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swyx @swyx.io · 26/09/2025

came here from HN. love your posts so much man. i'm interested in building a "new HN" on atproto. went to the website. disappointed to find that there's no developer info about it lol.

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swyx @swyx.io · 05/12/2024

if you only learn 1 thing from philosophy 101 i hope it is deontology vs consequentialism

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swyx @swyx.io · 24/11/2024

wat in all things unholy is taint

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swyx @swyx.io · 24/11/2024

hot take: this is not any better than getServerSideProps direct db access in server components is great dx for hacky starters and then you’ll want to undo it more and more as your app grows and needs o11y/security/auth/caching etc theres one killer app for RSCs - reducing js bundles. stick to that

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swyx @swyx.io · 20/11/2024

virgin ai researchoor: > argmax benchmarks for bold rows > suffix CoT model with “o1” to game lemmings > y axis starts at 70 > begins prompt paper citing vaswani et al > github only has readme.md chad ben affleck: > llms are library of vectors of meaning and transformers that interpret in context

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swyx @swyx.io · 19/11/2024

> Amodei has said companies will spend $100 million to train a bleeding-edge model this year and that amount will hit $100 billion in the coming years. did i miss something? gpt4 was $500m right? we should already be in the billion dollar model territory?

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swyx @swyx.io · 19/11/2024

ai twitter may have died because random slop like “GPT-o1” somehow gets tens of thousands of views but sincere earnest papers and blogposts get crickets

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swyx @swyx.io · 19/11/2024

ok bluesky i apologize i was unfamiliar with your fame bsky.app/profile/maos...

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swyx @swyx.io · 16/11/2024

received my daily affirmation from uber this morning

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swyx @swyx.io · 16/11/2024

honest qtn: why the f is eink 1 OoM more expensive than tv?

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swyx @swyx.io · 16/11/2024

hey browser nerds ( @chriscoyier.net ? @nerdy.dev ? @una.im ?) can we make font-size: max a thing? for a11y but also straight up this is a thing people want news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4213...

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swyx @swyx.io · 12/11/2024

hooks were goated tho

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swyx @swyx.io · 10/11/2024

run, swim, lunch and nap with a friend today. a really blessed day in sf

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swyx @swyx.io · 10/11/2024

apparently sama’s realtors are, i kid you not, temu altmans as well

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swyx @swyx.io · 10/11/2024

the dating apps have started hyper targeting me lol

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swyx @swyx.io · 06/11/2024

bro wtf theres gonna be an agatha spinoff youtu.be/GWC9es6Fx-E?... so a spinoff (death) of a spinoff (agatha) of a spinoff (wandavision) jac schaeffef might be marvel’s filoni/favreau

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swyx @swyx.io · 06/11/2024

i’m very sorry to my liberal friends here. i think theres a lot of reform to be done within your party and more broadly more connection rather than antagonism with the >50% of the country you profoundly disagree with. i dont get a vote but i feel for you tonight.

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swyx @swyx.io · 05/11/2024

in my 20s i had a female friend where we were not romantically involved in but somehow got in the zone that we could text each other the most unhinged flirts and abuses and it would not be taken seriously and i miss that so much

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swyx @swyx.io · 05/11/2024

biggest suprise in this excellent nextjs conf talk is her quote that she didnt use any useState and useEffect in this app youtu.be/CvAySC5ex9c?... ofc some of that is “hidden” inside shadcn but its remarkably how next and react’s apis are evolving in server first world. also sad at learnjng curve

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swyx @swyx.io · 05/11/2024

worked on my first “screenshot essay” today

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swyx @swyx.io · 04/11/2024

reason people are unhappy w 3.5 Haiku's price: even if if were the same Elo as 3 Opus, it is still about 100 points dumber than it needs to be to be relevant, at this price.

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swyx @swyx.io · 04/11/2024

Looots of blowback on 3.5 Haiku's 4x price increase decision today, esp as 3.5 Haiku does not come with image input support. a rare miss from anthropic.

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swyx @swyx.io · 04/11/2024

it saddens me greatly that i love kids and family and may never experience this. a joy i can’t feel is a loss i cant even comprehend i have. and that somehow makes it infinitely sadder.

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swyx @swyx.io · 04/11/2024

absolutely not ever on any planet any multiverse ever going to make it

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swyx @swyx.io · 03/11/2024

you can literally just do things

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swyx @swyx.io · 04/07/2024

TIL that @danabra.mov could have moved to the US React team if H1B rules werent so strict

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swyx @swyx.io · 29/06/2024

officially reached “dyed my hair black/brown to hide all the emerging white hairs” old

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swyx @swyx.io · 26/05/2023

guess ill have to wait like 5 years for apple to get its shit together

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swyx @swyx.io · 16/05/2023

1m views on smol developer so far 😱 honestly this was just scratching an itch i didnt expect much traction so i tweeted it on a sunday night. now not sure what to do

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swyx @swyx.io · 07/05/2023

a year ago i decided i was spending too much on haircuts so i bought a $100 razor and started learning how to cut my own hair pleased to report im still on that grind. pictures taken 2 days apart

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swyx @swyx.io · 28/04/2023

hey dev bskyers- ask for donations for your bsky invites! don’t just give them away! sometimes people just need a little push to donate to a cause they like, and the nonprofits need the money!

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