Data centers contain 90% crap data(gerrymcgovern.com)

165 points by billybuckwheat 1 year ago | 105 comments

Inside the Apollo “8-Ball” FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)(righto.com)

154 points by zdw 1 year ago | 31 comments

Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?(hackaday.com)

182 points by gumby 2 months ago | 141 comments

Book review: Barriers to Bioweapons(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

65 points by jasonhansel 3 years ago | 13 comments

Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

295 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 294 comments

Why CockroachDB doesn't use EvalPlanQual(cockroachlabs.com)

117 points by michae2 2 years ago | 52 comments

A postmortem of three recent issues(anthropic.com)

361 points by moatmoat 1 year ago | 112 comments

Anthropic engineering blog post giving a technical postmortem of three bugs that intermittently degraded Claude's responses, and what is changing.

The midwit home(dynomight.substack.com)

367 points by stacktrust 3 years ago | 254 comments

A Dynomight newsletter essay arguing for a simpler smart home with less automation, after the frustrations of protocols like Z-Wave, Zigbee and MQTT.

The costs of microservices (2020)(robertovitillo.com)

381 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 347 comments

Blog post by Roberto Vitillo examining the trade-offs and costs of splitting a monolithic backend into microservices.

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 1 comments

A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.

A website to destroy all websites(henry.codes)

726 points by g0xA52A2A 9 months ago | 354 comments

An essay by Henry on henry.codes arguing for personal, handmade websites as an alternative to the corporate, platform-dominated web.

Computers Cannot Make Decisions(wiki.cateat.fish)

175 points by heavensteeth 16 days ago | 148 comments

A personal wiki essay arguing that blaming LLMs for harmful outcomes is decision laundering and that AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic bear responsibility.