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MacOS Extensions Pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0
By now regular readers of this blog are quite familiar with my affection for the 1996 Apple Network Server , Apple's Unix-through-and-thro...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,964 posts.
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After the AI Crash
Everything I read about the AI industry leads me to think there will be an AI crash. Consider the following: Unsustainable Capital Expenses. It’s hard to imagine there can ever be enough revenue to…
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AWS Lambda Web Functions
AWS Lambda Web Functions is a serverless compute primitive that runs your HTTP framework natively, delivering fast, consistent responses through multi-concurrent execution and automated global distribution.
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A Year of 3D Printing
If you'd asked me a few years back if I thought I'd buy a 3D printer, I would have said no. My experience of 3D printers back when I was in college was that they were very slow, expensive, frequently failed mid-print, and needed constant calibration...
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AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier
AI tools lower the barrier to producing code, not to building reliable systems. The hard part — maintaining alignment between specifications, tests, and implementation — has not gone away. Expertise still matters.
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Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack
He was also involved in taking the Pier 1 chain nationwide
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Better Auth is joining Vercel
Better Auth is joining Vercel. We're joining to accelerate our work on open-source auth and securing agent workflows.
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Dates That Don't Exist (2015)
In 1582, under the inter gravissimas papal bull, the Catholic world transitioned from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar . This new calendar shortened the length of the year from 365.25 days to 365.2425 , a reduction of just 0.002% .
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The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?
A practical introduction to TLA+, why it matters for agentic coding, and how AI could take formal verification from models to machine-checked proofs and ultimately to verified software.
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AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust
AI-generated work can look finished without being understood. That uncertainty erodes trust, slows reviews, and leaves colleagues doing the missing work.
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Swift 6.4 Released
Swift 6.4 is now available. Swift aims to be a great choice across the stack, from apps and servers to systems code, embedded devices, and the browser. This release deepens that support, and makes everyday code easier to write. Highlights include:
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Rhombus 1.1 is now available
Rhombus version 1.1 is now available! We are pleased to announce Rhombus 1.1 is now available from https://rhombus-lang.org/. _Rhombus is a general-purpose programming language that is easy to use and uniquely customizable._ As of this release:: A...
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The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming
the future of senior developers, junior developers, more on cognitive debt, DevEx versus AgentEx, the role of IDEs, consequences of task switching in supervisory programming
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The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory
UC Irvine neuroscientist Oswald Steward received the 2026 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for discoveries that helped explain how the brain forms and stores memories.
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My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza
Over the last few weeks, I created a computer game set in the Arctic. Or maybe I’ve been working on it since 1981. It all depends on how you count.
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Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding
A local alternative to backpropagation. PC-ALM trains residual MLPs up to 1000 layers, nearly matching backprop's performance despite using only layer-local dynamics. PC-ALM equips each layer with a feedback control dynamical system that distributes and propagates supervision credit throughout a network.
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A Perceptron in Age of Empires II
An operational NAND gate in Age of Empires II , built with the game's scenario editor. This one can also be built within the game in a two-player setup but it's a lot easier (so to speak) to just script it.
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A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games
We want Easel to be powerful enough to make the kinds of games you would play for hours.
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TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering
An in-depth technical analysis of TigerBeetle's core architecture, exploring how static memory allocation, zero-copy io uring interfaces, and Zig-based…
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Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study
Studying brain scan data from individuals — not group averages — reveals key brain-function differences in children who struggle with goal-oriented tasks, a Stanford Medicine study found.
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Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math
What happens inside an LLM when it tries to calculate with nothing but matrices.
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F# 10
Learn about new F# 10 language features, performance upgrades, and tooling improvements shipping with .NET 10.
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The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction
In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087, a chip that made floating-point operations much faster in the IBM PC and other systems. Although the 808...
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Making Postgres queues scale
Lessons learned from scaling Postgres-backed durable queues for users running tens of billions of workflows per month.
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Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model
Agora-1, a multi-agent world model, enables multiple participants—human or AI—to share and interact within the same world simulation in real-time.
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Two studies in compiler optimisations
A deep dive into the intricacies of the LLVM optimisation pipeline.
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Pushing and Pulling: Three reactivity algorithms
It’s looking like I’m going to need to build a reactive engine for work, so I’m going to prepare for that by writing down what I know about them. I want to look at three ways of building reactive engines: push reactivity, pull reactivity, and the hybrid push/pull combination that is used in a bunch of web frameworks…
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Parsing Expression Grammar vs. Regexes: Building Org Parser in Lisp, Export HTML
Converting Org to HTML with (ice-9 peg) in Guile: OrgWebAlchemy