Take something you don’t like and try to like it(dynomight.net)

237 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 185 comments

DNA is maybe 60-750MB of data(dynomight.net)

16 points by MattSayar 1 year ago | 2 comments

I don't like NumPy(dynomight.net)

399 points by MinimalAction 1 year ago | 164 comments

A Dynomight blog essay critiquing NumPy's design, arguing its array broadcasting and indexing make complex computations confusing.

Scribble-based forecasting and AI 2027(dynomight.net)

48 points by venkii 1 year ago | 7 comments

Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess(dynomight.net)

87 points by gregorymichael 1 year ago | 28 comments

My stupid noise journey (2023)(dynomight.net)

153 points by ustad 1 year ago | 169 comments

Cold-blooded software(dubroy.com)

499 points by arbesman 2 years ago | 198 comments

Patrick Dubroy's blog essay using cold-blooded animals as a metaphor for software that can sit untouched for long periods and still work when revived.

Your hex editor should color-code bytes(simonomi.dev)

569 points by tobr 6 months ago | 151 comments

Blog post by Alice Pellerin arguing that hex editors should color-code bytes to make binary data easier to read.

How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain(rustle.ca)

615 points by jahfer 1 year ago | 279 comments

An article on improving home office lighting to reduce eye strain, illustrated with a 3D-rendered room showing lamps and a desk setup.

How I got my laser eye injury(funraniumlabs.com)

731 points by omnibrain 2 years ago | 325 comments

A Funranium Labs blog post by Phil B recounting how he sustained a laser eye injury.

How video games use lookup tables(blog.frost.kiwi)

602 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 102 comments

A blog post explaining how video games use color lookup tables (LUTs) for tinting and color grading, with WebGL examples showing how to implement them.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.