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Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States
Fired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government’s model employee.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,787 posts.
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We ported the original Doom to SQL
CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.
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Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked
Here are 21 reasons I delayed getting my EMT licensed, sorted loosely by ridiculousness.
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Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
How I massively over-engineered a trivial problem again because I just can't help myself
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We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
Cloudflare is hosting a competition to see who will build the next Git platform for an era of AI agents. Artifacts is in open beta, with Workers bindings, data jurisdiction controls, and event subscriptions for repository changes.
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Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
How to prompt Opus 5.5, steer a long run, and check your results in Claude apps and Claude Code.
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What Meta got right with Muse
Design matters more than ever in consumer AI, as long as you have money to play.
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Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
Sometimes the law is not the law
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Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline
A story about replacing a creative workflow and focusing on another.
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Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
Why agents need project documentation instead of retrieval from old conversations.
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An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot
The secret ballot is one of the load-bearing walls of democracy. In Georgia, as in most states, this allows you to know whether your neighbor voted, but never who they voted for. Yet, in multiple states including Georgia, that guarantee is actively at risk.
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City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2
Despite my disappointment with Cities: Skylines 2, I keep coming back to the game from time to time. I can't even control it. It's like a deep inner need....
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Infidel goes wild
Planetfall was yesterday's public release, but of course I've spent the past few weeks concentrating on Infidel. A couple of days I came across the most egregious bug I've yet seen in an Infocom game. This bug is extremely difficult to detect ...
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The Escalation of War in Ethiopia
The coming proxy wars will be devastating for civilians and do little to improve governance and human welfare in Ethiopia and the wider Horn
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Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 78B total and 3B active parameters, a context of up to 1M tokens and open weights under Apache 2.0, specialized for sovereign, mission-critical work.
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An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both so the community can carry them forward. Our small team will now focus fully on making Orion for macOS and iOS faster, more stable, and more capable.
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Cloudflare OHTTP gateway
We’re announcing the closed beta of a self-serve Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway. We’re also renaming our Privacy Gateway to Cloudflare OHTTP Relay to better distinguish the two products.
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Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model
Why SaaS business is now a harness one.
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Zig v0.17.0
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)
An unused railway electrical control room in Surrey.
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Everyone's Packing Up
I see a lot of posts about people leaving platforms. This one about leaving Reddit, this one about leaving WordPress, and a bunch of others about leaving Dis...
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Make Tmux the OS
I recently watched the talk by Scott Jenson titled "Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7AfAcQwLW0&t=445s. He's a great presenter, really articulate and concise. The kind of speaker that you'd gladly listen to for 3+
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Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Dutch computer museums (2022)
Photos from three very different computer museums in the Netherlands
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Supabase is acquiring Turso
Supabase is acquiring Turso to build the database infrastructure for agentic AI
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One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash
Reporting on 2B tokens of AI usage and what shapes model selection and cost
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The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding
Slop, Alienation, Deskilling, and Team Fallout
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AI Makes Me Sad
Maybe it's because I'm writing this at 2:00 AM, which is about the only time I let myself experience sadness for a prolonged period of time, but every time I see a post on Twitter or LinkedIn about a new development in AI, I feel a sense of hopelessness.
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Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours
We’ve renamed Home Assistant Cloud to Home Assistant Link. Here’s why the old name never did fit, and why this one finally does.