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thundergolfer

3,626 karma · joined July 18, 2017

https://github.com/thundergolfer/ https://linktr.ee/jonathonbelotti

Building modal.com.

Previously data & ML platform @ Canva; also Zendesk and Atlassian.

NYC, USA.

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Scaling to 1M concurrent sandboxes in seconds

modal.com·76 pts·thundergolfer·
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Failure numbers every programmer should know

thundergolfer.com·2 pts·thundergolfer·
0

Safetykit: A small collection of safety demos for human-in-the-loop scripts

thundergolfer.com·2 pts·thundergolfer·
0

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

youtube.com·14 pts·thundergolfer·
5

Capital in the 22nd Century

philiptrammell.substack.com·2 pts·thundergolfer·
0

Top personal blogs on Hacker News in 2025, by points

twitter.com·7 pts·thundergolfer·
2

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

thundergolfer.com·4 pts·thundergolfer·
0

Airbus issues major A320 recall due to software/radiation problem

reuters.com·13 pts·thundergolfer·
1

What Now? Handling Errors in Large Systems

brooker.co.za·17 pts·thundergolfer·
1

Copy Edit This (2016)

nytimes.com·2 pts·thundergolfer·
0

Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)

gregoryszorc.com·212 pts·thundergolfer·
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Transcribe speech 100x faster and 100x cheaper with open models

modal.com·4 pts·thundergolfer·
0

Celebrating 50 years of Microsoft – Bill Gates

gatesnotes.com·3 pts·thundergolfer·
0

A brief history of our serverless future (2024)

thundergolfer.com·1 pts·thundergolfer·
0

OpenAI expands Deep Research to all paying ChatGPT users

engadget.com·22 pts·thundergolfer·
5

The Complete History and Strategy of Rolex

acquired.fm·1 pts·thundergolfer·
0

Know Your Enemy: René Girard and the Right

dissentmagazine.org·2 pts·thundergolfer·
0

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

thundergolfer.com·1 pts·thundergolfer·
0

The case against CS Master's degrees

ozwrites.com·6 pts·thundergolfer·
2

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

asc.ox.ac.uk·22 pts·thundergolfer·
15

Beyond 'latency numbers every programmer should know'

thundergolfer.com·2 pts·thundergolfer·
0

An 'All Souls Examination' of the Machine

thundergolfer.com·2 pts·thundergolfer·
0

The Pull Request Self-Review

thundergolfer.com·2 pts·thundergolfer·
0

Beat GPT-4o at Python by searching with 100 dumb LLaMAs

modal.com·4 pts·thundergolfer·
1

Computers Are Fast (2024)

thundergolfer.com·3 pts·thundergolfer·
0

The Wonderful LLMs

thundergolfer.com·3 pts·thundergolfer·
0

How to catch cryptominers using syscall signatures

modal.com·3 pts·thundergolfer·
0

How to catch crypto miners using syscall signatures

modal.com·7 pts·thundergolfer·
1

How to beat proprietary embedding models with open-source

modal.com·6 pts·thundergolfer·
0

Computing Cultural Literacy

thundergolfer.com·1 pts·thundergolfer·
0
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