byteCoder — Things of Interest to Bill Heyman

sequoia put out a blog post called "services is the new software" look at this map of over $1T in services being replaced by AI agents https://t.co/aFmDGhysfl

Mar 31, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentAI / Machine LearningCrypto / Blockchain

Huh, so that's why text is called a string https://t.co/TaZB9wqocE

Mar 31, 2026 X Web DevelopmentCrypto / Blockchain

These circles aren’t moving at all, yet your brain swears they’re spinning wildly! Math and stripes just broke your eyes with this wild motion illusion. Can't unsee it? https://t.co/iJPI5uRDGG

Mar 31, 2026 X Web DevelopmentScience / Math / PhysicsAI / Machine LearningCrypto / Blockchain

Your brain is telling you there are more dots on the right side. The reality is that there are just as many dots on the left side. (The Extinction Illusion) https://t.co/V9u6DSQX3W

Mar 30, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentAI / Machine LearningCrypto / Blockchain

Top 100 of 80s games or not? Personally, I think Archon (1983 by Free Fall Associates) is still one of the best and most unique games ever made. And above all, even 40+ years later it still has an in

Mar 30, 2026 X Web DevelopmentGaming / Retro ComputingCrypto / Blockchain

Major cheat code for life: Increase your recovery speed. You will get rejected. You will lose money. You will embarrass yourself. The goal isn't to avoid the fall. It's to shorten the time between th

Mar 30, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentDesign / UX / VisualizationCrypto / BlockchainSecurity / Privacy

I know you're all getting mighty tired of seeing typography on your timeline today! But here's a pretext.js demo that (hopefully) isn't a crime against justification and indentation. https://t.co/Vwz

Mar 29, 2026 X Web DevelopmentDesign / UX / VisualizationAI / Machine LearningCrypto / Blockchain

This little illuminated dragon is very happy about Pretext. He's too busy having fun to care about people's "hot takes" on how "it's not that special." (This little dragon also only works on deskto

Mar 29, 2026 X Web Development

The patterns of trigonometry https://t.co/YgUqLSLqWs

Mar 29, 2026 X Web DevelopmentCrypto / Blockchain

this is what it looks like to traverse all the zip codes sequentially: https://t.co/PwhO3c7pin

Mar 28, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentCrypto / Blockchain

The inner life we’re trading away

Big Think — The inner life we’re trading away Christof Koch smiles as he recalls a 2025 WIRED piece he recently read. Journalist Sam Apple spent a weekend at a remote Airbnb retreat with three couple

Mar 27, 2026 Feedly Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingApple / macOS / iOSAI / Machine Learning

Hacker News @Hacker News

Byte Magazine Archive 1975 to 1995 Comments

Mar 27, 2026 X Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading

The Last Gasps of the Rent Seeking Class

Lobsters — The Last Gasps of the Rent Seeking Class Comments

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Hacker News @Hacker News

Last gasps of the rent seeking class? Comments

Mar 27, 2026 X Programming (General)Web Development

A CEO from one of our portfolio companies shared this with their team. I’m re-sharing it with their permission, because it resonated and reflects what all founders and CEOs should be communicating. -

Mar 27, 2026 X Web DevelopmentProductivity / Career / BusinessCrypto / Blockchain

In 2019, MIT professor Patrick Winston gave a legendary 1-hour lecture called “How to Speak.” It has 18M+ views for a reason. His frameworks: • Your ideas are like your children • The 5-minute rule

Mar 27, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingAI / Machine LearningCrypto / Blockchain

github.com via Yogthos @Lobsters

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Mar 26, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentSystems / Low-Level / OSAI / Machine Learning

$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks using open-source AI system

Lobsters — $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks using open-source AI system Comments

Mar 26, 2026 Feedly Programming (General)Web DevelopmentSystems / Low-Level / OSAI / Machine Learning

A MIT professor taught the same lecture every January for 40 years, and every single time it was standing room only. I watched it at 2am and it completely rewired how I think about communication. Hi

Mar 26, 2026 X Web DevelopmentCrypto / Blockchain

Neat. This will make things more interesting. I'm launching a free complete curriculum built on heritage learning materials that made America great 100 years ago. Any school, learning pod, or homesc

Mar 26, 2026 X Web DevelopmentDesign / UX / VisualizationCrypto / Blockchain

Great software engineers aren’t just hammering out code with AI anymore. They’re now building the systems to automatically write and review code.

Mar 26, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentDesign / UX / VisualizationAI / Machine LearningCrypto / Blockchain

In the 1920s, researchers walked into Western Electric's factory in Chicago to test a simple theory: Better lighting = better productivity. They cranked up the lights. Productivity soared. Then th

Mar 25, 2026 X Web DevelopmentProductivity / Career / BusinessAI / Machine LearningCrypto / Blockchain

I use Word when I'm writing, but it has never been as good as the old WordPerfect. I write longhand when I’m planning the story, but once the outline is finished I type. Here’s a page from my notebook

Mar 25, 2026 X Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingCrypto / Blockchain

What people will soon realize is that the Singularity is not near, there will be no 20% permanently unemployed underclass, their will be no AI existential apocalypse and AI will not be doing all the j

Mar 25, 2026 X Web DevelopmentAI / Machine LearningCrypto / Blockchain

𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗞𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀 Knuth is now 88 years old. He wrote The Art of Computer Programming star

Mar 25, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingCrypto / Blockchain

Heading to Texas tomorrow to meet the amazing folks who created the greatest public school reading list I have ever seen. All students read these texts in their entirety. This is how we save civiliz

Mar 24, 2026 X Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingCrypto / Blockchain

Isaac Asmiov on the one rule he followed in writing: "I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing—to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbol

Mar 24, 2026 X Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingProductivity / Career / BusinessCrypto / Blockchain

> watching classmates get AI jobs > they're throwing around "transformers" and "embeddings" &g

> watching classmates get AI jobs > they're throwing around "transformers" and "embeddings" > I nod like I understand > I don't understand shit > been faking it for 4 months, got nowhere > found Stanf

Mar 24, 2026 X Web DevelopmentAI / Machine LearningCrypto / Blockchain

When PCs started becoming ubiquitous, many futurists imagined that everyone would become a programmer, programming their own custom software. Because why not? In principle they could, so why wouldn't

Mar 24, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentDesign / UX / VisualizationCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingAI / Machine LearningCrypto / Blockchain

Asked the AI to make a fun slide about potential de-skilling from AI use. Need to specify more clearly what I mean by "fun". https://t.co/yA1vGZMfvk

Mar 24, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentAI / Machine LearningCrypto / Blockchain

Famously (there is a beautiful Works in Progress piece on this) in 2016, Geoffrey Hinton told an audience in Toronto that medical schools should stop training radiologists, since AI would soon outperf

Mar 24, 2026 X Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingAI / Machine LearningCrypto / Blockchain

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Mar 23, 2026 X Web DevelopmentCrypto / Blockchain

decided to stop using modern Office and installed Office 2010 instead seeing these views make me so sad everything is so clean, compact, efficient https://t.co/qNz4ID8dIV

Mar 23, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentCrypto / Blockchain

As I continue research for my Computing documentary, I am dismayed by the volume of AI slop through which I must wade, vomitus chunks of misinformation amplified by mindless multitudes of agentic slop

Mar 23, 2026 X Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingAI / Machine LearningMaker / DIY / HardwareCrypto / Blockchain

The moment the West decided evidence no longer mattered — if it got in the way of utopia. Melanie Phillips (former Guardian journalist): “Objective evidence was cast aside because it was too inconven

Mar 22, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentCrypto / Blockchain

John Taylor Gatto was named New York State Teacher of the Year. Upon receiving the award, he quit and spent the rest of his life writing devastating critiques of the educational system he had mastered

Mar 22, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentDesign / UX / VisualizationCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingCrypto / Blockchain

possibly the sharpest VC marketing move I've seen... @garrytan ships 15 claude code skills, the repo hits 37k stars and 4.6k forks, then -- only after delivering real value - drops the pitch, bravo 👏

Mar 22, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentProductivity / Career / BusinessAI / Machine LearningCrypto / Blockchain

Resolving boredom through our incessant attention to our devices has, according to New York Times bestselling author @arthurbrooks, also brought an end to our willingness to let our minds wander – inh

Mar 22, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingCrypto / Blockchain

Just stumbled upon a 1000 good books for children list from 1914. Link in comments. https://t.co/7gpzs3mQT0

Mar 22, 2026 X Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingCrypto / Blockchain

@euronationalizt You misunderstand minimalism. It’s not self-denial or living without. It’s about getting rid of noise that doesn’t bring you joy to gorge on what does. It’s mildly hedonistic and it

Mar 22, 2026 X Web DevelopmentProgramming Languages / CS TheoryCrypto / Blockchain

In 1999, calculating 3D lighting required doing 1 / sqrt(x) millions of times a second. CPUs back then would completely choke on this math. so the developers of Quake III used this literal black magi

Mar 21, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentDesign / UX / VisualizationSystems / Low-Level / OSScience / Math / PhysicsAI / Machine LearningCrypto / Blockchain

C. S. Lewis’s advice to a young schoolgirl on how to become a better writer: https://t.co/Lzh6Vva1Gb

Mar 21, 2026 X Web DevelopmentCrypto / Blockchain

Happy “Agony of Defeat Guy” Day if you’re observing it. 56 years ago today, March 21, 1970, a 22-year old Slovenian ski jumper Vinko Bogataj took the iconic spill at the World Ski Jumping Champions

Mar 21, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentHealth / Fitness / LifestyleCrypto / Blockchain

It appears circular, but the balls are really moving in straight lines https://t.co/HawsQTlwIZ

Mar 21, 2026 X Web DevelopmentAI / Machine LearningData / Databases / InfrastructureCrypto / Blockchain

"In 1994, American literary critic and Yale professor Harold Bloom published the book The Western Canon. In it, he defended the very concept of a "canon" by discussing 26 of its central writers. At

Mar 20, 2026 X Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingCrypto / Blockchain

Here are 13 things learned after making a big push to integrate AI into our companies: 1. We haven’t replaced a single external SaaS tool with something we built internally. 2. We have refrained fro

Mar 20, 2026 X Web DevelopmentDesign / UX / VisualizationProductivity / Career / BusinessAI / Machine LearningCrypto / Blockchain

I ACCIDENTALLY OPENED MY CTO'S PERSONAL NOTION WORKSPACE AND NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY HE SHIPS 5X FASTER THAN THE REST OF US. He is 48. I am 26. He manages 3 products and never works past 5 PM. I work 10

Mar 20, 2026 X Programming (General)Web DevelopmentScience / Math / PhysicsCrypto / Blockchain

How the children's books industry works: 1. People are way less likely to read children's books on a Kindle. 2. Children's books generally have a longer shelf lives than adult books. If they're a hi

Mar 19, 2026 X Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingCrypto / Blockchain

A remarkably consistent set of values that Steve Jobs held dear: https://t.co/CdIZRShsVP

Mar 19, 2026 X Web DevelopmentCrypto / Blockchain

One of the loneliest and most brutal stretches as a founder is holding unbreakable belief that you'll make it... when you have literally nothing to show for it. 2–4 years of: - Zero traction -

Mar 19, 2026 X Web DevelopmentProductivity / Career / BusinessCrypto / Blockchain