The RAM Shortage Comes for Us All Memory price inflation comes for us all, and if you're not affected yet, just wait.
Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? If you get into an elite college, you probably don't have a learning disability.
Who put the AI in my Database? I’m not a mathematician; I can’t even spell mathematician without help from spell check… so needless to say I am not the person building AI models for a living and trying to calculate the standard deviation of an elliptical ark. That’s a thing, right...
Prompt Injection Inside GitHub Actions: The New Frontier of Supply Chain Attacks AI-driven GitHub Actions expose new prompt-injection supply chain vulnerabilities.
Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership tl:dr: Parenting and leadership is similar. Teach a man to fish, etc.
Wolfenstein 3D's map renderer Wolfenstein 3D was a triumph of early 90s engineering. It was an action packed 3d first person shooter - arguably the first - and it ran well on a 12 MHz 286 PC. How on earth was such a feat pulled off? Find out by watching this in-depth analysis of how ...
Stacktower: An Accidental Deep Dive How an XKCD comic led to teaching myself graph theory — a journey through NP-hard problems, PQ-trees, and layered graph algorithms.
RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung Due to rising prices from the "AI" bubble, Samsung Semiconductor reportedly refused a RAM order for new Galaxy phones from Samsung Electronics.
Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer Lately I’ve been reading Sean Goedecke’s essays on being a Staff+ engineer. His work (particularly Software engineering under the spotlight and It’s Not Your Codebase) is razor-sharp and feels painfully familiar to anyone in Big Tech. On paper, I fit the ...
Basket Case Barn Find: Resurrection of Pontiac's Holy Grail This is the hunt for the only known 1969 Pontiac 2+2 convertible to leave the factory with a Corvette-spec 427 and a four-speed—born in Canada, hiding Chevy bones under Pontiac skin, and scattered across an Alberta farm in coffee cans. We follow the trail...
BREAKING: Unreal Tournament 2004 is back! OldUnreal just posted this announcement on their [Discord](https://discord.gg/thURucxzs6): "Welcome Back, Unreal Tournament 2004! Hi everyone!...
The Linux kernel is just a program Most books and courses introduce Linux through shell commands, leaving the kernel as a mysterious black box doing magic behind the scenes. In this post, we will run some experiments to demystify it: the Linux kernel is just a binary that you can build and...
JavaScript™ We need your help to continue our fight over Oracle's claim to the JavaScript trademark. Here's where we are now and what you can do to help.
Polarization by Design: How Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuasion Costs In democracies, major policy decisions typically require some form of majority or consensus, so elites must secure mass support to govern. Historically, elites could shape support only through limited instruments like schooling and mass media; advances in...
Validating Blueprints' Content in Unreal | Thomas Poulet Validating Blueprint classes setup in Unreal Engine 5 using Asset Validators.
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GitHub - ryanssenn/torchless: High-speed LLM inference in C/C++ High-speed LLM inference in C/C++. Contribute to ryanssenn/torchless development by creating an account on GitHub.
Your Mind Is Not Software RAZOR.BLOG: SEEING THINGS AS THEY ARE. Where Philosophy meets the road + questions matter more than answers.
CNPG Recipe 23 - Managing extensions with ImageVolume in CloudNativePG Leveraging the Kubernetes `ImageVolume` feature and PostgreSQL 18's `extension_control_path`, this article demonstrates the CloudNativePG method for declaratively managing extensions like `pgvector` and PostGIS from separate container images, marking the ...
Understanding ECDSA - Web3 Security Blog Exploring blockchain, math, and smart contracts through a security lens.
LLMs are great at box diagrams I love diagram languages like mermaid.js and PlantUML because the text format that backs the diagram can be tweaked, takes up very little space in storage, and can be re-rendered at various resolutions any time you need. They’re great! I hate writing them...
Everything that is wrong in museums starts with wall labels It is difficult to separate the issues and questions that contemporary machine-learning and “artificial intelligence” technologies raise in the context of museum without addressing the long history of past attempts to make collections “digital” and how t...
Stop talking The years I’ve been working brought a lot of context, more scars, and more pattern recognition. You start seeing inefficiencies, problems. Like a lineman sees a frayed cable: obvious, dangerous, and actually … fixable.
How about a unidimensional spaceship? - Page 9 I6_I6 wrote: ↑Yesterday, 10:47 am Wow! This is amazing! That's 2 macro-spaceships in the span of a week. I've been watching this thread for a while as it grew, but could never comprehend anything going on. Will someone bother to explain how it works? We r...
Why don’t we get more scientific breakthroughs? It is absolutely clear to me that large language models represent the most significant scientific breakthrough of the past fifty years. The nature of that breakthrough has far reaching implications for what is happening in science today. And I believe tha...
What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent Lessons I learned while building my own coding agent from scratch.
Lessons From a Noisy Monitor — Mergify Your database monitors keep firing even though nothing is wrong? We hit the same problem: noisy IOPS alerts caused by predictable jobs. This post explains how we replaced brittle thresholds with an SLO-based approach that restored signal, eliminated noise...
Compliance != Security For over a decade, I’ve been doing bug bounty, security audits, and security consulting. And if there’s one thing I’ve seen repeatedly, it’s this:Most startups call a security engineer or hire a se…
Parcha Dev Blog Engineering insights from the Parcha team. AI agents, fast inference, and building compliance automation.
Unpaid Labour in Productive Capacity The Productive Capacity Theory of Money framework begins with a simple observation: when you receive an employment letter, your relationship with the financial system transforms overnight. Banks that wouldn't lend you a dollar suddenly want to give you hu...
My Database Was "Correct." It Was Also 296x Too Slow. - Chandler Nguyen October 25th, 2025. My SaaS application was finally feature-complete. Nine major features, multi-tenant architecture, progressive learning—everything worked. But it was slow. Really slow. Dashboard queries