Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site
There are some contemporary piracy services that run ads—for marketing and, well, advertising purposes. This ranges from PPC to social media campaigns. I opted not to, mostly because I didn’t think I could do it tastefully, and because I’d probably attract users who wouldn’t be great customers. Instead, my marketing relied entirely on word-of-mouth—which meant […]
Photoroom (YC S20) Is Hiring a Senior AI Front End Engineer in Paris
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Leaving Meta and PyTorch
**Leaving Meta and PyTorch** It’s finally time… November 6th, 2025 [https://soumith.ch/blog.html](https://soumith.ch/blog.html) Eleven years at Meta. Nearly all my professional life. Making many friends for life. Almost eight years leading PyTorch, taking it from nothing to 90%+ adoption in AI. Walking away from this was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. But I’m leaving […]
A Fond Farewell from Farmers’ Almanac
Dear Friends, It is with a great appreciation and heartfelt emotions that we write to share some sad news. After more than 200 years of sharing a unique blend of weather, wit and wisdom, we’ve made the very difficult decision to write the final chapter of this historical publication. The 2026 Farmers’ Almanac will be […]
A prvalue is not a temporary
This is part one of a series of blog posts on temporaries, copies, return value optimization, and passing by value vs. reference. A good place to start, and the point of this first article, is how a prvalue isn’t necessarily a temporary. If you’re entirely new to value categories (lvalues, rvalues etc.), you might want […]
A Note on Fil-C
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Scientists find ways to boost memory in aging brains
Reactivating a gene that supports memory A second study, published in the Brain Research Bulletin and led by Jarome with doctoral student Shannon Kincaid, focused on IGF2, a growth-factor gene that supports memory formation. As the brain ages, IGF2 activity drops as the gene becomes chemically silenced in the hippocampus. “IGF2 is one of a small number […]
Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault
A Washington DC protester has been found not guilty of misdemeanor assault after a video emerged showing him hurling a sandwich at a US border patrol agent. Lawyers for Sean Dunn, 37, did not dispute he had thrown the sandwich on 10 August this year, but argued it was not a criminal act. The jury’s […]
Game Design Is Simple
So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design. One: Fun There are a lot of things people call “fun.” But most of them are not useful for getting better at making games, which is usually why people read articles like this. The fun of […]
Writing software is an act of learning. Don’t automate it.
Software development has always resisted the idea that it can be turned into an assembly line. Even as our tools become smarter, faster, and more capable, the essential act remains the same: we learn by doing. An Assembly Line is a poor metaphor for software development In most mature engineering disciplines, the process is clear: […]