Tim Sweeney is taking another shot at Steam. The Epic Games CEO claims Valve has “held gaming back for years” by locking PC games into Steamworks’ ecosystem. Sweeney argues that Steam’s social features make it harder for players on PC to communicate cross-platform while also criticizing Steam’s 30% cut. However, that claim isn’t completely accurate. Valve’s Steam Datagram Relay can also be used across other platforms.

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BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg. Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible. This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.

Software engineering students are learning the fundamentals of programming in college right now. Imagine the shock when they get to the real world and learn that nobody writes or reads code anymore.

There are many ways to kill performance in a multithreaded program. My favorite one is false sharing, because you can get 10x performance just by moving some bytes around. So let's look into it. 00:00 - When multiple threads is not even faster 04:23 - CPU L1 cache primer 09:40 - Getting ALL the performance 15:35 - Looking at disassembler 20:29 - How to find cache line address 22:38 - false sharing in disassembly 25:00 - closing words

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An internet where every company has to pay big bucks to Anthropic and OpenAI every month just to avoid destruction by ever-present swarms of rogue AI agents is not nearly as economically valuable as the free internet we've enjoyed up to now.

Brace yourself. Just got off the phone with a friend building in SF. What's coming next in AI will make everything so far look like peanuts. There's a real chance most white collar jobs are gone within 6 months. Most people have no idea what’s coming.

The more I dig into other data structures and algorithms, the more I find that my reliance on hash tables for tons of stuff was ignorance, not efficiency. I’m on a mission to remove as many hash tables as possible.

Phantom Blade Zero brings the speed and spectacle of kungfu cinema to life in an epic journey through the world of Kungfupunk. Get ready to draw your blade. Pre-load: Oct 27, 10 am Beijing Time / Oct 26, 7 pm PT Official game launch: Oct 29, 10 am Beijing Time / Oct 28, 7 pm PT One more thing: the PS5 physical edition arrives in 2027! Thank you for your patience and for supporting us every step of the way. See you in the Wulin!

I built bbtree, the foundation of databases and filesystems, and the fastest concurrent btree. Code: github.com/XiangpengHao/bbtr… Blog post & demo: bbtree.xiangpeng.systems/

AI is killing 10,000-plus jobs per month, per Fortune.

AI is an intelligence lever. Meaning the smarter you are, the smarter it makes you.