AI inference is obviously profitable Many people claim that AI inference is unprofitable to serve, and thus must be subsidized by an ocean of dumb money from investors who believe that some future AI model will come to dominate the world economy. When that dumb money goes away, so will AI pr...
Open Letter | Akrites An open letter from the technology industry, and the launch of Akrites - a coordinated effort to remediate vulnerabilities in the open source software the world runs on.
Quickly apply LUTs (color grading) with ffmpeg This is a quick post, mostly for my own reference. I've avoided LUTs and 'Log' video footage for years1, mostly because of the extra tiny bit of workflow involved. Like RAW photos, 'Log' footage retains the video sensor's full dynamic range, so you can pu...
The ‘papers, please’ era of the internet will decimate your privacy Americans, be warned: Age verification is identity verification.
Om Malik, 1966-2026 Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. We invite you to share your remembrances of Om in th…
Every Team is Building the Same Cache — TierFS Why infrastructure teams keep solving the same storage problem from scratch, and what would happen if they didn't have to.
Scaling Rails at Aura Frames: Splitting to 8 Primary DBs and Reaching #1 in the App Store 📌 Overview Ruby on Rails has helped make it possible to scale out the database layer, meeting the demands of millions of Aura Frames customers enjoying their digital photo frames. In late 2025, the team added additional primary databases to expand capaci...
Repricing of Software Engineering Labor As AI compresses implementation costs, the market is repricing software engineering labor—collapsing the premium for generalists while raising the value of deep expertise.
Throwing my Roku in the trash • Cory Dransfeldt I work from a big corner desk and part of the space on that desk is taken up by a small TV positioned in the corner. I use it occasionally and, for the longest time, it's had a Roku stick attached to it. It's reliable, but the UI has been filled with more...
The Problem is Prompt Debt The plain-English prompt that makes prototypes effortless turns out to be a poor way to specify how a system should behave, and the bill arrives slowly, disguised as ordinary progress, until the application can barely move.
Claudecaine · Baptiste Fontaine’s Blog Tips and tricks in Python, Bash, Clojure and other languages/environments.
The favors we used to need Work used to run on a quiet economy of small favors, and whole layers of managers grew up to keep it fair and fast. Then I shipped something I'd normally have called a friend to help with, alone, in an afternoon. No favor asked, no debt owed. When agents ...
An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end — without ever being opened.
Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20% iPhone maker blamed cost rises on memory chip shortages caused by AI boom
Hacker Trends: 18 years of Hacker News, charted Search 18 years of Hacker News and chart how any topic, tool, or person trended. Overlay terms to compare their rise and fall across 45M posts and comments.
The Secret RGB LED Features I Hid in this 1970 Lincoln Continental Mark III Dave demos his RGB LED third brake light strip and dives into the interface and power electronics needed to run it. Check out an episode of ShopTalk on Dave's Attic where we answer the best user questions! https://youtu.be/ZUvDO2g5Y1s Get the Code: htt...
