Don’t push AI down our throats
AI is being done wrong. It’s being pushed down our throats. It’s in our search bars, our operating systems, and even our creative tools, whether we asked for it or not. It feels less like an upgrade and more like a force-feeding. It doesn’t need to be this way. Technology can be adopted slowly. Organically. […]
Writing a Good Claude.md
Note: this post is also applicable to AGENTS.md, the open-source equivalent of CLAUDE.md for agents and harnesses like OpenCode, Zed, Cursor and Codex. ## Principle: LLMs are (mostly) stateless LLMs are stateless functions. Their weights are frozen by the time they’re used for inference, so they don’t learn over time. The only thing that the […]
ETH-Zurich: Digital Design and Computer Architecture; 227-0003-10L, Spring, 2025
Table of Contents Welcome to the wiki for Digital Design and Computer Architecture for Spring 2025 Announcements Course Information Description The class provides a first introduction to the design of digital circuits and computer architecture. It covers technical foundations of how a computing platform is designed from the bottom up. It introduces various execution paradigms, […]
ESA Sentinel-1D delivers first high-resolution images
Applications 26/11/2025 10285 views 47 likes The first high-resolution images have been received from Copernicus Sentinel-1D and were shared publicly for the first time at the European Space Agency’s Ministerial Council, held today in Bremen, Germany. Glaciers in Antarctica, the tip of South America, as well as the city of Bremen, are visible in these […]
RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring Associate Product Manager
San Francisco – In Person About RetailReady We’re RetailReady (YC W24), an AI-powered supply chain compliance engine shaking up an antiquated (and yes, unsexy) industry. Since YC, we raised a $3.3M seed round and signed over 15 enterprise customers… we’re officially in scaling mode. What We Build RetailReady is the first AI-powered compliance engine designed […]
GitHub to Codeberg: my experience
Published Sat 29 Nov 2025. Estimated reading time: 11 minutes. In which I talk about the process involved in switching forges, and how well that went. ℹ️ Motivation Why am I getting out of GitHub? See the previous episode. Spoiler alert: this very site that you’re reading this on is not served from GitHub Pages […]
The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind Documentary
The Thinking Game Film Thank you!
Modern cars are spying on you. Here’s what you can do about it
While driving to a new restaurant, your car’s satellite navigation system tracks your location and guides you to the destination. Onboard cameras constantly track your face and eye movements. When another car veers into your path, forcing you to slam on the brakes, sensors are assisting and recording. Waiting at a stoplight, the car notices […]
Atlas Shrugged
I read Ann Rand’s novel, the Fountain Head, in High School and loved it. I had intended to go on and read the book she wrote after that, Atlas Shrugged, but just never got around to it. However, I never stopped thinking that the title was just so perfect. It’s so evocative. Two words that […]
The Undermining of the CDC
Comment The Undermining of the C.D.C. The Department of Health and Human Services maintains that it is hewing to “gold standard, evidence-based science”—doublespeak that might unsettle Orwell. By Dhruv Khullar November 30, 2025 Photo illustration by Cristiana Couceiro; Source photograph from Getty Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story Two weeks ago, […]