Stories by thundergolfer

The most impressive 15min tech demo you've never seen [video]

Capital in the 22nd Century

Top personal blogs on Hacker News in 2025, by points

Larval stage support engineering: great at what doesn't scale

Airbus issues major A320 recall due to software/radiation problem

What Now? Handling Errors in Large Systems

Copy Edit This (2016)

Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)

Transcribe speech 100x faster and 100x cheaper with open models

Celebrating 50 years of Microsoft – Bill Gates

A brief history of our serverless future (2024)

OpenAI expands Deep Research to all paying ChatGPT users

The Complete History and Strategy of Rolex

Know Your Enemy: René Girard and the Right

Why does an Nvidia H100 80GB card offer 85.52 GB?

The case against CS Master's degrees

2024 general essay questions for Oxford 'All Souls' scholarship [pdf]

Beyond 'latency numbers every programmer should know'

An 'All Souls Examination' of the Machine

The Pull Request Self-Review