Gmail AI gets more intrusive
Gmail doesn’t just offer to write your emails for you, they actually do it, and it’s up to you to delete the text it wrote. Hard to make a screen shot to demo without revealing personal info. That’s how awful this thing is. It reeks of desperation.
Vodafone Germany is killing the open internet – one peering connection at a time
The telecom giant claims its exit from public internet exchanges will give customers ”lower latencies.” The evidence suggests they’re in for a nightmare. Editor’s Note: This article is based on comprehensive research of publicly available sources including official press releases, regulatory filings, consumer complaints, technical forum discussions, academic studies, and industry publications. We may have […]
Angel Investors, a Field Guide
I’ve been lucky to work with some of the best angel investors in the business. When I started Akita, my angel investors were my mentor Jason Hong, superangel Elad Gil, #ANGELS co-founder Jana Messerschmidt, Eventbrite co-founders Kevin and Julia Hartz, Stanford professor Dan Boneh, and NBA player Kevin Durant. I became a more well-prepared and […]
Denmark’s government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15
Denmark’s government on Friday announced an agreement to ban access to social media for anyone under 15, ratcheting up pressure on Big Tech platforms as concerns grow that kids are getting too swept up in a digitized world of harmful content and commercial interests. The move would give some parents — after a specific assessment […]
Writerdeck.org
Helping writers escape the thrall of technology by selectively giving in to it. What is a writerDeck? A writerDeck is a device dedicated specifically and solely to writing. Technically, a typewriter is an analog writerDeck. But usually we mean some sort of computerized word processor, such as the Astrohaus Freewrite or the Alphasmart Neo, to […]
I Love OCaml
Every morning, I wake up and ask myself: why isn’t OCaml more popular? I mean, the language is not perfect, but the more I use it the more I feel like this old language had it all figured out, somehow. I mean, not in the literal sense: you write String.of_X instead of String.from_X because the […]
We chose OCaml to write Stategraph
← Back to Blog RSS OCaml Type Systems Functional Programming Infrastructure Stategraph Josh Pollara • November 6th, 2025 TL;DR $ cat why-ocaml.tldr • Stategraph manages Terraform state, so correctness isn’t optional • Strongly-typed data structures catch field errors at compile time • Type-safe SQL queries prevent schema drift before deployment • Immutability by default eliminates […]
From Memorization to Reasoning in the Spectrum of Loss Curvature
Abstract:We characterize how memorization is represented in transformer models and show that it can be disentangled in the weights of both language models (LMs) and vision transformers (ViTs) using a decomposition based on the loss landscape curvature. This insight is based on prior theoretical and empirical work showing that the curvature for memorized training points […]
Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams
Meta has been making billions of dollars per year from scam ads and sales of banned goods, according internal Meta documents seen by Reuters. The new report quantifies the scale of fraud taking place on Meta’s platforms, and how much the company profited from them. Per the report, Meta internal projections from late last year […]
Show HN: I made a better DOM morphing algorithm
When you render HTML on the backend — e.g. with Phlex — how do you get it to the browser? One way is to have the user click a link, submit a form or reload the page. Alternatively, in response to some user interaction or push event, you could have JavaScript fetch new HTML and […]