Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,178 posts.
The day was to begin like any other, with Antigravity open (yes, there are tens of us!), expecting to get some work done before my attention fragments. But Google had other plans. They had rolled out a new version of Antigravity the day before, at I/O 2026 , presenting it as a shiny, standalone Codex-style experience.
78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.
I have a pornography problem, but it’s not what you’re thinking. In fact, if you’re anything like me, you might too.
Two rules keep an LLM from pasteurizing your writing: never take a word it suggests, and never let it encourage you. Then hand it all the tedious work.
UX, ID, and Fast Fashion
I recently visited a friend who runs Keycult , a business that designs and sells $500 keyboard kits.
This'll be my first blog post on the internet, ever. Hopefully it's interesting and accurate. Please point out any mistakes if you see any!
With ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences you could in theory encode an unlimited amount of data in a single emoji.
The fundamental problems a database engineer thinks about in the shower
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
It's time for a little dive into mid-1990s computer history!
Way back in the 80s, some people had a dream of combining the cutesy graphics of 80s visual games and the soul-crushing difficulty of 80s text adventures. And so Sierra On-Line created quest games.
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The event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public.
Not music nerds, obviously. I don’t know anything about music. I know there are letters but sometimes the letters have squiggles; I know an octave doubles in pitch; I know you can write a pop song with only four chords. That’s about it. The rest has always seemed completely, utterly arbitrary. Why do we have twelve…
For all the effort to make Linux a platform to game on.
Might seem simple on the face of it, but unfortunately it's pain all the way down.
The eventful tale of me getting fed up with my homework
If you aren’t used to staring at math, Poisson’s equation looks a little intimidating:
(This article has been translated into Spanish (PDF, with some additions) by Jorge Amado Soria Ramirez — thanks!) Preface I’m cranky. I complain about a lot of things. There’s a lot in the world of technology I don’t like, and that’s really to be expected—programming is a hilariously young discipline, and none of us
Believe-it-or-not, we actually know exactly how to create friendships in the lab!
