Love this description of Ruby:
"If you ignore performance and mathematical elegance and safety and just look at how much a language lets you get away with from a productivity standpoint, I think Ruby is a pretty standout winner".
Also best community, idioms/best-practices, etc.
"If you ignore performance and mathematical elegance and safety and just look at how much a language lets you get away with from a productivity standpoint, I think Ruby is a pretty standout winner".
Also best community, idioms/best-practices, etc.
If you ignore performance and mathematical elegance and safety and just look at ... | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Love this description of Ruby:
"If you ignore performance and mathematical elegance and safety and just look at how much a language lets you get away with from a productivity standpoint, I think Ruby is a pretty standout winner".
Also best community, idioms/best-practices, etc.
"If you ignore performance and mathematical elegance and safety and just look at how much a language lets you get away with from a productivity standpoint, I think Ruby is a pretty standout winner".
Also best community, idioms/best-practices, etc.
How can Argentina/LatAm make the most of this rare earths opportunity? New research, industrialization, and owning more of the production chain.
"There’s a real opportunity here to link rare earth development with broader national development goals rather than chasing another commodity boom."
"There’s a real opportunity here to link rare earth development with broader national development goals rather than chasing another commodity boom."
As China tightens its grip on rare earths, can Brazil be an alternative source?
China’s export curbs have forced the U.S. to find critical minerals elsewhere. Can Latin America keep up the supply?
restofworld.org
November 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
How can Argentina/LatAm make the most of this rare earths opportunity? New research, industrialization, and owning more of the production chain.
"There’s a real opportunity here to link rare earth development with broader national development goals rather than chasing another commodity boom."
"There’s a real opportunity here to link rare earth development with broader national development goals rather than chasing another commodity boom."
"I’m now a Hong Kong resident. I think people still have no idea how fake the US economy is, and how bad it will get over the next 20 years... If nobody is creating the value and everyone is trying to cannibalize, eventually there is nothing left."
Gambling is Bad
What motivates people to work is simple.
geohot.github.io
October 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"I’m now a Hong Kong resident. I think people still have no idea how fake the US economy is, and how bad it will get over the next 20 years... If nobody is creating the value and everyone is trying to cannibalize, eventually there is nothing left."
LLM support in Excel is going to change everything.
October 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
LLM support in Excel is going to change everything.
‘[OpenAI] will not be investing a single dollar in the project as it will instead be entirely “led by Sur Energy.”… Not a single representative of the company was present in the key meeting… where the deal was made.’
Didn’t think it possible, but this sounds worse than Foxconn’s plant in WI.
Didn’t think it possible, but this sounds worse than Foxconn’s plant in WI.
OpenAI inks 'intent' but holds back cash for Sur Energy's AI data centre plan in Patagonia
Milei’s government announces joint venture with OpenAI and Sur Energy for US$25-billion investment in artificial intelligence, though OpenAI doesn’t plan to spend a single peso.
www.batimes.com.ar
October 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
‘[OpenAI] will not be investing a single dollar in the project as it will instead be entirely “led by Sur Energy.”… Not a single representative of the company was present in the key meeting… where the deal was made.’
Didn’t think it possible, but this sounds worse than Foxconn’s plant in WI.
Didn’t think it possible, but this sounds worse than Foxconn’s plant in WI.
"It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images of the world and has thus been drawn into the human realm, which now encompasses everything. There is no place, no thing, no person or phenomenon that I cannot obtain as image or information...
The Reenchanted World, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Translated by Olivia Lasky, Damion Searls
On finding mystery in the digital age
harpers.org
October 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images of the world and has thus been drawn into the human realm, which now encompasses everything. There is no place, no thing, no person or phenomenon that I cannot obtain as image or information...
Yet another example of the class stratification of *everything* in the age of conspicuous IG consumption.
Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Yet another example of the class stratification of *everything* in the age of conspicuous IG consumption.
The Trump admin has succeeded, strangely, in one way: convincing tech industry players to do "tours of duty" with the government.
First Musk, now Gebbia (cofounder of Airbnb).
Musk burned out in a few months, so will Gebbia. Unfortunately both will have done irreparable harm.
First Musk, now Gebbia (cofounder of Airbnb).
Musk burned out in a few months, so will Gebbia. Unfortunately both will have done irreparable harm.
The National Design Studio is a Scam - Christopher Butler
President Trump’s appointment of AirBnB co-founder Joe Gebbia as “Chief Design Officer” of the United States is a sickening travesty. It not only
www.chrbutler.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:34 AM
The Trump admin has succeeded, strangely, in one way: convincing tech industry players to do "tours of duty" with the government.
First Musk, now Gebbia (cofounder of Airbnb).
Musk burned out in a few months, so will Gebbia. Unfortunately both will have done irreparable harm.
First Musk, now Gebbia (cofounder of Airbnb).
Musk burned out in a few months, so will Gebbia. Unfortunately both will have done irreparable harm.
"Alloy" (aka multi-model) contexts prove higher-performing than single-model contexts.
Yet another reminder to avoid single-vendor lock-in with your agents.
Yet another reminder to avoid single-vendor lock-in with your agents.
XBOW – Agents Built From Alloys
A simple, powerful innovation boosts performance in agentic AI systems.
xbow.com
July 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
"Alloy" (aka multi-model) contexts prove higher-performing than single-model contexts.
Yet another reminder to avoid single-vendor lock-in with your agents.
Yet another reminder to avoid single-vendor lock-in with your agents.
AST-aware coding agents is such an obvious next step. Fewer errors, lower token consumption, etc. Does this exist yet?
July 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
AST-aware coding agents is such an obvious next step. Fewer errors, lower token consumption, etc. Does this exist yet?
Be careful using LLMs to convert between formats.
This post mirrors my experience. When migrating my blog, I copy/pasted the posts into a single textfile and asked gpt-4o to convert that into individual Markdown posts. It unnecessarily copyedited and corrected what it thought were mistakes.
This post mirrors my experience. When migrating my blog, I copy/pasted the posts into a single textfile and asked gpt-4o to convert that into individual Markdown posts. It unnecessarily copyedited and corrected what it thought were mistakes.
Tools: Code Is All You Need
The solution to agentic flows was code all along.
lucumr.pocoo.org
July 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Be careful using LLMs to convert between formats.
This post mirrors my experience. When migrating my blog, I copy/pasted the posts into a single textfile and asked gpt-4o to convert that into individual Markdown posts. It unnecessarily copyedited and corrected what it thought were mistakes.
This post mirrors my experience. When migrating my blog, I copy/pasted the posts into a single textfile and asked gpt-4o to convert that into individual Markdown posts. It unnecessarily copyedited and corrected what it thought were mistakes.
Love this. Roland-Garros, not Wimbledon, has always appealed to me and this is one reason why.
The Art of Roland-Garros
Explore the complete collection of iconic Roland-Garros tournament posters from 1980 to 2025. Discover decades of artistic expression from renowned artists.
www.garros.gallery
July 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Love this. Roland-Garros, not Wimbledon, has always appealed to me and this is one reason why.
I thought crypto was supposed to make sending money easier.
BTC/ETH are too volatile for actual use, so USDT it is... but is it ERC-20 or TRC-20? Coinbase only supports the former.
"Just use Binance": is it the global dot-com (Americans not allowed) or the neutered, fee-ridden BinanceUS?
BTC/ETH are too volatile for actual use, so USDT it is... but is it ERC-20 or TRC-20? Coinbase only supports the former.
"Just use Binance": is it the global dot-com (Americans not allowed) or the neutered, fee-ridden BinanceUS?
July 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I thought crypto was supposed to make sending money easier.
BTC/ETH are too volatile for actual use, so USDT it is... but is it ERC-20 or TRC-20? Coinbase only supports the former.
"Just use Binance": is it the global dot-com (Americans not allowed) or the neutered, fee-ridden BinanceUS?
BTC/ETH are too volatile for actual use, so USDT it is... but is it ERC-20 or TRC-20? Coinbase only supports the former.
"Just use Binance": is it the global dot-com (Americans not allowed) or the neutered, fee-ridden BinanceUS?
The chat metaphor is a big problem in understanding LLMs. It anthropomorphizes them + implies memory where there is none.
July 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The chat metaphor is a big problem in understanding LLMs. It anthropomorphizes them + implies memory where there is none.
"There is, however, one obvious problem with making too much of the Taco principle. Now that it has been pointed out to him, Trump may be goaded into trying to demonstrate that he genuinely is a tough guy."
Trump always chickens out on foreign policy too
Despite his rhetoric about fire and fury, the president is nervous about the use of force
www.ft.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"There is, however, one obvious problem with making too much of the Taco principle. Now that it has been pointed out to him, Trump may be goaded into trying to demonstrate that he genuinely is a tough guy."
Great post on product development with LLMs. Too many LLM-based features are solutions in search of a problem.
Also love that the post is interactive + connected to gpt-4o-mini.
Also love that the post is interactive + connected to gpt-4o-mini.
AI Horseless Carriages | koomen.dev
An essay about bad AI app design
koomen.dev
April 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Great post on product development with LLMs. Too many LLM-based features are solutions in search of a problem.
Also love that the post is interactive + connected to gpt-4o-mini.
Also love that the post is interactive + connected to gpt-4o-mini.
Alas, Americans are going to learn a new economic concept this year: stagflation.
April 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Alas, Americans are going to learn a new economic concept this year: stagflation.
Reposted by Andrew Sullivan
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
The difference between SF and other tech clusters is waaaay bigger than I'd imagined.
via paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-does-u...
via paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-does-u...
January 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The difference between SF and other tech clusters is waaaay bigger than I'd imagined.
via paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-does-u...
via paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-does-u...