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Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes
Every agent gets its own isolated container inside a micro VM. No dedicated hardware needed. No complex setup.
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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Technofascism
In July 2016, Peter Thiel walked onto the stage at the Republican National Convention and told the crowd three things. First: “I build things.” Second: “I’m proud to be gay.” Third: “I’m proud to be a Republican.” What he did not say was that he had spent years funding a blogger named Curtis Yarvin, who wrote under…
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Being a kid making games in the early 2000s
An autobiographical essay by Jay Tholen about being a youngster making games and posting them online!
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Anthropic installed a spyware bridge on my machine?
Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user has not even installed.
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AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment
Biohub, DOE, NIH, and partners will generate open, standardized data to train AI models that predict how cells respond to interventions.
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NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.5, the fifth (and final) release from the NetBSD 9 stable branch.
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Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)
From paged attention, continuous batching, prefix caching, specdec, etc. to multi-GPU, multi-node dynamic serving at scale.
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A Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…
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Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?
[This is a guest post by Francesco Maggi. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Large language models (LLMs) and the research systems b…
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Most advice is right for the person giving it
Steve Jobs gave a famous speech at Stanford, where he told graduates that the only way to do great work is to love what you do, and that if you haven't found your passion yet, you should keep looking.
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Vibecoding #2
I feel like I got substantial value out of Claude today, and want to document it. I am at the tail end of AI adoption, so I don't expect to say anything particularly useful or novel. However, I am constantly complaining about the lack of boring AI posts, so it's only proper if I write one.
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The Ask
Coffee in hand, I sit down in the Cave. Any Tuesday during the work week, a sip, and I parse the calendar. 1:1 — he's fine. Status meeting — listen. Staff me
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Strands Harness
Strands harness is a fully assembled, customizable, state-of-the-art agent you run locally or deploy anywhere.
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America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice
Call you Congresspeople, right now.
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We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon
Firecracker needs KVM and therefore a Linux host, and the image tooling around it needs loop mounts and Linux userland. We rebuilt the stack on Apple's Virtualization.framework to boot the same OCI images as microVMs on macOS and on Linux.
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We're training a Figma-fluent editing model
Here, we’re sharing the research behind how we’re translating that to design editing workflows.
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The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here
Three years ago, we released the design for the Adept, a unique trackball perfectly suited for the use of QMK, for 3D-printing, and for ambidextrous use across a wide variety of applications.
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Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed
A barbarian heretic kept the Roman state running for thirty-three years
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Understanding Email Encryption (2025)
A comprehensive overview of how email is encrypted, the benefits, and the trade-offs.
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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)
Prototyping a Home NAS with RAID1 on FreeBSD on a virtual machine: system installation via SSH with bsdinstall, configuring ZFS mirror and working with datasets
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DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded
Figuring out how it went missing.
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Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels
The chart below compares the forward P/E ratios for the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 Information Technology sector. Subscribe for daily updates.
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We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
Vary support is now available in Cache Rules on every plan. You can normalize known negotiation headers, pass exact values through to the origin when those small differences matter, or bypass cache when the variation is too unpredictable.
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Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter
Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters).
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The Hardest Tarball?
Here is a curiosity: an archive that can be constructed using a single GNU tar invocation, that is extracted in 8 distinct ways depending on what tool you use.
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Take One Small Step
Think smaller–then act.
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The C64 Dead Test Font
A deep dive into the font of the “Dead Test” diagnostic cartridge of the C64, including an Easter egg, a look into the implementation, and, finally, some Commodore 8-bit character ROMs for download.
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Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers
On your computer graphics journey, you will eventually run into some paper or code mentioning spherical harmonic functions. They are indeed a very useful tool: with just a few coefficients, they allow us to approximate a given function defined on a sphere. This can be very useful for modeling complex lighting.