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The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
We share how AI-native founders are using Claude at every stage of the startup journey, with practical exercises, frameworks, and prompts.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,798 posts.
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Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)
Understanding “extend and pretend”
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Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15
AI-related upgrades like the built-in AI Assistant, extended computation-augmented generation and the Wolfram Agent Tools framework. Advances in TimeSeries & Tabular. New categorical data, ModelFit automated model selection, symbolic music. Efficient handling of gigabyte-sized notebooks. Gains in the already-robust…
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NLnet announces funding for 67 more open-source projects
We are happy to announce that 67 new projects have been awarded grants today as part of the Next Generation Internet intiative, across three different funds: NGI Zero Commons Fund , NGI TALER and NGI Fediversity . We congratulate the developers and engineers involved with these projects, and thank them for their…
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Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time
cybersecurity, tech, and personal annoyance log
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Data Compression Explained (2012)
Copyright (C) 2010-2012, Dell, Inc . You are permitted to copy and distribute material from this book provided (1) any material you distribute includes this license, (2) the material is not modified, and (3) you do not charge a fee or require any other considerations for copies or for any works that incorporate…
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I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
I've always wondered if anyone actually used the social sharing buttons embedded on news sites and (some) WordPress blogs.
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Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
Yesterday, June 15, 2026, a small and unimportant announcement appeared in Apple developer news: New domain for Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email. Long story short: now both Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases are going to be issued on the @private.icloud.com subdomain. This makes it much easier to…
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GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands
With GPT‑NL, TNO - together with SURF and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) is building an independent Dutch language model and ecosystem. This strengthens the digital autonomy of the Netherlands and Europe, and provides a solid foundation for responsible AI applications.
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10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module
As predicted by several people, one of my Marvell-based SFP+ modules had overheating problems. I've switched it over to a Broadcom-based one, and it looks better, though I can't be certain.
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Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
My head has been spinning after getting a spreadsheet roughly a week ago. Before we dive into my dirty laundry, let’s state the obvious: millions of people have a vague sense that AI is changing things. And LLMs sure are convenient for getting answers quickly. My team and I use Claude and other tools daily. […]
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Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
Leadership at the social media giant has been on an AI-fueled rampage through its engineering org. We report what’s happened
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TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
Minimal container images often ship without curl, wget, or any HTTP client at all. Bash can open a TCP socket through /dev/tcp, which is enough to write a tiny HTTP/1.1 request by hand for quick checks.
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Making ast.walk 220x Faster
Why ast.walk when you can ast.sprint? How we made Python AST traversal 220x faster while building a custom linter for Reflex's AI code generation.
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Never talk to the police
Always talk to a criminal defense attorney before you tell the police anything or consent to a search without a warrant. When I was a prosecutor, the first think I would ask when given a case was, "did he say anything?"
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Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity
How Bill Watterson Stuck to His Guns — and Vanished
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After AI takes everything
Prompted by letters from three engineers, the author asks what remains for humans as AI takes over execution, naming judgment, taste, and derivation as irreplaceable, and warns against the erosion of subjecthood.
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How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
Every Browser Use Cloud session runs in its own Firecracker microVM on regular EC2. It starts in under a second and costs $0.02 per browser hour, down from $0.06.
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SubQ 1.1 Small
Subquadratic is a frontier AI research and infrastructure company building a new class of LLMs.
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Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months
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But yak shaving is fun (2019)
KO | EN | Discussions on HN Alexandr frolov (CC BY-SA 4.0) This blog doesn’t use a static site generator or framework like Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. I tried a few of them at first, but they gave me too little freedom to customize, so I decided to build the blog myself. Early on I just wrote posts in ...
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Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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DuckDB Internals Part 1
Walk through DuckDB's internals: how it skips serialization overhead, parses and optimizes SQL, and stores data in columnar row groups with zone maps.
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Telescope Ranchers
Rockwood, Texas is home to a unique business, Starfront Observatories. Owner/operator Bray Falls hosts hundreds of other people’s telescopes in perfect conditio
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Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2
Here are three true statements about the game of Slay the Spire 2 (in single player): If you pick Neow's Bones in the Underdocks, the random curse is ~54% likely to be Debt.* It is impossible to receive Rebound from the Trash Heap event. Your first fight is 76% likely to drop a potion in Underdocks, and 4% likely to…
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Commodore Releases Flip Phone
A flip phone with the apps you need: WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram. Music, podcasts, maps, rideshare, a camera for the moments worth keeping.
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KDE Plasma 6.7 Released
Plasma 6.7 brings powerful new features to KDE’s classic desktop, and refines its user experience to new levels.
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Making espresso with ultrasound
Researchers at UNSW Sydney have harnessed the power of ultrasonic sound waves to make espresso-strength coffee with room temperature water, cutting energy use by up to 75%.
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Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it
I mean, technically I didn't do it.