Interesting story about Google publishing someone's phone number on searches when they gave the number to Google for account verification/security: danq.me/2025/05/21/g... Reminds me of the time a company I worked for accidentally used phone numbers obtained the same way and got fined $150M

A version of Missile Command for the Commodore 64 where the bottom of your screen is the game state in memory and missiles cause memory corruption: csdb.dk/release/?id=.... In the video below, a missile broke my controls and caused my cursor to get stuck moving down and to the left.

I find it interesting/surprising that Tesla topped the www.iseecars.com/most-dangero... fatalities per mile ranking from 2018-2022. Fatality rate is strongly negatively correlated with price and weight and Teslas are much more expensive and heavier than average.

A funny side effect of the crackdown on "AI" scraping is that I keep getting banned from sites for browsing too quickly. I barely use reddit anymore and I still managed to get IP banned for scraping (the error message indicated that I should get in touch with them if I want to do bulk accesses).

Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO danluu.com/ballmer/

A former Apple engineer discusses Google product culture: > My director wore an Apple Watch and had an iPhone ... my VP too. Nobody was expected to eat the dog food and so few did. This was crazy to me coming from Apple ....

i can speak with a little authority on this, i work in this field DCs expend water by evaporation, either in cooling towers or evaporative coolers (water becomes vapor, taking latent heat energy with it into the air and leaving cooler liquid water behind) so we expend liquid water resources 1/

On the 2011-2012 FTC antitrust investigation of Google: danluu.com/ftc-google-a...

What Factors Explain the Nature of Software? tratt.net/laurie/blog/...

Every once in a while, I think about going to work in the game industry.

Interesting comment about SGI leadership knowing about the problems they were facing and still being unable to come up with a way to handle them.

How web bloat impacts users with slow devices: danluu.com/slow-device/

We're coming up on a decade since danluu.com/cpu-bugs/. Not only was the prediction valid for a decade, it looks like the next decade will be worse. Today's bug of the day: a significant fraction of high-end consumer CPUs crash if you run CPU-intensive workloads: www.radgametools.com/oodleintel.htm

Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation: danluu.com/diseconomies...

A thoughtful retrospective by @adamwiggins.bsky.social on the business behind Muse, a tool-for-thought/iPad idea-sketching app. I’m sad that the business didn’t work out as planned, but the software still exists and the underlying goals and values remain good. adamwiggins.com/muse-retrosp...

Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed: danluu.com/impossible-a...

Notes on the accident where a Cruise self-driving car dragged a pedestrian under the vehicle for 20 feet after hitting them: danluu.com/cruise-report/

Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]? danluu.com/why-video/

How bad are search results and how do small, independent, search engines compare to Google and Bing? danluu.com/seo-spam/

"The algorithm" has somehow decided that I want to see viral UX/designer content. In every viral UX comparison I've seen so far, the "good" version looks more modern but is also less legible / usable. E.g., below, the contrast is lower and legibility is sacrificed for to make things look clean.

Looking back on this 2015 post about how AI will displace humans, I feel like I got the line of reasoning correct, in that the same debate is happening today and this post pre-emptively refuted the incorrect reasons people are now giving for why LLMs aren't a big deal: danluu.com/customer-ser...

Logged on for the first time in months to get some invite cods for folks and I still don't really see much technical content here compared to Mastodon and Twitter. Is it still the case that there isn't critical mass for tech discussions here?

The difference in the "What's Hot" feed on Bluesky right now vs. Mastodon really sums up why I've found it so much easier to find discussions I like on Mastodon. Bluesky is full of people crowing over their superiority over threads users. Mastodon has less Threads content but, more importantly

how it started how it's going