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Creativity is the new moat
AI makes it fast and easy to copy what’s already out there—but your competitive edge could learn a little something from web history
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,961 posts.
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Many hells of WebDAV
Standards are great, until they aren't
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An ode to bzip
The story goes like this. ComputerCraft is a mod that adds programming to Minecraft. You write Lua code that gets executed by a bespoke interpreter with access to world APIs, and now you’re writing code instead of having fun. Computers have limited disk space, and my /nix folder is growing out of control, so I need to…
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The development pipeline is a production system
Various thoughts on programming and technology.
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RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree
We tested RTK (Rust Token Killer) with Claude Code on Fable 5.0, and OpenCode with DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 on Terminal-Bench 2.1.
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Adaptive PDFs
An idea for PDFs that render normally for humans while exposing clean markdown structure to extractors and LLMs in the same file.
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A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy
Event designators have been hiding in not-so-plain-sight since the late 1970s — so powerful that forgetting might be part of a massive conspiracy to wear out developer keyboards faster than otherwise.
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Allocating on the Stack
A description of some of the recent changes to do allocations on the stack instead of the heap.
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Servo 2025 Stats
Some numbers about the evolution of the Servo project and its community during the last years.
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What else do people draw on gradient.horse?
Since gradient.horse went online in January 2026, six months have passed, and more than 600 000 horses (and non-horses) were drawn. There are now more horses on gradient.horse than in the wild. The image model I trained to filter out vandalism works very well, but it also hides a lot of ingenious drawings. You could…
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Electric motor scaling laws and inertia in robot actuators
Engineering contraptions
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Signals, the push-pull based algorithm
We have been using Signals in production for years via several modern front-end frameworks like Solid, Vue, and others, but few of us are able to explain how they work internally. I wanted to dig into it, especially diving deep into the push-pull based algorithm, the core mechanism behind their reactivity.
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A ternary plot of citrus geneology
Interactive ternary chart of citrus ancestry
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The Physics of GPS
An interactive exploration of how GPS works: from the speed of light and trilateration to the cheap clock problem and Einstein's relativity corrections.
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Policy on the AI Exponential
In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings , two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree—to defend his forest from an army that is cutting it down. The problem is that Treebeard operates at a very different speed than the Hobbits. It takes him a full day simply to say hello…
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Please do not A/B test my workflow
Anthropic is silently A/B testing Claude Code's plan mode on paying users. This isn't a consumer app. Stop treating it like one.
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Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes
The financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are some observations for investigators with badges, press cards, or GoPros.
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Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art
A retrospective on Tess.Design, our attempt to make an ethical, artist-friendly AI marketplace. We launched Tess in May 2024 and shut it down in January 2026.
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Write less code, be more responsible
My thoughts on AI-assisted programming.
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Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself (2024)
Discover insightful advice for young people, emphasizing choices, confidence, and personal growth through lived experiences.
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Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”
And why you may need to repeat AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' twice. SUMMARY * AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' converts the data type from timestamptz to timestamp (example). * Now you are inadvertently using the timestamp without time zone (aka timestamp) data type, which is markedly discouraged. * There are tons of footguns with timestamp…
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ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss
For nearly three decades; or November 1996 to be exact, PDFs have relied on Deflate—the same compression algorithm that powers your ZIP files. Meanwhile, the web moved on. In 2015, Google introduced Brotli, a compression algorithm so efficient it now powers 95% of internet traffic. Websites got faster. Downloads got…
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Design and Implementation of Sprites
So that we may educate as well as horrify: the internals of our new Sprites execution platform.
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International chess federation sanctions Kramnik
The FIDE Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) has issued its decision in disciplinary proceedings involving former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik .
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Manus will return to operating as an independent company
Visit the Manus blog to learn more about our thoughts on the future.
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Claude Managed Agents
Claude Managed Agents is Anthropic's suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale. See what's new and how to get started.
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Provide agents with automated feedback
Back pressure for agents You might notice a pattern in the most successful applications of agents over the last year. Projects that are able to setup structure around the agent itself, to provide it with automated feedback on quality and correctness, have been able to push them to work on longer horizon tasks. This…
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How the Military Will Hack the Election
Task Force Raider’s role in 2026 elections has military officers uneasy
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Using any C++ library in Godot
How Godot's GDExtension system and the godot-cpp bindings work, and how to use Conan to bring C and C++ libraries into a Godot game, with a flecs example that simulates 100,000 particles.
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Redeploying Fable 5
Anthropic is redeploying Claude Fable 5 starting July 1, with updated cyber safeguards and a new jailbreak framework.