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Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom

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There are many interesting tidbits about the life of the political prisoner Jimmy Lai. He hid in the bottom of a fishing boat to escape mainland Communist China for Hong Kong at the ripe age of 12. He built a garment empire after spending his adolescence working, and sleeping, in garment factories. Without media experience, […]

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

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I am standing on the corner of Harris Road and Young Street outside of the Crossroads Business Park in Bakersfield, California, looking up at a Flock surveillance camera bolted high above a traffic signal. On my phone, I am watching myself in real time as the camera records and livestreams me—without any password or login—to […]

Your Supabase Is Public

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I was chatting with a close friend of mine and he sent me a link to his new SaaS that he’s developing. Of course when a friend sends me their new project my natural tendency is to try hack it. First simple step: inspecting, checking if there’s something interesting. Voila, there is. A Supabase URL […]

Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases

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This is the third part of a series on LLMs in software engineering. First we learned what LLMs and genetics have in common. (part 1) LLMs don’t improve all facets of engineering. So, understanding which areas LLMs do improve (part 2) is important for knowing how to focus our investments. (part 3) How do we […]

Origin of Hallucination in LLMs, The physical source of hallucinations has found

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Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) frequently generate hallucinations — plausible but factually incorrect outputs — undermining their reliability. While prior work has examined hallucinations from macroscopic perspectives such as training data and objectives, the underlying neuron-level mechanisms remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we conduct a systematic investigation into hallucination-associated neurons (H-Neurons) in LLMs from three […]

Lua 5.5

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Lua: version history Here is a chronology of the versions of Lua. The evolution of Lua is documented in a paper presented at HOPL III, the Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference, in 2007. See also its continuation published in 2025 in a journal. The source code and documentation for all releases of Lua […]

If You Don’t Design Your Career, Someone Else Will

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A client once responded to one of my questions by saying, “Oh Greg, I am too busy living to think about life!” His off-the-cuff comment named a trap all of us fall into sometimes. In just one example, it is easy to become so consumed in our careers we fail to really think about our careers. To avoid this […]