28 links from the last 24 hours · 2 November 2026
When your database CPU is at 100%, what is it actually doing? Memory stalls, CPU caches, and how radix partitioning makes GROUP BY faster.
Reliably aligning LLMs is impossible in principle
Powerful AI is unpredictable. Your robotic butler may suddenly decide to kill you for no comprehensible reason, in the same way that Bing’s helpful chat AI…
Mathematics has changed. Let’s act like it
[This is a guest post by Frank Calegari. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Why we should not be sad The release by OpenAI on Octobe…
American workers aren’t just getting the smallest share of GDP since records began. Their share of employment is shrinking and shrinking.
Generally speaking, email isn't as hard as its reputation would suggest. Yes, big-tech providers will occasionally send my messages to spam... but paying for commercial email doesn't guarantee delivery: emails within a single provider are generally safe, but i…
The VPN Manager I want to build: let different apps use their own VPNs — DennySORA
I want to develop VPN Manager: plan independent VPN Instances for different apps and services, native Linux isolation, fail-closed behavior, Provider bootstrapping and traffic monitoring.
Lately, I have been thinking about how people respond psychologically to LLM use. The honeymoon phase is over, and generative AI now affects nearly every part of society. The speed of this change is revolutionary, almost in the literal sense. And society is re…
Nothing Installs at Our Company Until It's a Week Old
Every new npm and PyPI release now waits seven days before our gate hands it to anyone at work. Why a week, how the gate works, and the 71 downloads it refused for being too new.
Thoughts on Anthropic
AI for everyone would cost a tenth of a kettle a day | Ally Burns
I went to a Pause AI event and did the sum nobody asked: what would it cost the planet to give everyone in the UK today's AI? Less than you'd think, with one big exception.
Pulling on a Thread
I’ve had a couple of IKEA ALPSTUGA CO2 sensors for a while now. They been running, one in my office and on in the bedroom, so I can keep an eye on the levels both while working and before sle…
Personally, I constrain and launch software generation trajectories.
Ditching the Smart TV for Media Watching
After the recent round of “your TV is spying on you” news, I thought I’d attempt to get off using my Sony (running Android TV) and switch...
I don’t think there is actually a debate to be had. Both sides are right — and could even agree! They’re just confused, though in different ways, about what science is.
Construct AND, OR, and NOT gates with fixed neural weights, then combine them into circuits that read model activations.
Postmortem of my vibe-coding workflow, and thoughts on our industry
so i guess everyone uses llms to think now
How I built custom MCP integrations and used multiple ChatGPT conversations for software development.
Beginning a Story of One's Own
On Hannah Arendt's ideas about labour, work and action, and what they can teach us about beginning something new in the age of AI.
Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
Great leaders, and great nations, need role models like Jean-Luc Picard.
Verizon Fios Router DNS Settings | no dogma blog
Changing the DNS servers on a Verizon Fios is a bit of a pain, so here are the steps to do it.
I've been getting the occasional confusing Python dependency error since switching over to Python 3.15 and the rule I'm having to remember is: If in doubt, delete the uv.lock file …
Browse thousands of books mentioned in Hacker News comments, 2007–2026.
In brief, it’s this: whenever you are doing a bugfix, do it in two commits.
More broadly, the use of LLMs erodes trust in documentation, in software, and in the organizations which produce them. Perhaps engineers will begin to treat any new software project with …
The world’s coolest toilets are located along the Norwegian Scenic Routes.
Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator
I've started work on a new KDE application. It's called Kwi (pronounced kwee). Kwi is designed to provide users of KDE Plasma and other free desktops with a modern and fast terminal, built on a robust tech stack and following the latest KDE HIG and UI conventi…
memdoor/examples/workflows/team-solve at main · guregodevo/memdoor
A lightweight coding and automation agent in one CLI binary. Run locally or over SSH, optimize token use, and automate CI and cron with durable workflows. - guregodevo/memdoor