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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,819 posts.
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Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k
An event-tech partner for ambitious experiential teams.
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Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes
I have come up with a new way to win at chess: I have connected up a Raspberry Pi Zero in my pocket to some buttons and vibration motors in my shoes, so that I can surreptitiously communicate with a chess engine running on the Pi. The project is called "Sockfish" because it's a way to operate Stockfish with your socks.
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Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
Across 380 software categories, 59.8% of the sources behind grounded AI recommendations sit outside the 100,000 most-visited websites, and several of the most-cited are sites built to be read by models rather than by people.
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EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content
CORRECTION: This post previously identified the sender of the 550 falsely identified URLs as Europol's EU Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU). The sender was in fact, the French national Internet Referral Unit, using Europol's application, which sends the email from an @europol.europa.eu address. The EU IRU has informed…
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WebKit Supports Nested CSS
Back in December, we wrote an article detailing three different options for CSS Nesting.
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Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched
Stack Overflow officially launched on September 15, 2008. In five short years, you've answered over 5 million questions on more than 100 sites , and helped hundreds of millions of people find the answers they needed. Today, we want to celebrate how, together, we changed one small corner of the Internet for the better…
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No Salt
This is by my brother, Sam. I arrived to Arizona late Saturday, after learning that my brother has only a few days left before cancer ends him. Jake’s wife, Bess, confessed that she had neither the…
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What are the mysterious light sources on light pollution maps?
I got my first telescope in 2017, in time for the Great American Eclipse. I started paying attention to the concept of light pollution, including finding detailed maps of what places had high or lo…
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Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API
Accelerating Protomaps with a CDN for fast and affordable maps
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Building an e-ink weather display for our home
Building a battery powered e-ink weather forecast display for our home. This was a fun Raspberry Pi project.
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My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
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The Commodordion
The Commodordion is an 8-bit accordion primarily made of C64s, floppy disks, and gaffer tape.
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Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
Today, our cofounder and CEO Drew Houston shared the difficult news that we’ll be making reductions to our global workforce. Here's the email he sent to all employees.
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The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong
Antitrust critics say that homebuilding monopolies are the real culprit of America’s housing woes. I looked into some of their claims. They don’t hold up.
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OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
Something strange is happening with Mac Minis. They’re selling out everywhere, and it’s not because people suddenly need more coffee table computers. If you browse Reddit or HN, you’ll see the same pattern: people are buying Mac Minis specifically to run AI agents with computer use. They’re setting up headless…
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Fastmail offers EU data region
Choose if you want to make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam.
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WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport
Learn the unique benefits and pitfalls of each real-time tech. Make informed decisions on WebSockets, SSE, Polling, WebRTC, and WebTransport.
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MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Today, we officially roll out MiniMax M3.1 Flash. As a next-generation Flash model, M3.1 Flash delivers a generational leap in agentic tasks, coding, Computer Use and cybersecurity, while making online inference nearly three times faster and reducing usage costs by 70%.
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AI Canon
A curated list of resources we’ve relied on to get smarter about modern AI, including generative AI, LLMs, and transformer models.