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Llamafile Returns
Mozilla.ai is adopting llamafile to advance open, local, privacy-first AI—and we’re inviting the community to help shape its future.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm
An extremely detailed guide on how to configure WezTerm
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Independently verifying Go's reproducible builds
Introducing Source Spotter, a Go Checksum Database auditor and Go toolchain reproducer
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Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
Released in 2024, uv is hands-down the best tool for managing Python installations and dependencies. Here's why.
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Dithering – Part 1
Understanding how dithering works, visually.
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The Internet runs on free and open source software and so does the DNS
The ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee recently published SAC132: The Domain Name System Runs on Free and Open-Source Software.
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Developers are choosing older AI models
At Augment Code, we run multiple frontier models side by side in production. This gives us a unique vantage point into how different models behave in real…
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The Green Tea Garbage Collector
Go 1.25 includes a new experimental garbage collector, Green Tea.
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Tailscale Peer Relays
Tailscale Peer Relays provide predictable, performant access, entirely within your own tailnet.
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Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL
Composer is our new agent model designed for software engineering intelligence and speed.
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Replacing EBS and Rethinking Postgres Storage from First Principles
Fluid Storage reimagines block storage like EBS with zero-copy forks, true elasticity, and sync replication. Built for the age of agents.
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I made a 10¢ MCU Talk
I taught a 10¢ CH32V003 RISC‑V MCU to talk. By bit-banging PWM as a DAC and using a tiny 2‑bit ADPCM decoder, I squeezed ~6–7 seconds of recognizable audio into 16 KB of flash. Then I went full ret...
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Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
Why you should just use Postgres instead of Kafka for small-scale message queuing and pub-sub patterns. Benchmarks and practical tests included.
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From VS Code to Helix
I want less Big Tech in my life. After years of dismissing Helix as too fringe and complicated, I've tried (and loved) it.
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Zig's New Async I/O
In celebration of the std.Io introduction patchset landing today , here is the text version of a short, interactive demo I gave at Zigtoberfest 2025 .
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Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991 (2015)
One reader of this column in particular has been urging me to abandon for a moment my obsession with IBM and look, instead, at his employer -- Hewlett Packard. HP, he tells me, suffers from all the same problems as IBM while lacking IBM’s depth and resources. And he’s correct: HP is a shadow of
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AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS
Two years after our AWS-to-bare-metal migration, we revisit the numbers, share what changed, and address the biggest questions from Hacker News and Reddit.
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Aggressive bots ruined my weekend
The web-scraping arm race continues
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Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
Every part of your life has its own rhythm: work, school, family, personal projects. Beginning Oct. 14, we’re rolling out a new profile management featur
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Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
Exploring a new layout algorithm for control flow graphs.
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Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers
This is a pretty niche topic; I don't imagine there are many of us out there. Actually, to be strict, I'd say this advice is tailored to people who've had hemorrhagic stroke in the parietal lobe…
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Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors
Tata Motors gave away the keys to their infrastructure and customer data on their public websites.
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When O3 is 2x slower than O2
An deep dive into a pathological case.
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Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
Cloudflare is launching an experiment with Chrome to evaluate fast, scalable, and quantum-ready Merkle Tree Certificates, all without degrading performance or changing WebPKI trust relationships.
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Tor Browser 15.0
Tor Browser 15.0 is now available, featuring an update to Firefox ESR 140, improvements to tab management and the address bar on desktop, and screen lock for Android.
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Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste
Why tinkering matters as a lifelong learning tool.
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Boring is what we wanted
We are coming up on five years since the first M1 Macs shipped. It was an incredible time to be a Mac user. Those first Apple silicon Macs looked like the Intel machines they replaced, but they were better in every single way. In December 2020, John Gruber wrote: We knew this to be true: Computers could run fast and…
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Why do some radio towers blink?
One day on my drive home, I saw three towers. One of them had a bunch of blinking white lights, another one had red lights that kind of faded in and out, and the third one, well, it wasn't doing anything. I'm lucky to have a radio engineer for a dad, so Dad: why do some towers blink?
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Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1
In this year’s Octoverse, we uncover how AI, agents, and typed languages are driving the biggest shifts in software development in more than a decade.