AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline
It feels like it was just yesterday that Sony hardware architect Mark Cerny was first teasing Sony’s “PS4 successor” and its “enhanced ray-tracing capabilities” powered by new AMD chips. Now that we’re nearly five full years into the PS5 era, it’s time for Sony and AMD to start teasing the new chips that will power […]
Bitter lessons building AI products
I was catching up with a friend who had also been building AI products for a few years now. We were lamenting (and laughing) on the graveyard of seemingly-failed projects that now have turned into rapid successes. AI features that were multi-quarter grinds a couple years ago can now be shipped in a matter of […]
My first week of vibecoding
last week, i released typelex. it may not be a super “serious” project, but it works. it’s covered by 513 tests i’m highly confident in. it is also 100% vibecoded. i may have manually edited a line or two but that was it. here’s how it happened i was complaining about things as i usually […]
Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley
3 hours ago ShareSave Lily JamaliTechnology correspondent, San Francisco ShareSave Getty Images At OpenAI’s DevDay this week, OpenAI boss Sam Altman did what American tech bosses rarely do these days: he actually answered questions from reporters. “I know it’s tempting to write the bubble story,” Mr Altman told me as he sat flanked by his […]
How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)
Some questions are timeless, innocent yet penetrating in their simplicity. Why is the sky blue? Why do things fall? How hard must one hit a chicken to cook it? It is this last mystery of the universe that we discuss today. There’s a classic solution in which someone calculated that, if you slap a chicken […]
What happens to college towns after peak 18-year-old?
Bowling Green, Kentucky — Oct. 31, 2023: Downtown commercial business area surrounding Fountain Square Park. Bowling Green is also home to Western Kentucky University and the National Corvette Museum (Photo by Pgiam/Getty Images) Earlier this year, on a visit back to my alma mater, Western Kentucky University, I spoke to a student majoring in business […]
Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer
Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer I’ve been hinting on X/Twitter about my use of the Daylight DC-1 as a programming environment, and after about a year of use, it’s time to write about it in longer form. This isn’t a full product review, but rather an experience report on coding […]
Verge Genomics (YC S15) Is Hiring for Multiple Engineering and Product Roles
Verge is using AI to develop better drugs faster. We are one of the few AI drug discovery companies to advance from data to clinic – delivering two new AI-derived drugs in the last three years, discovered using our industry-leading proprietary datasets and tooling. Along the way, we’ve signed commercial partnerships with Eli Lilly and […]
Printing Petscii Faster
How can we display pretty PETSCII art on the C64 as quickly as possible only using BASIC? You might recall we have been steadily building a C64 Text Adventure / game engine, and as part of the last update I created a fancy PETSCII intro screen. The problem with it is it takes a long […]
(Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore
TL:DR Production Updates# Pebble 2 Duo For those who didn’t catch my blog post last week (pls read), we manufactured 2,960 white Pebble 2 Duos in September! Pretty good for the first month of production. These watches are being transferred to our fulfillment center and will be shipped out soon. Black Pebble 2 Duo production […]