Breaking Free
In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide. Together with more than 70 consumer groups and other […]
Ubicloud (YC W24): Software Engineer – $95-$250K in Turkey, Netherlands, CA
Ubicloud is an open source alternative to AWS. Our cloud services include elastic compute, block storage, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), K8s, managed Postgres, and AI inference. Today, we serve 500+ customers on our managed cloud. We’re now hiring engineers to help us with our Postgres, GitHub Actions, and AI inference products. Who we are With our […]
Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction
Culture / Books & the Arts / February 25, 2026 The German auteur’s recent book presents a strange, idiosyncratic vision of the concept of “truth,” one that defines how he sees the world and his art. Ad Policy Werner Herzog, 1984. (Frederic Garcia / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) In 1970 or ’71, Werner Herzog accompanied […]
The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]
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Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)
It’s 2025 and I am still making video games, which according to archive.org is 20 years since I started making games! That’s a pretty long time to be doing one thing… Screenshot of my website circa 2011 When I share stuff I’m working on, people frequently ask how I make games and are often surprised […]
Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993
This is a semi-satirical / joking-not-joking post (spun out of a private mastodon post) that I will be taking absolutely no questions or comments about. If it does not amuse you please do not tell me in gruesome well-actually detail why it is a bad idea. My proposal: Computers should have stopped in 1993. One […]
The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Can we derive breakfasts we have never observed?
It started with a flash of insight like a thunderbolt in a snow storm, the sort of insight that can only be induced by high altitude hypoxia and making breakfast. “Breakfast is a vector space. You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, […]
Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration
Fast speech recognition with NVIDIA’s Parakeet models in pure C++. Built on axiom — a lightweight tensor library with automatic Metal GPU acceleration. No ONNX runtime, no Python runtime, no heavyweight dependencies. Just C++ and one tensor library that outruns PyTorch MPS. ~27ms encoder inference on Apple Silicon GPU for 10s audio (110M model) — […]
Frankensqlite a Rust reimplementation of SQLite with concurrent writers
Bit rot is silent, cumulative, and inevitable. A single flipped bit in a B-tree interior node can corrupt an entire subtree of rows. Standard SQLite relies entirely on external tools (ZFS checksums, periodic backups, manual PRAGMA integrity_check) to detect and repair this damage after the fact. FrankenSQLite builds recovery directly into the storage engine. RaptorQ […]
LiteLLM (YC W23): Founding Reliability Engineer – $200K-$270K and 0.5-1.0% equity
TLDR LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway (36K+ GitHub stars) that routes hundreds of millions of LLM API calls daily for companies like NASA, Adobe, Netflix, Stripe, and Nvidia. We’re at $7M ARR, 10 people, YC W23. When LiteLLM goes down, our customers’ entire AI stack goes down. We need someone who makes sure that […]