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Nobody knows how to build with AI yet
The future of software development might just be jazz. Everyone improvising. Nobody following the sheet music.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,817 posts.
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Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money
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98% isn't much
98% sounds like a lot. If someone wins the lottery 98% of the times they play, they are clearly blessed. Getting a top mark (e.g.: 10/10) on exams 98% of the time will likely lead to an honour diploma.
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Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects
Originally a thread on Twitter about the xz/liblzma vulnerability, when I finished typing it, I realized I had a real world slice of Open Source interaction that deserved more attention.
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We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
AI autonomously manages a theme park in the classic game RollerCoaster Tycoon, placing rides, fixing infrastructure, and generating CFO reports, all via command line.
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It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is
The DMCA was signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1998. It has a weird history. Its inception came from Bruce Lehmann, Microsoft's chief copyright enforcer, whom Clinton tapped to serve as his Copyright Czar. This was back in the "Information Superhighway" days, when Al Gore was holding hearings on the demilitarization…
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A possible new back end for Rust
So typically when you want to make your own compiled language you need a compiler to.. well.. compile it into something useful. Then making it work across a wide range of operating systems and CPU architectures is a huge effort, let alone having it be performant. This is where LLVM comes in.
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How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to GitHub
So here's an interesting thing. Certain commit hashes are rapidly heading toward being illegal on Github .
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Ground control to Major Trial
When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense.
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The most remarkable legacy system I have seen
There was one remarkable legacy system when I was working in a bank sometime back. This could be summarized as an internal AWS lambda equivalent. The offering was complete with full CI, CD, unit te…
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Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo
ds160 has 2 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg
Besök Ostindiefararen Götheborg i Göteborg och upptäck världens största oceanfärdiga träskepp. Boka biljetter och utforska historien bakom detta unika fartyg.
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Cracking Siri
เว็บตรง API แท้ รับทรูวอเลทไม่มีขั้นต่ำ สล็อตเว็บตรง แตกหนักจัดเต็มทุกเกม บริการ สล็อต จากค่ายหลัก ไม่มีล็อคยูส รวมเกมสล็อตเด็ด 2026 ไว้ในที่เดียว
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I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension
sqlite-vec is an new vector search SQLite extension, coming soon!
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Dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 on macOS with Core Animation
In Firefox 70 we changed how pixels get to the screen on macOS. This allows us to do less work per frame when only small parts of the screen change. As a result, Firefox 70 drastically reduces the …
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Unexpected productivity boost of Rust
Rust is known for having a steep learning curve, but in this post we will be looking at another curve, the one showing developer productivity in relation to the project size.
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New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
Cross-compilers, such as the Flash-to-iPhone compiler in Adobe’s upcoming Flash Professional CS5 release, are prohibited.
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September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
How a Pole sees the world in September 2026: a scrolling essay that follows one closed strait into fuel, food, bonds, defence and demography.
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An Update on Heroku
Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this…
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I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)
JD Stillwater, Science Ambassador's blog.
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Claude 2.1
Claude 2.1 brings a 200K token context window, a 2x reduction in hallucination rates, beta tool use, and system prompts.
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Flow browser passes the Acid tests
Ekioh's multithreaded, parallel, Flow browser passes all three Acid tests.
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Why DeepSeek had to be open source
DeepSeek trained a model as good as o1 at a fraction of the cost, then gave it away. Here's why that wasn't a mistake and what it means for OpenAI.
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Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience
Stevan Harnad’s “Subversive Proposal” came of age last year. I’m now teaching students younger than Stevan’s proposal, and yet, very little has actually changed in these 21 years. On the contrary, one may even make the case that while efforts […] <a class="more-link"…
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Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958)
Discover what Hunter S. Thompson's letter on finding your purpose, revisited today, teaches about choosing a way of life over chasing any fixed goal.