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Three constraints before I build anything
['Programmer', 'Computer nerd', 'Unix enthusiast'];
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,803 posts.
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The quiet resurgence of RF engineering
I've worked in the aerospace industry for the past 8 years, and for most of that time I felt like I could confidently say that RF engineering felt like it wa...
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Simulacrum of Knowledge Work
How do you know the output is good without redoing the work yourself? You've received a report, a market analysis for the new product you're planning to l...
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Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
I tried to use Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to implement a connector between Youtube Music and opensubsonic. The end result was a fairly short amount of time to get a working project.
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Mo RAM, Mo Problems (2025)
As a retro-computer enthusiast, it seems that parts are either insanely expensive or dirt cheap. If the first case has obvious problems, the second can also lead to issues.
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GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty
Details about the OpenAI Bio Bounty program
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New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
For years, the best way to get 10 gigabit networking on laptops was to buy an expensive, large, and hot 10 GbE Thunderbolt adapter. With new RTL8159-based 10G USB 3.2 adapters coming onto the market, the bulky adapters might be a thing of the past. Just look at the size of the thing in comparison to my Thunderbolt…
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Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do
Give any AI agent a persistent memory in minutes. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Ollama, OpenRouter, and any MCP-compatible agent. Open source, self-hosted, model-agnostic.
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Cosmology with Geometry Nodes
Learn about the real-life scientific applications of GeoNodes in Cosmology research.
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Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay
A blog about software craft and quality
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Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design
There is an implicit contract at the foundation of every database architecture decision you have ever made. You probably never wrote it down. Nobody does. It just… existed.
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Do I belong in tech anymore?
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.
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My audio interface has SSH enabled by default
I bought a Rodecaster Duo to solve some audio woes, and found that it has ssh enabled by default. I captured the firmware update process and created custom firmware to enable password authentication for ssh.
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SFO Quiet Airport (2025)
The airport targeted gate announcements, overlapping PA messages, and tenant music. Instead of blasting departure calls terminal-wide, messages are limited to each gate and their immediate surroundings. In 2020, they worked with airlines to centralize and reduce announcements, cutting 40% of the paging.
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Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE
By Robert Smith mine is a brand new IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp, built from the ground up with one purpose: To make Coalton and Common Lisp easier and more accessible to the programming world. TL;DR? Go to mine's homepage with downloads for Windows/macOS/Linux. mine is a complete, single-download application that…
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API
See all of the latest features and updates to the OpenAI API.
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I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
Prefix Note As this post is gaining more attention than expected on HN, I want to make some things clear - although I thought they are obvious. It sounds like a rant about Claude’s quality in general - if you don’t read to the end. But my concerns are more focused on the support performance and token issues - fully…
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Refuse to let your doctor record you
By: Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney At a recent appointment, Emily’s physical therapist (who knows some about her research) said, “Before we get started,...
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Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
I’ll be attending Babashka Conf on May 8 and Dutch Clojure Days on May 9. If you’re attending either (or just visiting Amsterdam), drop me a line!
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The operating cost of adult and gambling startups
In adult and gambling markets, even routine work gets harder: hiring, payments, ads, fundraising, and explaining what you do.
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How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences
a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences
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Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly
How to use a file index to mount a tar.gz archive directly into the Emscripten virtual filesystem without extracting it
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Composition shouldn't be this hard
Fragmented systems are brittle. Coherent systems are special-purpose. We need a new, general-purpose model so we can build coherent, multi-domain applications.
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Why Not Venus?
The planet next door may be rough, but it has a lot of atmosphere
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Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years
My thoughts on why enterprise knowledge systems have failed for sixty years, and what might finally replace them. A couple of weeks ago I demoed one part of what I have been building to a senior exec at a global enterprise - someone who had been asked to lead and guide
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Intel Arc Pro B70 Review
How does Intel's new Arc Pro B70 32GB professional GPU stack up against the competition in media editing, rendering, AI, CAD, and BIM applications?
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A quick look at Mythos run on Firefox: too much hype?
A closer look at Mozilla's Firefox 150 "271 vulnerabilities" fixes and what they do, and do not, tell us about the alarming claims we can read online and AI-assisted vulnerability research.
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Why I Write (1946)
"What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."
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Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency
Passing the JLPT N2 is one thing, but actively managing projects in Japanese is another. This is how I used Magic: The Gathering to bridge the gap from academic study to professional confidence in Tokyo.