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Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (~100 Models Explained)
What Are Mental Models?
A mental model is a simplified explanation of how something works.
Any idea, belief, or concept can be boiled down to its essence. Like a map, mental models highlight key information while ignoring irrelevant details. They’re tools for compressing complexity into manageable c...
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The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his...
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The Emperor Has No Clothes: How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code
Today AI coding assistants feel like magic. You describe what you want in sometimes barely coherent English, and they read files, edit your project, and write functional code.
But here’s the thing: the core of these tools isn’t magic. It’s about 200 lines of straightforward Python.
Let’s build a fun...
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Backseat Software
What if your car worked like so many apps? You’re driving somewhere important…maybe running a little bit late. A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks:
“How are you enjoying your drive so far?”
Annoyed by the interruption, and even more behind schedule, you...
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Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969
07.12.2025, By Stephan Schwab
Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the pattern repeats. Business leaders grow frustrated with slow delivery and high costs. Developers feel misunders...
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https://archive.is/2026.01.04-173155/https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/how-wolves-became-dogs
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I flew drones on Ukraine's fiercest battlefield. The last few months laid bare the limits of today's drone warfare.
- Dimko Zhluktenko is a drone operator who provides vital data to defend Ukraine's positions.
- The sergeant last deployed to Pokrovsk, a key battleground where Ukraine said it was outnumbered.
- He says Ukraine needs more than drones to stop Russia's brutal advance.
This as-told-to essay is based o...
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Claude is not a senior engineer (yet)
Claude is not a senior engineer (yet)
Opus 4.5 is out and people cannot stop raving about it. AGI is nigh! It's a step-change in capabilities!
Don't get me wrong. It's very impressive. But after trying it out in a real codebase for a few weeks, I think that view is overly simplistic. Claude is now i...
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Data is your only moat
Data is your only moat
How different adoption models drive better applications
Theoretically, we should have a stellar AI agent for every problem in our lives by now. The talent is there, the capital is certainly there, and the models are increasingly capable. And yet, the results are lopsided. Why ...
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The Next Two Years of Software Engineering
The Next Two Years of Software Engineering
January 5, 2026
The software industry sits at a strange inflection point. AI coding has evolved from autocomplete on steroids to agents that can autonomously execute development tasks. The economic boom that fueled tech’s hiring spree has given way to an ef...
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Opus 4.5 is going to change everything
Opus 4.5 is going to change everything
If you had asked me three months ago about these statements, I would have said only someone who’s never built anything non-trivial would believe they’re true. Great for augmenting a developer’s existing workflow, and completions are powerful, but agents replaci...
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Creation
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success – Nikola Tesla
It’s got a 4K AMOLED display, a Cherry MX mechanical keyboard, plays Minecraft at 4K, runs +7B LLMs, surfs the web, and has ...
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How I ship projects at big tech companies
How I ship projects at big tech companies
I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to lead new ones when it’s important to get it right, because I’m good at it. Shipping in a big tech company is a very different skill to writing code, and lots of...
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The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025
The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025
With 2025 wrapped up, I can finally answer a question I’m curious about every year: who were the most popular bloggers of Hacker News?
Who counts as a blogger?
I explain more in my methodology page, but it’s basically anyone who blogs as an individual ra...
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The Setup
I run six Claude Code agents in parallel from my phone. No laptop, no desktop—just Termius on iOS and a cloud VM.
The Setup
flowchart LR
A[Phone] -->|Termius + mosh| B[Tailscale VPN]
B --> C[Vultr VM]
C --> D[Claude Code]
D -->|PreToolUse hook| E[Poke webhook]
E -->|Push notification| A
The loop is:...
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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)
I have an idea to set up a home NAS on FreeBSD.
For this purpose, I bought a Lenovo ThinkCentre M720s SFF – it’s quiet, compact, and offers the possibility to install 2 SATA III SSDs plus a separate M.2 slot for an NVMe SSD.
What is planned:
- on NVMe SSD: UFS and FreeBSD
- on SATA SSDs: ZFS with RA...
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Challenging projects every programmer should try
Associate Teaching Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
This post spurred a lot of discussion on Hacker News, Reddit, and again on Hacker News. I collected some of the suggested projects and put them in a list at the end of this post.
Check out the sequel to this post: More challenging projects ever...
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pandas with hundreds of millions of rows
You can connect with me on LinkedIn to discuss collaborations and work opportunities.
The problem
We want to find out which are the top #5 American airports with the largest average (mean) delay on domestic flights.
Data
We will be using the Data Expo 2009: Airline on time data dataset from the Harv...
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What an unprocessed photo looks like:
What an unprocessed photo looks like:
(Photography)Here’s a photo of a Christmas tree, as my camera’s sensor sees it:
It’s not even black-and-white, it’s gray-and-gray. This is becuase while the ADC’s output can theoretically go from 0 to 16382, the actual data doesn’t cover that whole range:
The re...
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Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025
Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025
Recently, I made a free game. It's a little mystery investigation game which I was inspired to write after enjoying games like Case of the Golden Idol, Roottrees are Dead, and Return of the Obra Dinn. I thought my UX ideas were pretty simple, so I decide...
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