Taxing Growth
Setting The Stage: Growth And Guests Flat Tax Case And Book Thesis Regulation And Planning As Growth Drags Mobility, Tax Competition, And Talent Flight Political Will, Mandates, And Execution Demographics, Japan’s Lessons, And Participation Debt, Deficits, And The Inflation Trap Bond Markets, MMT Drift, And Fiscal Limits Brexit, EU Rules, And The UK Tech Boom […]
Stop Breaking TLS
Rant ahead: I hate TLS “Inspection” software with a burning passion and I wish we collectively as an industry would just knock it the fuck off and stop pretending it’s some great security benefit. Every time I encounter it, in whatever form, it’s a gigantic headache that makes everyone’s life worse off and as far […]
Revisiting “Let’s Build a Compiler”
There’s an old compiler-building tutorial that has become part of the field’s lore: the Let’s Build a Compiler series by Jack Crenshaw (published between 1988 and 1995). I ran into it in 2003 and was very impressed, but it’s now 2025 and this tutorial is still being mentioned quite often in Hacker News threads. Why […]
Dependable C
Menu button Introduction ImplementationSuport C version Why not fix C General Advice Requirements Warnings C++ compatibility Concepts of C As-If undefined behavior Keywords flow control keyword list reserved keywords Types floats Initialization in C Bool Operators Comparasions shifts C Versions C99 C11 C17 C23 Memory Model VLAs are broken Effective type in c recomendations Dependable […]
‘Source available’ is not open source (and that’s okay)
I have spent twenty years working on open source sustainability, so watching a fight ignite between Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson and WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg this week felt uncomfortably familiar in a way I wish it didn’t. David Heinemeier Hansson (also known as DHH) released a new kanban tool, Fizzy, this […]
The end of the kernel Rust experiment
The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay. So the “experimental” tag will be coming off. Congratulations are […]
NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by 22% in six months
In its first six months, New York City’s controversial congestion pricing scheme has reduced air pollution by 22% in Manhattan’s toll zone, while improving air quality across the entire metropolitan region, according to new research. The Cornell University study analysed data from 42 air quality monitors throughout the New York area between January 2024 and […]
Making macOS Bearable
Dec 9, 2025 Ideally, a computer system should feel like an extension of your body. When you pick up a cup of coffee, you don’t consciously think, “I need to engage my bicep, extend my forearm, and grasp with my fingers.” You just think “drink coffee,” and your body complies. I’ve spent the better part […]
The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat
The author of this post ended it with this humorous conclusion. So yeah. ChatGPT is my best student now. It hands in perfect work, never complains, and never asks for an extension. And the worst part? I think I like it better. And as highlighted above, this is “every single paper”, i.e., this isn’t a […]
Post-transformer inference: 224× compression of Llama-70B with improved accuracy
Description This paper introduces the first verified method to eliminate transformers from inference while preserving, and in many cases improving, downstream accuracy. We show that a frozen 70-billion-parameter Llama-3.3-70B model can be replaced by a 256-dimensional meaning field extracted from seven internal activation layers. A lightweight compressor (AN1) reduces these fields by 224× with an […]