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ironbound··on The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets
Pizza orders are also an indicator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_pizza_theory
ironbound··on "Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?"
Good metaphor for 2026..

The system is on fire

ironbound··on Wikipedia: Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you
Cabal process at Valve

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_in_the_press

ironbound··on Data Centers Use Lots of Electricity. This Bill Would Let Them Go Off the Grid
Companies have been buying jet turbines to generate power for data centers, does not seem good for communities that approved data center build out projects.
ironbound··on Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?
Management loves trying to save money, a bunch of grads with AI have differently had a project to try to write COBOL!
ironbound··on Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?
Hats off for trying to avoid leaking tokens, as a security engineer I don't know if we should be happy for the job security or start drinking given all the new dumb issues generated fast than ever xD
ironbound··on Using proxies to hide secrets from Claude Code
Sounds like an attacker could hack Anthropic and get access to a bunch of companies via the credentials Claude Code ingested?
ironbound··on Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills
Your sort of paying them to understand the tax code that changes year to year tho
ironbound··on Childhood Neighbors Influence Occupation Choice [pdf]
if you know what "red lining" is this isn't crazy..
ironbound··on Which countries are adopting AI the fastest?
Pay walled..
ironbound··on LLM Pareto Frontier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eqRuVp65eY
ironbound··on Google's "AI Ultra" Is a Storage Plan Disguised as a Dev Tool
The number of times I've used GCP products and they barely work, really tells me normal engineers don't test the products only wizards that think things are functional.
ironbound··on Whats will next in P2P comms? a.k.a. WhatsApp killer?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
ironbound··on "It Only Lasts 3 Hours": The Anatomy of a Common ADHD Stimulant Complaint
Live one day as a god or 99 years a peasant.
ironbound··on Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills
Counter-point, a three person dev team displaces a multi million revenue company.

Why have a slow human CEO when machines are faster..

ironbound··on Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro
Sounds like Lean 4/rocq did all the work here
ironbound··on Show HN: Spliff – Correlating XDP and TLS via eBPF (Building a Linux EDR)
This is super cool, I always wanted a system to peak App packets before encryption gets applied.
ironbound··on A.I. and Burnout
the industrial revolution, just keep building railways and do t ask questions about revenue.
ironbound··on The Dilbert Afterlife
Great eulogy and art, What saddens me is the lack of a friends around him, seems like he got isolated in the politics of 2015 and then got radicalized.
ironbound··on Reading across books with Claude Code
No that was a labor issue, abusive factory owners got targeted.
ironbound··on Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence
Devin 2.0
ironbound··on How to wrangle non-deterministic AI outputs into conventional software? (2025)
Use one of these structured output libraries:

https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines

https://github.com/jxnl/instructor

https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails

https://www.askmarvin.ai/docs/text/transformation/

Some of them allow a JSON schema, others a Pydantic model (which you can transform to/from JSON).

ironbound··on Song banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation
Imagine paying Artists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942%E2%80%931944_musicians%27...

ironbound··on Altaid 8800 (2024)
Saw a z80 version of the tin computer the other day

https://sunrise-ev.com/z80.htm

ironbound··on Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop
Curl project has had this issue https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s...
ironbound··on Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?
Are books not websites in a way.. easy to print the articles and have it printed as a book.
ironbound··on Hardware‑Attested Ad Insertion for Encrypted Video
Solving clean drinking water and global hungry got nothing on this problem
ironbound··on How to wrangle non-deterministic AI outputs into conventional software? (2025)
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ironbound··on Decoding Academic Papers with AI: A Practical Guide
The number of papers published with code tells me a few things about academia, i.e. it's probably a waste of time reading it because you can't reproduce the the scaling results.
ironbound··on Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop
You'll be unsurprised how many AI poison pill projects are on GitHub
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