Month: September 2024

Datomic and Content Addressable Techniques

Latacora collects and analyzes data about services our clients use. You may have read about our approach to building security tooling, but the tl;dr is we make requests to all the (configuration metadata) read-only APIs available to us and store the results in S3. We leverage the data to understand our clients’ infrastructure and identify […]

Product management is hosting a party, not playing chess

Be smart about introducing programmers to customers, but do it! My blood is boiling. I’ve been researching the CTO role, trying to understand the technical executive responsibilities & the various ways they can bundle together. I was listening to the CTO Insights podcast, when I heard this. “Yeah, I totally agree. I mean, look, the […]

Launch HN: Silurian (YC S24) – Simulate the Earth

Hey HN! We’re Jayesh, Cris, and Nikhil, the team behind Silurian (https://silurian.ai). Silurian builds foundation models to simulate the Earth, starting with the weather. Some of our recent hurricane forecasts can be visualized at https://hurricanes2024.silurian.ai/. What is it worth to know the weather forecast 1 day earlier? That’s not a hypothetical question, traditional forecasting systems […]

Why Gauss wanted a heptadecagon on his tombstone

If you had to choose a few words or symbols to encapsulate your legacy, what would you pick? Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) left behind a trophy case stocked with mathematical achievements to choose from, but above all, he wanted a “regular heptadecagon” etched on his headstone. The highly symmetrical 17-sided shape starred in a […]

Stephen Fry – AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?

The text of a talk I gave on Thursday 12th September as the inaugural “Living Well With Technology” lecture for King’s College London’s Digital Futures Institute. Thank you all so much. So many questions. The first and perhaps the most urgent is … by what right do I stand before you and presume to lecture […]

Show HN: sol – A de-minifier for shell programs

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The Dune Shell

I feel that bash is great in a lot of ways, but it doesn’t exactly feel cozy: it’s lacking a sort of personal touch, and it’s also missing quick and easy customizability. With my last shell, Atom, I had accomplished some of the coziness that bash was missing, but I also introduced a lot of […]