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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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The lost malloc()
Prompted by another project idea that popped into my mind, I did some Unix archaeology and looked at the original sources . This is the most fun I've ever had reading someone else's code - probably due to the historical significance. But also because of how delightfully approachable it was, compared to modern…
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Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain
A largely overlooked space between cells in women’s brains may hold the key to understanding memory loss tied to estrogen decline after menopause, reports a new preclinical Northwestern Medicine study.
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Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase
Databricks shares results from its internal coding benchmark, evaluating coding agents on a multi-million line codebase to optimize engineering cost and performance.
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Workspace Agents in ChatGPT
Workspace agents in ChatGPT are Codex-powered agents that automate complex workflows, run in the cloud, and help teams scale work across tools securely.
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The most important product decision is what you don't build
Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.
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Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution
We gave 64 real coding tasks to self-hosted GPUs, rented hardware and commercial APIs. Owning a box lands in the same cost ballpark as renting one.
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Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux
McZee meets a penguin!
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Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs
Update August 11, 2026: A group of researchers from all over Europe were inspired by this post, and actually turned it into a real working attack! Check out their writeup and paper here. This is a …
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Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model
A deep dive on flow maps.
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200 Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive's Role in Preserving Public Record
Journalists are thanking the Internet Archive for their respectful preservation of news and history and for being an important resource for journalists. This letter is coming at a time where many major media outlets are questioning whether to allow the Wayback Machine to continue to preserve journalism.
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Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way
japanese verbs are awesome. you can take the dictionary form of a verb (for example, "taberu", to eat) and turn it into many forms: taberu ("eat"): tabemasu…
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How to Build Wealth as a Career Person
There is a popular idea that substantial wealth belongs mainly to entrepreneurs. We celebrate founders, investors and business owners so loudly that a career person can begin to believe that employ…
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The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
The engineer who says no all the time is a real archetype among senior and staff engineers. Their role is to slow things down, to block the development of…
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I Don't Like Magic
Knock, knock! Who’s there? Control freak (now you say “control freak who?”)
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How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in
In the previous article, we explored the importance of standards: how the unspoken agreements governing electrical sockets, paper sizes and file formats form the foundations of a world in which choices remain open and power is not concentrated in the hands of a single player. We concluded with a question: if open…
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Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data
See how OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research used distributed AI agents to uncover promising research leads in data from millions of brain cells.
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This PCB is brought to you by Fable 5
An experiment to design a cute PCB (without touching any tools) in plain English
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GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty
Details about the OpenAI Bio Bounty program
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Margin Call
Discover how Apple defied expectations with record gross margins of 48.2%, showcasing strength in products and services despite industry challenges.
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Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong
TL;DR: I believe Odin's inline assembly is currently the best out of any language.The most important aspects are of this article listed below. I am not aware of any other assembly (GCC/Clang/Rust/Go...) that would combine all of these aspects:Inline assembly is organized into "templates", similar to and callable as…
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The Perils of ISBN
Last year I got into using Letterboxd, to complement my goal of watching more (good) movies. It’s got a really clean interface, the social features are useful but unobtrusive, and it makes remembering what I’ve watched and when I watched it easy. So why isn’t there a Letterboxd for books?
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Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support
The Fairphone 6 is an interesting target for mainline Linux and postmarketOS for a few reasons:
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Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered
Gland, Switzerland, 9 April 2026 (IUCN) – The emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal are now both Endangered, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Climate change in Antarctica is leading to changes in sea-ice that are projected to cause the emperor penguin population to halve by the 2080s, while…
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CrowdSec Source Code Leak
CrowdSec update on a source code exposure that occurred in May 2026, including the scope, impact, investigation, and security measures taken.
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2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 was awarded jointly to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel "for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics"
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Surprising economics of load-balanced systems
I have a system with c servers, each of which can only handle a single concurrent request, and has no internal queuing. The servers sit behind a load balancer, which contains an infinite queue. An unlimited number of clients offer c * 0.8 requests per second to the load balancer on average. In other words, we increase…
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Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console
Wiz Research discovered CodeBreach, a critical vulnerability that risked the AWS Console supply chain. Learn how to secure your AWS CodeBuild pipelines.
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HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle
Over the past week, I have been working on bringing HardenedBSD's code repositories on Radicle (as most/all of you already know by now.) We are now at the point where Radicle is usable for us. There are still some sharp edges and some things to work out, but the core functionality is working.
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The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention
Fil-C achieves memory safety even for programs that behave adversarially. That includes casting function pointers to the wrong signature and then calling them, exporting a function with one signature in one module and then importing it with a different signature in another, or even exporting a symbol as a function in…