The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,802 posts.
Like a young child coming home from kindergarten with their latest crayon scrawls, the internet is currently awash with people sharing their AI-generated work. And just like the young child’s drawings, much of that work should be proudly put up on the walls within the artist’s house—and no further.
AI models like Claude talk in words but think in numbers. In this study, we train Claude to translate its thoughts into human-readable text.
Media over QUIC: There are ways to do voice AI without being traumatized by WebRTC.
Thesis: reliable agents tackling complex tasks need deterministic control flow encoded in software, not increasingly elaborate prompt chains If you’ve eve...
New details about what we found, and how agentic harnesses are now able to reproduce real bugs and dismiss false positives.
Documenting my journey switching away from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14
Once completed the tunnel located in the Fehmarn Belt will hold the record as the longest immersed tunnel in the world.
Discover how AlphaEvolve optimizes algorithms for genomics, quantum physics, global infrastructure, and more to accelerate scientific progress and solve real-world challenges.
Goodbye dangling Dupont pins, hello Julet E-Bike connector. I have them now everywhere, from my router to my servers.
When family TV show night became systems debugging night.
The event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public.
When a critical Linux kernel privilege escalation was publicly disclosed, Cloudflare's security and engineering teams detected, investigated, and mitigated the threat across our global fleet, confirming zero customer impact and no malicious exploitation.
In mid-December last year I started making my own programming language. It's waaay far from any production quality yet (though I did manage to write a working 1k LOC Monte-Carlo path tracer in it), but the project is on pause right now, so I figured it's a good time to write something about it.
Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense
Idempotency is not just an HTTP header or a key lookup. This article covers the failure cases that bite real APIs: different requests with the same key, concurrent retries, partial success, downstream uncertainty, response replay, expiry, and duplicate message handling.
a bliki entry for Mythical Man Month
Learn how NVIDIA helped Unsloth to make fine-tuning AI models 20% faster with explanations and diagrams.
Diskless Linux Boot
Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds" - I wondered if that was true for my site. I've been writing this blog for a while. I've never much bothered with "aggressive" SEO - I have a fairly…
SQLite is a Recommended Storage Format for datasets according to the US Library of Congress . Further information:
CU Boulder researchers have developed 3D-printable materials embedded with living bioluminescent algae that can produce sustained light.
Why launch costs aren't the reason it costs a fortune to do things in space
Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a…
A deep dive on flow maps.
Protect the conversations that matter with a secure, end-to-end encrypted video conferencing from Proton.
Today at Next ‘26, we’re launching Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the trust platform for the agentic web and the next evolution of reCAPTCHA.
Starting a long-form history of Visual Basic on EvilGeniusLabs.ca. Chapter 1 covers the BASIC dynasty Microsoft had been running since 1975, the California developer Microsoft bought to put a face on it, and the launch pitch Bill Gates seeded in BYTE Magazine eighteen months before VB shipped. Six articles, focused on…
Why I left Figma to work full-time on open source, and how I plan to make the work sustainable.
The perils of logging in
War is bad. Don’t start one. But we’re already in a class war and we’re losing. Where by “we” I mean most people; the winning side comprises, roughly, the richest 0.1% of the population, who are morphing into a hereditary aristocracy. [I mean that, see below.] So, what to do in a war one didn’t choose?
