing the modified struct to tcsetattr()
  • Entering raw mode
• Setup

2023-02-14

• Google’s FHE compiler

2023-02-13

• NoSQL: The Baby and the Bathwater

2023-02-08

• Big Data is dead
  • Google bigquery founder writes about how big data is actually a pipe dream and nobody actually used big data for " big" data.

2023-02-09

• Better to micromanage than be disengaged.

2023-02-07

• On Being a Good Newsletterer — by Craig Mod
• Focus
• Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News
• ioctl(2) — Linux manual page

2023-02-06

• RIGHT IS THE NEW LEFT
• Canonicalization
• Why is everyone so boring

2023-02-05

• STAYING CLASSY
• The Market for Lemons
• TED DZIUBA
• I’m going to scale my foot up your ass

2023-02-04

• Too Busy

2023-02-02

• Some insects I found inside turkish figs from trader joes

2023-01-26

• Internal comms for executives.

2023-01-25

• Adani Group: How The World’s 3rd Richest Man Is Pulling The Largest Con In Corporate History

2023-01-24

• Lessons not worth learning.
• How we improved DNS record build speed by more than 4,000x

2023-01-23

• Engineering Your Way To Marketing Success
• How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting.
• Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering

2023-01-21

• Shaping Your Authenticity
• Disturbed Realities On the psychohistory of reality expansions

2023-01-20

• I’ve procrastinated working on my thesis for more than a year
• how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps
• THE ART OF MONEY GETTING or GOLDEN RULES FOR MAKING MONEY By P.T. Barnum
• Elastic Cloud Services: Scaling Snowflake’s Control Plane

2023-01-19

• Telling your ‘inner critic’ to chill
• Jacob Appelbaum, Digital Rights Activist, Leaves Tor Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations
• The Al Capone theory of sexual harassment
• My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character
• “The Best Job I’ve Ever Had”
• sudo make install
• 20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer

2023-01-18

• Cruel optimism (and lazy pessimism) ⭐️
• What is Internet Bandwidth? Meaning and Measurement

2023-01-17

• Daniel Ellsberg on the Limits of Knowledge
• Programmer salaries in the age of LLMs

2023-01-16

• Art and science of spending money
  • 1.Your family background and past-experiences heavily influences your spending preferences.
  • 2.Entrapped by spending: Rather than using money to build a life, your life is built around money.
  • 3.Frugality inertia: a lifetime of good savings habits can’t be transitioned to a spending phase.
  • 4.An emotional attachment to large purchases, particularly a house.
  • 5.The joy of spending can diminish as income rises because there’s less struggle, sacrifice, and sweat represented in purchases.
  • 6.Asking $3 questions when $30,000 questions are all that matter
  • 7.Social aspiration spending: Trickle-down consumption patterns from one socioeconomic group to the next.
  • 8.An underappreciation of the long-term cost of purchases, with too much emphasis on the initial price.
  • 9.No one is impressed with your possessions as much as you are.
  • 10.Not knowing what kind of spending will make you happy because you haven’t tried enough new and strange forms of spending.
  • 11.The social signaling aspect of money, on both things you buy for yourself and charity given to others.
  • 12.The social hierarchy of spending, positioning you against your peers.
  • 13.Spending can be a representation of how hard you’ve worked and how much stress went into earning your paycheck.
  • “If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”
• The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget
• Memory Safe Languages in Android 13
• The Shit Show
• For your next side project, make a browser extension

2023-01-15

• Calling C code from go
• The Hiker’s Dilemma
• MapReduce | Building a Recommendation System for the OTT Platform
• FedJAX: Federated Learning Simulation with JAX
• Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy
• Identifying the right use cases for federated learning and analytics

2023-01-14

• Why the blockchain needs the cloud
• How Federated Learning Protects Privacy
• Time to rethink mandatory password changes

2023-01-13

• Federated Learning with Formal Differential Privacy Guarantees
• A federated learning platform that helps aggregate models trained on completely separate and private data sources
• Federated Learning
• Encrypted Data For Efficient Markets
• FLUTE: A scalable federated learning simulation platform
• Federated Learning for Firefox
• Working for a Dating Website Home / Working for a Dating Website
• FEDERATED LEARNING FOR CREDIT SCORING
• Federated Learning
• NN loss landscapes are full of permutation
• Can you crowdfund the compute for GPT?
• Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data
• Intel and Penn Medicine Announce Results of Largest Medical Federated Learning Study
• Part II: The failure points from $5m to $100m in ARR

2023-01-12

• The Disappearance of the Hit-Driven Business Model

2023-01-11

• Kernel parameter SHMALL and SHMAX
• What Happens When A CPU Starts:
• Don’t use Tailwind for your Design System
• A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to live in the city where their business is – or else they’ll never scale.
• Tech Companies Are Irrational Pop Cultures

2023-01-10

• Indians are taking over corporate America–and tech layoffs won’t stop them. Here’s why you should believe the hype

2023-01-09

• Designer’s Digest - Steve Jobs on the role of product and marketing people.
• Illegal number
• Alan Kay on “Should web browsers have stuck to being document viewers?” and a discussion of Smalltalk, NeWS and HyperCard
• Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Social Quitting

2023-01-07

• SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD – Mad Science Blogging

2023-01-06

• How to Hire Insanely Great Employees
• The New Statesman Essay - The tyranny of Nicespeak

2023-01-05

• Some examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together
• Small teams
• Tech Notes: Two surprises in browser crashes

2023-01-04

• Going Full Time on My SaaS After 13 Years
• Even More Bay Area House Party

2023-01-03

• Sea Change
• Measuring Money: Currency, M1, and M2
• The infrastructure behind ATMs
• The Strangest Computer Manual Ever Written
• Oracle hit with unprecedented penalties for America’s Cup cheating
• Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?
• Databases in 2022: A Year in Review

2023-01-02

• THE YEAR OF C++ SUCCESSOR LANGUAGES
• Conversation Skills Essentials

2022-12-31

• Surviving disillusionment - by Slava Akhmechet

2022-12-30

• Best Practices for TCP Optimization in 2019
• Why you should understand (a little) about TCP
• Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in the UCLA ARPANET site #1 computer room late one night
• What You Get Is the World
• Herb Kelleher: Manage in Good Times So You’ll Do Well in the Bad Times
• You Can Achieve Anything If You Focus On ONE Thing - Darius Foroux

2022-12-29

• What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble’s Surprising Turnaround?
• Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job
• 8 Hard Truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job

2022-12-28

• A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell

2022-12-27

• What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained
• Start here: Evolution has not prepared your brain for today’s porn
• Are Video Games Addictive?
• Supernormal Stimuli: How the Internet, Junk Food, and Porn Hijacked Our Brains
• Creepy Website Similarity

2022-12-26

• Unbundling Tools for Thought
• Meet the Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You
• General guidance when working as a cloud engineer
• Pitch Drop experiment
• .Scratch
• Why do bees die when they sting you?

2022-12-25

• Why Competitive Advantages Die
• Fat, Happy, And In Over Your Head

2022-12-24

• Square Pixel Inventor Tries to Smooth Things Out
• How ASUS and a Microsoft Bug Almost Broke Remote Work
• Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics
• An Unexpected Ass Kicking | IMPOSSIBLE

2022-12-23

• UnifiedPush: a decentralized, open-source push notification protocol
• Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
• Intro to Threads and Processes in Python

2022-12-22

• Difference between subprocess and thread
• Why Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository

2022-12-19

• Reinventing Backend Subsetting at Google
• Marx’s theory of alienation
• Everything As a Service
• Community Guidelines to bio-remediation

2022-12-18

• As winter approaches, here’s a story about why hardware is hard.
• I Think We’re Alone Now

2022-12-16

• Things I want as SRE/DevOps from Devs :: oschvr.com

2022-12-14

• Strings, bytes, runes and characters in Go

2022-12-13

• The scourge of job-title inflation
• Statement from Fosshost’s Founder
• What I learned at GitLab that I don’t want to forget
• The silent struggles of workers with ADHD
• Engineering productivity in a hybrid world

2022-12-12

• I’m obsessed with 1-person companies and have spent over 50 hours researching them.

2022-12-11

• The End of Blitzscaling
• Apache Kafka Needs No Keeper: Removing the Apache ZooKeeper Dependency
• Submarine Cable Map

2022-12-10

• A fake job offer gone wrong
• The rise of the one-person unicorn
• Time-constrained person
• About hitstartup
• was told I would become quadriplegic
• I was told, I would become quadriplegic
• How to build the team for our startup
• In the wild world of tech hiring in India, engineer is now king
• Why am I a solopreneur
• Dasher interface for paraplegic people

2022-12-09

• Border Gateway Protocol
• The 5-hour CDN
• Experiment: The hidden costs of waiting on slow build times
• Stripe’s real pricing: a primer

2022-12-08

• Data Structures useful in multi-threaded programming [closed]
• Multithreading Structure
• CACHEFLOW: MODERNIZING THE WAY BUSINESSES BUY AND SELL SAAS
• What happens to old flats in India?
• CS 007: PERSONAL FINANCE FOR ENGINEERS
• Being overconfident

2022-12-06

• What do Staff engineers actually do?
• What Happened to IPv5?

2022-12-07

• ticket servers for distributed unique primary keys - flickr tech blog

2022-12-05

• Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower

2022-12-04

• Behold GPT-Pong !
• PhilTel is looking to install new (to us) payphones within the city of Philadelphia.
• Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT

2022-12-03

• Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale
• Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre

2022-12-01

• 3:48 / 46:37 • What is Federated Learning Federated Learning: Machine Learning on the Edge // Varun Kumar Khare // Reading group #3
• Running Out of Time: Three Lessons From a Failed Fitness Startup
• Today, we are sharing the difficult news that GoodGood
• Physicians Committee’s Response to Neuralink’s Nov. 30, 2022 “Show and Tell”
• What are Executive Off-Sites Good For?
• SURELY YOU’RE PUBLISHING, MR. FEYNMAN!
• A long expected update

2022-11-30

• What Is Apache Kafka?
• Cloudflare Magic Transit Gets Wikimedia Back Online After Massive DDoS Attack

2022-11-29

• The Buy And Hold Mindset
• Why some tech CEOs are rooting for Musk

2022-11-27

• Workspaces, packages, and targets
• The 7 Habits of Highly Overrated People
• Cache invalidation really is one of the hardest problems in computer science – Surfing Complexity

2022-11-26

• Use a payments system (described above) to turn personal data into more of a marketplace
• RAMCloud Project - Confluence

2022-11-22

• Is Wine Fake? Scott Alexander

2022-11-21

• You’re In A Cult
• Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
• client := &Client{name: r.RemoteAddr, events: make(chan *DashBoard, 10)}
• AWS and Blockchain
• Jeff Bezos on acquiring Ring

2022-11-20

• I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It.
• Lawful but Awful? Control over Legal Speech by Platforms, Governments, and Internet Users

2022-11-18

• Introducing Tailscale Funnel

2022-11-17

• Ahead of Its Time, Behind the Curve: Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential
• Seven Levels of Busy

2022-11-14

• The $40,000 Olive: How Entrepreneurs Can Spend Time Saving Money

2022-11-13

• It all started @ 60ms. Secret acheivement of the day.
• THE IMAGE SOCIETY: HOW NASIR AHMED SHAPED IMAGE-BASED LIFE
• Is your working style Jazz or Classical

2022-11-12

• What if regular exercise is the best cognitive exercise?
• Index selection, while it’s largely about
• Levenshtein automaton
• Finite-state machine
• OODA loop

2022-11-11

• The Sad, Sad Story of Laika, the Space Dog, and Her One-Way Trip Into Orbit

2022-11-10

• Only Solve One New Problem At A Time
• Here is the note we sent to our LPs in GGFIII regarding FTX.
• Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex—And Maybe You Should Too
• The bubble has popped for unprofitable software companies

2022-11-09

• Why is Rosetta 2 fast?
• “It would be career limiting…"
• Rewriting the Modern Web in Rust
• The Design Sprint

2022-11-08

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2022-11-07

• Chat log exhibits from Twitter v. Musk case
• iMessage for Android

2022-11-06

• Leveled compaction in Apache Cassandra
• bloom filters
• What is OpenTelemetry?
• Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human
• leveled compaction in cassandra
• bloom filters for the preplexed

2022-11-04

• A lot has changed if you are starting a Saas business
• David Sacks zenefits
• Reconstruction of a train wreck how a priming research went sideways
• Problem with moderation
  • freedom of speech is not an issue. (eg, spam)
  • Finding controversial content in an unknown language is hard.

2022-10-30

• Don’t Surround Yourself With Smarter People
• “It’s an efficient way to get venture capitalists to put money into software projects.”
  • MONEY IS A SOCIAL FACT, EVEN WHEN THE MONEY IS BITCOIN OR ETHER
  • Finance, at its heart, is about moving future wealth into the present by borrowing, or moving present wealth into the future by saving.
  • The mechanism would be a smart contract that holds A tokens of type T1, and B tokens of type T2, and maintains the invariant that A * B = k for some constant k (in the version where people can invest, k can change, but only during investment/withdrawal transactions, NOT trades). Anyone can buy or sell by selecting a new point on the xy=k curve, and supplying the missing A tokens and in exchange receiving the extra B tokens (or vice versa). The “marginal price” is simply the implicit derivative of the curve xy=k, or y/x.
  • central limit order book, or CLOB.
  • “like if the Wright Brothers sold air miles to finance inventing the airplane.”
• melsloop
• On Michael crichton vs John Grisham’s ambition
  • Michael crichton is wildly ambitious publishing books even while studying for medicine. had 5 marriages
  • Grisham is slow. Published one book per year consistently. married for 30 years

2022-10-29

• most famous description of Bitcoin, attributed to a Twitter poster, might be:
• The Crypto Story
• Taking Lichess to the Next Level
• Truck nuts
• guy that worked at our company decided to quit and walk across the country in a teddy bear costume. Called him self BearSun. I thought he was crazy until he showed me his Shopify account and he had sold close to 500k in merchandise
• Trick people into thinking the super hard shiny rocks are waaaaaaaaaay more valuable than they really are then control the supply to jack up the prices even more.
• What’s the absolute worst business idea you’ve ever heard that actually worked?

2022-10-28

• It was in K&R that “Hello, world!” became the canonical example program for any language
• WHAT IS BUSINESSWEEK JUNE 11, 2015BY PAUL FORD CODE?

2022-10-27

• No Safe Efficient Ways to Do Three-way String Comparisons in Go

2022-10-26

• Metaballs
• Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so…
• Inside the elaborate set-up of a scam HQ, staffed by people forced to scam
• If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft

2022-10-25

• From zero to 10 million lines of Kotlin

2022-10-24

• Today we cut our Redis Engine CPU Utilization by 80% and survived to live (and grow) another day!
• Out of the Tar Pit (2006)
• 3 things I did before app launch and what I wish I have done

2022-10-23

• THE HIERARCHY IS BULLSHIT (AND BAD FOR BUSINESS)

2022-10-22

• Replacing Middle Management with APIs
• Product-Driven versus Customer-Driven
• The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
• Getting to Gnome Mode
• Allegory of the cave
• dealized organizations are not perfect. They are perfectly pathological
  • organizations don’t suffer pathologies; they are intrinsically pathological constructs
  • The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”
• People Staring at Computers

2022-10-20

• Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Chapter 1
• We are still early with the cloud: why software development is overdue for a change
• Wait vs interrupt culture
  • Cutting people off when they are talking something is wrong. Even if you (think, you) know more than the other person
  • It might be fine, in cases where there are absolutes. In amorphous situations, Everybody is more likely right. So, it is better to listen than speak.

2022-10-18

• Case Study 16: Nike’s 100 Million Dollar Supply Chain “Speed bump”
• Announcing General Availability of Twilio Functions and Assets
• YAGNI exceptions

2022-10-17

• From Software Developer to Product Manager: Meet Maria van Keulen
• Optimizations in C++ Compilers

2022-10-16

• Deno v. Bun performance is rigged | by uNetworking AB | Oct, 2022
• Building a container from scratch in Go - Liz Rice (Microscaling Systems) - YouTube

2022-10-15

• Hello World under the microscope

2022-10-12

• You Can’t Fix a CAC Payback Period: The Operator vs. Investor View of SaaS Metrics

2022-10-11

• Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating
• Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts
• New patterns for amazing apps

2022-10-10

• In gold-standard trial, colonoscopy fails to reduce rate of cancer deaths
• PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools
• Skyfall: eBPF agent for infrastructure observability
• Software engineering practices

2022-10-09

• 101. Reimagining Windows from the Chipset to the Experience: The Chipset [Ch. XV]
• Stripe is Paypal circa 2010
• Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.
• A summary of “Escaping the build trap” by Melissa Perri
• Master Direction – Credit Card and Debit Card – Issuance and Conduct Directions, 2022
• RBI’s tokenisation plans: Here’s what’s changing for users
• The Most Precious Resource is Agency
• I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls
• Digital communications protocols - spreadsheet

2022-10-08

• Using Sqlite with django and zappa

2022-10-07

• How to Fix the NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID Error (9 Methods)
• Reality Is Just a Game Now
• How We Remember Last Weekend
• IBM swallows Red Hat storage products

2022-10-06

• The banker who caused the 1929 stock crash

2022-10-02

• 100. A Daring and Bold Vision
• there are no absolute guarantees
• Gambler’s ruin

2022-10-01

• AN END TO DOOMERISM Or why I’m coming out as an impatient optimist.

2022-09-30

• Why “Go Nuts, Show Nuts” Doesn’t Work in 2022

2022-09-28

• How Arm conquered the chip market without making a single chip, with CEO Rene Haas

2022-09-27

• The Next Century of Computing

2022-09-26

• A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip
• Learning is Remembering

2022-09-25

• Bus Ticket theory of genius - Paul Graham
  • genius comes from incredible patient repetition, despite other people finding it useless eg. bus ticket collectors.
  • A lot of times the genius might not be useful. But, some times, in some fields it might result in big payoffs for humanity

2022-09-24

• Why WebRTC?
• Tor SNOWFLAKE
• Earnest - paul graham

2022-09-23

• Software I’m thankful for
• Be critical or be corrupted
• The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free
• The sum of all knowledge

2022-09-22

• The Road to Realistic Full-Body Deepfakes
• What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?
• Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door
• So You Want To Compete With Steam
• Are book summaries legal? [COMPLETE ANSWER]

2022-09-21

• Wasmtime Reaches 1.0: Fast, Safe and Production Ready!

2022-09-20

• Stable Diffusion based Image Compression
• Using an unsafe language is a design flaw

2022-09-18

• 012. I Shipped, Therefore I Am
• 098. A Sea of Worry at the Consumer Electronics Show

2022-09-17

• “The Suck” (Learning Anything by Writing It Out by Hand… Word-for-Word)

2022-09-16

• How we built Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
• THE SPECTACULAR COLLAPSE OF CRYPTOKITTIES, THE FIRST BIG BLOCKCHAIN GAME

2022-09-15

• The gossip trap
• Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company
• How Apple overcame its culture of secrecy to create AirPods Pro
• shortest date, and ketchup

2022-09-14

• My First BillG Review
• This Man Is Trying to Put Mirrors in Space to Generate Solar Power at Night
• Meet the wellness guru who’s worked with Kanye West and Vladimir Putin

2022-09-12

• How Microsoft Lost the API War – Joel on Software
• Emacs Quick reference

2022-09-10

• Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

2022-09-09

• Edge Case Poisoning

2022-09-08

• Here’s Snap CEO Evan Spiegel’s Internal Memo to Staff in Full
• Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB
• Your attention span is being robbed!
• A few months ago, a complete stranger gave me $10,000. Here’s what I did with it.
• Our Letter to Chevron
• The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell | The Tech

2022-09-07

• What the interns have wrought, 2022 edition
• Is Engineering Management Bullshit?
• Two Philosophers Found Purpose in the World of Work
  • “The great human error,” Weil announced, “is to reason in place of finding out.”
• Why We Are Changing the License for Akka
• Mister Gotcha
• Git’s database internals I: packed object store
• White House Bans Paywalls on Taxpayer-Funded Research
• The quantum computing bubble
• Seven years in the life of Hypergiants’ off-nets
• They built a Minecraft crypto empire. Then it all came crashing down
• Privacy Enhancing Technologies

2022-09-04

• Master Foo and the Recruiter
• I ran the world’s largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and CloudFlare helped

2022-09-03

• Nokia CEO Stephen Elop rallies troops in brutally honest ‘burning platform’ memo? (update: it’s real!) | Engadget
• How Stephen Elop Destroyed Nokia (NYSE:NOK) | Seeking Alpha

2022-08-30

• China Tech Layoffs
• Whatsapp grocery shopping

2022-08-29

• Hardcore Software | UltraSEver - Steven Sinofsky
• Samsung vs. iPhone | Elon Musk’s schedule
• champonthis | dev/rand/lack-of-attention

2022-08-28

• Why none of my books are available on Audible | by Cory Doctorow | Jul, 2022 | Medium
• André Staltz - Time Till Open Source Alternative

2022-08-25

• Automatic Reliability Testing For Cluster Management Controllers
• 1/ On Being Efficient With Busy People
• [ John Carmack on Twitter: “I do not have “magical” discipline and focusing ability — I struggle with distractions like everyone else. Often it is better to just remove the option to distract yourself instead of fighting he urges. When I decided to get serious about my AI work, I made a few changes: " / Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1562104562219196416 ] Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit - comma.ai blog The Project Jengo Saga: How Cloudflare Stood up to a Patent Troll – and Won!

2022-08-24

• They built their businesses on Instagram. Then the platform changed
• A List of Things People Blamed on Bicycles
• Network Tokenization: Everything You Need to Know - Skyflow
• How SQLite Scales Read Concurrency · Fly

2022-08-21

• 10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman: What I Learned
• PLG CRM: What it is and why you don’t need one - Toplyne
• Is Nothing Sacred?
• Mobile handset privacy measuring the data ios and Android send to apple and google

2022-08-20

• Better Compression with Zstandard

2022-08-19

• Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers
• More content by people, for people in Search
• How a viral NFT project survived the crypto crash

2022-08-18

• The Fisherman and the Businessman
• How I Got MicroAcquired: Build for an Ecosystem if You Want to Grow Fast, Says Ex Founder of Tomorrow’s Tools
• How eBPF will solve Service Mesh – Goodbye Sidecars

2022-08-17

• Get outside of your comfort zone, says Salesforce.com’s Anshu Sharma
• Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends
• I wanted to address a few things we’re working on to make Instagram a better experience.
• An Open Letter from Mark Zuckerberg:

2022-08-16

• Ads, privacy and confusion
• Managing Your Mental Health While Running a Startup
• Investing in Flow

2022-08-15

• Why I am not an effective altruist
• Doing Something That’s Never Been Done

2022-08-14

• Inside the Layoffs at Klarna
• 094. First Public Windows 7 Demo
• Wannabe Billionaire: Arun Pudur’s Tech Fortune May Be Largely Fiction
• Arun Pudur: From Bengaluru to billions

2022-08-13

• What I’m frustrated by in crypto
• Webhooks Are Not the Same as APIs

2022-08-12

• When parents tell their kids to work hard do they send the wrong message?

2022-08-11

• Bridgewater swiftly remediates Log4shell vulnerabilities with Wiz

2022-08-10

• How SQLite Helps You Do ACID
• How to market to developers on Twitter: Learnings from 4 months of Supabase feed
• The Rise of the LinkedIn B2B Influencer

2022-08-08

• “You Don’t Want That!” — A Rant from Lance Walter on Product Management Communications
• What is Observability
• Use One Big Server
• Why Are Your Best People Not Working on This?
• I Have Been Through This Before

2022-08-07

• new Title

2022-08-05

• Reflections: The ecosystem is moving
• SharpTongue Deploys Clever Mail-Stealing Browser Extension “SHARPEXT”
• Productivity Porn

2022-08-03

• Content moderation at TikTok: bobs, or no bobs?

2022-08-02

• 092. Platform Disruption…While Building Windows 7 [Ch. XIII]

2022-08-01

• The overworked humans behind China’s virtual influencers
• How Dropbox CEO Drew Houston stays motivated by solving problems that matter
• The right to never be forgotten

2022-07-31

• The War To Sell You A Mattress Is An Internet Nightmare
• statically typed languages rely on type

2022-07-30

• TH3
• Modified condition/decision coverage
• The Untold Story of SQLite
• Are You Too Responsible?
• There is no iceberg
• Investing in VeeFriends

2022-07-27

• Shipping multi-tenant SaaS using Postgres Row-Level Security

2022-07-26

• Facebook’s growth woes in India: too much nudity, not enough women
• Surf the Web
• I Regret My $46k Website Redesign
• Shamelessness as a strategy
• Case Study 8: How Hertz Paid Accenture $32 Million for a Website That Never Went Live

2022-07-24

• Why GNU tar extracts in quadtratic time

2022-07-23

• The $2B Calm rocketship 🧘‍♀️
• THE MAINTENANCE RACE
• What I Miss About Working at Stripe

2022-07-22

• Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor
• Case Study 8: How Hertz Paid Accenture $32 Million for a Website That Never Went Live

2022-07-21

• We don’t have a hundred biases, we have the wrong model
• Chartdump #2
• When your poster child gets assassinated”: Airlift’s collapse shocks Pakistan’s startup world
• Everything You Need to Know About the CRO and CMO Working Relationship: In One Story
• Why does culture get less happy year after year?
• Everything is bad everywhere all at once. How is that even possible? 🤔

2022-07-20

• I once killed a $125 million deal by being “too honest.”
• As the world celebrated Steve Jobs’s

2022-07-18

• EMERGENT VS. DELIBERATE STRATEGY: HOW & WHEN TO USE EACH
• More Emergent Strategies: Groupon, Greendot
• Ten Lessons I wish I had been Taught
• The submarine - Paul graham

2022-07-17

• Grey whales taught me how to mother, how to endure, how to live
• The New Numbers on Music Consumption Are Very Ugly
• George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf
• The high price we pay for social media
• I’ve started using Mozilla Firefox and now I can never go back to Google Chrome
• How I Became a Pathological Liar
• Meet Algo, the VPN that works
• The post the pit and the dance floor

2022-07-16

• How to Self-Host a WireGuard VPN on Amazon AWS
• IF YOU’RE SCARED YOU’RE WINNING
• The compositor is evil
• Advice for the next dozen Rust GUIs
• A Guide to the Go Garbage Collector

2022-07-15

• 10% of the Top 1 Million Sites are Dead
• From idea to paying customer
• What do I think about network states?
• TBM 30/52: Why Don’t We Have a Strategy?

2022-07-14

• When rustc explodes
• The DALL·E 2 Prompt Book
• How I Built A $420K/Year Business Transforming Podcasts Into Articles
• ZIRP explains the world
• Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage

2022-07-13

• Desiderata #3: links and commentary
• Short stories: How much do you make? How do you sell one? How long does it take to write?
• Have Product, Will Travel
• The night watch - James Mickens

2022-07-12

• You Wouldn’t Download a Backend
• Giving a Shit as a Service
• Responsible stewardship of the UEFI secure boot ecosystem
• 20 Modern Heresies
• Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks

2022-07-11

• Botnet that hid for 18 months boasted some of the coolest tradecraft ever | Ars Technica
• High Scalability July 11th

2022-07-10

• Mocking with the Postman API
• Sundial: Fault-tolerant Clock Synchronization for Datacenters
• SOC2: The Screenshots Will Continue Until Security Improves
• The SSO Wall of Shame
• Work on what matters.

2022-07-09

• Steps to Bring Your Tech Startup Idea to Life

2022-07-08

• Inside China’s Biggest Live-Streaming Superstar Factory
• Copyright in Characters: What Can I Use? Part II
• Copyright in Characters: What Can I Use?
• Why we started Cacheflow
• Games
• Copyright

2022-07-07

• Sequoia and Tiger Global Take SoftBank to the Cleaners
• Hello World - unexpected NUL in input

2022-07-06

• How I arrived at my perfect business idea
• Don’t Kill Time

2022-07-05

• How An OG YouTube Creator Thinks About the Rise of TikTok
• THE FIRST MILLION-TRANSISTOR CHIP: THE ENGINEERS’ STORY
• Pijul
• Never set a goal that a dead person can do better than you

2022-07-04

• Golang autoreload on Goland (Jetbrains IDE)?
• Carnivorous plant that traps prey underground is the 1st of its kind to be discovered
• Mr. Feynman goes to washington

2022-07-03

• Planning Fallacy
• SaaS Control Plane? I can write one in a weekend
• The Bullshit Web

2022-07-02

• Postgres JSONB Usage and performance analysis

2022-07-01

• Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!

2022-06-30

• Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable — the market has its valuation all wrong, says Adam Schwab
• When Network is Faster than Cache
• Git from the Bottom Up

2022-06-29

• Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell?
• Deal of the century? How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14 million

2022-06-28

• The really important job interview questions engineers should ask (but don’t)
• Content vs Carriage – Who Pays?

2022-06-27

• Things You Should Know About Databases
• Data Sanitization with Vitess

2022-06-26

• Here is how to send a distress signal to space from anywhere on Earth
• Data Race Patterns in Go

2022-06-25

• Copilot, Copying, Commons, Community, Culture
• Panchan’s Mining Rig: New Golang Peer-to-Peer Botnet Says “Hi!”
• Endgame - Vitalik Buterin

2022-06-24

• Yes, watching paint dry can fetch plenty of Web views
• Skeptics aren’t welcome in the Land of Big Numbers™️ 🤔
• Best Quotes from the Becoming Warren Buffett Documentary
• We Need A Middle Class For Startups
• Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice - Infrequently Noted
• We need a middle class for startups

2022-06-23

• How safe is zig?
• Should GitHub Be Sued For Training Copilot on GPL Code?
• Linus Torvalds: Rust For The Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged For Linux 5.20 - Phoronix

2022-06-22

• Even your boss wants to quit
• What willwould a Chromium-only Web look like?
• Africa Eye: Racism for sale
• Does Bionic Reading actually work? Test for yourself!

2022-06-21

• Pipes, plug-ins, plumbing: VCs gung-ho about embedded finance startups, but a word of caution
• Startup ideation reflections (1/3)
• The Pursuit of Beauty

2022-06-19

• Optimizing Images for Web Performance with NGINX
• Don’t be that open-source user, don’t be me

2022-06-17

• To Master the Day, Wash your Bowl
• GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker (and my toilets are blocked)
• Spotify Founder and CEO Daniel Ek’s Investor Day 2022 Remarks
• Computers are fast but you don’t know it

2022-06-16

• hy I’m now making drugs for cats (and you should, too)
• We Put Half a Million files in One git Repository, Here’s What We Learned

2022-06-15

• A Git Origin Story
• Peer connection with 2 video sources
• Meet vs. Duo – 2 faces of Google’s WebRTC
• A Billion-Dollar Crypto Gaming Startup Promised Riches and Delivered Disaster

2022-06-14

• The Story of Sun Microsystems PizzaTool
• “Not worth it”: why Grab is shedding drivers and frustrating customers in Vietnam
• How Facebook became Pakistan’s hottest matchmaking site
• Meet the fact-checkers decoding Sri Lanka’s meltdown
• Building Self-driving Kafka clusters using open source components
• Turning $1,000 to $10,000 on Insight Prediction
• xbugtool

2022-06-13

• When GoDaddy fell to Social Engineering
• How Trustpilot Extorts Businesses
• Nonsense on Stilts
• Secrets of the publishing industry
• Budget Culture and the Dave Ramseyfication of Money
• How I build a feature

2022-06-11

• Why I turned down $500K, Pissed off my investors, and Shut down my startup

2022-06-10

• Why I Killed My Startup
• So you want to use GoGo Protobuf
• Are You Suffering from Toxic Productivity?

2022-06-09

• Alignment: What Buddhism can teach us about success

2022-06-08

• Ads Don’t Work That Way
• I quit the tech industry
• Issue #136 of the newsletter
• My Billion Dollar Mistake

2022-06-07

• ISSUE 561 June 3rd 2022

2022-06-06

• 8 Lessons on Product Market Fit
• Innovation Leadership Lessons from the Marshmallow Challenge
• Deprecation Lifetime in Flutter
• In Praise of Ponzis
• So, I went deep on Adam Neumann’s new venture, Web3, the “Goddess Nature Token”
• It’s still 2014 in crypto payments, and buying a burrito is now a taxable event – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

2022-06-01

• How to Make the Universe Think for Us
• 10 really bad business / tech predictions
• When Serverless really shines (and when to avoid it)
• Burning 70K on firebase
  • part - 1
  • part - 2
• How we spent 30K in less than 72 hours
• serverless, a lesson learned the hard way Good notes on things to take care of before deploying a server less service
  • Serv

2022-05-31

• The clusterfuck hidden in the Kubernetes code base and the brilliant refactoring techniques developed to fix it
• What Made GoLang So Popular? The Language’s Creators Look Back
• So I Took a Huge Corporation to Arbitration. This is How it Went.
• Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities
• 🧑🏻‍🚀 Fast - by Ali Abouelatta - First 1000

2022-05-30

• The Rise and Fall of Wall Street’s Most Controversial Investor
• Cloud SQLite
• Announcing D1: our first SQL database

2022-05-29

• A New Prediction Market Lets Investors Bet Big on Almost Anything

2022-05-28

• Perseverance is Great, But Don’t Forget to Prepare
• Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to go through life
• The SPAC King Is Doing Just Fine Even as the Bubble Starts to Burst
• The Tech Rout Isn’t Just Cyclical—It’s Well-Earned, and Overdue
• Git 2.5, including multiple worktrees and triangular workflows
• What would I use git-worktree for?
• git-worktree - Manage multiple working trees
• ISSUE 560 May 27th 2022

2022-05-27

• TikTok Boom
• Mental Pivot #77: Sharing, Hermeneutics, Time Trap
• Can growth continue?
• action that makes at least one person better off without making anyone worse off.
• Pareto Improvement
• The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of us are falling

2022-05-26

• Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people

2022-05-25

• why GNU grep is fast
• A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration
• Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development
• Coding for SSDs – Part 1: Introduction and Table of Contents
• Submarine Cable Map
• Mother Earth Mother Board

2022-05-23

• Druid: A Real-time Analytical Data Store

2022-05-22

• Fertility

2022-05-21

• Huh? A software cooperative?
• The balance has shifted away from SPAs
• Management @ PlanetScale
• The World’s Most Toxic Value System
• Rails Is A Ghetto
• What You Want To Consume Shapes Who You Become
• List of Good Habits for The 21st Century

2022-05-20

• Letter to My Younger Self
• Mental Pivot #76: Vague Instructions
• My Favorite Liar
• Improving Code Design With OpenTelemetry — A Practical Guide
• An Introduction to WebRTC Simulcast
• Bringing Zoom’s end-to-end optimizations to WebRTC
• RIP Good times.pdf

2022-05-19

• Does communication matter in technical interviews? We looked at over 100K interviews to find out.
• New Programming Jargon
• What is the point of crypto?
• The Great Crypto Grift May Be Unwinding
• ABOUT HANDSHAKE
  • A lot of reinventions going on in the ethereum space
• .JS and .TXT are now live
• I spent 2 years launching tiny projects
• Biller migration: how we changed our billing cycle
• Why billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
• Letter to myself in late 2008 - by Dalton Caldwell
• lowtechguys
• Unfinished Business with Postgres - Craig Kerstiens

2022-05-18

• A new career in software development: advice for non-youngsters
• Guide to the Total Cost of Ownership of Open-Source Software
• Qt, Open Source and corona
• How we reduced 502 errors by caring about PID 1 in Kubernetes
• The tech sector teardown is more catharsis than crisis
• Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore
• Why Notes, Why Diary?
• How to Twitter: The Martin Way
• Introducing Husky, Datadog’s Third-Generation Event Store
• KINDLE, EPUB, AND AMAZON’S LOVE OF REINVENTING WHEELS
• I Spent 2 years Launching Tiny Projects | Tiny Projects

2022-05-17

• The Cost of Wisdom on Social Media
• Ola e-scooters have buyers hurting — physically and emotionally
• Data Is a Toxic Asset

2022-05-16

• Apache Tomcat Manager .war reverse shell
• Stealing checks worth millions & pwning a bank
• Finger: The First Social Software
• Why a small candy company is Warren Buffett’s ‘dream’ investment
• How I learned to stop worrying and love the YAML
• How did Tropicana lose $30 million in a packaging redesign?
  • Tropicana’s ad [video]
  • Arnell’s “Explanation” of Failed Tropicana Design Resembles His Nonsensical Pepsi Document

2022-05-14

• Ellen Ullman: We Have to Demystify Code
• Better.com CEO Vishal Garg says he is ‘personally liable’ for $750M SoftBank loan
• When Animals Shed Their Wings
• The Geography of Fame
• The One Parenting Decision That Really Matters
• Activities with (positive) asymmetric returns
• On thinkers and doers
• Big Tech and the “Tom Sawyer Effect”
• What Game Are You Playing?
• A clean start for the web
• Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database
• How I Trained My TikTok | metastable

2022-05-13

• Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place
• Intuitive RL: Intro to Advantage-Actor-Critic (A2C)
• Here’s the memo Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal sent about firing execs and a hiring freeze

2022-05-12

• The saddest “Just Ship It” story ever
• FTX/ Defi: If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . . 
• Bolt Built $11 Billion Payment Business on Inflated Metrics and Eager Investors
• Python Multithreading without GIL
• The 2022 Python Language Summit: Python without the GIL
• Worse Is Better
• Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split

2022-05-10

• Four Steps to Organizational Change Without the Drama
• My startup was doomed
• Co-Founder Found!
• I’m All-In on Server-Side SQLite · Fly

2022-05-09

• SO YOU WANNA BE A CHEF— BY BOURDAIN
• Agile and the Long Crisis of Software
• Semaphores (Linus Torvalds)
• Linus Torvalds on semaphores (1999) | Hacker News
• Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life
• Forget personalisation, it’s impossible and it doesn’t work

2022-05-08

• What the $#@! is Parallelism, Anyhow?
• When Buying the Dip Doesn’t Work: An Analysis of the Dot-com Crash
• [ My 7½ year old learned 4 bash (Linux) commands in one hour - TheJavaGuy Blog 🚀] (https://thejavaguy.org/posts/008-my-kid-learned-bash-in-one-hour/)

2022-05-07

• Efficiency is the Enemy
• Half baked

2022-05-06

• A principled way to solve problems
• Knowledge is like a house of cards

2022-05-05

• The Future Will Have to Wait
• WHAT WE CAN DEDUCE FROM A LEAKED PDF
• UA gotta be kidding
• How C++ Works: Understanding Compilation

2022-05-03

• Roadmap (Table of Contents)

2022-05-02

• Distributed Systems Shibboleths
• Mental illness doesn’t make you special
• Mental illness, attention deficit disorder, and suffering

2022-05-01

• Things I don’t want to do to grow my side project
• Adopting Matrix at the GNOME Foundation
• The Mindset Gap
• Writing for Engineers
• Experience Report: 6 months of Go

2022-04-30

• Prioritization as a Superpower

2022-04-28

• Entropy Explained, With Sheep
• Netflix’s Big Wake-Up Call: The Power Clash Behind the Crash
• Be careful with that thing, it’s a confidential coffee maker

2022-04-27

• Accel Leads $50 Million Funding of Cybersecurity Startup Veza at $500 Million Valuation
• Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
• Elon Musk’s Twitter and the “crisis” of scientific misinformation
• SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way

2022-04-25

• Many Small Queries Are Efficient In SQLite
• Resumes are dangerous
• Anonymity
• Live migration
• Consider SQLite
• Why LSP?
• How The Desperate Norwegian Salmon Industry Created A Sushi Staple
• Crimes with Go Generics

2022-04-24

• The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
• Fire And Motion
• FOOL ON THE HILL: An Investment Opinion Rule Breakers vs. Rule Makers
• Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon
• Things You Should Never Do, Part I
• Fast thinking on lichess.org
• Episode 205: Chris Lattner Interview Transcript

2022-04-23

• What’s new in CPUs since the 80s?
• DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts
• Algorithms for life
  • should read 📄 -

2022-04-22

• I can’t let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation”

2022-04-21

• Changing std::sort at Google’s Scale and Beyond
• In defence of swap: common misconceptions

2022-04-19

• WAITING FOR THE LAST DANCE
• ANOTHER TOP INVESTOR SOUNDS THE ALARM: When The Market Turns, A Bunch Of Startups Are Going To ‘Vaporize’
• A blog that is a single executable binary
• Tech IPOs have been a bad bet in 2021 — all but one are in bear market territory
• Don’t Submit. Pitch.

2022-04-18

• The Origin of the word Daemon
• Hubert Horan – The Uber Bubble: Why Is a Company That Lost $20 Billion Claimed to Be Successful?

2022-04-17

• The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy
• Fuck your Miracle Year - by Roger’s Bacon
• The mystery of the miracle year - by Dwarkesh Patel
• I was wrong. CRDTs are the future

2022-04-16

• Summoning Cthulhu by Parsing HTML with Regular Expressions

2022-04-15

• CPU Flame Graphs
• Rustaceans at the border

2022-04-14

• httparchive Reports

2022-04-13

• The complete guide to protecting your APIs with OAuth2

2022-04-12

• Zapier: The $5B unbundling opportunity
• How Anitta megafans gamed Spotify to help create Brazil’s first global chart-topper
• Success and Failure at Pebble

2022-04-11

• Revealed: The inner workings of a paper mill
• What’s a service mesh?
• Sign in and start building ‘This is My Architecture’ is a video series that showcases innovative architectural solutions on the AWS Cloud by customers and partners. Each episode examines the most interesting and technically creative elements of each cloud architecture.
• Exploring Micro-Frameworks: Spring Boot
• What Is Rust’s unsafe?
• Taking Flight Without a Smart Phone
• AOSA git

2022-04-10

• https://jcnews.substack.com/p/whoop-crunching-numbers-as-a-niche
  • Whoop: crunching numbers as a niche wearable brand and the emergence of Notion’s ambassador program

2022-04-09

• How JavaScript Timers Work

• Publishing Go Modules

• [Back to India]https://yugal.me/back-to-india/

• Is virtue signalling a vice?

2022-04-08

• Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

• How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic

• From context collapse to content collapse

• How is PyPy Tested?

2022-04-07

• Use Git tactically

• Improving software supply chain security with tamper-proof builds

• The Scoop: Inside Fast’s Rapid Collapse

• Evolutionary psychology in economics: Mo papers, mo problems

• The examples you see in the textbooks are not representative of the sorts of problems you see in the real world

• Ability to See Expertise is a Milestone Worth Aiming For

• pprof interpreting the call graph

• That simple script is still someone’s bad day

• You can do a lot with an empty file

• ANDREW NG: UNBIGGEN AI

2022-04-06

• You Are Not Google
• Computer Science 186 - 2015-03-12
• Debian still having trouble with merged /usr
• From Belonging to Burnout, Five Years at Airbnb
• Design Of This Website, gwern.net
• All you need is links

2022-04-05

• Interoperability without sacrificing privacy: Matrix and the DMA

• Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design*

• Olaf’s new menu item

• USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness

• 25+ Years of Personal Knowledge Management. From scattered ideas to networked thoughts

• What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists

• A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved… failure

• What is Elon Musk Hiding?

2022-04-04

• HTTP Feeds

• The project with a single 11,000-line code file

• Improving NGINX Performance with Kernel TLS and SSL_sendfile

  • Kernel TLS improves SSL site performance and at scale this could have big impact

• How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux

  • io_uring is an async way to handle I/O making it easier to handle input output.
  • Re: [PATCH 09/13] aio: add support for async openat()

• Some interesting malware I found

  • A simple chrome extension hijacking everything and making it difficult

2022-04-01

• Could Hubris and WebAssembly Allow High-Level Hardware Emulation?
  • On hubris and humiility
  • Hubris is an embedded kernel of Oxide PCs

2022-03-31

• How Go Mitigates Supply Chain Attacks

  • Mitigating supply chain attacks in go.
  • Package versions are basically immutable and new stuff can only be added on top of these. This is made sure by maintaining the hash of the current code state. Pretty much guaranteeing that.
  • the VCS acts as a source of truth for the whole system.

• How does Firefox’s Reader View work?

  • Simplifying web pages for simplicity is a hard problem especially to deliver it reliably
  • Firfox uses it’s home grown library readability
  • It uses a bunch of heuristics to maintain a readability score for a page and decides whether a page is readable

2022-03-30

• Your computer is a distributed system
  • Computers, on the race to pack as much transistors as possible have evolved into a completely distributed system, with multiple modules talking to each other, with everything having different layers of abstraction, caching and implementation in between where each jump has it’s cost. So everything has to be designed with that it minds.

2022-03-29

• Intel Virtualization and Apple Silicon
  • Virtualising macOS using vmware ESXI in an intel chip

2022-03-28

• Maybe you should do less ‘work’
• I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
  • Unlike what pg and others say. Having a product that people want doesn’t always translate to revenue.
  • Which is where the axiom of ask payment from users comes from

2022-03-27

• Okta: “We made a mistake” delaying the Lapsus$ hack disclosure

  • Okta, the biggest security company’s handling of their hack was pretty bad to say the least.

• Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization

  • “If people have the right to be tempted - and that’s what free will is all about - the market is going to respond by supplying as much temptation as can be sold”
  • TLDR; we aren’t evolved to resist so much abundance around us, digital goods with 0 cost replication is making it worse.

2022-03-24

• So, you want to be a darknet drug lord…
  • Interesting ways on which a person can be triangulated. Even while using multiple security procedures
• The entirely predictable impact of salary transparency
  • Transparent salary empowers employers to negotiate better, the stigma around sharing salary is only hurting the workign class. Europe making this decision would only be useful in the long run

2022-03-23

• There’s something off about apecoin
  • Very interesting idea of thinking tokens like a easily cashable equity. I’m guessing this is one of the ways to side step the regulatory authority prohibiting early stage companies from doing IPOs willy nilly. Which also makes sense that so many VCs want companies to be web3 ones. they’re just easily cashable, not because the underlying tech is awesome, but the law has no idea about this, yet.
• reply to hoel’s writeup
• Why I’m homeschooling - Brian caplan
  • Brian Caplan, the economist is homeschooling his kids and he lays out the logic behind this decision
• There is something off about ape coin
  • Very interesting idea of thinking tokens like a easily cashable equity. I’m guessing this is one of the ways to side step the regulatory authority prohibiting early stage companies from doing IPOs willy nilly. Which also makes sense that so many VCs want companies to be web3 ones. they’re just easily cashable, not because the underlying tech is awesome, but the law has no idea about this, yet.

2022-03-22

• Physics in a diverse world
  • A very deep argument on why diversity matters
• in praise of memorization
  • Past data is how we develop insights and inspirations.
  • memorization is how we crystallize past data
• microsoft’s largest git repo on the planet
  • Scale actually has a meaning here.
  • millions of file with 150 GB monorepo!!
• Twilio margins and markets
  • margins of 50% on a message? 🤯
• Predicting the best picture based on the number of coughs and sneezes
  • Very interesting, and incredible that their accuracy is at 91%.
  • How many of these thin strings is humanity wound up in?
• first 1000 lyft
  • First 1000 customers of lyft.

2022-03-21

• secrets of great families
  • Genius requires great mentorship.
• Why we stopped making Einsteins
  • A pretty incredible read on genius
• forbes 30 under 30 is an awkward, narcissm fest

2022-03-20

• How Tailscale works
  • Tailscale is a VPN service with a different engineering model to make everything accessible.
• Exponential vs quadratic growth
  • Exponential growth is unsustainable and eventually decays down to quadratic and that is good because quadratic growth tends to be natural

2022-03-15

• cocktail ideas - danluu
• Sounds easy - danluu
  • Something that sounds easy is not necessarily easy to implement.
  • Either we’re missing a huge amount of context.
• Solutions that create web3
  • web3 is a solution that is searching for a problem
• cockroachDB architecture

2022-03-13

• short conversation with a bank
  • A dystopian satire, but interesting read

2022-03-12

• illlustrated proof of CAP theorem
  • in a distributed system only two of the three are possible
• Youtube Architecture
• The art of plain text
• Calling bullshit in the age of information
• Carl Sagan - Baloney detection

2022-03-11

• Docker can run within docker
• Deep guide to mobile dev architecture
  • My take away was that, flutter is sidestepping a lot of riff-raff by using it’s own rendering engine.

2022-03-10

• Squirrel burgers
  • Software engineering is very flimsy about who is able to write code. Most other profession has standards and licensing for who can work on what.
  • The flip side of this argument is that, this would allow a huge gatekeeping bias. So, people on the other side of the fence would be safe, while this side would still be struggling.
• Immaturity of software engineers
• You don’t know gif
  • A dive into the gif format. Very interesting
• Why we use hexadecimal for computer addressing

2022-03-07

• Lizard brain is no match for endless feed

  • There are some interesting ways people are tackling this problem,
    • A button near the desk, which when pressed removes all distraction-sites from the custom DNS config for the next 45 or so minutes.
    • A geo-fenced smart phone app button which would only enable distraction-sites for the next 15 or so minutes.

• traditional b2b sales is dead, long live the uce

  • b2b sales has been recently evolved into Product Led Growth (PLG). Which means the product speaks for itself, the author is right now wondering if it is moving to a model called Unified commercial engine
  • Irrespective of the specific details of UCE, the theory in the preface about how information has changed marketing and sales is very interesting

2022-03-06

• actor turned crypto naysayer
  • feels like a fluff piece, but mildly interesting

2022-03-04

• memory caches and shared memory

2022-03-03

• A world without blockchain [video]
  • An interesting keyhole view into how the international monetary transactions works. I’m pretty much convinced that blockchain could solve this problem. The way right now is that there are a lot of hops between exchanges at the national level and international level with a lot of implicit trust, to move money around. I think blockchain could replace the chain of trust with a simple API.
  • But then, the fluctuating/increasing transaction fee + reducing mined amount is pretty worrysome. If not BTC I think something from the blockchain playbook has the potential to change it.

2022-03-01

• Crypto investors would welcome a bear market
  • Would they though?? I’m sure, vitalik would he’s got so much that he just can’t lose enough to become broke. But everyone else, I think is fingers crossed hoping that there’s no bear market
• how incumbents survive and thrive
  • there are not a lot of technology companies in the fortune 500 in the last 25 years. Despite all the noise that these companies are making.

2022-02-28

• Tim O’ reilly on web3
  • “in 1995 you couldn’t tell pets.com was worth the huge market capital and that’s how I feel right now”
• Crypto and web3 global unleashing
• Keynesian beauty contest
  • Very very interesting idea on the “public markets” that are supposed to be efficient.

2022-02-27

• OSTEP
  • just started reading this…
  • has been going good so far

2022-02-25

• Just say yes [Video] Eric Schmidt

2022-02-24

• Atomic habits of desire
  • I love the flywheel mental model.

2022-02-22

• Real me vs Fake me
  • Joe Dunthorne’s fight with his online impostor and trying to get himself back. Dystopian for sure.
• gitops
  • Gitops feels very optimal. Having seen it in my workplace. It increases efficiency manyfold
• Misidentifying talent
  • Dan luu brings in some interesting point. Correlating hiring talent with signing sportsmen and how the two are seemingly very difficult
• What I learnt running saas for a year
  • you’re solving a problem not selling a Saas subscription
  • Docs are part of your user experience
  • build for mobile
  • Ask people how they found you
  • Use analytics, set-up funnel tracking
  • Sometimes you need to make your own mistakes
  • Pricing is bloody hard to get right
  • You probably focus too much on MRR
  • You still need a free trial for paid tiers
  • It’s hard to bring in more traffic, easy to change what your current traffic does
  • Content marketing buys you time
  • Ship small, ship often
  • Ship first, worry about scale later
  • You don’t get to spend as much time working on the problem as you’d think

2022-02-21

• Google tag manager the new adblock weapon
  • Basically the ads are loaded from the site’s native url. Making it harder to detect ad scripts
• The mom test
  • Do not lead users to the answers you want to hear
  • Keep the questions wide enough for the answer from the user to move around
  • Do not have a hypothesis and go do user testing because you would lead user to the answer

2022-02-20

• Crypto sports betting hobby
• we put more effor into avoiding losses than making gains

2022-02-19

• The token disconnect
• Thoughts on software-defined silicon A pretty slippery slope that inel’s got here…
• linus torvald on communit, Rust and linux’s longevity
• LinuxCon North America
  • Linuxcon North America [Video]
  • “Source code, should be reread again for understanding” makes sense

2022-02-18

• Don’t point out something wrong immediately
  • you probably don’t have the full context
  • listen and wait
• No one cares about your redesign
• don’t fly during ramadan
• The day appget died
  • At the end of the day corporations are just corporations, and they will always corporate. irrespective of the PR BS
• Rust’s purpose
  • Is memory safety such a big concern that it vouches a new language
• People don’t want a drill they want a hole, but it doesn’t go far enough
  • it should be easy to take the narrative a little longer. And interestingly this is what modern day startups seem to be going for.
• Unix - the hole Hawg

2022-02-17

• What are your companies anti-values
  • when a company has values, this means there are antivalues as well. Because everything is a trade off
• is web 2.0 another bubble? (2006)

2022-02-16

• debugging memory corruption in production rails application

2022-02-15

• https://testing.googleblog.com/2008/07/how-to-write-3v1l-untestable-code.html
• Kubernetes documentary
  • Insanely nice (but biased) view into the world of software innovation, and how it happens. Apart from the technical expertise you need the political expertise as well, it seems…
  • Also, it is the people at the center of the whole “tech” culture who are driving the innovation. Being away doesn’t help at all

2022-02-14

• Storks deliver babies (p = 0.008)
  • Correlation DOES NOT mean causation
  • site of spurious correlations
  • lack of pirates is causing global warming
• Don’t Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit
  • Fair point, actually but then if not reddit, google and whatnot then where??
• What happens if the crawler doesn’t follow robots.txt
• Surveilance too cheap to meter
  • Surveilance is becoming an annoying headache for people. And governments + corporations are increasingly intervening with the lives of people through tech. If we consume anything from a big tech, then it should be safe to assume that the government knows back to front what we’re doing. It’s just that, for now we aren’t that specific of a target.

2022-02-13

• How to dropout
  • I liked the whole idea behind “manufactured necessity”. which is kinda true for most things. What ma
  • this quote from the article sadly rings too true in my life. But, is that such a bad thing though??

2022-02-11

• object oriented programming the trillion dollar disaster

  • OOP has it’s place, but trying ot fix all problems with OOP is just insane.
  • Alan Kay’s (inventor of oops) keynote talk on oops
    • “Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS”

• Meeting interesting people, Feynman

2022-02-10

• walter pitts, the man who tried to redeem the world with logic
  • It’s the fate of the world that, smart people have always been exposed to the wrong side of humanity.

2022-02-09

• Heuristics That Almost Always Work - by Scott Alexander
  • Some stuff work flawlessly 99.9% of the time, but the 0.1% risk is high enough that it vouches paranoid levels of caretaking
  • eg. watchmen taking care of a building, driving safe…
• couple arrested for billions in crypto theft
  • It’s insane that, blockchain supposedly secure, has 0 privacy considerations. It’s insane that every single transaction made from the wallet can be traced back to the origin. How is this, supposed to “restore power back to the people??”
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68236007/i-am-getting-error-cmdline-tools-component-is-missing-after-installing-flutter

2022-02-08

• India1, Avocado Startups and Product-Market Fit | by Sajith Pai | HackerNoon.com | Medium

  • never thought of market segments this way. It’s nice. a good mental model to have

• https://www.svgossip.com/p/can-a-310m-startup-avoid-due-diligence

• Nick smelled bull

  • How an engineer figured out and blew the whistle on a shitty psychology paper
  • The core problem with soft sciences, such as psychology is that. It leans more towards soft hypothesis than hard facts and repeatable/observable measurements. Hence the replication crisis.

• Blackwells sends investor report to remove poloton CEO

  • My first keyhole look at how a board of directors can be brutally honest about a company.
  • More interesting stuff https://www.blackwellscap.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/BW_Peloton_Presentation_Feb072022.pdf

2022-02-06

• Programming the Linux Framebuffer · C. McEnroe
• line goes up video
  • Very interesting, if not descriptive video.
• axie infinity or inifinite risk
• fintech is a scam

2022-02-05

• Multitasking is not progress
  • “multi tasking is what animals would do.”

2022-02-04

• https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

• kariko problem

2022-02-03

• Jay’s Blog
  • There is no proper science. I used to think that we had incredibly cognitive scientists who are on the races to produce incredible results. But turns out, replication crisis is everywhere, and most papers were corrupted or faulty. Math, feels like the last frontier where these things could hold for a while.
• Andy warhol, Clay Christensen and Vitalik Buterin walk into a bar
  • “After world war II companies stopped advertising products for what they were to what they represent.” is an interesting thought. what else are the things that are like this??
  • Also, it is interesting that, Adam Smith would think that, arts such as music, drama, opera singers and actors didn’t create any value. While, in 21st century “attention economy” is a big part of the process. So, basically the argument goes that, Something that might not be valuable right now, might turn out to be something of pretty intense value in hindsight. For example, rearing children, taking care of older parents, cleaning ones house all of these have clear economic value, But not counted as value in most places. Similarly, what other things aren’t we counting towards economic value right now, but over time might turn out to be valuable, are NFTs something like that??
  • labor econ vs the world
  • Keynesian beauty contest
    • Economy seems to be hanging in the thread of a perpetual beauty contest with nobody specific on top.
• Ideas that have been beaten to death (spoiler, note taking)
  • 😂😂😂 It’s ironic that, I would build my own bookmarker application.

2022-02-02

• Never ignore a recruiter
• Nodejs diverges from spec to integrate the fetch API for the server
• Year 2038 problem

2022-02-01

• note web assembly closely
  • Web assembly outside the browser seems like an interesting use case.
  • Service workers are how fly.io and cloudflare workers seem to have achieved “zero cold starts” while AWS lambda have few second cold starts
  • Web assembly in the server would usher in new abstraction layer for serverless which is far more interesting.
• Abstract Syntax trees
• Replacing react native library as an attack
• Flutter vs react Native
• kotlin vs xamarin vs flutter vs react native
  • A pretty comprehensive explanation of everything involved
• Gravity of cross platform apps
  • A pretty good reason for why big companies have the need to switch to electron&co
  • one password migration to electron
• What happens to react Native app during compiling
  • Basically a JS process is running in the background and send commands via bridges.
• understanding react native bridge concept
• Kotlin vs Flutter
• Why Dart instead of kotlin
• People who went full on in flutter
  • This guy raises some valid problems with flutter.
• Migrating from react native to Android in zerodha
  • Then these guys say, flutter was awesome.
• flutter testing framework
• Alibaba’s flutter story
  • They seem to love it.
• Flutter vs React Native
• flutter, RN, swift objective C performance benchmark

2022-01-31

• Manna short story
• Microsoft document on OSS (1995)
• ptbarnum - humbug
  • PT Barnum seems like a pretty interesting guy.
  • This way to egress
• How Bacteriophage, a virus helped a woman survive
  • Western medicine gets a lot of clout for “pushing the boundaries”, like in the article. But there is far more better research going on around the world with far little resources like int this video
• Midori, the language that could have been
  • Midori is a killed project from microsoft for cross platform application
• How does the server use session key after the TLS handshake?
  • Basically the key is associated with that TLS session and it changes in two scenarios, changing tls key and session resumption.

2022-01-30

• What is the difference between statically linked and dynamically linked
• Smedley Butler on Interventionism
  • One thing that really vibed with me in this article is that “War is just a racket”
  • And that is true for all nations sinking trillions upon trillions in Armed forces maintanence
• Defi crash course for crypto
• Innovations that make Solana the first web scale blockchain
• What is anchorNode , baseNode , extentNode and focusNode in the object returned by document.getSelection?
• Watching bad financial advice on social media
  • There will always be people selling to snake oil to “suckers”.
  • Being skeptical about free advice seems to be a good rule of thumb
• Brandolini’s law of Bullshit asymmetry
  • A bullshitter can bullshit in five minutes, what a scientist would take a life time to prove.
  • Generating bullshit content is infinitely more easier than fighting to disprove them

2022-01-29

• The business of pivoting

2022-01-28

• University of waterloo Open educational links
  • Nice collection of interesting stuff, even if most of the stuff is outdated.

2022-01-26

• Nature making articles open access
  • It’s nice that articles are opening up. is Elbakyan to be thanked for?
• Facebook libra is DOA
  • IMO I don’t find facebook’s blockchain move any stupider than the whole blockchain movement itself.
• Ads plugin steals 30% of the user’s money
  • Its pretty smart to inject admob onto the site that uses the plugin. while I’m confused about the ethicality of the library author. It’s an interesting business model as well.

2022-01-25

• Motherfuckingwebsite, Build a simple website. not complex one
• Gemini protocol is solutionism at its worst
  • The argument makes sense. But the point that the author misses is that, The whole point of the protocol is a sort of tech elitism. Sort of like the Nobel winners club or even the Royal institute of science.
• simian quant
• Remote Frame Buffer protocol
  • Seems like a lot of companies are spawning around this idea.. Is it a bigger scheme, where everything is moving to the cloud?
  • neverinstall website

2022-01-24

• The case against Crypto
  • Even thought the ideas are not new, it’s a pretty good collation of all the reasonable problems in a single place
• A not so gentle introduction to Crypto
  • A brief intro to all the
• Open letter to Susan Wojcicki
  • The insane amount of power wielded by the people of these platforms is plain crazy.
  • They could suppress thoughts and move minds with the move of a finger, we’re kinda letting these platforms decide the way we interact with the world.
• migrating from linux to FreeBSD
  • FreeBSD sounds interesting, but the reasons stated here feels a little flimsy + not a lot of tools are built for FreeBSD making it a huge problem. but increasingly I’m seeing a lot of movement from linux to freeBSD.

2022-01-23

• Everything must be paid for twice
  • I used to have that you would have to pay 40% of the total price
• Reflecting on a career in product
• Why I am not a utilitarian
  • While the argument seems logical. The presupposing notion seems to be that utilitarianism vs hedonism is a discrete thing. But, that is not necessarily true.
  • The path between utilitarian and hedonism is discrete and finding the right balance is important rather than the truly edge cases which is being
• Choose your browser carefully

2022-01-22

• AWS is not a dumb pipe

2022-01-20

• When Cigarette Companies Used Doctors to Push Smoking - HISTORY
  • A cautionary tale on why believing in science is not necessarily optimal. Science is as much a budding field as any. and mistakes have been made and will be made.
• Tech questions for 2022
• Are we really engineers

2022-01-19

• the global creators who broke through in 2021
• What goes into making an OS Unix compliant
  • Not all things are done by the people in the forefront.
• Myths about the golden ratio

2022-01-18

• Dependency Risk and Funding
• The Philosophy of work HN
  • the Philosophy of work PDF
• ArXIV reaches a milestone and a reckoning
  • Its sad that the top requirements of society are having to trudge along with minimal to no funding while, ad spewing growth machines are billion dollar companies
• Software Bill of Materials
• The computers in your head
• Why its great to be a consultant

2022-01-17

• The minimal viable program
• The curious case of raspi in our network
• Anatomy of bitcoin price manipulation
• Netflix and cable prices
  • It’s interesting that “economies of scale” that worked for Amazon, doesn’t seem to be working for Netflix. How the hell are they spending $72 per customer for content while getting $12 dollars?? It’s insane….

2022-01-16

• mental pivot-60 mind the fundamentals.
  • Understanding the fundamentals is key to mastery, the story with lebron is incredible Something I will try to emulate.
• doing the work
• The Swimmer’s Body Illusion | Jesús Gil Hernández
• Don’t be ideological - by Thomas Prosser

2022-01-14

• Michael Tsai - Blog - Catching Native Apps
• Layout thrashing avoidance google blog
• how does a debugger work
• cost of attrition
• anonymous structs in golang

2022-01-13

• GitHub Copilot Can Do More Than Just Code
• 5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds | Random ASCII - tech blog of Bruce Dawson

2022-01-12

• Is the madness ever going to end
• China’s top education firm’s cut 60,000 jobs
  • A pretty good reminder that, most “tech” companies seem to be working (?) under only the premise that there will be little to no regulation from the government. This makes sense…
• Plc4x Open source project shutting down it’s free support.

2022-01-11

• Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google’s Search Quality in 2022
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
  • Am i walking away from mine?
• The Optional Chaining Operator, “Modern” Browsers, and My Mom - Jim Nielsen’s Blog

2022-01-10

• Flutter failed to solve the cross platform app challenge.
• Go struct ordering
  • Related,
• Poe’s law
• Cryptoland discussion HN
• Swapnil’s computer systems readup Even though a summary, learnt some insightful stuff.
• Banks are making it easier to get credit cards
• Why can’t programmers program

2022-01-09

• Moxie’s analysis on web3
  • Counter argument to moxie’s comment
  • Replying to moxie
• Hyrum’s law
  • Every Observable behaviour of an API becomes a feature
• The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment | by Mike Hearn | Mike’s blog

2022-01-07

• [Salary Data is for sale [HN]]](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753)
• Founder Burnout
• The advent of dumb chatbots
• Finding Pruduct market fit [video]
• Building products
• Procrastinatory doomloops
• neuroscientist with terminal cancer prepares for death
  • Its crazy how fragile everything around us, is and yet we manage to navigate the world.

220106

• How polyhaven handles 80tb data transfer + 5m page views /month for < $400
• Weird programming stories
  • My many Girlfriends
  • The brilliant Paula Bean
• how 2022 will be like (1922)
  • It’s interesting that computer or nuclear was not even in the scene of future.
  • Just 100 years after, everybody has a (close to) supercomputer in their products.

220105

• Solarwinds complaint summary
  • I used to think, being a board of director is a zero risk simple Bourgeouis type of job. Turns out it is not.
  • In this case, the shareholders of solarwinds are suing the present and past board of directors for the lack of security staffing and department which is required by the SEC.
• Go gob
  • gob is an additional binary serializer for golang.
  • It helps to serialize and deserialize structs into binary.
• TC39 meeting notes 2021-12-14
  • I knew there was a team for deciding what features JS should have, But never thought it would be like a tight group of passionate people who were discusssing and making polls about what the name of a method should be in

220104

• What is the small web
  • the logic is that, right now, all our computation are offloaded to the Big Techs. but in the future people will start owning their computation instead of companies and that is inevitable
  • One problem I have is that, as long this small tech is not as easy to use as using google. Nobody is going to buy it. Especially the end users
• improve page loading incredibly
  • A smart way of increasing page load times. basically what this does is, prefetch pages if the hover is more than a certain time
• AskHN Successful small online businesses
  • Incredibly good thread on businesses. Very insightful. We really don’t need crazy level ideas to make money. Even a simple problem with a small niche is enough.
• A tutorial on how video works

220103

• Ingo MOlnar’s 2.3K commit patch

  • Associated email by ingo to linus, in the mailing list, interesting read

• Google library for fast serialisation - flatbuffers

• You don’t need cors

• An algorithm for passing programming interviews

• 70 first cofounder dates

• The demise of Scientific American: Guest post by Ashutosh Jogalekar

  • It has been obvious for a long while that the study of science is deeply ingrained with the political and cultural norms. But what are we losing at the cost of politicising a supposedly pure field

• Engineering milestone to look out for, in 2022

220102

• Deserialising really fast

211231

• Was reading about Fabrice Bellard
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
  • It’s pretty crazy how much people are able to build.
• Adversarial Interoperability
• Companies with successful pivots

211229

• Kellblog Predictions for 2022 Kellblog
• “Play-to-earn” and Bullshit Jobs
  • Corollary to that, Bullshit Jobs. David Graeber’s bullshit jobs theory.

211228

• FBI document on what data can be retrieved from messaging apps
  • Nobody is truly ever free…
• what is apt-get
  • Downloads package information from the sources defined in /etc/apt/sources.list

211227

• how to generate startup ideas [video]

211226

• HN thread on failed projects and lessons learned
• HN thread how to validate demand for side-projects
• Flight seat auction
  • Had a question whether flight seats can be sold in an auction based model. Seems, like it is already a thing 😅.
• Using DBs with serverless
  • Traditional persistent DB connection with DB for serverless, adds a lot of cost to it.
• Hot reloading for django apps with docker
  • Basically we just mount the current directory to the app directory

211224

• The Sucker Complex
  • Interesting idea about how normalizing immorality makes it acceptable. And, I agree mostly with it.
• HN discussion on >$500/month side projects
  • Very interesting. I’ve only been exposed to the “giant” businesses. purely because they make so much noise. But Internet has so much untapped niches that can be useful in a lot of ways.

211223

• My productivity tool for 13 years is a single txt file
  • Interesting observation is that the bottleneck for productivity is the muscle memory to reach out for a well known optima for productivity and the tools themselves matter very little.

211221

• There’s no such thing as a tree

  • A pretty good primer on convergent evolution and such.
  • The axolotl metamorphosis on exposure to hormones is… pretty disturbing.
  • The axolotl metamorphosis on exposure to hormones is… pretty disturbing.

• for no Absolute reason Got curious of the growth of AdGrok Because, usually success stories are written with hindsight bias. Here’s the whole list

  • So they basically built a type of alternative, simpler frontend for google ads and sold it
  • Used the link bait from Antonio’s blogs to drive traffic (he says so in a blog).
  • Sold to twitter.
  • But they seem to have had a pretty good product as well. a lot of good comments

• Symlink [wiki]

  • Symlink can map one folder with another. thereby linking them
  • Most linux operations can be made on both folders but. deleting the symlink does not delete the target. mv and cp works the same way
  • Question: can symlink type thing be done between two files over an NFS?

• How Big is 2²⁵⁶ 3B1B [Video]

  • Its incredible how easy it is to forget, just how big some numbers are.
  • I guess the law of large numbers still applies.

• RSS vs Atom

  • Pretty good points.
  • It’s interesting how protocols need to be non-private or copyrighted to usually work.
  • I think, Privatizing a protocol is very analogous to privatizing english or spanish. It just won’t work. Languages and protocols need to be free and open for mass adoption. and without that the protocols.
  • Analogous thread in jekyll https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed/issues/2

211220

• AirBnb’s journey into smoothening out ios build process.

  • I didn’t exactly understand half of what was said. I’ll have relook later when I have a better understanding of stuff

• Avoiding internet centralisation

  • Types of cenralization
    • Direct centralisation - eg. chat, messaging and videoconferencing protocol use this method
    • Neessary centralisation - eg. DNS, Certificate Authority (CA) due to technical limitations.
    • Indirect Centralization - In theory all nodes in the Internet are equivalent. But realistically some nodes drive much of the traffic of the internet
    • Inherited Centralization - The network between two endpoints is a few stack below the OSI model. But whoever controls the network basically has control over the internet as well
    • Platform Centralisation - While the protocol itself doesn’t maintain centralization. It enables centralised service providers to have more control Over others. eg HTTP
  • Limits of Decentralisation - there is no completely decentralised system. Although there has been some attempt at it. Centralisation starts evolving
    • Federation is not enough - SMTP was evolved as a method to have a decentralised way to receive message even when the underlying Network, IP or the server changes. One way it is done is, The DNS handles the finding the user part and the Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) can be used to route message to anyone. But this has created a situation where there are Indirectly centralised systems like Gmail. Who have much better network effects and are able to elbow other small players away.
    • Multi-Stakeholder Administration is hard - This is a model of centralisation where Multiple representatives from various stakeholders come together to decide on something. For example ICANN, CA, Browser Forum. These are a type of centralization but in some ways they are less centralised, as well
    • Blockchains are not magical - Blockchains try to reduce centralization risk by distributing intermediary or otherwise potentially centralized functions to members of a large pool of protocol participants. The assignment of a task usually cannot be controlled (to avoid sybill attacks). These prevent _ direct centralization, inherited centralisation_. There are a few issues with this though
      • Distributed consensus protocols can have significant implications for privacy. Because all activities are shared with many unknown parties. Private Information Retrieval is incredibly (PIR) is incredibly easy
      • A lot communication back and forth + proof-of-work makes the whole network inefficient,
      • Distributed consensus protocol are still not proven to scale.
      • Responsibilities are diffused to certain unknown parties in the network. Making, control and management very difficult.
    • It is also possible that centralisation risk can happen elsewhere, eg, bitcoin trading places

211219

• https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/895-Connecting-the-iDOTs.html
  • TIL that companies can have custom headers and use it track stuff.
• https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/do-not-end-the-week-with-nothing
  • Rered this, Incredible stuff about why I am doing this stuff

211218

• Mounting and Unmounting file system
  • Basically new files can be mounted and unmounted based on the reuqirements.
  • There is a /etc/mnttab file that keeps track fo the file system
• How signal does end-to-end encrypted group video calls
  • Signal engineering is pretty good.
  • the article goes into detail on how they handle key rotations on the fly and how signal makes sure that even the media forwarding servers that optimise content delivery are not able to view the data in calls.
  • It’s pretty good.

211216

• glupteba botnetwork litigation by google

  • Here’s the technical write up https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/disrupting-glupteba-operation/
  • Here’s their legal write up https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/new-action-combat-cyber-crime/
  • Here’s their litigation doc https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/documents/1_Complaint.pdf
  • Bottomline: Somebody’s using the blockchain as a resiliency platform to host botnet. So, when some authority removes the botnet. the botnet never goes away because it lives in the blockchain. Interesting and a more realistic use case for blockchain, I’ve seen so far

• Bringing bounce and elastic easing to CSS [Youtube]

  • An interesting take on how an inside of a spec creation looks.
  • The guys discuss about how to create a bounce and elastic easing. using bezier curves and why there can’t be more than one output per line and how they solved that problem and how it made it difficult to do spring effect and how that was solved.

211212

• Was reading (and writing!!!) about Docker and its internals which can be found here
• https://lwn.net/Articles/105375/
  • Linus Torvalds article on management Torvalds, is quite the good dark comic writer.
• https://www.kj7nzl.net/blog/sending-sms-messages-through-iss/
  • Sending SMS through the ISS.
  • People really are inventive.

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