Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)(danluu.com)
254 points by tosh | 87 comments
First screen, captured .
Looks similar
Big Companies vs. Startups (2015)(danluu.com)
40 points by fzliu | 39 comments
Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO(danluu.com)
326 points by greggyb | 617 comments
Dan Luu essay arguing Steve Ballmer was an underrated Microsoft CEO whose long-term bets and groundwork set up Satya Nadella's later success.
Does anyone remember websites?(tttthis.com)
31 points by lr0 | 37 comments
How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?(danluu.com)
804 points by jatins | 905 comments
Dan Luu essay evaluating the accuracy of AI skeptic Ed Zitron's predictions, starting with his 2024 claim that Meta, Google, and Microsoft are dying.
Related stories
GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)(wildfirelabs.substack.com)
336 points by herbertl | 451 comments
A Substack essay by Todd Gagne arguing that GLP-1 weight-loss drugs could be a massive economic disruptor affecting jobs, investments, and industries.
How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?(danluu.com)
804 points by jatins | 905 comments
Dan Luu essay evaluating the accuracy of AI skeptic Ed Zitron's predictions, starting with his 2024 claim that Meta, Google, and Microsoft are dying.
Accountability sinks(aworkinglibrary.com)
441 points by l0b0 | 255 comments
A blog reading note by Mandy Brown on Dan Davies' concept of "accountability sinks" from The Unaccountability Machine, structures that obscure who is responsible for decisions.
There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)
59 points by luu | 31 comments
An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.
Some critical issues with the SWE-bench dataset(arxiv.org)
331 points by joshwa | 113 comments
arXiv paper introducing SWE-Bench+, an empirical analysis revealing data quality issues in the SWE-bench coding benchmark for LLMs, such as solution leakage and weak tests.
AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
1248 points by nprateem | 727 comments
Hacker News discussion where a user reports an AWS estimated bill of $1.7 billion despite normal usage under $5, linked to an AWS billing data issue.