This is one of the very few podcasts / interviews with a HF founder where it is painfully obvious how inferior you are. The elite world is filled mostly with (1) insanely smart people who are lazy and (2) moderately smart people who work insanely hard. Most people don’t appreciate how much better the top 0.01% of people are than even the top 1%.
Listen to Buffett, Druck or Tepper and they come off folksy with this “aw shucks” vibe; idiots can be forgiven for not appreciating they aren’t on the same planet and aren’t playing the same game. These people are smarter than everyone, work harder than everyone and have great judgement. Imagine trying to beat Alec at risk arb in the 1990s 🤔. He would murder you.
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Someone just built a Claude Code for electronics.
It's called Blueprint. Type what you want to build and it generates wiring diagrams, bills of materials, and step-by-step assembly guides for your Arduino or Raspberry Pi project.
100% Free.
How to get back to normal when overstimulated by life, stress, X, crypto, money, family, all of it?
1: limit screen time
2: go outside and out in nature a lot
3: do grounding
4: low sugar, low carb, mainly protein & fat & keto diet
5: get some activity in nature: gardening for example
6: limit stimulants: coffee, red-bull, etc
7: do exercises in this book twice a day 30 minutes: cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/body_and…
8: do daily inner development practise and sit in silence
9: cut out toxic relations and toxic friends
10: learn to ignore the noise around you and be at peace with yourself
11: learn to say ¨no¨
12: only consume quality content, instead of scrolling for hours uselessly on X as so many do
13: look inside instead of outside all the time
more: innerdevelopment.net
🚨 BREAKING: Someone just gave Claude Code a complete software development brain.
It's called Superpowers and it makes Claude plan, test, and ship code without going off the rails.
No junior dev babysitting. No context loss. No hallucinated plans.
100% Opensource.
there is a game called "data center" on steam which let's you build and manage your own data center.
this is lowkey genius, the best way to educate people on a new trait. hyperscalers should learn a thing or two from "edutainment".
You *really* want to read the unrevised edition of this book.
This is because Carnige's feminist wife and daughter heavily edited his book after he died to make it more politically correct
For example (among other things) they completely deleted 8 chapters on dealing with women
The unrevised edition is available here:
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Ask your partner how they slept, how their day was, about work, what’s on their mind, why they’ve been quiet, what they’d like to eat, if they need anything from you, and what you could do to help. What can make things easier for them? Make it a habit. Never let them feel unseen, unheard, or ignored.
In 2014, Peter Thiel gave a 1-hour masterclass on how to build a monopoly from scratch.
He broke down how:
• Google became untouchable
• PayPal beat the odds
• Facebook crushed competition
Here are 11 timeless lessons from his masterclass:
1. Create value, then capture it
15 things to do with your father while he is still alive. I lost mine 8 years ago.
1. Ask him what he was like at your age because once he was the same age you are right now & Watch his face light up as he tells you stories from when he was younger
2. Record his laugh when he tells one of his signature jokes. Someday you will replay the video over and over just to hear it again
3. Ask him about the proudest moment of his life. (Odds are he will say when you were born)
4. Ask him his favourite songs
Listen to them together, laugh, sing and be happy. These will become your most cherished memories in years to come
5. Take a picture of him doing something he loves. Watching tv, gardening, playing the guitar, anything. When you look back these will be the pictures that will make you smile the most
6. Tell him you love him even if it's something you don't normally do.
7. Tell him you are proud to be his son/daughter This will mean more to him than you realise (even if he doesn't show it)
8. Listen to music from his youth and watch him turn from dad into a young man again
9. Take a short video of him talking about something random sacred Someday even the ordinary things he said become
10. Bring up something you are thankful for from years ago
11. Ask him what it was like for him growing up
12. Call him for no reason
Don't take being able to do this for granted.
Someday you would give anything to hear his voice again.
13. Take a picture of just the 2 of you together
14. Ask him to show you an old photo of him because seeing him young will remind you that he wasn't always Dad
15. Tell him something you are struggling with, no matter what age you are Because even when your grown it means the world to him to feel like he can still help
Let him give you advice, even if you don't need it because one day you will give anything to hear his voice guiding you again
Most valuable thing I learned from a senior engineer:
How to read a codebase you've never seen.
1. Find where requests come in
2. Follow one path end to end
3. Map the data flow, ignore the logic
4. Only then zoom into the details
Took them 10 minutes to teach. Saved me years of fumbling.
Some skills are so fundamental we forget they need to be taught explicitly.
Most valuable thing I learned from a senior SRE:
How to understand infrastructure you didn't build.
1. Start at the ingress, trace traffic inward
2. Find where state lives -- database, cache, queues
3. Read the CI/CD pipeline, it shows what the team actually cares about
4. Check alerts and runbooks before documentation
One whiteboard session. Now I onboard to unfamiliar systems in days, not weeks.
Some skills are so fundamental we forget they need to be taught explicitly.
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Quest Diagnostics, one of America’s largest medical testing companies serving roughly half of U.S. physicians and hospitals, has confirmed a cybersecurity breach involving unauthorized access to patient medical records through its Quanum laboratory system. The
NYC City Council are a bunch of communist slobs who've never built anything, never met a payroll, and never made a dime they didn't take from someone else.
Last night they passed COPA, and they did it quietly, because cowards always do.
Here's their scheme. Own a building and want to sell it? You now have to beg City Hall for permission first. Then you wait while their hand-picked cronies get first crack at your property. Only after that do these clowns let you sell your own building.
Don't buy the "nonprofit" label either. These buyers are certified by the city, chosen by the city, and bankrolled by the city. When the government picks the buyer and writes the check, the government is the buyer. It's a land grab dressed up as charity.
My family fled Cuba on a fishing boat when I was seven. I know these people. They always start with "helping tenants," and they always end up owning everything while the buildings crumble.
These freeloaders are strangling small landlords, chasing off investors, and wrecking the city they claim to love.
As Comptroller, I'll audit every dollar of this racket. New York was built by free markets, not by Council Members who couldn't run a lemonade stand.
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Kubernetes world is moving away from sidecar patterns.
Let me explain why.
A sidecar is a helper container. It sits next to your app container. Same pod. Same network. Same lifecycle.
People used sidecars for a lot of things.
Service mesh was the big one. Envoy would sit next to your app.
- It handled traffic. It handled retries and timeouts. It handled security between services(MTLS). Your app never knew it was there.
- Logging was another one. A small agent would sit next to your app. It would read the logs. It would ship them somewhere else.
- Metrics scraping worked the same way.
- Secrets injection too. Vault agent would run as a sidecar. It would fetch secrets and write them to a file.
This pattern felt smart. One app. Many helpers. No code changes needed.
But then problems showed up.
Every sidecar is another container.
That means more CPU, more memory.
One sidecar on ten pods is fine.
One sidecar on ten thousand pods is not fine.
Every sidecar can crash.
Every sidecar needs patching.
Every sidecar needs upgrading.
Multiply that by hundreds and thousands.
Startup order became a pain too.
- Sometimes the sidecar was not ready before the app started.
- Sometimes the sidecar died before the app finished its work. Small bugs. Big headaches.
Debugging got harder.
- Now you have two containers to check instead of one.
Cost added up quickly at scale.
So the industry asked a new question.
What if we do not need the sidecar at all?
Istio built something called an ambient mesh that required no sidecar injection.
The proxy moves completely outside the pod.
Cilium went even further by using eBPF (a kernel-level technology).
That means the networking logic lives in the kernel, so no sidecar container, and lightning-fast networking.
OpenTelemetry solved this for metrics and logs.
Instead of one sidecar per pod, you get one collector for many pods(runs as a DaemonSet and deployment).
Even Kubernetes noticed the pain.
In version 1.29, it gave sidecars a proper place in the pod lifecycle, fixing a lot of old bugs and startup issues.
It did not remove the sidecar. It just made it better.
Today we have two paths.
Some teams are removing sidecars completely.
Some teams are keeping sidecars but doing it the right way.
Where do you stand?
We're open-sourcing Rebalancer, the assignment-problem solver Meta has used for resource allocation across our infrastructure for over nine years.
Given a set of objects and a set of bins, Rebalancer assigns one to the other to optimize your objectives under your constraints, including hardware placement, service and task placement, traffic routing, and more. It separates how a problem is specified from how it's stored, solved, and debugged, with both an optimal MIP solver and a parallelized local search solver.
At Meta it solves ~40 million assignment problems a day across 30+ problem formulations. P99 solve time is 12 seconds on a problem with 265k objects and 3.2k bins.
🔗 Read more on our engineering blog: engineering.fb.com/2026/09/21/ope…
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"Get back to running special teams coverage. Your girl's been passed around half the league."
😭😭😭
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