Stories by alcazar

AI progress and the Singularity: the case for 2027-2029

What Is a Wrench Attack?

Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines (2019)

What is a dead man's switch?

What is the best agentic AI today?

ElevenHacks: A season of 11 hackathons. Build with ElevenLabs and partners

Dead man's switch vs. digital will: what each one is for

Ask HN: How do you keep up with replies to your posts/comments?

Portable Secret lets you encrypt text and files into a single HTML file

Wide logging: Stripe's canonical log line pattern

Hacker News digest: why Top HN focuses on the comments

Whisper is no longer the whole answer: how to transcribe audio and video in 2026

Everything's Casino

Self-Driving Corporations (2020)

Sharing encrypted files in a single HTML file

If a web server runs websites then a corporation server? (2025)

Building a Hacker News digest around discussion, not headlines

Technocapital (2025)

Dead man's switches: how they work and when to use one

Portable Secret is now open source