International chess federation sanctions Kramnik
The FIDE Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) has issued its decision in disciplinary proceedings involving former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. The EDC is an independent judicial body within FIDE responsible for considering alleged violations of the FIDE Ethics Code and Disciplinary Code. It operates independently from the FIDE President, Management Board, and other elected bodies […]
AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money
AI genuinely speeds up the right tasks: writing, support, structured drafts. But in the wild the gains shrink to about 3% of your hours, they backfire on the wrong tasks, and almost none of it reaches a paycheck or a P&L. Here is what the research shows, and how to actually bank the part that […]
Show HN: Mcpsnoop – Wireshark for MCP (transparent proxy and live TUI)
Wireshark for MCP. A transparent proxy that shows every real tool call between your AI client and your MCP servers, live in your terminal. The problem The official MCP Inspector connects as its own client. It never sees the traffic between your client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code) and your server. A breakpoint in your […]
The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything
I’m still to this day just blown away by continental drift and things like that, stuff that most people think sounds pretty boring. — Will Wright Gamers are both extremely dedicated to and really good at preserving the history of their hobby. Seldom has a month gone by in the fifteen years that I’ve been […]
Markets are competitive if and only if P = NP
Abstract:I prove that competitive market outcomes require computational intractability. If P = NP, firms can efficiently solve the collusion detection problem, identifying deviations from cooperative agreements in complex, noisy markets and thereby making collusion sustainable as an equilibrium. If P != NP, the collusion detection problem is computationally infeasible for markets satisfying a natural instance-hardness […]
Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap
31 likes may not seem like a lot, but that’s actually everyone on substack notes We have found zero performance benefit on SWE tasks when agents have search access to their previous transcript sessions, provided they have access to other forms of context. We also have not found much benefit in trying to automatically trawl […]
Costco is the anti-Amazon
We are in a new age of logistical prowess, led by the dynamism of Amazon as it strives to carry out dizzyingly complex forms of order fulfillment and delivery. With the age of agentic commerce just around the corner—think of going to ChatGPT and having an AI agent scour every website for the cheapest offering […]
Factories Are Just Rooms
I went into my kid’s school a couple months back and spoke to the year group about manufacturing. Honestly it was the most rewarding speaking gig I’ve done all year. It was about the process of making my AI clock and I have a ton of pics from my factory visit to Shenzhen (mostly pics […]
America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are
1920s Los Angeles One hundred years ago, on September 26, 1929, President Herbert Hoover gathered a group of social scientists at the White House. He asked them to begin research on the most detailed report ever produced on the state of the nation. Four years later, running more than 1,500 pages long, Recent Social Trends […]
Best Simple System for Now
Table of Contents 3 Feb 2025 26 mins You can have your cake and eat it, as long as you bake it carefully. ‘We can do this the quick way and pay later, or the thorough way and pay now.’ This seems to be a fundamental dichotomy in software development, between ‘perfectionism’ and ‘pragmatism’, but […]