I got posted to hn for the first time. hopefully next time I will get more points

do LLMs have knowledge of their own token boundaries? here deepseek claims to be counting per-token in an array. is it correct? you could RL this, right? is there any point in doing so?

this was an interesting one to write. I am very optimistic about the economic upsides of AI. but I am having trouble seeing how the valuations currently are unworkably high. I would love to be wrong. see what you think:

wrote a new blog post: "write it before it's too late" taloranderson.com/blog/write-i...

I added comments on my blog powered by bsky! leave a comment below and it'll be posted as a comment on the blog post. taloranderson.com/blog/comment...

I wrote about learning Go as a Typescript head: taloranderson.com/blog/go-for-...

I wrote about how to do better in technical software interviews: taloranderson.com/blog/intervi...

I wrote about building a blog from scratch: taloranderson.com/blog/buildin...

finally got my mac mini and yeah, it’s Mini

you can simply Not Engage

bsky was appealing to me because of its incredible technological foundation. fascinating to me that so many other people are here that seem to have no idea how it’s different from x dot com

Trademarks & Symbols Volume 2: Symbolical Designs by Kuwayama, Yasaburō

transcript of a talk i gave last week, on turning our ai coding agent @ replit into a designer:

My father-in-law is a programmer. He is insanely gifted. We were looking at Hypercard together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer... "We can't, we don't know how to do it."

bsky is awesome but it’s missing the best feature from Twitter: beautiful women dming me asking how I am and they’re definitely real people and not bots at all

building creative tools for non-creators

another great day on bsky dot app the everything protocol

Ted Nelson’s “The Future of Information”

just setting up my bsky

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