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Visualizing Big Data

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Parsing to IR and Lvalues

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One or Two? How Many Queues?

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Who Wins Nobel Prizes?

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Decomposing a Factorial into Large Factors

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Data demand some damn respect

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What Limits a Cell's Size?

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Wed Mar 26, 2025 12:44pm PST

Late Progress on Feynman Cyphers

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Gate: AI and Automation Scenario Explorer

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Food Maps

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Dittemore's Law

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Has the tennis ball gotten worse?

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Never Wait for the Check at Restaurants (2022)

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GhidraMCP: Now AI can reverse malware [video]

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China's Medicines Are Saving American Lives

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GATE: AI and Automation Scenario Explorer

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Paid to Live on a Deserted Island for 1.5Y and Do Nothing but Kill Seals? (2020)

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Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood

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The Tragic Case of Intel AI

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An Electric Man

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Late Progress (The Feynman Cyphers)

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Improved Relative Time

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The Modern AI Workspace

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Optimizing Django by not being silly

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More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Flight Delays

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What we can learn from watching reality stars apologize

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Personal Knowledgebases

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Statistically, When Will My Baby Be Born?

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CSS Animation with Offset-Path

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Careless People

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The Safest Path to Stable Climate Is Designing New Plants

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Entropic Gravity

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When You Will Die

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A New Form Factor for Drones: Vertical and Coaxial

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Turning $5M into $100M

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Diane, I wrote a lecture by talking about it

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Comptime Zig ORM

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The Blowtorch Theory: A New Model for Structure Formation in the Universe

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The Humans Building AI Scientists

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Strengthening America's AI Workforce

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20 Years of HN

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The Hypercuriosity Theory of ADHD

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An Action Plan for American Leadership in AI

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How I've run major projects

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Napkin Math Tool

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The Five-Week Solo Startup

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A Conversation Algorithm I Cribbed from Clinical Psychologists

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Napkin Math Tool

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Fri Mar 14, 2025 5:16pm PST

Long duration propellant stability in Starship

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Browse No More

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Dodge Chargers now have pop-up ads at every stoplight

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Brick Is Back

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You'll never be ready for anything that matters

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I bet against a space launch as I cheered it on

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What's the Deal with Manus?

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Soft body procedural animation [video]

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Paths and Waystations in AI Safety

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The History and Future of Memeing Things into Reality

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Array '25 CFP

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Experiencing a Victorian London street in 3D

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It doesn't cost much to improve someone's life

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Mass Appraisal for the Masses: The Basics

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Case Study: Open Field Co-Living

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Onomatopoeia Odyssey

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Thoughts on Signed Distance Functions for CAD

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Dithering in Colour

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Japan's Sustainable Forest Village: Nishiawakura [video]

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Just how big is China's AI market?

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Japan's Clever Anti-Snow Roadways

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Is Social Security a Ponzi Scheme?

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How do you process the news?

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Genius Contactless Motor Will Change Transport Forever [video]

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The Nightmare Bicycle

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QTVR files – preserving them and extracting embedded images

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The Hierarchy of Hazard Controls

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The Middle Ages

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The Demoralization is just Beginning

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The Case for a New City [video]

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California's Path to Redemption

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LLM Can Be Faster Than You (Can) Think

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Nebu: A Spreadsheet Editor for Varvara

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Your Next Two Zeroes

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Designing space hardware is hard [video]

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Bayes Is Not a Phase

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Claude Plays Pokémon

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Analyzing Deepseek's "undefined" Nvidia PTX optimizations [video]

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Who Did the Work?

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Can you date your roommate?

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America Needs a National Service Program (2020)

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