A model of LLM capability
davewiner's subscription list, hackerNewsStars category. List created by feedlandDatabase v0.9.3.
Designing bug-proof engines
A spectrum of engineering philosophies
Accidental Urbanism
How I got into the scene
DYNOMIGHT
• dynomight
Against dystopian views of high-speed audiobook listening
The sound and the worry
Grateful: Colors in console.log()
So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every developer does: turn to console.log() and troubleshoot by logging values.
I have a named color (e.g. blue) and a corresponding HSL color string for that named color (e.g. 100 ...
Ryan Dahl Talks Deno on The Changelog
Ryan Dahl was on The Changelog to talk about Deno 2 specifically and his work on JavaScript more broadly. What follows are a few things that stood out to me.
His Regrets From Node Are Now in Deno
I think it’s interesting that Ryan’s famous talk 10 Things I Regret About Node....
“Easier and More Convenient” They Said…
The other day in our morning rush before school my wife asked for help figuring out how to put lunch money on our kids’ school accounts.
For some time she’s been doing it “the hard way”: talk to the people in the front office of the school every few months and swipe a credi...
DYNOMIGHT
• dynomight
The real data wall is billions of years of evolution
Careful with those human analogies
Putting the “Person” in “Personal Website”
The other day I saw a meme that went something like this:
Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities like singing, dancing, and making art have been turned into skills instead of being recognized as behaviors? The point of doing these things has become to get good at them. B...
Source-available is meaningless
On the multifaceted dishonesty in commercial open source.
CSAM Regulation Update: Dutch Intelligence agency weighs in
A quick update - The European Commission and EU member states have been pondering, for years now, if they should force WhatsApp/Apple/Signal/Telegram to scan all our private messages for suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM). For various reasons it is a horrendous idea to break end to end encryption in this likely highly ineffective way. Variations of the proposal have also included a mandate to perform such scanning of images using AI, and even to also read our text messages to see if we aren’t “grooming” children.
You can't rely on people being good
On the inherent risks of exploitation in commercial open source.
How to Bootstrap a Town
A modest plan
Pledging $300,000 to the Zig Software Foundation
Alles voor de kinderen, maar doe dan wel het juiste
De hele korte versie: Om kinderen zo goed mogelijk te beschermen zijn er veel dingen die we onmiddellijk kunnen doen, zoals investeren in oplossen achterstanden bij de politie. Het is juist niet behulpzaam nu de nieuwe EU CSAM-verordening te steunen, want die zal niet daadwerkelijk helpen en voornamelijk meer afleiding veroorzaken. Wel creëert dit voorstel ondoordachte en permanente massa-surveillance van alle Europeanen door Amerikaanse “big tech” bedrijven, waarbij iedere foto die we op WhatsApp versturen getoetst wordt & kan leiden tot een stille melding bij de politie.
Randomness, Serendipity, and an “I Wouldn’t Recommend This” Algorithm
Sean Voisen has a great post about 1) how we as humans think of randomness, 2) how computers simulate randomness, and the difference between the two.
He puts forth an intriguing thought: in a world increasingly driven by computation, how does that affect randomness in our l...
Sports vs Games
An aesthetic distinction
Nobody Cares
A rant about caring
Tagged Union Subsets with Comptime in Zig
Blogging & Listening
When you read a great blog post, the feeling you often get is: “I already knew this, I just hadn’t been able to express it!”
In this sense, writing a great blog post is about listening.
If you’re listening — to others, your coworkers, the people you follow, your own experien...