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throwaw12··on Understanding the Go Runtime: Profiling
part of it

https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/

https://brooker.co.za/blog/

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/

throwaw12··on Understanding the Go Runtime: Profiling
Since this is shared by @valyala, I feel comfortable trusting the content, but is the original author of the blog delegating all writing to AI or are they genuinely this smart to produce high quality content this fast?

For example see here their series about Filesystem internals: https://internals-for-interns.com/series/filesystems/

Reason I am asking, should I add them to my personal "Human blogs to read list"

throwaw12··on Why We Don't Trust the Database with Authentication
If I have full access to your database I would instead update my org-id and read data from other orgs.
throwaw12··on New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices
Maybe their PMs haven't attended top MBA schools in the USA, yet
throwaw12··on Write code like a human will maintain it
Can you share your list?

I am curious what does it contain, for me a lot of times its a back and forth with agent until it "looks good to my eyes and taste", but haven't written any such list yet, because it is context dependant, in some projects I forgive minor issues, or allow magical numbers, but in other projects I force agent to use constants with meaningful names `SECONDS_IN_A_DAY = 24 * 60 * 60`

throwaw12··on Good Tools Are Invisible
Invisible work doesnt lead to promotion, hence FAANG companies stopped making invisible+good tools, if things are invisible they get deprecated or stay in KTLO and eventually die
throwaw12··on Java 27: What's New?
Give us some break we just recently migrated to Java 11 from Java 8
throwaw12··on AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
Apart from ethically bad and evil use cases of this application, can we use it to massage the parts of brain like we do it to our bones and muscles with the help of physiotherapists?

reason I am asking it could be some relief to our brains after tedious working day, especially after heavy AI usage

throwaw12··on GPT-5.6
something is wrong with Terra model series, most pelicans, except Max, looks bad
throwaw12··on SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence
Open source for the win!

Imagine how far community might have pushed if 2 past versions of 'morally superior' Anthropic and 'completely Open AI' open sourced their models for the community to build on top of them

throwaw12··on EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why
that's very interesting, is there a place to read his achievements related to Steam? genuinely curious, because Steam is very popular now, and wondering what he did there, and whether his theories helped boost Steam economy/marketplace or not
throwaw12··on How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner
Why is it interesting observation?

When one invades the country, they of course won't feel safety (like in Iraq), but when they dont invade country, of course it feels safe, because no one is bombing and shooting locals

throwaw12··on How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner
> Could you go out on your own for a walk?

> Surprisingly yes.

> Did you get many opportunities to travel within the country?

> Surprisingly yes.

And surprisingly title is: "How To Survive 3 Years in NK"

These people are so biased, they show that bias even when they don't have anything bad to say. Poor people in that country might say how to survive, but not a member of diplomatic corpus

throwaw12··on 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
Where did you get the list? AFAIK, list was never shared
throwaw12··on Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T
But you can't sue individuals in this case.

They will say: I had this metric to increase shareholder value, I tuned it, that's it, no one stopped me or told me not to do it.

US just needs different laws

throwaw12··on 98% Isn't Much
I'm fine if you want to hand over 98% of wealth in the world, its a lot for me
throwaw12··on Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected
> Back in the day there was a mantra: best amount od code is 0.

It was true for that time, because producing and maintaining the code was done by humans with limited speed of comprehension.

Today, we might challenge this assumption (not saying its wrong or right), because migrations can be done in 1-2 weeks with hundreds of agents.

throwaw12··on Tell HN: Error: Claude-fable-5 is temporarily unavailable
I feel same, but my company is affiliated with another US company, hence we can't start using Chinese models easily, unless we start hosting ourselves or run through time consuming procurement process to use hosted model providers
throwaw12··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
Has anyone already tried 5.6 Sol in their day to day coding/development activities?

How does it compare to GPT-5.5?

throwaw12··on Ask HN: America turns 250 today. What does it mean to you?
What did I learn, the moment money and corporations enters the politics any superpower can collapse in couple of generations, even though it gave birth to many innovative tech and gave illusion that meritocracy can win in the long term with American Dream.

As a person who migrated to Europe, impacted by the US imperialism and corrupted US government who is taking orders from a tiny foreign state to attack other nations. I wholeheartedly wish US hegemony to fail and disappear

throwaw12··on OpenAI: In early talks to give 5% stake to US Government
Just a reminder: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/13lgbir/sam_altman...
throwaw12··on Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine
> It would hurt the EU more than it would hurt us

So what? It will hurt everyone, but end result will be that US companies won't be able to sell in other parts of the world, because everyone will have own standards, own solutions, new regulations will come up about data residency, which will require using unknown AWS alternative in a small country and even if you are willing to maintain 150 Datacenter across different countries, companies will be afraid of using US tech, to one day lose access to their data

throwaw12··on Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine
> Huge parts of the public and private sector could collapse.

temporarily yes, then EU will be able to build them on its own.

But what would also collapse is trust in all US companies, whole world will start working on their own solutions, no more AWS/GCP/Azure hegemony in the world. Everyone would close their internet, just like China did and develop own solutions

throwaw12··on Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction
100% reduction is impossible for something which should work, because -100% means it is now 0
throwaw12··on Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine
> U.S. ambassador to the EU Andrew Puzder told CNBC that Europe “can’t over regulate” and hit companies with “huge fines” if it is going to participate in the AI economy.

Imagine what these companies are doing in the US to their citizens, if ambassador is ready to defend them for violating rules/laws

throwaw12··on Fable 5 Is Back
I keep getting this error mid agent loop: "Error: claude-fable-5 is temporarily unavailable"

Planning went well, started working on the code, reading the code - all went fine

But when it started writing the code or executing the bash, sarted tetting lots of these errors

throwaw12··on Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
> The switching costs of changing LLM providers is as low as it gets

Not trivial, you would need to do lots of evals and prompt tuning when you switch models.

imagine what happens when you optimize your agent skills to the current model, and new model starts breaking. you would need to have versioning for your skills, serving different skills based on the model while you do A/B testing

throwaw12··on Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To
creation is not a problem, maintenance is.

Suppose you want to add one more property to VerifiedUserWithBirthday and UnverifiedUserWithBirthday, you might get 2 more new types, and somewhere at the higher layer call chains you need to know which enclosing type you should pass so that some method in the bottom chain will accept it.

I am sure there are more elegant ways, but I am struggling to generalize it to most enterprise SaaS CRUD apps, where you have one object with bunch of properties and can conditionally traverse the code logic

throwaw12··on Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To
this looks cool, but you are doing validation when accepting the object, you probably can't do it excessively, for example, if you are dealing with objects with heights, you might have a HumanLikeHeight where height range is between 40cm and 250cm, and you want to send email to that human, would you keep adding these conditions to the predicates?
throwaw12··on The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting
> The American ambassador to Canada is also a complete clown

Since we are talking about American ambassadors, Mike Huckabee, American ambassador to Israel, doesn't seem like to work for America, it feels like he is an ambassador for Israel

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