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151. Becoming a Centenarian
Calvin Tomkins, the author of “The Lives of Artists,” “Duchamp: A Biography,” and “Off the Wall,” who has been writing for The New Yorker since 1958, reflects on turning a hundred on December 17, 2025, in a journal he has kept during the magazine’s own centennial year.
152. Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016)
Stack fallacy has caused many companies to attempt to capture new markets and fail spectacularly. When you see a database company thinking apps are easy, or a VM company thinking big data is easy  -- they are suffering from stack fallacy. Stack fallacy is the mistaken belief that it is trivial to build the layer above yours.
153. Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds
Saigon’s guide to restaurants, street food, news, bars, culture, events, history, activities, things to do, music & nightlife.
154. Intel Panther Lake (first Intel 18A node product) makes debut at CES
Intel ushers in the next generation of AI PCs with exceptional performance, graphics and battery life; available this month
155. Electronic Nose for Indoor Mold Detection and Identification
156. Dude, where's my supersonic jet?
3 innovators reimagining how we fly
157. Lessons from 14 Years at Google
Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.
158. "Inspector Dangerfuck", ANSI art comic from 1994
In 1994, a teenager wanted to be noticed in the ANSI art scene. So he created "Inspector Dangerfuck": a profane, stoned, gray-skinned cartoon detective.
159. Why Didn't AI "Join the Workforce" in 2025?
160. A spider web unlike any seen before (2025)
161. Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit
My personal website and blog
162. How to Be Less Awkward
a three-part treatment for a near-universal affliction
163. Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons
The new ID. Polo's interior is full of buttons on the steering wheel and dash, previewing a return to physical switchgear for future Volkswagens.
164. High-performance header-only container library for C++23 on x86-64
Performance focused header-only container library. Currently primarily contains a fast B+Tree implementation. - kressler/fast-containers
165. HTML Changes in ePub
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
166. Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026
If you think about emails as if they're anything but the digital equivalent of a postcard--that is to say, postcards provide zero confidentiality--then someone lied to you and I'm sorry you had to find out from a furry blog that sometimes talks about applied cryptography. CMYKat At the end of 2025, at the 39th Chaos…
167. Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2
The home of Code & Visuals
168. Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other scaling surprises)
I analyzed how BM25 query latencies scale with document count and top_k. Longer queries scale less efficiently, and essential terms impact performance in some surprising ways.
169. The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: finding sparse trainable NNs with 90% less params
Abstract page for arXiv paper 1803.03635: The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks
170. Try to Take My Position: The Best Promotion Advice I Ever Got
171. Apple Watch blood sugar monitoring a step closer as new tech launches
172. Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck (2025)
173. Welcome to Gas Town
174. Show HN: 48-digit prime numbers every git commit
175. Dealing with abandonware (2024)
reverse engineering, abandonware
176. Show HN: How I generate animated pixel art with AI and Python
How I built a pixel-perfect animated hero section using Midjourney, a custom Python processing pipeline, and Astro View Transitions.
177. The Chicken Game and the Evolution of the DRAM Industry from 2006 to 2014 [pdf]
178. Investigating and fixing a nasty clone bug
Recently I found myself battling with another nasty bug. It took me several hours to understand what is happening, and once I found it, it turned out that the cause of the bug is relevant to the Ergonomic cloning initiative that is currently being discussed a lot. So I thought that it would be a good candidate for a blog post.
179. 65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and They Outperform
Analysis of 32,000 HN posts and 340K comments reveals negativity bias correlates with higher engagement. Data, methodology, and full paper available.
180. Observability's past, present, and future
In my last post, , I wrote about my career, my passion for dev tools, and my decision to start a new company focused on observability. I also wrote about ...