Articles by slyall
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What Happened to Amazon. How Founders Become Day Two, Take Company with Them (markatwood.substack.com)

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Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever (bbc.com)

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GPS Observation of a Western Gull Riding in a Long-Haul Garbage Transfer Truck (bioone.org)

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Replace Docker Compose with Quadlet and Systemd (matduggan.com)

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How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup into Google Photos [video] (youtube.com)

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Tell HN: Chartable Sunset has broken downloads for lots of podcasts

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The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise (understandingai.org)

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The WordPress Foundation Trademark Policy Was Just Updated (reddit.com)

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Building a giant cannon to launch raw materials needed for the orbital economy (longshotspace.com)

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Almost Every infra decision I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (fastchicken.co.nz)

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A Look at the New Prometheus 3.0 UI (promlabs.com)

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A New Mini-Moon Is Being Captured by Planet Earth (nytimes.com)

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Observability Companies to Watch in 2024 (matthewsanabria.dev)

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How much LLM training data is there from all sources in Trillions of Tokens? (educatingsilicon.com)

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Heat Death of the Internet (takahe.org.nz)

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Why Did This Guy Put a Song About Me (and 24,000 Other Songs) on Spotify? (nytimes.com)

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The Ten Thickest Books I Own (darkmere.gen.nz)

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Never Again by Doug Nufer: a 163-page novel with no repeated words [pdf] (ubu.com)

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Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret in 4y running infra at a startup (cep.dev)

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Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret (cep.dev)

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Lessons Learned: 1000 Days of Distributed Working at Atlassian (atlassian.com)

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What I learned using private LLMs to write an undergraduate history essay (zwischenzugs.com)

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Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT and the OpenAI APIs [video] - Eng Mgr @ OpenAI (youtube.com)

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A Giant Leap for the Leap Second. Is Humankind Ready for the Leap Minute? (nytimes.com)

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Building Meta's Threads App (Real-World Engineering Challenges) (pragmaticengineer.com)

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16 years ago, we made the first commit to what would eventually be GitHub/GitHub (nitter.net)

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Statement from Creative Commons: Making AI Work for Creators and the Commons (creativecommons.org)

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Review of the .nz DNSSEC Chain Validation Incident on 29-30 May 2023 [pdf] (internetnz.nz)

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Qwen: chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud (github.com/qwenlm)

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Qwen is a large language model series by Alibaba Cloud (huggingface.co)

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Digital Strategy at Radio New Zealand, 2005-2016, Part Four (richard.hulse.nz)

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Googlecloud dropped our 1M req/day quota causing our site to alarm and error out (twitter.com/zuhayeer)

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When Tech Says ‘No’ (ben-evans.com)

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Amazon Elastic Block Store at 15 Years - 13 exabytes/day of transfers (mvdirona.com)

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We Scaled Grafana Cloud Logs’ memcached cluster to 50TB and improved reliability (grafana.com)

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LED lights are meant to save energy. They’re creating glaring problems (washingtonpost.com)

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6 Reasons You Don't Need an SRE Team (andvari.net)

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The Windows 10 wallpaper wasn't CGI. It was physically built and photographed (gmunk.com)

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of 1-1 Learning (every.to/chain-of-thought)

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A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call (twitter.com/turnernovak)

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Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs (vox.com)

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What have the eight authors of the Transformers paper been doing since 2017? (twitter.com/josephjacks_)

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The Software Supply Chain Song (I'm Goin' to Production) – Cute Animated Video (youtube.com)

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Can We Stop with Those Horrible “System Overview” Dashboards Already? (betterprogramming.pub)

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Public Email and DNS Testbed – Test how well your mailserver delivers emails (email-security-scans.org)

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SRE in the Real World for Xooglers (docs.google.com)

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A List of Tech companies with names from the world of Lord of the Rings (arbesman.net)

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How to make layoffs less awful (andzwa.medium.com)

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Maxcdn has shut down, twemoji via CDN not working anymore (github.com/twitter)

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IFTTT Smart Home: Google Assistant Changes - Existing Applets will be archived (ifttt.com)

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A History of Silicon Innovation at AWS [video]