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Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back
On the Strait of Hormuz, fertility research, and the millions of dollars bet on artificial wombs that missed the point
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,961 posts.
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VisiCalc Reconstructed
Building a minimal VisiCalc clone from scratch in C to understand how spreadsheets work.
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Building a Shell
I built a tiny shell in C to learn what fork, execvp, and dup2 are doing under the hood.
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Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it open source
Software engineer, Warsaw.
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Jepsen: MariaDB Galera Cluster 12.1.2
MariaDB is a popular open source SQL database which began as a fork of MySQL . MariaDB Galera Cluster is an active-active replication system for MariaDB which allows reads and writes on every node. In 2015 this author analyzed MariaDB with Galera Cluster and found that although Galera claimed to offer Snapshot…
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Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...
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Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg
In this blog we explore how FFmpeg uses Vulkan Compute to seamlessly accelerate encoding and decoding of even professional-grade video on consumer GPUs — unlocking GPU compute parallelism at scale, without specialized hardware. This approach complements Vulkan Video's fixed-function codec support, extending…
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Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Mistral Small 4
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI
NVIDIA today launched the NVIDIA Vera CPU, the world’s first processor purpose-built for the age of agentic AI and reinforcement learning — delivering results with twice the efficiency and 50% faster than traditional rack-scale CPUs.
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Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc
Meta recognizes the long-term benefits of jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, in its software infrastructure. We are renewing focus on jemalloc, aiming to reduce maintenance needs and mo…
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The “small web” is bigger than you might think
The small web is growing, and getting more active. Good news.
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Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP
TL;DR: MCP tool definitions can burn 55,000+ tokens before an agent processes a single user message. We built the Apideck CLI as an AI-agent interface instead:an ~80-token agent prompt replaces tens of thousands of tokens of schema, with progressive disclosure via `--help` and structural safety baked into the binary…
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Give Django your time and money, not your tokens
The Django community wants to collaborate with you, not a facade of you.
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Using calculus to do number theory
Calculus is the mathematics of approximations of continuous quantities ; number theory asks exact problems about discrete quantities. These seem, therefore, to be unrelated studies.
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Even faster asin() was staring right at me
I don't normally do follow-ups and never this quick. After posting that last article, it was fun to read the comments on Reddit and Hacker News as they rolled in. I even found other discussions . I couldn't help wonder, "Could I have made it even more performant?" . After heading home I decided to take another look.
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Comparing Python Type Checkers: Typing Spec Conformance
Learn what it means to conform to the Python typing spec, why it matters, and the conformance status of each type checker including Pyrefly, Ty, Pyright and Mypy.
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Why I love FreeBSD
A personal reflection on my first encounter with FreeBSD in 2002, how it shaped the way I design and run systems, and why its philosophy, stability, and community still matter to me more than twenty years later.
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Just Put It on a Map
An underrated strategy for urbanist persuasion, powered by open source tools
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Starlink Mini as a failover
I recently picked up a Starlink Mini to use as a backup connection for my home network. The underlying technology is fascinating - thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit delivering broadband almost anywhere. With the new £4.50 standby plan, it's an excellent way to keep things online.
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How I write software with LLMs
Lately I’ve gotten heavily back into making stuff, and it’s mostly because of LLMs. I thought that I liked programming, but it turned out that what I like was making things, and programming was just one way to do that. Since LLMs have become good at programming, I’ve been using them to make stuff nonstop, and it’s…
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What is agentic engineering?
What is agentic engineering? - Agentic Engineering Patterns
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Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)
Founded by polio vaccine developer Jonas Salk, the Salk Institute is an independent, nonprofit organization. We drive foundational, risk-taking research that addresses society’s most pressing challenges, including cancer, Alzheimer’s, and agricultural resilience.
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Nasdaq's Shame
How to rig an index to appease a billionaire
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Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today
From 15 March 2026, CAs must validate DNSSEC on CAA lookups and ACME checks. I've run DNSSEC for 14 years; see if your registrar supports it.
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Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain
The decades-long battle over lawful access entered a new phase yesterday with the introduction of Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act. This bill follows the attempt last spring to bury lawful access provisions in Bill C-2, a border measures bill that was the new government’s first piece of substantive legislation. The…
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LLMs can be exhausting
Some days I get in bed after a tortuous 4-5 hour session working with Claude or Codex wondering what the heck happened. It's easy to blame the model - there'...
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The 49MB web page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
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Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)
We shipped a new feature to the Chrome DevTools MCP server that is going to make it a lot easier for your coding agent to debug your current browser sessions.