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Thrilled to share that we have closed our $200M Series C.
Thank you to Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund for leading this round, along with Eclipse, Riot Ventures, Jane Street, Intel Capital, Counterpart, Friends and Family Capital and all of our additional investors.
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Thank you to Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund for leading this round, along with Eclipse, Riot Ventures, Jane Street, Intel Capital, Counterpart, Friends and Family Capital and all of our additional investors.
buff.ly/EIxngne
Our $200M Series C / Oxide
Raising our Series C round of financing
oxide.computer
February 10, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Thrilled to share that we have closed our $200M Series C.
Thank you to Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund for leading this round, along with Eclipse, Riot Ventures, Jane Street, Intel Capital, Counterpart, Friends and Family Capital and all of our additional investors.
buff.ly/EIxngne
Thank you to Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund for leading this round, along with Eclipse, Riot Ventures, Jane Street, Intel Capital, Counterpart, Friends and Family Capital and all of our additional investors.
buff.ly/EIxngne
Would love someone who knows about this stuff to write a deep dive into why React applications feel so bad in practice. Claude Code, GitHub, it feels like so many things React touches become unpleasant to use. Is it React? Commercial pressure? Some combination?
February 10, 2026 at 7:58 AM
Would love someone who knows about this stuff to write a deep dive into why React applications feel so bad in practice. Claude Code, GitHub, it feels like so many things React touches become unpleasant to use. Is it React? Commercial pressure? Some combination?
Oh wow this is spot on about Harry Potter
Initially found it a Susan Cooper/CS Lewis ripoff that lacked the guts to go truly folkloric or weird. Later came to sort of enjoy it, but especially as an unconscious sketch of the contradictory myths within which British social politics are trapped
February 10, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Oh wow this is spot on about Harry Potter
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NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...
February 9, 2026 at 11:38 PM
NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...
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I’ve said before that Adam Sandler‘s character in uncut gems is supposed to be a degenerate gambling addict because of the insane parlays he places, now that’s sold as a feature for everyone to enjoy
Remember watching Silver Linings Playbook where you learn a four-leg parlay is language exclusive to compulsive gambling addicts? And now it's just sold every 90 seconds on network television as the new national pastime?
February 9, 2026 at 2:15 AM
I’ve said before that Adam Sandler‘s character in uncut gems is supposed to be a degenerate gambling addict because of the insane parlays he places, now that’s sold as a feature for everyone to enjoy
Opus knows how to drive SCCS! neat
February 8, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Opus knows how to drive SCCS! neat
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The reason it's gone up is because they made a different market for whether the Jesus market will reach 5c at any point, so people are buying Y on the Jesus market in the hopes that Y holders in the derivative market will pump the Jesus market to 5c.
February 8, 2026 at 9:34 PM
The reason it's gone up is because they made a different market for whether the Jesus market will reach 5c at any point, so people are buying Y on the Jesus market in the hopes that Y holders in the derivative market will pump the Jesus market to 5c.
Mewgenics looking pretty good. Can't wait to sink another 2000 hours into an Edmund game
February 8, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Mewgenics looking pretty good. Can't wait to sink another 2000 hours into an Edmund game
how many folks here have accidentally deleted databases in prod after they were told not to? I have!
February 8, 2026 at 4:31 AM
how many folks here have accidentally deleted databases in prod after they were told not to? I have!
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(please never implement polls bluesky)
February 7, 2026 at 10:55 PM
(please never implement polls bluesky)
I wonder how many people think of LLMs like this, as tools to help you achieve goals. Having skills to write plans to do coordinated crate upgrades is not the most common of an LLM, but the combination of determinism (the code has to build) and non-determinism (lots of local quirks) works well
here's the skill if you're curious
SKILL.md
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gist.github.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:14 AM
I wonder how many people think of LLMs like this, as tools to help you achieve goals. Having skills to write plans to do coordinated crate upgrades is not the most common of an LLM, but the combination of determinism (the code has to build) and non-determinism (lots of local quirks) works well
Well I had Claude make a plan to write a skill to make a plan to do a large-scale coordinated update of a crate across repos. Seems to have worked
February 7, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Well I had Claude make a plan to write a skill to make a plan to do a large-scale coordinated update of a crate across repos. Seems to have worked
anyway, did a tiny amount of sprucing up
February 7, 2026 at 12:43 AM
anyway, did a tiny amount of sprucing up
I've done so much technical writing in the last 2 months that I have zero energy left for blogging :(
February 7, 2026 at 12:15 AM
I've done so much technical writing in the last 2 months that I have zero energy left for blogging :(
FWIW (as someone who has written FOSS for basically my entire career and gotten paid for it) I don't think it leads to good business models per se. The way to make money on open source is to use it as a vehicle to solve some kind of larger problem
economists ran the numbers and, uh, it's bad!
Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
www.404media.co
February 6, 2026 at 12:50 AM
FWIW (as someone who has written FOSS for basically my entire career and gotten paid for it) I don't think it leads to good business models per se. The way to make money on open source is to use it as a vehicle to solve some kind of larger problem
Opus 4.6 seems to follow my prose style instructions markedly better than 4.5
February 5, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Opus 4.6 seems to follow my prose style instructions markedly better than 4.5
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It's darkly funny that the US thought economic engagement with China would bring them democracy, but instead its brought us inspiration for more surveillance and more demanding work culture.
February 5, 2026 at 9:19 PM
It's darkly funny that the US thought economic engagement with China would bring them democracy, but instead its brought us inspiration for more surveillance and more demanding work culture.
Leave it to American work culture to embrace 9-9-6 rather than pushing against it as originally intended
February 5, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Leave it to American work culture to embrace 9-9-6 rather than pushing against it as originally intended
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remembered this existed and started laughing uncontrollably again
February 5, 2026 at 8:41 AM
remembered this existed and started laughing uncontrollably again
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$ jj describe -m "Hello, world!"
February 4, 2026 at 9:09 PM
$ jj describe -m "Hello, world!"
This is what I've been taught too — assume anyone standing 90 degrees in each direction of the muzzle is going to be killed
My mother’s father & my father (both US army combat vets), taught me this version (among many other things about guns):
1. It’s always loaded.
2. Finger off the trigger till ready to shoot.
3. Do not point the gun at anything you are not comfortable with killing.
4. Know what’s behind your target
1. It’s always loaded.
2. Finger off the trigger till ready to shoot.
3. Do not point the gun at anything you are not comfortable with killing.
4. Know what’s behind your target
Three rules in FBI firearm training:
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
February 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
This is what I've been taught too — assume anyone standing 90 degrees in each direction of the muzzle is going to be killed
Can't believe this is a thing that needs to be explained to people
Because instinctual feelings often end up clouding one's understanding of things, not enlightening it. For example I have an instinctual feeling that the world is just. But I understand that the just world fallacy is the single most evil concept in existence due to training and knowledge
February 4, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Can't believe this is a thing that needs to be explained to people
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