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The Curious Case of Retro Demo Scene Graphics

https://www.datagubbe.se/aipixels/

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Hacker NewsAug 29, 2025

The Curious Case of Flunking My Anthropic Interview (Again)

https://taylor.town/flunking-anthropic

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The Curious Case of Flunking My Anthropic Interview (Again)

I didn't misclick any buttons. My best wasn't good enough. I'm not good enough.

Hacker NewsMar 29, 2025

The Curious Case of Beam CPU Usage (2019)

https://stressgrid.com/blog/beam_cpu_usage/

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The Curious Case of BEAM CPU Usage

While benchmarking Go vs Elixir vs Node, we discovered that Elixir (running on the BEAM virtual machine) had much higher CPU usage than Go, and yet its responsiveness remained excellent. Some of our readers suggested that busy waiting might be responsible for this behavior.