September 11, 2026 [Programming, Rust, Tech, Videos] This video doesn’t contain any code: feel free to skip it if you like, but either way I’m going to try to keep it short, so see you on the other side :-). … Read more
GPTs and feeling left behind · Hugo’s weblog ‹ back home2025-08-06 #ai #gpt #llm Every time that I read some blog post about “coding with AI”, or how cool new models write entire libraries by themselves, I feel like I’m … Read more
A few days ago, when my wife and I were attending to our three kids, I suddenly remembered a movie I saw about an inline speed skating competition. In that sport (which I don’t practice myself), the athletes use their … Read more
Nethack taught me a lot of things. It taught me about frustration and perseverance, about luck and fate, about addiction and obsession, about hope and fear, even about the importance of exercise and healthy eating. But most of all, it … Read more
Recently, I left my phone home while leaving for a Sunday trip with family. I left it because it had really low power left and I had no power bank. At start I did feel uncomfortable as I couldn’t feel … Read more
Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minium at work 49 points by awaythrown1 34 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | 25 comments For as long as I’ve been working professionally, I have been slacking around a … Read more
Jessica Hullman wrote this memoir of her interactions with the graphics and visualization research community, and one thing that struck me was this bit describing an event from 2011, when she was a graduate student: There was one weird moment, … Read more
Disgust may not be a straightforward extension of the immune system’s aversion to harmful substances, but rather “a psychological nebula, lacking definite boundaries, discrete internal structure, or a single center of gravity,” says psychologist Nina Strohminger.Photograph by Star Stock / … Read more