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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 522 posts.
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Git at any scale
Hosting Git repositories at scale is a nightmare. When Linus Torvalds designed the first version of the information manager from hell (that's actually the tagline for Git, look it up ), he had a very specific use case in mind: his own. He wanted to replace BitKeeper, the distributed version control system that was…
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Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)
Quick reference guide for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data with Python Polars.
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Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
My experience fixing my Framework 13” laptop with AMD 7060 series that was bricked due to a failed BIOS update with US$20 worth of tools, instead of replacing the motherboard as suggested by Framework support.
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Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
an adventure in image processing and taking very wide photographs (blog post; 4,600 words)
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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.
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An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
It's been a few months since my post on leaving Gmail which sparked a lot of discussion on Hacker News. Here's an update on how things have been going after my move to Fastmail.
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Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
Origin begins rolling out today in early beta on all paid plans. We're starting with the essentials, designed for agent scale: repos, pull requests, code browsing, and GitHub sync. Agent-native features ship soon.
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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage?") is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment. Maybe you lik
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GIMP Development Update
Development Update, August 2026
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Protobuf has LSP support
Buf is proud to announce the first fully-featured, spec-compliant LSP server for Protobuf. The Language Server Protocol is the standard API for integrating language support into your favorite IDE or text editor, such as VSCode, IntelliJ, or Neovim. An LSP server provides the smarts that power go to definition, code…
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Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions
Practical tips for how to run efficient sessions that get the most value from every token.
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RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
Try the RustDesk Wayland preview for x86_64 Debian/Ubuntu-based systems: unattended access across multiple monitors and at the login screen after reboot.
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Introducing Toast 1
Meet Toast 1, Mixedbread's search agent for knowledge-intensive tasks, matching or outperforming Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol while being up to 10×…
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I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone
I built a small tool that turns my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper, so I can read my favorite blogs on a pocket e-reader instead of my phone.
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Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results
Netlify now runs any OpenRouter model, including Kimi K3, GLM 5.2 and DeepSeek V4. We tested 11 of them on the same build prompt to see how they differ.
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Delta
From the Zed Blog: A multiplayer environment for coding with agents, from the creators of Zed.
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My Agent Setup
Personal website of Chad Arimura - My agent setup
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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
Claude Code will soon run auto mode by default for Pro, Max, Ultra, and Team plans, enabling longer-running autonomous work, and catching more dangerous commands.
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Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates
We should be giving all agents tools that excel at what’s important for an AI model. Kitesurf is Cloudflare’s new stateless, highly scalable, and cost-effective web browser that runs entirely on top of Workers and was designed specifically for the Agentic Cloud.
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DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)
A well-written, *FAST* data science database for your laptop.
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The Warp Agent CLI
The Warp Agent is now available as a standalone CLI that you can use anywhere – Ghostty, iTerm 2, VS Code, built-in Windows and Mac Terminals – and provides a superior experience for developers who do heavy terminal workflows.
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Harness engineering for self-improvement
The concept of recursive self-improvement (RSI) dates back to I. J. Good (1965), where he defined an “ultraintelligent machine” as a system that can surpass humans in all intellectual activities and design better machines to improve itself. Yudkowsky (2008) used the phrase “recursive self-improvement” for a specific…
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As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program
A blog about software craft and quality
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Devtools must be open source
The age of personalized software is here.
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MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video
An open-weights omni-modal video model with real stereo sound and 2K output — this powerful model is greatly optimized in ComfyUI and can run locally on a 3060.
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Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter
Everyone with knowledge agrees that Atom is technically superior to RSS. Everything should have switched to it twenty years ago. All feed readers support Atom just fine ( except in podcasts , for no good reason).
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Seedance 2.5
One-take Creation, Flexible Referencing: Introducing Seedance 2.5