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The Dollar Is Dead
When belief dies, fiat dies with it.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,835 posts.
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Modern Node.js Patterns
Node.js has undergone a remarkable transformation since its early days. If you’ve been writing Node.js for several years, you’ve likely witnessed this evolution firsthand—from the callback-heavy, CommonJS-dominated landscape to today’s clean, standards-based development experience.
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Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
A paper from Anthropic describing persona vectors and their applications to monitoring and controlling model behavior.
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Palantir: The Most Evil Company
At the cutting edge of dystopia and genocide
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Automerge 3.0
A new major version of Automerge, which cuts down memory usage by more than 10x while preserving backwards compatability.
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This Old SGI: notes and memoirs on the Silicon Graphics 4D series (1996)
I am posting this assortment of notes and observations as a kind of "thank you" to the numerous people who have replied to my posts in the past. The free flow of information is the life-blood of the internet community, and this is my feeble attempt to maintain that flow, while at the same time repaying the kindness…
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Tokens are getting more expensive
"language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze
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If you're remote, ramble
A lightweight way to add ambient social cohesion for remote teams.
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A Real PowerBook: The Macintosh Application Environment on a Pa-RISC Laptop
I like the Power ISA very much, but there's nothing architecturally obvious to say that the next natural step from the Motorola 68000 family...
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Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
IOCCC Year 2024
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Writing a basic service for GNU Guix
Let's write a service for GNU Guix that will automatically start kmonad at boot, and keep it running until shutdown.
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C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML
The first thing I do every time I need to learn a new codebase is to start drawing the UML diagram of its classes, and usually give up soon after I started. The process of doing it manually is certainly useful, but now with reflections I figure it would be fun to try to generate it instead.
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AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
After 10 years as an AWS customer and open-source contributor, they deleted my account and all data with zero warning. Here's how AWS's 'verification' process became a digital execution, and why you should never trust cloud providers with your only copy of anything.
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Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
Plus: How to save 100 million lives with 1/400th of our income
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Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos
A team of Cornell computer science researchers has developed a way to “watermark” light in videos, which they can use to detect if video is fake or has been manipulated, another potential tool in the fight against misinformation.
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The /o in Ruby regex stands for "oh the humanity "
Your code using the /o modifier Source: wikipedia Hi there! Do you like Regex? Do you like performance? Do you like creating confounding bugs for yourself rooted in the mechanics of the Ruby VM itself? If you said yes to all of the above, have I got a feature for you! But first, let’s start with a story. The cliffs of…
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Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft
Through her India Street Lettering project, Pooja Saxena re-examines the craft and its clichés.
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Financial lessons from my family's experience with long-term care insurance
My experience with my father's long-term care insurance company has not been an easy one. But I've learned quite a few lessons.
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Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie
How I used a compressed trie data structure to encode Icelandic declension data.
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Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2025214 points83 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of al…
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This Month in Ladybird
Google reCAPTCHA now passes, high refresh rate rendering, HTTP/3 support, Trusted Types progress, @property work and UTF-16 correctness fixes.
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Cerebras Code
We are launching two new plans designed to make AI coding faster and more accessible: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month) and Code Max ($200/month). Both plans give you access to Qwen3-Coder , the world’s leading open-weight coding model—running at speeds of up to 2,000 tokens per second , with a 131k-token context window …
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Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU
A 1980s GE coffee maker converted into a working computer. Part art, part absurd machine, fully functional.
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Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?
The bitter lesson says general methods and compute win. But compute is a constraint, and human-crafted logic often ships cheaper and sooner.
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Deep Agents
Build deep agents that plan and execute complex tasks over longer time horizons. Learn the architecture behind Deep Research and Claude Code.
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Self-Signed JWTs
An auth scheme where you let yourself in.
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Facts will not save you – AI, history and Soviet sci-fi
AI, history, and Soviet sci-fi
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Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved
While we previously announced discontinuing support for all goo.gl URLs after August 25, 2025, we've adjusted our approach in order to preserve actively used links.We un…