From: Steve Jobs. “Great idea, thank you.”
Now that I’ve been retired for a couple of days, I think I can finally tell this story of how I was – very briefly – [email protected] And Steve Jobs sent me an email saying “Great idea, thank you.” Wait, what? What was the great idea? new guy at NeXT In October of 1991, I […]
Block Diffusion: Interpolating Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models
BD3-LMs: Block Discrete Denoising Diffusion Language Models We combine modeling paradigms to enjoy better likelihoods & flexible-length generation from autoregressive models, as well as fast & parallel generation from diffusion models. Block Diffusion Likelihood We propose a modeling framework that autoregressively models blocks of tokens and performs diffusion within each block. Our likelihood factorizes over […]
Static as a Server
RSC means React Server Components. And yet, although this blog is built with RSC, it is statically served from a Cloudflare CDN using their free static hosting plan. It costs me exactly zero. Zero. How is this possible? Aren’t these React Server Components? In the past, “server” and “static” frameworks were thought of as separate […]
Reservoir Sampling
Reservoir sampling is a technique for selecting a fair random sample when you don’t know the size of the set you’re sampling from. By the end of this essay you will know: When you would need reservoir sampling. The mathematics behind how it works, using only basic operations: subtraction, multiplication, and division. No math notation, […]
Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy
An eBPF agent that captures traffic flowing through the Linux kernel. By attaching to TLS/SSL functions, data is intercepted before and after encryption and then passed to flexible plugins with full visibility along with all of the available context – process/container/host/user/protocol/etc. Qtap makes it possible to understand what’s happening with your egress traffic, without modifying […]
More people are getting their tattoos removed
For decades, Americans were covering their bodies with more and more tattoos. Now, they’re getting them removed as fast as they can. We speak with the patients going under the laser, the tattoo-removal technicians whose business is booming, and the tattoo artists whose work is being erased to understand how something so permanent became so […]
Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
Void is the open-source Cursor alternative. This repo contains the full sourcecode for Void. If you’re new, welcome! Contributing To get started working on Void, see HOW_TO_CONTRIBUTE. Feel free to attend a weekly meeting in our Discord channel! We’re open to collaborations and suggestions of all types – just reach out. Void is a fork […]
Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code
Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code There is plenty of commentary online about how AI will replace coding as we know it in the future. There’s huge amounts of prediction about what the future holds.1 But I haven’t come across many case studies of rolling out the tools that exist today. So here’s […]
Habemus Papam – new pope elected on second day of the conclave
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and will soon step onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. Prevost, 69, from Chicago, Illinois, is the first ever pope from the United States. He will be known as Leo […]
Microservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can’t Afford
Why splitting your codebase too early can quietly destroy your team’s velocity — and what to do instead. In a startup, your survival depends on how quickly you can iterate, ship features, and deliver value to end-users. This is where the foundational architecture of your startup plays a big role; additionally, things like your tech […]