Being Ambitious and Being a Dad

When I was going through YC, I didn’t mention my seven month old daughter to anyone. Now a few years later I have two kids, a dog and a very packed schedule. My kids are the best thing in my life. For years, my work was my life. Now my life competes with my work. … Devamını oku

Beware Management Consultants

Both teams worked really hard to get in the best shape.On the day of the first race, both teams were ready to win. The Red team was crushed in their defeat, but they were determined to win the race next year. So they established a panel of auditors to observe the situation and ascertain if … Devamını oku

Norway Should Buy OpenAI

AI capabilities areadvancing at a faster ratethan our institutional response. Soon, a transformative technology will crash into the capitalist political economy, presenting risks to humanity’s survival, autonomy, and democratic order. Especially concerning is the possibility that vast amounts of power and wealth are concentrated into the class that owns the AI systems, or uses those … Devamını oku

How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

The product names of IKEA may sound strange even to us Swedish speakers. In other parts of the world, they are basically incomprehensible, but fun! Here you will learn the most about how we name our products and the two rules that must always be followed – because there is a method in the madness. … Devamını oku

Turbovec – Google’s TurboQuant for vector search in Rust

A 10 million document corpus takes 31 GB of RAM as float32. turbovec fits it in 4 GB – and searches it faster than FAISS. turbovec is a Rust vector index with Python bindings, built on Google Research’sTurboQuantalgorithm — a data-oblivious quantizer with near-optimal distortion and no separate training phase. Building RAG where privacy, memory, … Devamını oku

Claude Code weekly limits reduce by a third tomorrow

We’re offering a limited-time promotion that increases weekly usage limits in Claude Code by 50%. Note:We’ve extended this promotion. Increased weekly limits now run through August 19, 2026. This promotion is available for Pro, Max, and Team plans, as well as legacy seat-based users on Enterprise plans. Free plans and consumption-based Enterprise seats are not … Devamını oku

The Amazon Tax

Have you thought about subscribing? It’s free.seths.blog/subscribe It’s not technically a tax. Taxes produce valuable public benefits, like medical research and parks. This is simply legal theft. Amazon makes nearly a billion dollars in profit from search ads.Every week. Each week, they sell merchants and publishers enough search-distorting ads to capture a billion dollars in … Devamını oku

Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop

In 2023, I was in need of a new laptop that should hopefully last me for a while. While looking at my options, I was seduced by Framework’s promise of a repairable and upgradable laptop that supports Linux out-of-the-box without weird driver issues, as well as the option to assemble the laptop myself1and buy the … Devamını oku

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

The process of capturing an image like the one of the container port above. The camera is pointed out of a moving vehicle and is constantly capturing a single vertical line kinda like these grayscale ones in the diagram, but a lot thinner. As the camera moves, what exactly it sees is changing. If I … Devamını oku

Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD

She’s obsessed with this idea. She likesplayingvideo games too, but it’s just not the same. Experiencing the world, even defeating the world, is too passive. She wants tomakethe world. So I made her a game where she can make games. A multiplayer world made of text and images and a tiny new scripting language, where … Devamını oku