Hacker Wisdom

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We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...

https://everyuuid.com/

Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_Dead_People

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037923

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/03/they-said-i-dont-exist-but-i-am-here-one-womans-battle-to-prove-she-isnt-dead

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/16/romanian-court-tells-man-he-is-not-alive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEmfsmasjVA

What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?

https://fossil-scm.org

https://hyperclast.com/

Are we gonna back less powerful local LLMs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047722

What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?

https://figure.ai

What is the most exciting development in your field?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571847

Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

https://charmindustrial.com/

https://cs61.seas.harvard.edu/site/2025/

https://matthewgerring.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917314

Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/deep-blue/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUXHB5U-Vl4

Best Embedding Models?

https://corvi.careers/blog/vector-search-embedding-compression/

https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2

https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard

Why would we care about "extended time horizons" and LLMs?

https://arxiv.org/html/2503.14499v3

https://metr.org/time-horizons/

https://subq.ai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evSFeqTZdqs