Somewhere, Every UUID Is the Same
Someone on HN claimed they got a UUID v4 collision with 15,000 records. The best response wasn't a debugging tip.
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The Safety Commitment Anthropic Is Taking to Court
On April 8th, Anthropic filed in the D.C. Circuit against the United States Department of War. Tech press missed it. That's a mistake.
Super Connectors Are Ruining Your Customer Graph
Building customer identity graphs at scale means confronting nodes that touch tens of thousands of records — and deciding that connecting them would make your model worse, not better.
Tomato, Gruyere & Dijon Tart
The key is salting the tomatoes first. Everything else is just assembly.
Potatoes Cooked in Chicken Fat
Not roasted. Not boiled. Something better.
Spatchcocked Chicken with Leeks & Potatoes
Butter under the skin, schmaltz in the pan, leeks doing most of the quiet work underneath. The fastest way to roast a whole chicken without cutting any corners.
Your Check Script Was Built for a Human. Redesign It for an LLM.
When an LLM becomes a participant in your dev loop, all the defaults are wrong. Sequential execution, verbose output, exit-code-only failure reporting — none of it was designed for a reader that charges per token.
Name Your AI Harness
By the time you're asking whether your internal AI infrastructure deserves a name, you already have the answer. The question isn't naming — it's recognizing that you've crossed a threshold.
Miso Horny
White miso is the MSG of fermented pastes — it makes everything taste more like itself. Here's why it's in everything I'm cooking right now.
Grilled NY Strip with Miso-Herb Sauce & Warm Farro Salad
White miso does something you can't get from salt alone: it adds depth, a little funk, and a savory backdrop that makes everything else taste more like itself.