matt_daemon

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A New Observable(observablehq.com)
5 points by matt_daemon 15d ago|0 comments
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by matt_daemon 28d ago
As someone who just went to a Trader Joe's for the first time I can say it was a real thrill
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by matt_daemon 29d ago
Very basic flow of adding a device connected via Bluetooth seems broken. Would love this to work but think it needs a few more months development.
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by matt_daemon 2mo ago
It’s never been clear to me why the HN algorithm isn’t public. It’s obviously nowhere near as complex as something like Twitter, and of course isn’t a trade secret. The fact it’s private only furthers speculation like this.
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by matt_daemon 2mo ago
“We care about safety so powerful open models are bad” - and what of OpenAI? What if Mythos got into the wrong hands? It’s a pretty weak argument
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OpenAI's Dean Ball on Chinese Open-Weight Models(twitter.com)
4 points by matt_daemon 2mo ago|0 comments
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by matt_daemon 2mo ago
Dylan came to mind after reading the Chapman answer, not least because of his 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"
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by matt_daemon 2mo ago
Anyone know what that keyboard is?
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by matt_daemon 2mo ago
It’s become somewhat of a HN “flex” to call something out as AI slop, and it almost always comes across as preachy and just plain wrong
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by matt_daemon 2mo ago
Poor George
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Telling Stories with Data (2023)(tellingstorieswithdata.com)
2 points by matt_daemon 2mo ago|0 comments
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by matt_daemon 3mo ago
> For the time being, it appears that all three servers are without power. This strikes me as odd, only three servers?
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by matt_daemon 3mo ago
This is one of my fav blog posts
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by matt_daemon 3mo ago
> Hardware (minimum): 1× H100 @ FP8 Cool to see this but seems like it would be pretty expensive to run
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by matt_daemon 3mo ago
It baffles me that Hard Fork is so popular when they regularly have such uninformed takes
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by matt_daemon 3mo ago
NIMBYism
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by matt_daemon 4mo ago
It kind of ended up being a funny dance between 538, the NYT and The Athletic. The original sale to The Athletic probably would've made the most sense for 538 (in hindsight). Then the NYT obviously realised what they'd lost with 5
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by matt_daemon 5mo ago
NYT has a weekly version of this for those interested https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/17/upshot/flashb...
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by matt_daemon 5mo ago
I had this in the back of my mind today https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.... Glad they got home safe and sound!
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by matt_daemon 5mo ago
It would be impossible for me to not sing along to ABBA
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by matt_daemon 6mo ago
I really thought this was going to be an Apple acquires Tailscale post
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by matt_daemon 6mo ago
Same in Australia and only recently (that is, in the last year) has there been any restrictions on showing gambling ads during live sports events. It’s difficult to compare how normalised it is here versus what the US is currently going thr
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by matt_daemon 6mo ago
Apple's cloud software has been buggy as hell for a long time, at least for me. I'm in a family iCloud group with my parents... one day I just woke up and had all my podcasts and music replaced with my Mum's :/ Would not
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by matt_daemon 6mo ago
> Finally, I’d like to note that this sort of dev work goes beyond hubris. It’s dangerous. The more we assume we know without verifying, the greater the risk. In this case, the dev is risking someone else’s livelihood. I think this is a
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by matt_daemon 6mo ago
Curious if this has anything to do with Silicon Valley types getting into carnivore diets (though it's been happening for years so maybe not)
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by matt_daemon 6mo ago
There are a few emotional trigger points that LLMs seem to cause in programmers and this is a common one -- the need for deep, first-principles understanding that LLMs make obsolete. One thing that gets me in a lot of pieces like this is th
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by matt_daemon 6mo ago
A torte is (according the Wikipedia): > a rich, usually multilayered, cake that is filled with whipped cream, buttercreams, mousses, jams, or fruit So you could be excused
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by matt_daemon 6mo ago
Hard to not delight in the schadenfreude
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by matt_daemon 7mo ago
HN rage bait
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by matt_daemon 7mo ago
> Mia the hairstylist got to work, and casually asked what I do for a living. "I'm an Intel fellow, I work on datacenter performance." Silence. How could she not know?

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