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Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025)
I really like QR codes. Recently I purchased a new sticky-note-like pad from a new local stationery store in Minneapolis. The sheets have a 10x10 grid and 2x10 grid. I knew what I wanted to...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,957 posts.
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Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills
The bottleneck has shifted from implementation to specification.
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It's a shame what's happened to radio
Why I wouldn't enjoy returning to radio as a disk jockey.
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They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7
Why half a million people learned to program in Pascal, when you’d think they had no earthly reason to.
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Hindenburg’s Smoking Room
Yes, there really was a smoking room on the Hindenburg… even though the zeppelin was inflated with 7 million cubic feet of highly flammable hydrogen...
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AI-assisted cognition endangers human development?
Does AI-assisted cognition threaten human development? Explore the risks of AI-assisted thinking and learn strategies to use AI tools without freezing your critical thinking.
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Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux
KO | EN | Discussions on HN I still have a netbook I bought back in 2009. The ASUS Eee PC 1000HE has an Intel Atom N280 and 1GB of DDR2 RAM. The Atom N series was Intel’s line of cheap, low-performance CPUs for netbooks. The chip has 56KB of L1 cache and 512KB of L2 cache, and its clock speed is 1.6...
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Use boring languages with LLMs
Why coding agents perform better in cohesive ecosystems like Go than fragmented ones like JavaScript or Python
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Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio
I've been using the built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet on my Mac Studio for a few years. It works fine: I can edit 4K video straight off my NAS over the network, and run backups at around 1 GB/sec. But... I want more. I upgraded my rack and my NAS to 25 GbE a couple years ago, and wanted to upgrade my main workstation, too.
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Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it
A programmer's text editor is their castle
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5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs
See how Netlify rebuilt Edge Functions on MicroVMs to deliver lower latency, greater reliability, and faster log delivery.
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The ways we contain Claude across products
As agents grow more capable, so does their potential blast radius. Here's what we learned building containment for claude.ai, Claude Code, and Cowork.
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Munich 1991: The Roots of the Current AI Boom
1991: T and P of ChatGPT, distillation, deep residual learning, LSTM, GAN
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Tin: full-text search for Postgres
TIN is a fast, full-featured, full-text search index for Postgres
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You only need the frontier model for one single edit
/prewalk hands the cheap model a trajectory, not a plan, retaining 92–97% of frontier pass rate at roughly half the cost on SWE-Bench Pro.
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Training AI to Paint with Code
I'm a designer and creative technologist based in Brooklyn, NY.
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Chopping up books when they're physically too big
Matt Kirkland is a designer. He probably reads too much.
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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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Do not apologize for replying late to my email
Do not apologize for replying late to my email par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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The End of Eleventy
Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same …
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Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT
How NAT broke the concept of an internet connection
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Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb
The largest tell for me to tell where culture and sentiment is shifting for AI tools is usually X, viral GitHub repositories and Hacker News. One of these tells I’ve been seeing a lot lately is skills like I have ADHD and Agents.md instructions such as giving outputs in only ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English.
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Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024
Growtika helps startups accelerate growth through proven SEO, AI Search & Growth methods to build an inbound engine that generates demand and pipeline.
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The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
In the world of computing, we tend to abstract away complexity. Doing so seems liberating. It enables us to focus on the bigger picture. Unfortunately, in doing so, the fidelity of our understanding often decreases. We sometimes end up blinding ourselves.
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A communist Apple II and fourteen years of not knowing what you're testing
It is Friday. KPMG , the consultancy behemoth that delivers business Venn diagrams for outrageous prices, informs us that 70 percent of UK business leaders will keep spending on AI even when they can’t prove it does anything — the consultancy helpfully suggests we stop calling it “investment” and start calling it a…
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Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements
Redis 8.8 is now available in Open Source. Explore the new array data type, window counter rate limiter, streams NACK, and more performance-focused updates.
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SecurityBaseline.eu
On May 13, 2026, the website SecurityBaseline.eu was launched. It is a spin-off from the Dutch “Basisbeveiliging”, which has monitored baseline security for over a decade and is part of governmental policy. Three months ago we sent tens of thousands of e-mails to European governments indicating the new site would…
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RSA-896
A post about RSA-896.