1981
1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed
dict.cc requests users to consent to the tracking by 1,741 "partner" companies. This makes it impossible for people to know what happens to their data
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,951 posts.
1982
“Gravity is worth asking about”
A blog about software craft and quality
1983
The Productivity Mirage
What I once thought about programming productivity was wrong
1984
The Cold Email
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
1985
The coolest use for the Vision Pro
One day there will hopefully be a house on this land Over the last year, I admittedly haven’t used my Vision Pro a ton, but fairly recently I discovered a super handy use that it’s absolutely incredible at, provided you have the right tools. After years of apartment life my girlfriend and I have recently begun the…
1986
A Trampoline
I didn’t want to buy a trampoline. It wasn’t the money.
1987
Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)
TL;DR: DIY home automation is ezpz with nothing more than a stepper motor, an esp32, and a high tolerance for Jank. My rental apartment’s AC unit can only be controlled using these retro-looking analog knob-based controls, mounted right onto the unit. No separate wall-mounted thermostat, no remote…
1988
Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results
Yesterday Anthropic published two new cryptanalysis results, both outputs of Claude Mythos, their (still) unreleased advanced model. The first of these results attacks a signature scheme called HAW…
1989
Superlogical
I authored 1 the announcement post on the Superlogical homepage , which describes the problem statement and what we're building. 2 Read that to learn more. This post is more of a personal statement about what led to this, how it relates to my recent work, and what comes next.
1990
GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best?
We tested the latest frontier models in the Dyad agent on five modeling and simulation problems, comparing accuracy, cost, time, and work style.
1991
Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution
We gave 64 real coding tasks to self-hosted GPUs, rented hardware and commercial APIs. Owning a box lands in the same cost ballpark as renting one.
1992
Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
The tools themselves are new and their capabilities are in constant flux. If your kitchen knife kept changing shape, weight, and edge, you’d have to relearn it every time; that’s a hard tool to build trust in. But it also points to a flaw in how you use that tool, the process around it, and the way the tool reinforces…
1993
After the AI Crash
Everything I read about the AI industry leads me to think there will be an AI crash. Consider the following: Unsustainable Capital Expenses. It’s hard to imagine there can ever be enough revenue to…
1994
San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing
The concept of “surveillance pricing” is just one part of a much larger problem and business model: corporations maximizing their profits by invading our privacy. The all-too-common business model is to systematically harvest, collate, and store as much of our personal data as possible, and then...
1995
Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem
TLDR: Written version of the talk I gave at Develop Brighton 2026. Yes Godot can ship commercial VR, we paid roughly £80k in early adopter tax to do it. War stories from rebuilding Godot's core, the
1996
Software for One
Robin Sloan wished for a HyperCard that could build a family app in a day. That world showed up.
1997
Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word
I would like to thank Microsoft product teams and Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) for collaborating with me on this technical analysis and mitigation of the disclosed vulnerabilities. The editorial opinions reflected below are solely the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of the organizations I…
1998
The mean means nothing: data visualization to debug a latency problem
I was recently trying to validate some performance improvements related to lld at $DAYJOB and it was a little frustrating to see the improvements in our benchmarks but not in the live-production dashboards.
1999
That time when I failed the Microsoft interview
The year was 2015, halfway through my Computer Science bachelor’s degree. I had spent a few months contributing to open source and my confidence levels were high, so I thought: why not aim for a summer internship at Microsoft? Microsoft, of all places, might sound like a weird company to target in 2026. Back then…
2000
SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers
Transitioning SQLite from a local development tool to a production-grade database requires a deep understanding of its internal mechanics. This article explores how to tune WAL mode, manage busy handlers, and leverage custom Virtual File System (VFS) layers to achieve ultra-low latency.
2001
More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle
Community updates make Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle more useful, with Tailscale SSH, proxy modes for KOReader, and full TUN mode on some devices. Plus: plugins for Kobo and Pocket Reader.
2002
User Interfaces of the Demo Scene
Ahh, the demo scene - a digital art subculture, a motley gang of creative nerds, and a favourite pastime of mine. So much amazing art, music and code has been produced by sceners, and anyone who comes into contact with the scene might start to wonder exactly how - apart from hours of dedicated grind, of course.
2003
State of multi-player Wayland
I've been fascinated by the idea of attaching multiple mice to one computer, and then having multiple mouse cursors inside of one desktop environment!
2004
The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view
The enormous faux shopping bag that served as an advertisement for Macy’s is mostly gone, save for a patch of red facing Sixth Avenue. Scaffolding covers the ground floor retail space, and da…
2005
Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn
A new review paper led by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography warns that the rapid loss of oxygen from the ocean and other aquatic ecosystems is pushing Earth toward an “unsafe space,” with consequences that could be irreversible on human timescales.
2006
MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless
The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification is out, bringing a stateless protocol core, Multi Round-Trip Requests, header-based routing, cacheable list results, authorization hardening, a formal extensions framework, and updated Tier 1 SDKs.
2007
Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
Anthropic researchers find weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms with Claude Mythos Preview
2008
Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of all SBCL releases are listed below.
2009
Substack writers, you need a website
Substack is convenient, but treat it as a distribution tool for your content. Your content should live on an independently owned website, which has a domain name you control and own. This way, you …
2010
A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants
Guide to the DeltaNet Family of linear attention mechanisms.