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Simon Willison’s Weblog

Quoting Andrej Karpathy

Singing the gospel of collective efficacy

DEV Community

C++ Signatures: It’s Not Just About Performance, It’s About Ownership
The Human-Machine Interface: An Intelligent Engineering Portfolio
What Really Happens When You Press the Power Button on Your Computer? The Boot Process Explained for Beginners
The Missing Piece in Angular i18n
Great Refactor Initiative: AI Transforms Critical Code to Rust
C# 14 extension blocks
How I Solved Streamlit Session Persistence (After 3 Failed Attempts)
Overcoming Geo-Restrictions: A Linux-Based Approach for Testing Blocked Features
I’m Not an Artist but Scribe Colorsoft Is Now My Favorite Kindle
Streamlining Authentication Flows in High-Traffic Events with Go
Scaling Legacy Codebases with Rust: A Lead QA Engineer’s Approach to Massive Load Testing
Automating Data Cleanup: How QA Testing Solves Dirty Data When Documentation Is Lacking

Hacker News: Best

🔥 Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
🔥 Finland to end “uncontrolled human experiment” with ban on youth social media
🔥 Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam’s clouds and go EU-native
🔥 Automatic Programming
💬 We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency
🔥 YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
💬 Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entry, PreCheck Get Revoked
🔥 Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
🔥 The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice
🔥 Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent