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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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Graphite is joining Cursor
Graphite has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Cursor.
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Believe the Checkbook
AI companies talk as if engineering is over. Their acquisitions say the opposite.
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Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB
Laurent Le Brun's blog
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8-bit Boléro
I hope you'll enjoy the video as much as I enjoyed making it! There are many little details that I'll let you discover on your own.
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GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust
GotaTun is a WireGuard® implementation written in Rust aimed at being fast, efficient and reliable.
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Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data
The new, publicly accessible database contains more than a million infectious disease incidence counts dating back to 1903.
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Making Google Sans Flex
Discover the inside story of Google Sans, Google’s iconic brand typeface. From product lockups to code, learn how the Google Sans font family has evolved to solve specific UX design problems.
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Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes
Don't you love misleading documentation?
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Rust's Block Pattern
Here’s a little idiom that I haven’t really seen discussed anywhere, that I think makes Rust code much cleaner and more robust.
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1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
Apple gave me access to this Mac Studio cluster to test RDMA over Thunderbolt, a new feature in macOS 26.2. The easiest way to test it is with Exo 1.0, an open source private AI clustering tool. RDMA lets the Macs all act like they have one giant pool of RAM, which speeds up things like massive AI models. The stack of…
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AI vending machine was tricked into giving away everything
Anthropic installed an AI-powered vending machine in the WSJ office. The LLM, named Claudius, was responsible for autonomously purchasing inventory from wholesa
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Two kinds of vibe coding
Back in 2009 I posted a simple Mandelbrot fractal viewer on the web: a single HTML file with inline Javascript. Just 329 lines of code, each pixel a tiny table cell. Click to zoom. Watch it iterate. That was about it!
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The port I couldn't ship
Porting a venerable library on vibes. What started as a quick WebPerl success spiraled into weeks of failed attempts, mangled ASCII diagrams, and a hard lesson about respecting the craft embedded in battle-tested code.
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A faster path to container images in Bazel
rules_img is a Bazel ruleset for building and publishing OCI images that feel native to Bazel by treating images as metadata first and moving bytes only at the edges.
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T5Gemma 2: The next generation of encoder-decoder models
T5Gemma 2 is the next evolution of our encoder-decoder family based on Gemma 3.
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FunctionGemma 270M Model
FunctionGemma is a specialized version of our Gemma 3 270M model fine-tuned for function calling.
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GPT-5.2-Codex
GPT-5.2-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced coding model, offering long-horizon reasoning, large-scale code transformations, and enhanced cybersecurity capabilities.
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Deliberate Internet Shutdowns
For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet. No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliban government. It followed a more localized shutdown two weeks prior, reportedly instituted “to prevent immoral activities.” No additional explanation was given. The timing…
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Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem
In October, we introduced skills—a way to teach Claude repeatable workflows tailored to how you work. Today we're making skills easier to deploy, discover, and build: organization-wide management for admins; a directory of partner-built skills from Notion, Canva, Figma, Atlassian, and others; and an open standard so…
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Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse
How a video game company built an empire by inverting the playbook
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Mistral OCR 3
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates
Using TypeScript and some DMV API digging, I chased down and claimed one of the rarest available license plate combinations.
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Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
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Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?
Link to: https://tidbits.com/2025/12/17/compromised-apple-gift-card-leads-to-apple-account-lockout/
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Virtualizing Nvidia HGX B200 GPUs with Open Source
This blog post covers how we virtualized NVIDIA HGX B200 GPUs using open-source software. It talks about VFIO passthrough, QEMU PCI topology fixes, large BAR boot stalls, and Fabric Manager partitions.
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AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs
We analyzed 470 open-source GitHub pull requests, using CodeRabbit’s structured issue taxonomy and found that AI generated code creates 1.7x more issues.
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Most parked domains now serving malicious content
Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of “parked” domains — mostly expired or dormant domain names, or common misspellings of popular websites — are now configured to redirect visitors to sites…