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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source. Explore the IRC client that turned conversations into comics and helped introduce Comic Sans to the world.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,933 posts.
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Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Why is the sky blue?
The internet’s default answer to “why is the sky blue?” is “Rayleigh scattering”. And that’s not wrong, but it’s also not very useful.
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First, make me care
Writing advice: some nonfiction fails because it opens with background instead of a hook—readers leave before reaching the good material. Find the single anomaly or question that makes your topic interesting, lead with that, and let the background follow once you’ve earned attention.
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jQuery 4
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation
My family is pledging another $400,000 1 to the Zig Software Foundation (ZSF). This brings our total pledged support for ZSF to $700,000, after our initial donation in 2024 .
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AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
A response to Rich Hickey's "'AI' is Not a Tool": automation and tool use can coexist, and wielding an LLM well requires skill, feedback, and judgment.
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Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
In the context of concerns around young people’s interactions with digital technologies, the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is consulting on additional measures to prepare young people for ...
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Goodbye Claude, hello Pi
I’ve been a longtime Claude Code user, ever since it became available in the Claude Pro subscription plan over a year ago. I remember the first time I used it, feeling giddy as it spat out messy Python code for whatever random weekend project I was working on, all from a single prompt. I’m certain that in a few years…
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Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers
More than a decade ago, a group of young, internet-connected Belarusian dissidents launched a series of increasingly high-stakes, increasingly surreal confrontations with the corrupt, authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenka, a man who is often called "the last Soviet dictator."
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The Codex App
Introducing the Codex app for macOS—a command center for AI coding and software development with multiple agents, parallel workflows, and long-running tasks.
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The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning …
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The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café
Hunting timeless insights into humans and software and helping others on the way.
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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …
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Small Models Have Arrived
For the past few weeks, I've been playing with gpt-5.6-luna . It is shockingly capable, fast, and smart. I regularly see it do ~100 tps, and rip around my codebase, email, and knowledge base.
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Yes, and
In this essay, Carson Gross discusses his advice to young people interested in computer science worried about the future given the advancements in AI.
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AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
If you’re willing to use AI-generated images, how do I know the text isn’t AI-generated?
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Rewriting Bun in Rust
Why & how we rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust
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It's getting harder to focus every day
I’m feeling it right now. I had to set a timer for 15 minute on my computer and block all distractions to write this. If I didn’t force myself to focus I would easily get distracted by something after few minutes. Even when I’m doing things that I’ve been waiting to do it, I still feel the urge to do something else. I…
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Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
The EU's new mandatory ADDW rules could make roads safer by altering distracted drivers, but its privacy safeguards and data handling rules remain a gray area.
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How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language change
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Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
The curl project will not accept or otherwise handle any vulnerability reports during the month of July 2026. We call it the curl summer of bliss. curl's submission form on Hackerone will be paused starting July 1, 2026. Summer of bliss starts: July 1, 2026. 00:00 CEST Submissions resume: August 3 2026. 09:00 CEST The…
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Please Use AI
Be sure to use AI when making
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A website to destroy all websites
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
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Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript
JavaScript's Date object has been a source of bugs for three decades. Temporal, which just reached Stage 4, is a modern replacement with immutable types, first-class time zone and calendar support, and nanosecond precision. This is the story of how Bloomberg, Igalia, and the TC39 community spent nine years turning…
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The session you cannot take with you
Inference APIs are filling sessions with encrypted reasoning, hidden search results, opaque compaction, and encrypted subagent messages. A growing form of lock-in.