Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?
Yes, and we even hired a guy to do it. He’s a young fellow who has been using every AI tool under the sun, seemingly forever. Also well connected in the space. He comes up with various suggestions about how to use all the tools. I’m certainly seeing the benefits. A lot of tasks are […]
OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine
OpenFLOW is a powerful, open-source Progressive Web App (PWA) for creating beautiful isometric diagrams. Built with React and the Isoflow library, it runs entirely in your browser with offline support. 🎨 Isometric Diagramming – Create stunning 3D-style technical diagrams 💾 Auto-Save – Your work is automatically saved every 5 seconds 🔒 Privacy-First – All data […]
Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations
Inflammation, long considered a hallmark of aging, may not be a universal human experience, according to a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The research suggests that “inflammaging”—chronic, low-grade inflammation associated with aging—appears to be a byproduct of industrialized lifestyles and varies significantly across global populations. The findings are published in […]
Small Language Models Are the Future of Agentic AI
Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) are often praised for exhibiting near-human performance on a wide range of tasks and valued for their ability to hold a general conversation. The rise of agentic AI systems is, however, ushering in a mass of applications in which language models perform a small number of specialized tasks repetitively and with […]
Nimtable: Open-source web UI to browse and manage Apache Iceberg tables
A lightweight, easy-to-use platform to monitor, optimize, and govern your Iceberg-based lakehouse. Nimtable helps you easily manage and explore Apache Iceberg catalogs. With a web-based platform designed for clarity and simplicity, Nimtable makes it easy to browse tables, run queries, analyze file distributions, and optimize storage layouts. Key Features 🌟 Multi-Catalog SupportConnect to REST Catalog, […]
Virtue Garnishes: The 3-Second Mental Hack That Short-Circuits Bad Habits
You’re about to send that email. The one where you “correct” that coworker’s suggestion with a snarky reply. Your fingers are already typing the passive-aggressive opener when something interrupts: you notice the tightness in your chest, the heat rising. You recognize it: a “whisper” as the Ledger of Life calls it. You jot down “w: […]
About AI Evals
This post curates the most common questions Shreya and I have recieved from teaching 700+ engineers & PMs in AI Evals. Warning: These are sharp opinions about what works in most cases. They are not universal truths. Use your judgment. 👉 We are teaching our last and final cohort of our AI Evals course next […]
Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck
For years, I’ve felt that writing lines of code was never the bottleneck in software engineering. The actual bottlenecks were, and still are, code reviews, knowledge transfer through mentoring and pairing, testing, debugging, and the human overhead of coordination and communication. All of this wrapped inside the labyrinth of tickets, planning meetings, and agile rituals. […]
Rust CLIs with Clap
Types Define Interfaces Types are important. In fact, I’d guess that the expressive type system in rust is the single biggest reason why so many developers love the language. Types allow us to have a contract between parts of the system about our data and how to interact with it. All programming languages have the […]
The Email Startup Graveyard: Why 80%+ of Email Companies Fail
While countless email startups have burned through millions solving non-existent problems, we at Forward Email have quietly built actual email infrastructure from scratch since 2017—proving that sustainable email services require engineering, not just venture capital. This is an exhaustive analysis of email startup failures, acquisitions, and the fundamental misunderstanding of what email actually is. Warning […]