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Going Full Time on Open Source
Why I left Figma to work full-time on open source, and how I plan to make the work sustainable.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,960 posts.
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Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met
AI plays well at complex strategy games with uncertainty and incomplete information.
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What 81,000 people want from AI
Last December, tens of thousands of Claude users around the world had a conversation with our AI interviewer to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do.
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The Future of AI Software Development
Detailed report on the Thoughtworks AI retreat, should we write a manifesto for AI-enabled development, is spec-driven development the return of waterfall, LLMs perform better in healthy codebases
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NixOS is making me less afraid
Something funny happened a little while ago: I read about FreshRSS, and it sounded nice, so I installed it on a server and started using it . That would not have happened a year ago, but then again, a year ago I didn’t have any NixOS servers.
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Ending respiratory infections
Introducing Intercept, a $500M bet to make respiratory infections like colds and flu a thing of the past.
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Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18, 2026. Resize or consolidate your free instances before they're terminated.
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Work with the garage door up (2024)
One of my favorite ways that creative people communicate is by “working with their garage door up,” to riff on a passage from Robin Sloan (below). This is the opposite of the Twitter account which mostly posts announcements of finished work: it’s Screenshot Saturday ; it’s giving a lecture about the problems you’re…
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Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling
Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat, where Khan himself acknowledged that…
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DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay
Plus: Recent deaths intensify need to make private prisons subject to FOIA
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Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)
Git only tracks files, not directories. It will only create a directory if it contains a tracked file. But sometimes you need to “track” a directory, to ensure it exists for fresh clones of a repository. For example, you might need an output directory called build.
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We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable
That cheapo cable you bought online? Probably a counterfeit. We x-rayed a suspicious cable to show you exactly what that means, and why counterfeits work worse and wear out faster.
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15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern
Buy an RTX 5090, the fastest consumer GPU money can buy, and you get 104.8 TFLOPS of FP32 compute. Ask it to do double-precision math and you get 1.64 TFLOPS. That 64:1 gap is not a technology limitation. For fifteen years, the FP64:FP32 ratio has been slowly getting wider on consumer GPUs, widening the divide between…
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AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers
Across hundreds of Reddit threads and a small body of clinical literature, AI-driven displacement is producing an emotional category that most closely resembles grief, and the institutions causing it have no language for it.
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How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
Asking nicely, and asking a lot of people.
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Bluesky Trademarks ATProto
Bluesky now owns the trademark for AT Protocol to shield the ecosystem and make sure it can be used as widely as possible.
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Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
In Brief: Two motions regarding
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Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI
It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. – Yogi Berra
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Children and Helical Time
If childhood is half of our subjective life, how should that change how we live?
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The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI
How AI has changed the way I prototype, plan, and ship; and what I'm doing to keep my hands dirty.
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Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making
Our new decision-scoring model delivers top performance in latency and quality on structured decision tasks to outperform both LLMs and other decision models.
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SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64
Proofcraft’s Chief Engineer Rafal Kolanski has completed a major “architecture split” overhaul of the seL4 proofs, resulting in the removal of 250k lines of proof and strengthening the link between proofs on different architectures. These changes will significantly reduce future effort required to maintain and extend…
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Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street
Next week in Manhattan, the sunset will align perfectly with the east-west streets of the city grid. It’s beautiful, and people know it. Twice a year, crowds gather to see the brief moment when the sun sits perfectly on the horizon, framed by skyscrapers on either side. It’s called Manhattanhenge , after Stonehenge.
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What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy
A look inside Copilot’s network traffic, harness, memory, and how context is becoming the product.
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GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button
My little corner of the internet.
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--dangerously-skip-reading-code
What if we dutifully communicate the risks and trade-offs to our organizational leadership and they still want to take those risks