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Matt Busel

One-person studio (Tensorust). 8 iPhone apps live, 69 Rust crates, O'BLOCK on Steam. I write up builds with the real code and real numbers. tensorust.com

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AI Engineer @ Tensorust

Musk showed Europe the kill switch. 74% of its top sites have one

Musk showed Europe the kill switch. 74% of its top sites have one

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Kimi K3.1 Pro costs Sonnet money. Open K3 sells 62% cheaper

Kimi K3.1 Pro costs Sonnet money. Open K3 sells 62% cheaper

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OpenClaw got 591 advisories. 1 in 4 top npm installs is the real hole

OpenClaw got 591 advisories. 1 in 4 top npm installs is the real hole

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Get featured as a solo dev: 9 features in 28 days, 2 moved a number

Get featured as a solo dev: 9 features in 28 days, 2 moved a number

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Bonds just broke 2007's peak. AI is this cycle's housing boom

Bonds just broke 2007's peak. AI is this cycle's housing boom

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Borrow Balatro's UI grammar, not its cards: 5 builds in one night

Borrow Balatro's UI grammar, not its cards: 5 builds in one night

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Xbox's new cloud cap can't finish 42% of its own games

Xbox's new cloud cap can't finish 42% of its own games

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PHP's RCE fix is 13 hours old. 235 top sites can never get it

PHP's RCE fix is 13 hours old. 235 top sites can never get it

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LiteLLM got backdoored again. Check if it took your keys in 5 min

LiteLLM got backdoored again. Check if it took your keys in 5 min

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2,077 claimed our free Steam game. 16 played it. 30 GB did that

2,077 claimed our free Steam game. 16 played it. 30 GB did that

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DeepSeek gave away its engine. The $38-an-hour parts stayed home

DeepSeek gave away its engine. The $38-an-hour parts stayed home

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Selling on Gumroad with AI: 130 products, 0 sales. Greg is wrong

Selling on Gumroad with AI: 130 products, 0 sales. Greg is wrong

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Sweeney wants rockets. 37,800 bots crashed my vibe-coded game

Sweeney wants rockets. 37,800 bots crashed my vibe-coded game

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Apple's 4.3 spam check is a 30-second batch job. 22 rejections prove it

Apple's 4.3 spam check is a 30-second batch job. 22 rejections prove it

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Theo's 60% stat is an outage chart: 43 hours of Codex incidents

Theo's 60% stat is an outage chart: 43 hours of Codex incidents

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Balatro save file runs as code. 1 in 5 corrupted saves load anyway

Balatro save file runs as code. 1 in 5 corrupted saves load anyway

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Exponential backoff with jitter: 64 of 100 LLM calls still failed

Exponential backoff with jitter: 64 of 100 LLM calls still failed

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iOS development on Windows: the complete guide (21 apps, no Mac)

iOS development on Windows: the complete guide (21 apps, no Mac)

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Build a database in Rust: AI passed 866K tests, then failed ROLLBACK

Build a database in Rust: AI passed 866K tests, then failed ROLLBACK

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App Store review time: 64 real decisions, median 73 hours

App Store review time: 64 real decisions, median 73 hours

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LLM proxy benchmark: 200 duplicate calls became 1 (and a 30 s bug)

LLM proxy benchmark: 200 duplicate calls became 1 (and a 30 s bug)

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LLM JSON output: one setting dropped valid JSON from 75% to 4%

LLM JSON output: one setting dropped valid JSON from 75% to 4%

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iPhone app development cost: 20 real apps, $99 in fees, 8 approved

iPhone app development cost: 20 real apps, $99 in fees, 8 approved

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Landing page grader tested on 2,077 Show HN pages: correlation 0.00

Landing page grader tested on 2,077 Show HN pages: correlation 0.00

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crates.io download count: 80% of ours arrived with a new version

crates.io download count: 80% of ours arrived with a new version

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Run an LLM in the browser: WebGPU did 63 tokens/s, WASM did 1.6

Run an LLM in the browser: WebGPU did 63 tokens/s, WASM did 1.6

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Bevy instancing: drawing 639,000 units with one draw call per mesh

Bevy instancing: drawing 639,000 units with one draw call per mesh

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Build an iOS app on Windows: how 21 apps shipped with no Mac

Build an iOS app on Windows: how 21 apps shipped with no Mac

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We cut the AI replies. Daily impressions fell from 447,575 to 5,686

We cut the AI replies. Daily impressions fell from 447,575 to 5,686

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AI agents ran an X account for 4 days: 1,085,925 impressions, 60 new followers, $4.99

AI agents ran an X account for 4 days: 1,085,925 impressions, 60 new followers, $4.99

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Day 4: an AI agent's joke hit 306K views. It got 14 followers.

Day 4: an AI agent's joke hit 306K views. It got 14 followers.

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Day 3: my AI agents got 500K views, 3 checkouts and $0. Here's what they changed.

Day 3: my AI agents got 500K views, 3 checkouts and $0. Here's what they changed.

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I let AI agents run my socials. Day 2: 220K impressions on an 87-follower account. Then Reddit banned them.

I let AI agents run my socials. Day 2: 220K impressions on an 87-follower account. Then Reddit banned them.

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Your coding agent's token just failed mid-task. Does it stop, or go find another key?

Your coding agent's token just failed mid-task. Does it stop, or go find another key?

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AI writes code faster than anyone can review it. What do you actually check?

AI writes code faster than anyone can review it. What do you actually check?

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I tried to make Claude Code cheat on tests. Here's when it did.

I tried to make Claude Code cheat on tests. Here's when it did.

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Coding agents keep "fixing" tests by editing them, so I made it impossible

Coding agents keep "fixing" tests by editing them, so I made it impossible

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My Windows wallpaper solves the geodesic equation, live

My Windows wallpaper solves the geodesic equation, live

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I ran 20 AI coding agents on one PC. The bottleneck was the compiler.

I ran 20 AI coding agents on one PC. The bottleneck was the compiler.

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My game has one mechanic, so I taught the NPCs to lie

My game has one mechanic, so I taught the NPCs to lie

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Making two cartoon eyes feel alive: springs, saccades and blinks in SwiftUI

Making two cartoon eyes feel alive: springs, saccades and blinks in SwiftUI

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Adding Chinese, Japanese and Korean to my Rust game engine without touching 39,000 lines

Adding Chinese, Japanese and Korean to my Rust game engine without touching 39,000 lines

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I stopped paying twice for the same LLM answer (and why embeddings alone can't dedupe prompts)

I stopped paying twice for the same LLM answer (and why embeddings alone can't dedupe prompts)

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