Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 45 posts.
It turns out we've all been using MCP wrong. Most agents today use MCP by exposing the "tools" directly to the LLM. We tried something different: Convert the MCP tools into a TypeScript API, and then ask an LLM to write code that calls that API. The results are striking.
This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge.
Efficient memorization using the spacing effect: literature review of widespread applicability, tips on use & what it’s good for.
In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains wh...
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
n.b. This is a written version of a dialogue from a YouTube video: 2 Language Creators vs 2 Idiots | The StandupPackage managers (for programming languages) are evil.11 The term “evil” is being used partially hyperbolic to make a point.To start, I need to make a few distinctions between concepts a lot of programmers…
Ever since git init ten years ago , Zig has been hosted on GitHub. Unfortunately, when it sold out to Microsoft , the clock started ticking . “Please just give me 5 years before everything goes to shit,” I thought to myself. And here we are, 7 years later, living on borrowed time.
Over two years ago, in one of my first public talks about Ghostty , I shared my vision for libghostty : an embeddable library for any application to embed their own fully functional, modern, and fast terminal emulator. Libghostty is finally starting to take shape, and I'm excited to share more details about my plans…
We're piloting Claude in Chrome to test browser-based AI capabilities while addressing prompt injection risks and building the safety measures needed before wider release.
From the Zed Blog: If you don’t want AI in your workflow, it won’t be there.
Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore organizations that support Obsidian on our new Enterprise page.
Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building Immich that we wish we never knew.
I recently shipped a non-trivial Ghostty feature (unobtrusive macOS automatic updates) that was largely developed with AI.
D2 is a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams. It stands for
Someone's trash is another person's web server.
Introducing study mode in ChatGPT, a new learning experience that helps you work through problems step by step, guiding students with questions, scaffolding, and feedback for deeper learning.
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
pyx is a Python-native package registry from the creators of uv.
I used Apple Configurator to turn my iPhone into a dumb phone. I can only access the apps and websites I want to use, and it’s feeling great!
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.
Prove your humanity once and for all
An exploration of the layout models of TeX and Typst.
Earlier this week, Haroen Viaene posted this tweet about YAML: worst part of yaml: https://yaml.org/type/bool.html — Haroen Viaene (@haroenv) January 10, 2022 The linked-to page contains the documentation on what defines a boolean in YAML, and details that it can be parsed using this regex…
How to print my voice? How to put music on paper? How to print an executable program? All this boils down to storing digital data on paper. This is also called paper data storage . Arrived in this domain from poetry, I’ve been investigating the area for some time. Here is what I found.
From the Zed Blog: Zed is now the world's fastest AI code editor. What's more, Zed's new AI features are also open-source, just like the whole editor.
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
Today, we’re launching Cloudflare Email Service. Send and receive email directly from your Workers with native bindings—no API keys needed. We're unifying email sending and routing into a single service built for developers. Sign up for the private beta.
A font that's only 2px tall, and somewhat readable! Uppercase and lowercase have some different variants, in case you find one more readable than the other. Numbers (sort of) and some punctuation marks are included.
Atuin Desktop looks like a doc, but runs like your terminal. Script blocks, embedded terminals, database clients and prometheus charts - all in one place.
