A Theory of the World as run by large adult children
I have been thinking a lot lately about these two fellows. If you are not lucky enough to know them already, those are Harold and George from the Captain Underpants series of books (among others). Two supposedly prototypical boys whose wonderful imaginations are in the process of being destroyed by educators who do not recognize their […]
Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
A group of young assistants from WME — the talent agency representing Martin Scorsese and Ben Affleck — were debating their career choices between rounds of bourbon and line dancing on a recent evening at the Desert 5 Spot bar in Hollywood. “I got into this business because I love movies, but everyone is really […]
I’m 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
I stumble upon a post from shannoncc called ”I’m 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion”, and it made me think. I am also (almost) 60, but AI just killed the passion. I remember all the pre-AI days, where I was enjoying coding during the day, the evening, the weekends and the vacations. […]
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100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product
Last month, I spent about 100 hours on vibecoding. Now I’m pretty sure that people who say they ”vibecoded an app in 30 minutes” are either building simple copies of existing projects, produce some buggy crap, or just farm engagement. And it’s not because I am AI skeptic. Actually, quite the contrary. At my previous […]
Show HN: Signet – Autonomous wildfire tracking from satellite and weather data
Signet monitors satellite heat detections for fire activity near your area. Get alerted when fire activity is detected nearby. Optional: what best describes you? Just Curious Homeowner Agriculture / Forestry Public Sector Fire / Emergency Insurance Researcher Thanks. That helps us understand who wants alerts.
Generating All 32-Bit Primes (Part I)
Generating All 32-Bit Primes (Part I) Back to home This article documents my quest to write a C program targeting Linux that generates all prime numbers that fit in a 32-bit unsigned int (uint32_t) as quickly as possible. In particular, the program should write all 32-bit primes to a file (which, in all my implementations, […]
Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?
Early employees often have difficulty with the new reality. In the early days everyone is involved in making product decisions, helping with sales by implementing features, doing support for customers. If you hired juniors this is all they know. Everyone doing everything is exactly what you don’t want in a larger organization. You need structure, […]
IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display
What explains the popularity of terminals with 80×24 and 80×25 displays? A recent blog post ”80×25” motivated me to investigate this. The source of 80-column lines is clearly punch cards, as commonly claimed. But why 24 or 25 lines? There are many theories, but I found a simple answer: IBM, in particular its dominance of […]
A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
Finding better boundaries Let’s revisit the 240-ft elevation boundary proposed previously to see how we can improve upon our intuition. Clearly, this requires a different perspective. By transforming our visualization into a histogram, we can better see how frequently homes appear at each elevation. While the highest home in New York is ~240 ft, the […]