Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory The Transformer architecture revolutionized sequence modeling with its introduction of attention, a mechanism by which models look back at earlier inputs to prioritize relevant input data. However, computational cost increases drastically with sequence le...
GPTZero uncovers 50+ Hallucinations in ICLR 2026 GPTZero used our Citation Check tool to find 50+ hallucinations under review at ICLR, each of which were missed by 3-5 peer reviewers.
Distributed Lock Failure: How Long GC Pauses Break Concurrency When Your Distributed Lock Lies to You
Perl's decline was cultural There's been a flurry of discussion on Hacker News and other tech forums about what killed Perl. I wrote a lot of Perl in the mid 90s and subsequently worked on some of the most trafficked sites on the web in mod_perl in the early 2000s, so I have some th...
576 - Using LLMs at Oxide / RFD LLM use varies widely, and the ramifications of those uses vary accordingly; it’s worth taking apart several of the (many) uses for LLMs.
Reflections from shutting down my VC backed startup after 4 years The idea wasn’t working, and no amount of optimism or grit would change that. So we made the only honest call left; return the money.
The Broken Job Search: Why Applying to Big Tech is a Trap If you're applying to hundreds of jobs and hearing nothing back, it's not just you. The system is broken. Big companies dominate job boards...
Instantaneous Velocity Is a Trap Personal website for Aaron Brethorst - Seattleite, technology leader, photographer, transit enthusiast, erstwhile non-runner.
Building a Dumber Team Having kids is weird. Here are these human beings, with their own interests, likes and dislikes, and absolutely no knowledge. I mean yes, over time they build up experiences, but they start out wit…
@tomlarkworthy/unaggregating-cloudwatch-metrics Visnu Pitiyanuvath of Observable advocates "never aggregate your datapoints". The outliers are the signal! His talk made me realize that we, the developer community, could do better, especially the Cloud providers.
The Misconceptions About Vibe-Coding Everyone's talking about vibe-coding, but most of the discourse completely misses the point. The real disruption isn't about security risks or scalability concerns, it's about who should actually be worried.