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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,699 posts.
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The Potomac River Midair Collision
How America’s golden age of aviation safety came to an end
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Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
Despite what I said in April , I'm still using coding assistants on my personal projects.
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The AI Productivity Gap
Why the productivity gains from AI are still small.
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Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If
Why a filter is slowest when it keeps half of random input, and what a branchless rewrite gains there and loses at 1%.
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Don't be a meat proxy
Too often I ask a question in Slack or leave feedback under a merge/pull request or argue with friends in a WhatsApp group and get back:
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More German than many Germans
I just wanted to do an internship in Europe so it would be easier to find a job after graduation. That internship completely changed my life.
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Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap
I wanted Book Corners to contribute newly submitted public bookcases back to OpenStreetMap. After researching the operational and community requirements, I decided not to implement it.
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SwiftUI After 7 Years
Back in 2019, SwiftUI was announced as the future of Apple development. Seven years later, it still feels like a beta version struggling with stability, performance, and many other aspects. What’s actually wrong with SwiftUI?
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The myth of Snow Leopard
It was a hot mess, but the myth is useful today.
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Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N
round 2: rooting & analysing firmware of the TP-Link TL-WR841N
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A Rant About “Technology” (2005)
Ursula K. Le Guin on the presence of technology in her work
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The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener
I’ve recently been working on a mechatronics project that involves constructing an X-Y cartesian motion system. I opted to use stepper motors to drive each axis, and timing belts and pulleys for translating the rotational torque of the steppers into linear motion. The timing belts need to be anchored to the component…
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I don't recommend Tailwind CSS
Tailwind CSS is a very popular CSS framework among web developers. With no prior graphic design knowledge, it solves the standardization of spacing…
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MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150
As is typical here in the Floodgap lab, it all started so innocently: rebuilding a flaky Apple Workgroup Server 9150, the odd duck of the Wo...
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ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine
My complete guide for setting up the ASRock BC-250. You can’t beat its price for performance, and it’s perfect for those who love tinkering with projects.
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Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter
Everyone with knowledge agrees that Atom is technically superior to RSS. Everything should have switched to it twenty years ago. All feed readers support Atom just fine ( except in podcasts , for no good reason).
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The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder
A few years ago I met a guy, let’s call him Jim, who was trying to break in tech by going to a bootcamp to become a developer. In the meantime, he worked as a bartender and had been living off the support of his girlfriend, who was from a well-off family and Jim was her trophy boyfriend. He approached me because he…
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But can your calculator run Linux?
Published: 01-08-2026 20:08 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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Google has abandoned Google News?
You know that scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest sees Lieutenant Dan on the shore and is so distracted by him that he jumps off and swims to shore, allowing the boat to crash into the dock? ...
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Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576
Leonardo de Moura — Creator of Lean and Z3
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Dates That Don't Exist (2015)
In 1582, under the inter gravissimas papal bull, the Catholic world transitioned from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar . This new calendar shortened the length of the year from 365.25 days to 365.2425 , a reduction of just 0.002% .
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A directory of people who love RSS
Today, I launched I ♥ RSS, a directory for people who love RSS. I've already added the badge to my footer and submitted my site to the directory. It also shows a nice live blogroll on the homepage (powered by FeedLand). If you love RSS as much as I do, take a look and add …
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Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses
What in the world is Explorative Modeling?
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A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention
Last week, the government announced that Canada has signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, with Ministers Anita Anand, Gary Anandasangaree and Sean Fraser touting the treaty’s child protection provisions and human rights safeguards, which were described as “among the strongest found in an…
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AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
AI has dramatically accelerated the path to a first working version. It has not shortened the distance between a first working version and something production-grade.
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Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest
Tuesday was Stateless MCP day—the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant …
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The development pipeline is a production system
Various thoughts on programming and technology.