Sam Altman Is Getting Desperate and It Is Starting to Show
Everybody Is Thinking It Lemonade Stand podcast host and Twitch streamer Atrioc eloquently sums up the sentiment many share about OpenAI. This company is going to blow up the whole fucking economy, I swear to God. OpenAI is fucking deranged dude. Every day they announce a new fucking gazillion dollar God damn deal they cannot […]
Why Sam Altman Won’t Be on the Hook for OpenAI’s Spending Spree
OpenAI has gone wild with compute deals this year, committing to spend far more than its balance sheet can currently sustain. So who takes the fall if it can’t pay? It won’t be Altman. By Rashi Shrivastava, Phoebe Liu, and Richard Nieva Over the last few months, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been on a […]
Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
A new study led by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford and involving a team of 42 researchers from leading global institutions including EPFL, Stanford University, the Technical University of Munich, UC Berkeley, the UK AI Security Institute, the Weizenbaum Institute, and Yale University, has found that many of the tests […]
AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing
AI companies regularly tout their models’ performance on benchmark tests as a sign of technological and intellectual superiority. But those results, widely used in marketing, may not be meaningful. A study [PDF] from researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and several other universities and organizations has found that only 16 percent of 445 LLM […]
Why hasn’t there been a new major sports league?
The market structure and incentives of US sports leagues Every major US sports league today was founded in the 20th century. None of the ten largest leagues by revenue were created after 2000: There have been over 65 well-funded attempts to create new sports leagues since the year 2000, with many billionaires and high-profile individuals […]
Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring
Cekura is growing fast, and we’re now building our Customer Success vertical from the ground up. If you love owning outcomes, turning customers into champions, and shaping 0→1 playbooks, this is for you. You will be joining at that perfect moment where what we’ve built works and our customers are challenging us everyday. We grew […]
Disassembling terabytes of random data with Zig and Capstone to prove a point
Disassembling Terabytes of Random Data with Zig and Capstone to Prove a Point By Jacob Strieb. Published on November 4, 2025. I had a friendly disagreement the other day. Imagine looking for ARM (Thumb mode) instructions in a stream of random bytes. A friend claimed that the random stream is more likely to contain DEFLATE-compressed […]
Always Be Ready to Leave (Even If You Never Do)
The professional habits that made my departure smooth are the same ones that made my work better every day. Next week I start a new job. After seven years at Terranova, I’m joining a new company in a similar role as a senior software engineer. When I told my supervisor, he wasn’t surprised. I’d been […]
Making Democracy Work: Fixing and Simplifying Egalitarian Paxos
Abstract:Classical state-machine replication protocols, such as Paxos, rely on a distinguished leader process to order commands. Unfortunately, this approach makes the leader a single point of failure and increases the latency for clients that are not co-located with it. As a response to these drawbacks, Egalitarian Paxos introduced an alternative, leaderless approach, that allows replicas […]
Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD
November 6, 2025 FreeBSD’s native support for ZFS snapshots and jails provides a powerful foundation for immutable deployments. By creating a new jail from a ZFS snapshot for every release, we get instant roll‑backs, zero‑downtime upgrades, and a clean, reproducible environment. This article walks through the (very opinionated) flow that we use. From jails setup […]