Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,960 posts.
Righty-ho, I’m back from Rust Nation, and busily horrifying my teenage daughter with my (admittedly atrocious) attempts at doing an English accent 1 . It was a great trip with a lot of good conversations and some interesting observations. I am going to try to blog about some of them, starting with some thoughts…
A dive into how we share IPs between VMs while making SSH work.
Java 17 introduced sealed classes, which allow you to explicitly list the allowed sub-types of an interface or base class. For example, here’s a toy example using a sealed interface and records (in…
A papal adviser calls Peter Thiel a heretic after his secret Rome lectures on the Antichrist draw global attention and a Vatican rebuke
Your brain uses 20% of your body's energy just idling. Intense thinking barely adds to that. But the mental byproducts of a long cognitive day quietly sabotage your endurance in ways no amount of willpower can fix.
Ape coding is the software development practice where a human developer deliberately hand-writes source code.
T he Anthropic Mythos announcement is the first time in my life I’ve felt truly poor. Maybe because I grew up on the internet and it was the one permissionless place where you could have leverage and a shot at uncapped exploration and ambition. That is now changing with the gap between models that are publicly…
A practical workflow for running 4–8 parallel coding agents using Claude Code, tmux, and a Markdown-based feature design system.
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this captivating subtitle I wrote really makes you want to read it, doesn’t it?!?
Lots of the CVE world seems to focus on “security bugs” but I’ve found that it is not all that well known exactly how the Linux kernel security process works. I gave a talk about this back in 2023 and at other conferences since then, attempting to explain how it works, but I also thought it would be good to explain…
For Claude to learn from experience, it has to decide what’s worth remembering before it knows what’s next. Here’s how “dreaming” helps it organize memory and correct mistakes.
How TurboQuant compresses the KV cache without losing accuracy, and what that could mean for memory stocks
Apple recently announced an upcoming feature for their new Apple Watches called “Audio Intelligence,” which will always be listening to a...
The macOS command-line tool hdiutil is used to manipulate disk images. From the WHAT'S NEW section of man hdiutil on the latest macOS 27 Golden Gate beta:
Last year, we introduced Brain2Qwerty v1, research that uses AI to decode brain activity into text without any surgical implant. Now we're sharing the next step: Brain2Qwerty v2, the highest-performing end-to-end pipeline capable of real-time sentence decoding from non-invasive brain recordings, approaching levels of…
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
As I continue reading An Introduction to Parallel Programming, I cannot help but notice a connection between communication among processors, communication among human beings, and communication within the individual self....
A post by Eshel Yaron introducing the Emacs Trust Manager
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Trickle-down economic policies are destined to fail, research suggests. David Hope explains why the issue is so controversial.
Several months ago, I decided that AI contributions were no longer welcome in a FOSS project I am building and maintaining - LibreWeddingPlanner. It’s not that it got a lot of contributions with AI — actually all contributions I’ve had are translations and feature requests — but I wanted to...
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An opposite view on .gitignore files.
In an industry that pressures developers to always be shipping side-projects, it can be helpful to be retrospective with the projects that don't make the cut
When Japan broke up its national railway in 1987, the new companies agreed on one thing to keep the same.
I set all of Vim's configuration options, and I still feel far from mastery. But I did learn that it used to be called Vi IMitation...
We moved our warehouse product off DuckDB and DuckLake onto our own flavor of Trino and a new open table format, HogLake. Here's what broke at scale and why.
A convincing lookalike of the popular 7-Zip archiver site has been silently turning victims’ machines into residential proxy nodes.
