Infracost (YC W21) is hiring Sr Node Eng to make $600B/yr cloud spend proactive
$600B is spent on cloud each year, but no one knows the cost until it’s too late. We’re changing that. Since launching Infracost in 2021, we’ve been pulled by engineers who all want to Shift FinOps Left. We enable them to proactively find and fix cloud cost issues before they hit production. We plug directly […]
Albert Michelson’s Harmonic Analyzer (2014) [pdf]
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PalmOS on FisherPrice Pixter Toy
rePalm Photo Album(constantly updated) Blog-style updates BLOG Dec 5, 2025 – Pixter Getting started with Pixter Initial Slow Pixter Color Bringup The Worst ARM SoC I’ve Seen Yet Pixter Memories Pixter Displays Making Pixter IrDA work Getting and Flashing the Pixter Carts Pixter Polish Battery State ARM7 quirks What exactly does ARM7 do with PC[1] […]
I cracked a $200 software protection with xcopy
disclaimer: this is educational security research only. i do not condone piracy. i purchased a legitimate license for this software and conducted this analysis on my own property. this writeup exists to document protection implementation flaws, not to enable theft. support developers – buy their software. github repo: vmfunc/enigma tl;dr i spent a day analyzing […]
Extra Instructions of the 65XX Series CPU
and stores the result in memory. One supported mode: SAY abcd,X ;9C cd ab ;No. Cycles= 5 Example: SAY $7700,X ;9C 00 77 Equivalent instructions: PHA TYA AND #$78 STA $7700,X PLA XAS *** This opcode ANDs the contents of the X register with and stores the result in memory. One supported mode: XAS abcd,Y […]
Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal
Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole Christmas Written by Tom of Moore’s Law Is Dead Special Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugata Introduction — The Day the RAM Market Snapped At the beginning of November, I ordered a 32GB DDR5 kit for pairing with a Minisforum BD790i X3D motherboard, and three weeks later […]
Frank Gehry has died
REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo Sakshi Venkatraman US reporter 5 December 2025, 20:08 GMT Updated 13 minutes ago Frank Gehry, one of the most influential architects of the last century, has died aged 96. Gehry was acclaimed for his avant garde, experimental style of architecture. His titanium-covered design of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, catapulted him […]
Leaving Intel
I’ve resigned from Intel and accepted a new opportunity. If you are an Intel employee, you might have seen my fairly long email that summarized what I did in my 3.5 years. Much of this is public: It’s still early days for AI flame graphs. Right now when I browse CPU performance case studies on […]
A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
A month’s supply of Miebo, Bausch & Lomb’s prescription dry eye drug, costs $800 or more in the U.S. before insurance. But the same drug — sold as EvoTears — has been available over-the-counter (OTC) in Europe since 2015 for about $20. I ordered it online from an overseas pharmacy for $32 including shipping, and […]
Perpetual Futures
Programming note: Bits about Money is supported by our readers. I generally forecast about one issue a month, and haven’t kept that pace that this year. As a result, I’m working on about 3-4 for December. Much financial innovation is in the ultimate service of the real economy. Then, we have our friends in crypto, […]