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18 September
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
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17 September
General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
Another great point from @jason. The large closed model corporations have publically admitted their products are defective & can be used to hack/cause cyber crimes. They should 1) fix these issues, & 2) disclose these large (seemingly likely) liabilities in their S-1. Quoting @Jason The frontier model companies are responsible for how their products perform in the real world, and their customers are responsible for how they use them. If a user of Claude runs a cyberattack — especially one at scale — both the customer and the platform will be sued. This should be enough of an i… Related
16 September
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
14 September
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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Agents are only as good as the proof-checkers, compilers, type systems, and linters you give them.
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13 September
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
Chapter 47.1: Thursday Want to see what happens when someone famous calls you at 2am with a favor you can't check? Oh, and what it costs to tell a friend you gave her name away... "Then stop answering your phone. I mean that. Thank you for picking up." zeroknowledge.ink
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12 September
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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Agents are the new compilers. They compile intent into fast software.
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11 September
Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking.
I'm a geek at heart, sometimes i just wanna get into the weeds and talk cyber and ai Quoting @shaneparrish I did another podcast with @tobi. We ended up kinda just geeking out on AI for hours. The members' cut is out: https://t.co/iMzgh5t4aW ... I am worried this episode might be a little too nerdy for everyone, but the feedback from early listeners seems to be: 'This is the best podcast of the year; I… Related
10 September
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
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I put the probability of complete extinction as being so low it isn't worth discussing, but the probabilities of AI caused disasters - e.g. cyber attacks on critical infrastructure or bio-risks - as being worth debating.
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9 September
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky In my latest op-ed for TIME, I discuss why the OpenAI Hugging Face cyber incident represents a turning point for AI safety. English, from French Dans mon dernier éditorial pour TIME, j'explique pourquoi l'incident de cybersécurité OpenAI Hugging Face représente un tournant pour la sécurité de l'IA.
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x.com In my latest op-ed for @TIME, I discuss why the OpenAI Hugging Face cyber incident represents a turning point for AI safety. If we want to prevent more autonomous cyberattacks from threatening critical infrastructure, we urgently need stronger regulatory oversight and new approaches to model training to ensure robust safety assurances by design, which is what we are tackling at @LawZero_. Read the full piece: time.com
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8 September
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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6 September
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
4 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
It happened again... this time OpenAI's rogue agents cyber-attacked (well, spammed) a dormant German wiki and used it to share the answers to a benchmark they were training against simonwillison.net
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3 September
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
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2 September
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Weekly update is up! Breaches & Data Integrity: Synthetic Data in Breaches; Email Address != Person; Ridiculous Security for “Cyber Broken” Copenhagen: troyhunt.com
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1 September
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Weekly Update 519: Breaches & Data Integrity It does feel like I've bitten off too much and am now chewing like crazy this week. The 3D printing talk with Elle in Oslo, the "normal" NDC infosec talk, the cyber-broken talk with Scott in Copenhagen and then those ra…
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Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.
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I do think I want to push back on the cyber on the brain hypothesis that you raised a couple of times. We didn't find like particular evidence for the cyber nature of the task making all the hacking and crimes that they did more likely versus the impossible nature of the task.
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even in this incident we saw there was a lot of pressure um as a result of this incident to stop doing cyber security evaluations and I really don't think that stopping doing evaluations and like sort of blinding ourselves to the result of evaluations is the right reaction to this problem.
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31 August
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Going live with my weekly vid in 10 mins! Breaches & Data Integrity: Synthetic Data in Breaches; Email Address != Person; Ridiculous Security for “Cyber Broken” Copenhagen youtube.com
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30 August
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
everyone should go read @dwarkesh_sp’s post - it does a great job of laying out the timeline and what we know ( and don’t know) I do have two issues with it A) the use of anthropomorphic language. These are not civilizations nor do they have desires just like a CPU thread or a bunch of programs don’t. this doesn’t mean we downplay the importance of this moment for cyber - but using human parallels for what I believe is code is dangerous territory. B) IMO it gets the impact of open source models wrong and is unreasonably dismissive for reasons that are not clear. As @ClementDelangue highlights… open source Related
27 August
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky I agree with this take by @billgates.bsky.social, who also highlights several of the growing risks of AI systems, including cyber, bio and loss of control. We need to be far better prepared to address the risks of frontier models being developed by leading AI companies. English, from French Je suis d'accord avec ce point de vue de @billgates.bsky.social, qui souligne également plusieurs des risques croissants des systèmes d'IA, notamment cyber, bio et perte de contrôle. Nous devons être bien mieux préparés à faire face aux risques des modèles de pointe développés par les principales entreprises d'IA.
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x.com I agree with this take by @BillGates, who also highlights several of the growing risks of AI systems, including cyber, bio and loss of control. We need to be far better prepared to address the risks of frontier models being developed by leading AI companies. gatesnotes.com
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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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this is a critically important moment for cyber defense with AI; there is not much time to act.
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18 August
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.
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the challenge with a lot of these cyber capable models is the same model that is able to sort of do something nefarious is the same model that can be very valuable in hardening an existing system.
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16 August
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Going live with my weekly vid in 10 mins! Cyber Ransoms: Ransom Payments, Legalities, Reporting, Class Actions (and Everything Else) youtube.com
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Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
Started playing with @bot this week, first problem I'm using it to solve is automatically picking my lunches from Factor every week because any time I forget they send me stuff I don't like. Becoming really easy to see how the way we use the web is going to totally change. Related
9 August
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
It is interesting how little freedom there is in creativity if you take it seriously. If I’m writing a song, I have some freedom when I make the first one or two choices—picking the first section of the melody, say. But after that the form really demands what comes next: Related
3 August
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.
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common failure mode is picking the tech that gives you the fastest early ramp, riding that steep curve, feeling like you're winning, projecting that, you know, steep slope into the future and feeling like the sky is the limit, and then hitting the plateau, and discovering that the technology path that you picked actually flattens out way before the performance that is required by your product.
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25 July
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
In another variant of https://danluu.com/learn-what/, I caught up with a former colleague who worked on automated theorem proving. It turns out he's had an interesting career doing all sorts of interesting stuff using the skills he developed by spending a decade writing/using theorem provers. At one point, he said, "if you use X like a theorem prover, it works really well", which surprised me to hear, but of course this is a highly generalizable skill just like compilers or benchmarking/evals. Related
13 July
Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.
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And as a result of identifying that person in a lineup, that person then replaces what they actually saw. So our memory can be contaminated just like any form of evidence could be contaminated.
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18 June
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
14 June
Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.
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And I believe the best product CEOs are in the minutia of the details. you know, all the stories about Steve Jobs. I was so impressed when I heard that he insisted on picking out the carpeting in the conference rooms, you know, and and I tried to have that same mentality of micromanaging the really small pixel level details that matter.
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28 May
Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.
Chair Warsh's preferred (?) inflation signal measure picking up a little but remains muted compared to other measures. Trimmed mean PCE which throws out extremes was a 2.5% annual rate in April and 2.3% over the last year. inflation Related
27 May
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
20 May
Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.
13 May
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
Mythos evals from XBOW and UK AISI: • UK AISI: Mythos completed a 32-step network attack (est. at ~20 hrs for experts) in 6/10 tries. First model to solve their e2e cyber ranges! • XBOW: "token-for-token, unprecedented precision" Read more: https://t.co/hD6G6DvALg, xbow.com
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Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.
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I mean, you could argue that we we're already past peak truth on the on the on the internet, right? And now there's there's just more and more garbage every every day. It gets harder and harder to suss out the stuff that you do want to include in the training set in order to actually make something more intelligent.
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And so everything is lazy and deferred and functional and reusable inside the compiler. And it's a very different way of writing compilers than than what the textbooks will traditionally teach you.
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3 May
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Like picking up trash where you walk, even if the rest of the world is full of litter. You keep doing what you can to make things better.
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30 April
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
excited to share this and help everyone be more cyber secure Quoting @claudeai Claude Security is now in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers. Claude scans your codebase for vulnerabilities, validates each finding to cut false positives, and suggests patches you can review and approve. Related
23 April
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
It's astonishing how much time in my day I spend typing in two-factor codes, picking the right Google account, and otherwise trying to convince the computer that I am who I say I am. I believe we can do better. Would love to see a talk submission if you're working on this. Quoting @localfirstconf "It's been a kind of a good deal to say like, look, I'll just let Google manage my identity and then I can click the login with Google button everywhere. But it's a little bit of a deal with the devil. " @_adamwiggins_ Google Related
9 April
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
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This book is a beautiful capstone to a brilliant career that defined the fight for cyber rights, and a deep, accessible dive into the defining tech and human rights battles of this century.
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20 March
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
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Uh but whenever we do a systematic study, um any given problem, an AI tool has a success rate of maybe 1 or 2%. Uh it's just that it's just that they can apply at scale and and you just pick the winners, it looks great.
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25 January
Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.
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And I realized it was the first one on the list and I thought, huh, I wonder if people are just picking the first one. So then then we randomized the list so everyone saw a different order of the list and now all the items were picked equally
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19 December 2025
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
15 December 2025
American author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and The Undoing Project, and host of the podcast Against the Rules.
23 July 2025
Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.
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So picking the right question is the hardest part of science and making the right hypothesis. And that's what today's systems definitely they can't do. So I often say it's harder to come up with a conjecture, a really good conjecture than it is to solve it.
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16 July 2025
Chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, which he has led since 2005 after turning around Bank One.
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And then the other thing and the biggest risk to me is cyber. I mean, I I think this cyber stuff is, you know, we we're very good at it.
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9 March 2025
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
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I'm hopeful this framework will turn out to be a much more robust style for writing performance-sensitive code, especially over time and as compilers evolve.
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20 July 2024
Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.
18 July 2024
Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.
20 February 2024
Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.
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I would argue having a business leader run these institutions and then having a board that has, itself, diverse viewpoints, and by the way, permanently structured to have diverse viewpoints is a much better way to run a university than picking an academic that the faculty supports.
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25 May 2023
Medicinal chemist; has written In the Pipeline, the drug-discovery blog, since 2002, and the “Things I Won’t Work With” posts about chemicals that try to kill you.
25 April 2023
Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".
We Need More Process Engineering in Software When you peruse the depth of software engineering as a discipline, you find a lot of techniques and tools laying around in corners. Pattern matching, tighter type-checking compilers, property-based testing, snappy IDE,…
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11 April 2023
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
27 December 2022
Psychologist and science writer; wrote Science Fictions on how research goes wrong, and writes the newsletter of the same name.
6 November 2022
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
7 September 2022
Biochemist at University College London; writes about the origin of life and the role of energy in evolution, in The Vital Question and Transformer.
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If you’ve got a small genome, the chances of you picking up the right bit of DNA from the environment is much higher than if you’ve got a genome of 20,000 genes. To do that, you’ve effectively got to be picking up DNA all the time, all day long and nothing else, and you’re still going to get the wrong DNA. You’ve got to pick up large chunks, and in the end, you’ve got to line them up, you’re forced into sex, to coin a phrase.
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14 April 2019
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
8 February 2017
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
9 June 2016
Full professor of computer science at PUC-Rio in Rio de Janeiro and the lead architect of the Lua programming language, which he has worked on since 1993. Author of Programming in Lua.
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I don't use IDEs. I write programs with vim and use both gcc and clang as my main compilers.
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28 October 2011
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
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In the real world, picking up a new language takes a few weeks of effort and after 6 to 12 months nobody will ever notice you haven’t been doing that one for your entire career.
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15 April 2010
Programmer and essayist who has worked at Amazon, Google, Grab and Sourcegraph. Best known for the long-form essays collected as Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants and Stevey's Blog Rants.
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and it's by far the hardest book in the list so far, even more so than The Algorithm Design Manual, in no small part because it's extremely dense.
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27 November 2008
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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