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Bunny Database
Deploy globally, query over HTTP, and scale reads with low latency. Bunny Database lets you build fast without paying the serverless tax.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,815 posts.
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LLMs as the new high level language
[UPDATE 2026-06-09]: a few months on, I have more misgivings than certainties about this.
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DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved
Learn how DNS works: hierarchy, records, TTL caching, and the full resolution process with diagrams.
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What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
For some reason or other, people have been posting a lot of excerpts from old emails on Twitter over the last few days. The most vital question everybody’s asking themselves is: What’s …
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Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production
Note: I’ve seen some online chatter about the possibility that the footage shared in this post could be AI generated (which is pretty depressing, but here we are I suppose). I just wanted to …
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Stay Away from My Trash
Why tldraw is closing external pull requests: AI has made code cheap, so we're asking contributors for bug reports, design debate and fresh ideas instead.
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Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem
Why we need bots that elicit good discussions, not just write better code
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Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair
Researchers analyzed samples of Utahns' hair going back a century to document a 100-fold decrease in lead concentrations.
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How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?
Research done as part of the first Anthropic Fellows Program during Summer 2025.
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Julia
An aphasic space station monitors an anomalous object, while keeping the last two humans alive.
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xAI joins SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
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The largest number representable in 64 bits
This post is a rewrite of my earlier blog post from Nov 2023 with new insights and updates.
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Parking lots as economic drains
They are draining the economic potential of our cities. We need to make them financially unsustainable.
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The Codex App
Introducing the Codex app for macOS—a command center for AI coding and software development with multiple agents, parallel workflows, and long-running tasks.
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Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena
We’re expanding Game Arena with Poker and Werewolf, while Gemini 3 Pro and Flash top our chess leaderboard.
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Hacking Moltbook
Learn how a misconfigured Supabase database at Moltbook exposed 1.5M API keys, private messages, and user emails, enabling full AI agent takeover.
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Dark Alley Mathematics
Base changing and other calculations
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Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works
When deploying large language models in production, the inference engine becomes a critical piece of infrastructure.
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Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home
I have recently been working on tuning circuits, which typically consist of an inductor and a capacitor (i.e. an LC circuit). For those not familiar with inductors, they are passive components that store energy in a magnetic field. They oppose changes in current, meaning that they pass direct current (DC) and block…
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My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml
Building httpz, a high-performance HTTP/1.1 parser with zero heap allocation using OxCaml's unboxed types, local allocations, and mutable local variables.
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Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong
According to the Apple support document How to identify the DFU port on Mac , the DFU (device firmware update) port location for MacBook Pro models with Apple silicon is as follows:
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Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
Following the security disclosure published in the v8.8.9 announcement https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/ the investigation has continued in collaboration with external experts and with the full involvement of my (now former) shared hosting provider.
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Two kinds of AI users are emerging
A bifurcation is happening in AI adoption - power users shipping products in days versus everyone else generating meeting agendas. Enterprise tool choices are accelerating the divide.
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Margin Call
Discover how Apple defied expectations with record gross margins of 48.2%, showcasing strength in products and services despite industry challenges.
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Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
That’s right — this little device is what stood between me and the ability to run an even older piece of software that I recently unearthed during an expedition of software archaeology.
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Palantir: Financed by Epstein, Fueled by Thiel
Palantir took Epstein’s money, Thiel’s backing, and Trump’s blessing to build an AI war machine. If Gaza is the testing ground, America’s next. Are we ready to fight back?
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Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++
A practical walk-through of a fixed-width uint128 implementation in modern C++.