Articles by thundergolfer
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Scaling to 1M concurrent sandboxes in seconds (modal.com)

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Failure numbers every programmer should know (thundergolfer.com)

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Safetykit: A small collection of safety demos for human-in-the-loop scripts (thundergolfer.com)

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The most impressive 15min tech demo you've never seen [video] (youtube.com)

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Capital in the 22nd Century (philiptrammell.substack.com)

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Top personal blogs on Hacker News in 2025, by points (twitter.com/jonobelotti_io)

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Larval stage support engineering: great at what doesn't scale (thundergolfer.com)

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Airbus issues major A320 recall due to software/radiation problem (reuters.com)

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What Now? Handling Errors in Large Systems (brooker.co.za)

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Copy Edit This (2016) (nytimes.com)

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Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021) (gregoryszorc.com)

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Transcribe speech 100x faster and 100x cheaper with open models (modal.com)

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Celebrating 50 years of Microsoft – Bill Gates (gatesnotes.com)

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A brief history of our serverless future (2024) (thundergolfer.com)

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OpenAI expands Deep Research to all paying ChatGPT users (engadget.com)

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The Complete History and Strategy of Rolex (acquired.fm)

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Know Your Enemy: René Girard and the Right (dissentmagazine.org)

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Why does an Nvidia H100 80GB card offer 85.52 GB? (thundergolfer.com)

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The case against CS Master's degrees (ozwrites.com)

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2024 general essay questions for Oxford 'All Souls' scholarship [pdf] (ox.ac.uk)

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Beyond 'latency numbers every programmer should know' (thundergolfer.com)

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An 'All Souls Examination' of the Machine (thundergolfer.com)

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The Pull Request Self-Review (thundergolfer.com)

5

Beat GPT-4o at Python by searching with 100 dumb LLaMAs (modal.com)

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Computers Are Fast (2024) (thundergolfer.com)

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The Wonderful LLMs (thundergolfer.com)

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How to catch cryptominers using syscall signatures (modal.com)

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How to catch crypto miners using syscall signatures (modal.com)

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How to beat proprietary embedding models with open-source (modal.com)

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Computing Cultural Literacy (thundergolfer.com)

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Modal is now generally available (modal.com)

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Show HN: Stable Diffusion Pokémon Cards (modal.run)

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Docubyte – Guide to Computing (docubyte.com)