Stories by -J

Is AI a "Normal Technology"?

Deputy Director

The promise that wasn't kept

List of Shibboleths

LazyLog: A New Shared Log Abstraction for Low-Latency Applications [pdf]

Cooperation and the evolution of hunter-gatherer storytelling

Way to Advertise a Language

Ask HN: I made a new kind of AI, how do I make money from it?

A review of 19B passwords reveals people are still bad at them

Thunder Compute (YC S24) Is Hiring

Lessons 'unlearned': 20 years after Katrina, disaster readiness lags in the US

Kinopio – Visual tool for building ideas and solving problems

Ask HN: Best self-hosted wiki solution in 2025? Mediawiki or something else?

Ultra-processed foods harm men's health

GitHub engineer claims team was 'coerced' to put Grok into Copilot

I visited the happiest country. I wish I could unlearn its secret