Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,220 posts.
I can’t think of any other language in my 45 years long career that surprised more than Zig . I can easily say that Zig is not only a new programming language, but it’s a totally new way to write programs, in my opinion. To say it’s merely a language to replace C or C++, it’s a huge understatement.
Disqus turned my clean blog into an ad-riddled mess. Here’s why I pulled the plug—for your privacy and reading sanity
Monster Cables, which makes extremely high-priced stereo cables, has apparently sent a cease-and-desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable, alleging various kinds of infringement. Bad move – the pres…
Backlog getting you down? Drowning in technical debt? Delegate issues to Copilot so you can focus on the creative, complex, and high-impact work that matters most. Copilot coding agent makes…
Mozilla's pivot to AI first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LACSD) committed wholesale abuse of sensitive criminal justice databases in 2023, violating a specific rule against searching the data to run background checks for concealed carry firearm permits.The sheriff’s department’s 6,789 abuses made up a majority...
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Link to: https://tidbits.com/2025/12/17/compromised-apple-gift-card-leads-to-apple-account-lockout/
On many Unix-based operating systems, rsync is a command line tool for transferring and synchronizing files on a computer, either between storage attached directly to the computer or between anothe…
Why you should just use Postgres instead of Kafka for small-scale message queuing and pub-sub patterns. Benchmarks and practical tests included.
Ollama's new app is now available for macOS and Windows.
So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design.
Today, we’re introducing memory to the Claude app, where Claude remembers you and your team’s projects and preferences, eliminating the need to re-explain context and keeping complex work moving forward.
Many websites such as Yelp show an annoying “Sign in with Google” banner when you visit.
Liwei Guo, Zhi Li, Sheldon Radford, Jeff Watts
We have rolled back last week’s GPT‑4o update in ChatGPT so people are now using an earlier version with more balanced behavior. The update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable—often described as sycophantic.
Large files bloat Git’s storage, slow down git clone , and wreak havoc on Git forges.
Figuring out how to lean in to my thinking style
I wrote a (list of) regular expressions that will play a (not very good) chess game by running a 2-ply minimax search.
This interactive post will show you how to build your own fleet of space invaders by mixing geometry with randomness and a splash of color.
I recently bought a cheap Tapo indoor camera to see what my dog gets up to when I am out of the house.
We’re upgrading the GPT-5 series with warmer, more capable models and new ways to customize ChatGPT’s tone and style. GPT-5.1 starts rolling out today to paid users.
Our smartest and most capable models to date with full tool access
Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.
🖍️ Explaining multiple techniques for rendering outlines and highlights for real-time applications. This includes vertex object-space as well as screen-space methods. This can be used to render outlines in Unity or Unreal. Outlines can be used for gameplay reasons or aesthetics.
A mysterious new model currently in testing on Google’s AI Studio is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition but it is also showing signs of spontaneous, abstract, symbolic reasoning.
Can Claude Recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website? No. Or at least not with my prompting skills.
