Links

Links for Mar 26, 2026

1. "Against the Smartphone Theory of Everything"
2. "Red states get Waymos. Blue states get studies."
3. "Lessons for Singapore from Trumps War in Iran"
4. "Hints for Distributed Systems Design"
5. "Catching Crumbs from the Table"

   Ted Chiang's "Catching Crumbs from the Table," a 1 page sci fi short story on humans learning from superintelligent metahumans

6. "Notes from the SaaS Funeral"
7. "Stripe Projects | Provision and Manage Services from the CLI"

   Key glue work for better agentic eng (especially greenfield work)

8. "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced" "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced | Hacker News"
9. "Running Tesla Model 3" "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars | Hacker News"
10. "What happens when you clone mice for 20 years straight?"
11. "Quantization from the ground up | ngrok blog"
12. "From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures" "From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures | Hacker News"