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Cursor is now a part of SpaceX
Cursor has officially been acquired by SpaceX.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,947 posts.
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RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
Dmitry.GR: I am often asked to explain my distaste for RISC-V. Here it is.
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Dear people who work at the airport
I would like you to know that we passengers are trying our best. To you, this place makes sense -- you come here every day. You speak the lingo. You kno...
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The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services
A hypothesis on the not-so-distant future of software, books, music, and movies, in which most of what we consume gets cheaper, more abundant, and noticeably worse, while the human-made variant moves into a luxury segment of its own.
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Bluesky Protocol Services
A new home for the infrastructure Bluesky runs on the open network — including Jetstream v2 with network replay, a new Jetstream SDK, and a lex-based TypeScript SDK
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Blog about things you don't understand yet
Every post I publish represents at least two things I’ve learned: the thing that prompted me to write the post, and the thing I learned in the course of writing…
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How AI text watermarking works
A gentle visual guide to how a statistical mark hides inside generated text, and what erases it.
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NP-overrated
If you learned about NP-hard problems in university, your takeaway was probably this:
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Understanding is the new bottleneck
Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that efficiently: explainer docs, quizzes, micro-worlds, and shared spaces.
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Hello, me. It's been a while
Wow. It’s been over fourteen years since the last time I wrote a post on this blog. In those fourteen years, the world has changed, and so have I. So this isn't going to be a technical post, it's going to be personal. One of those subtle changes that quietly crept into my life over
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Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
See how Cerebras powers GPT-5.6 Sol in OpenAI's Ultrafast mode at up to 750 output tokens per second for time-sensitive AI and agent workflows.
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How Compaction Works in Pi
Why compaction is needed for large language models and how Pi implements it
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Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out
A complete crawl of every restored link from 2009 to 2014 found that 76.7% no longer return a loading page.
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Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash is our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents.
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AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps
data centers are so cool there should be one in every house
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Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove
The European Union AI Act will begin to be enforceable in August 2026, one month from now. One of the biggest new requirements is Article 50, which requires all…
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Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations
How customer needs shaped Oxide's Kubernetes integrations.
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Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft
Heart Aerospace’s X1 demonstrator became the world’s largest battery-electric aircraft ever flown, demonstrating electric flight at airliner scale and advancing development of the ES-30.
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A decades-old bug in Knuth's long division (TAOCP Vol II, Algorithm 4.3.1D)
A long division story
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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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SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX
If you used PCs in the 90s, you probably remember the 'Intel Inside MMX' stickers. This article explores Intel's major attempt at bringing SIMD instructions to mainstream desktop CPUs.
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Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga
After the ACE BASIC posts of the last months, this one is about a different project I have been working on for the last half year: CL-Amiga , or Clamiga for short. It is a Common Lisp implementation built for the Amiga family -- classic AmigaOS 3 on 68k and MorphOS as a fully native PPC build, AROS and AmigaOS 4 maybe…
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Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT
A celebration into the IBM PC, the Model F/XT keyboard, where it came from and what it became
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Flutter 3.47
Modular by design: Standalone UI Packages and Impeller on Desktop
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Build Wide, Ship Narrow
Good engineers plan before they build. The workflow I grew up seeing: write an RFC describing the feature, split it into smaller issues, then build them, each issue often blocking the next. The structure of the work was locked in before a single line of code existed.
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Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful
Notes on Chapter 1 of Principia Mathematica