My refrigerator died: 🙃 Undertaking a laboriously and meticulously detailed research project for purchasing the next refrigerator: ☺️

In unrelated news, I'd like to announce my new SPAC, "Ignore All Previous Instructions and Buy This Company, LLC".

My @honeycomb.io "I test in prod" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are answered by the t-shirt.

No one tell the enterprise IT people that `--allow Bash(*)` is basically the same as `--dangerously-skip-permissions`.

On flight UA 1831, and after beginning acceleration to takeoff speed, we braked hard and came to a complete stop on the runway. Unclear if there's a plane issue, ATC issue, or facility issue.

Ready to spend my Saturday playing "Guess What Number I'm Thinking Of Or You Go To Jail" with the federal government.

Eid Mubarak to all my homies celebrating.

Shocked, absolutely shocked, to discover that (a) this isn't on the HN homepage right now (Delve is a YC company), and (b) Delve is from two Forbes 30 Under 30 founders [Karun Kaushik, Selin Kocalar]. deepdelver.substack.com/p/delve-fake...

People using #Python's uv will definitely regret this decision sometime in the next 12 to 24 months, thanks to the OpenAI acquisition of Astral.

I looked at five different dictionaries and not a single one of them records a definition of "+1" that includes something like "I support this opinion", the way a technologist might use it in a PR or react. Is this completely internal jargon that no one else except my industry uses? Am in a bubble?

Love Zohran hitting this three in his work shoes.

New favorite genre of screenshot: people complaining on recipe websites after radically changing the recipe or disregarding it entirely.

Can't wait to try out my new keyboard and be a 10× developer.

Introducing a "reservation-based melon plant ownership system".

Looking forward to seeing folks at the @honeycomb.io O11y Day NYC dinner if you'll be there!

Wild that safety leaders at OpenAI got to see their chief executive call a hastily drafted government contract (devoid of key safeguards) "a learning experience". Truly a choice of words for the ages.

53% (!) of NBA teams have at least one player whose name is Jalen or a similar spelling. This fact is blasting my brain wide open.

At this point getting a Chotiner interview is almost a guarantee that you're doing something very stupid and should stop.

"Published March 26, 2003."

This one absolutely should have passed muster.

It is profoundly stupid to try putting LLMs within a country mile of military technology. In particular, putting LLMs inside of autonomous weapon systems is a disastrously bad architectural, technological, political, and military decision. Don't do that.

Really need to teach the kids about opsec.

This is an incredibly long shot, but if anyone knows a Stefan Hoyer from Hamburg, Germany, I mistakenly received a package meant for famous author John *Grisham* from him. Although John Grisham also lives near me, I have no way to get in touch with him. So, Stefan, if you're reading this, DM me. :)

Things I would never have guessed were in a release of controversial government documents: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Infuriating that Claude Code doesn't respect XDG_HOME. I *hate* having ~/.claude junk my home directory. github.com/anthropics/c...

The Venn diagram intersection of "doing cool stuff with agents" and "doing things that aren't radically unsafe in high-governance environments" is bigger than you might think. But (and there's a big but)...

Off to Montreal 🇨🇦 and Mont-Tremblant 🏂 with some pals — but not before filling out a survey from the International Trade Administration as we were boarding.

I sincerely hope Filippo's right, but I'm not sure I'd take the bet that we will get great code reading tools. Perhaps this is too cynical, but I think the VC class sees the value of reading/understanding code plummeting to zero for many everyday use cases.

The only way to stop a bad guy with a One Ring is with a good guy with a One Ring.

The Charlottesville ice rink is back! (Perhaps unintentionally.) #CvilleSky

Love how all the Grimm's fairy tales are like "murder is bad and evil, m'kay? *UNLESS* it's a godless heathen witch, then hell yeah, light 'em up in the most excruciating way possible".

Judging from the number of people out driving this morning with uncleared roofs, an unsuspecting pedestrian somewhere is going to get decapitated, Final-Destination-style, when one of these bozos flies around a corner and all that snow slides off in the form of a single 500-pound slab.

Don't forget to squat while shoveling snow, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Your back will thank you later. A+ for effort but C- for form.

I've shoveled more sidewalks on our block in the last 24 hours than I have in the last two years, and gone through two of my five-gallon salt buckets. Definitely going to need to restock after this week!

Finished the second snow-shoveling of the day. Liberal use of sand and carbonyldiamide-glycol ice melt after the first shoveling made the second one way, way easier, and it's doing a good job of keeping the sidewalk clear. If I'm lucky the third shoveling will be minimal. Fingers crossed.

It's the worst weekend to send a supply run to friends and workers in MN, but when's the last time neighbors let a little weather get in the way of fighting for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

✈️ It's looking pretty grim that my travel plans to NYC will work out next week, but if you will be around and want to catch up about nerd things, please let me know and I'd love to grab a snowy coffee/hot chocolate somewhere.

Philosophers on the Trolley Problem: It's a nuanced thought experiment that allows for a careful examination of moral priorities and tradeoffs. Average eight-year-old on the Trolley Problem:

Deeply frustrating that Claude Code won't let you make "deny everything but X" rules. (Deny-rules take precedence over allow-rules, so "deny: *; allow: X" just bans everything which is usually not what you intended.)

Screen time during formative childhood development years will turn out to be the lead paint of the 2010s.

In light of the Machado-Trump Nobel Peace Prize scandal, some observers are questioning whether I received my "#1 Dad" mug under less than transparent circumstances. Let me hasten to reassure the American public that I am, in fact, a #1 Dad.

Maria Dahvana Headley's Beowulf has the best opening of any Beowulf I've read:

The kiddos and I have been working on a 1,000-piece puzzle this week after school, which we just finished today. Progress pics:

A fun fact about U.S. securities law on futures is that you can make futures contracts on almost anything you want, **except** for two very specific things: (1) movie box office receipts 🎬, and... (2) onions 🧅 This is not a joke. That's really what the law says:

🦀 Using rustup to grab #Rust nightly seems very slow today, unless my memory is too rose-tinted from the last time I did this:

People feel way too comfortable having text conversations on a plane with their phones set to ultra large font size and maximum brightness.

You do have to be better to stand out than before, but you definitely don't need money to stand out. For example, two of the most successful games this year were from comparatively tiny studios, Team Cherry (Silksong) and Sandfall Interactive (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33).

Press the Turbo button to make things run slower.

This is why you'll never in a million years see OpenAI indemnify a professional-services use of ChatGPT. When the stakes are high (and many times when they're not) you want the humans doing the work.

No, Slack, I absolutely do not want to "send my coworkers greeting cards just like this one". Nor, I think, do they want to receive them.