pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL? I'm proposing a very ambitious patch set for PostgreSQL 19. Only time will tell whether it ends up in the release, but I can't resist using ...
eLife Fallout When a prestigious journal scrapped accept-reject decisions on submitted papers, some scientists rebelled, and the editor-in-chief was fired.
Self-evolving software is the future | errgent Software should be self-healing, self-improving and self-evolving. It's the end of the human code review.
Produced by Human I outsourced my own role in a simulation I was building — and it worked better without me. That made me wonder what's left for humans when intelligence is no longer our edge.
How good is Claude, really? An exploration of Claude Code in the macOS app dev world. Mostly me, watching Claude write macOS apps from scratch, learn a programming language it never heard of, reverse engineer a window manager and make me question the future and life in general.
Rodney L. - I Lost $150 in 20 Minutes Market-Making on Kalshi. Here's Every Bug That Did It. Published 2025-3-5
BM25 There is a particular kind of respect reserved in engineering for the algorithm that outlives its era. BM25 is one of them. BM25 was born out of information retrieval research in the 1970s and 1980s, polished over decades, and eventually adopted as the de...
How my application programmer instincts failed when debugging assembler I've had a smidge of extra time with my recent unemployment, so to stay sharp and learn a few new things I followed Seiya Nuta's guide to building an Operating System in 1,000 Lines.
The Training Data Paradox: AI Replacing Engineers Who Built It AI learned from decades of human engineering. Now the industry is eliminating the developers who created that knowledge. What happens when the source runs dry?
Inside the Modern Search Engine: The Complete Pipeline — How It Ranks Results & Learns from… Modern web search isn’t magic; it’s a massive engineering feat. Crawlers scour billions of pages, hybrid indexes organise that data, query…
AI Is Quietly Reversing 20 Years of Progress Toward an Open Internet The End of the Crawlable Web : For most of the modern internet, there was an implicit contract between websites and search engines. Websites made their content accessible. Search engines indexed it. And in return, search engines sent users back to the ori...
I Wail, For My Tailscale Fails-- How My Packets Got Dropped Beyond the Pale How My Packets Got Dropped Beyond the Pale
