Articles by yarapavan
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Bloom filters: the niche trick behind a 16× faster API (incident.io)

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The Pmarca Blog Archive as an eBook [pdf] (cloudfront.net)

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Generative Models Are Ruining Themselves (acm.org)

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Front-Loaded Vesting: Why Your Tech Offer Looks Different Now (levels.fyi)

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AI Models Are the Gold, Forward-Deployed Engineers Are the Gold Miners (emcap.com)

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How China is moving up Apple's supply chain (high-capacity.com)

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Why the Moon Needs Its Own Time Zon (acm.org)

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How the diamond industry lost its sparkle (ft.com)

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Meta's grand WhatsApp fintech experiment in India has fizzled (restofworld.org)

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The Seductions of A.I. For the Writer's Mind (nytimes.com)

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My School Banned Phones for the Year. Here's What Happened (afterbabel.com)

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DeepSeek Inside: Origins, Technology, and Impact (acm.org)

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Generative AI at the Edge: Challenges and Opportunities (acm.org)

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Sandboxing: Foolproof Boundaries vs. Unbounded Foolishness (acm.org)

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High RISC, High Reward: RISC-V at 15 (riscv.org)

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The AI Engineering Stack (pragmaticengineer.com)

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Why So Many in Gen Z Are Choosing the Creator Economy over Degrees in India (outlookbusiness.com)

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The Largest Search Engine Doesn't Want You to Search (honest-broker.com)

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The 80-Hour Myth (Why We're Addicted to Being Busy) (thedankoe.com)

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Can We Measure the Impact of a Database? (acm.org)

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The Wizard and His Shell (terminal.click)

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Ways To Live Better (2020) (lesswrong.com)

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Demystifying the North Korean Threat (paradigm.xyz)

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Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security (acm.org)

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Amazon Nova Act: AI for devs to build browser-action agents (github.com/aws)

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Beautiful vs. Practical Advice (collabfund.com)

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Systems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-Formal Methods (acm.org)

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Why it's so hard to align our work with our values,and how we justify not trying (vsanchezgomez.substack.com)

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Desperate for work, translators train the AI that's putting them out of work (restofworld.org)

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Pure Independence (collabfund.com)

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AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone (technologyreview.com)

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[dupe] What Happens to SaaS in a World with Computer Using Agents? (docs.google.com)

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The Complete Guide to Cloud-Native Ransomware Protection in Amazon S3 and KMS (fogsecurity.io)

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How the quick high of 'fast-food gambling' ensnared young men (theguardian.com)

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How to have a career even when OpenAI's o3 drops (pradyuprasad.com)

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Seeing Software: Why we need to be choosers rather than users (whatworks.fyi)

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What automated firms will look like (dwarkeshpatel.com)

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Fake Reviews Have Become the Internet's Perfect Crime (thewalrus.ca)

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The secret sauce of Chinese social media apps (restofworld.org)

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First Impressions of Ghostty (jonashietala.se)

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The wild fall and last-minute revival of Bench, the accounting startup (techcrunch.com)

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Sam Altman on ChatGPT's First Two Years, Elon Musk and AI Under Trump (bloomberg.com)

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The 2025 AI Engineer Reading List (latent.space)

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Edward Thorp: How a Pioneering Blackjack Master Beats the Odds of Aging (bloomberg.com)

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Test Accounts: A Hidden Risk (acm.org)

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Self-Designing Software (acm.org)

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Manufacturing is a war now. And the democracies are losing (noahpinion.blog)

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Google Research 2024: Breakthroughs for impact at every scale (research.google)

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Self-Hosting a VPN with Tailscale on a Raspberry Pi (github.com/johnnyfivepi)

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Compliance Is Different from Security (collingreene.com)

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Intel Inside, Gelsinger Outside (spyglass.org)

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What Is Venture Capital Now Anyway? (nytimes.com)

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How YouTube Ate Podcasting (nymag.com)

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No Regrets (humbledollar.com)

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How WhatsApp ate the world (restofworld.org)

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Which Country Should You Move To? (whichcountrytomoveto.com)

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Life-Learnings from 18 Years of the Marginalian (themarginalian.org)

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Parsing millions of URLs per second (pdf) (wiley.com)

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Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process (theguardian.com)

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Secure and low maintenance password management with pass and Git over network (tzcrawford.com)

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Fedora Moves Towards Forgejo (fedoramagazine.org)

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Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics (blwt.io)

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The Next Generation of the Heroku Platform (heroku.com)

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7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 (blwt.io)

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A16Z: Big ideas that will spur innovation in 2025 (a16z.com)

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Facebook's Little Red Book for Employees in 20212 Remastered [pdf] (drive.google.com)

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What Do Hackers Know About Your AWS Account? (plerion.com)

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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Resigns After Struggling to Turn Around Chip Maker (wsj.com)

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How Libra Was Killed (threadreaderapp.com)

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Has AI scaling hit a limit? (foundationcapital.com)

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macOS Tips (xoria.org)

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Haskell: A Great Procedural Language (entropicthoughts.com)

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I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Than Ever (stackademic.com)

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Warren Buffett's Philanthropic Vision and Legacy Planning in his latest note [pdf] (berkshirehathaway.com)

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Prompting Considered Harmful (acm.org)

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How OpenAI stress-tests its large language models (technologyreview.com)

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How Tech Created a ‘Recipe for Loneliness’ (nytimes.com)

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How the Ivy League Broke America (theatlantic.com)

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A Whimsical Odyssey Through the Maze of Scholarly Reviews (acm.org)

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How Mark Zuckerberg has fully rebuilt Meta around Llama (yahoo.com)

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Migrating billions of records: moving our active DNS database while it's in use (cloudflare.com)

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How to make Storybook Interactions respect user motion preferences (github.blog)

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Why luxury cheese is being targeted by black market criminals (bbc.com)

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Avoid SELECT *, even on a single-column tables (twitter.com/hnasr)

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Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids (wired.com)

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Shell wildcard expansion (un)safety (seclists.org)

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TSDProxy: Simple Proxy with Tailscale and Docker (almeidapaulopt.github.io)

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Welcome to LLMflation – LLM inference cost is going down fast ⬇ (a16z.com)

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CUDA Programming Course – High-Performance Computing with GPUs [video] (youtube.com)

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Wall Street frenzy creates $11B debt market for AI groups buying Nvidia chips (ft.com)

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'I just can't': Why so many consumers are sick and tired of online shopping (businessinsider.com)

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Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland (PDF) (arxiv.org)

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Bill Watterson:'Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled' (speakola.com)

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The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs (dbreunig.com)

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Sysadmin war story: "The network ate my font " (verticalsysadmin.com)

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Turning AWS Documentation into Gold: AI-Assisted Security Research (securityrunners.io)

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What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial (2001 PDF) (khoslaventures.com)

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A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design (2011) (worrydream.com)

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David Patterson: Life Lessons from the First Half-Century of My Career (acm.org)

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Self-Hosting AI with Spare Parts and an $85 GPU with 24GB of VRAM (briancmoses.com)