I’m helping my dog vibe code games
For the past few weeks I’ve been teaching my 9-pound cavapoo Momo (cavalier king charles spaniel and toy poodle) to vibe code games. The key to making this work is telling Claude Code that a genius game designer who only speaks in cryptic riddles is giving it instructions, add strong guardrails, and build plenty of […]
Verge (YC S15) Is Hiring a Director of Computational Biology and AI Scientists/Eng
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Kansai Airport has never lost a baggage in the 30 years since it opened (2024)
The Yomiuri ShimbunA staff member handles a suitcase in a cargo handling area at the Kansai Airport. The Yomiuri Shimbun 10:40 JST, December 28, 2024 IZUMI-SANO, Osaka — Kansai Airport is proud to have never had a lost baggage incident in the 30 years since it opened in 1994, earning recognition as the airport with the […]
80386 Protection
I’m building an 80386-compatible core in SystemVerilog and blogging the process. In the previous post, we looked at how the 386 reuses one barrel shifter for all shift and rotate instructions. This time we move from real mode to protected and talk about protection. The 80286 introduced ”Protected Mode” in 1982. It was not popular. […]
Show HN: Quantifying opportunity cost with a deliberately ”simple” web app
> INITIALIZING_CONTACT… SURVIVORS_CLUB Paid presence in the sidebar.8 slots. Crypto only. > TARGET_AUDIENCE: 100% REGRETFUL_INVESTORS > AD_UNIT: [ SURVIVORS_CLUB ] SIDEBAR SLOT > VISIBILITY: UI + SHARED SCREENSHOTS > PAYMENT: BTC / ETH / SOL NOTE: WE DON’T SELL CLICKS.WE SELL PRESENCE.
Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
Businesses running on Stripe generated $1.9 trillion in total volume, up 34% from 2024, and equivalent to roughly 1.6% of global GDP. Beyond payments, Stripe’s Revenue suite is on track to hit an annual run rate of $1 billion this year. Stripe powers 90% of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and 80% of the Nasdaq […]
Modeling Cycles of Grift with Evolutionary Game Theory
We are in a golden age of grift. Where adventurers once flocked to California or the Yukon because “there was gold in them thar hills,” the fastest way to get rich today is by fleecing suckers. We’ve got crypto rug pulls, meme stocks, nutritional supplements, MLMs—anything to make a quick buck. Fraud is hardly a […]
Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26)
1. Background Since the popularization of garbage collection (GC) in Lisp almost 70 years ago, managed runtimes have provided developers a with kind of magic: automatic memory management. This freed programmers from managing complex lifecycle management. This, along with many other ideas, influenced the design of Smalltalk. Following this lineage, Smalltalk was also one of […]
Sovereignty in a System Prompt
Table of Contents The Sovereign Promise The $41 Million Black Box Hardcoded Patriotism Same Question, Four Models Alignment by Wrapper Sanitizing History What Real Progress Could Look Like Closing The Sovereign Promise The concept of sovereign AI is straightforward: a country should have the capability to build, train, and deploy its own AI models without […]
I Pitched a Roller Coaster to Disneyland at Age 10 in 1978
In 1978, for my 10th birthday, I went to Disneyland and got to ride a new roller coaster called Space Mountain. It figuratively and literally took my breath away. I loved every second of it and that night, I couldn’t fall asleep; I just kept thinking about how exhilarating it was. Then, a wild thought […]