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Coding is not solved
Tell me you don’t understand software without literally using those words!!!
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,935 posts.
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Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got
My CTO leaned back in our 1-on-1 and said something that sounded almost threatening: "You want to get promoted? Try to take my position."
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Doing the thing is doing the thing
Software Engineer, LITM
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A dot a day keeps the clutter away
The simplest organization system I've tried is a sheet of colored dot stickers. It's also the best.
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CarPlay Is Additive
I don't understand why these EV manufacturers… don't understand.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 was awarded to Francis Halzen "for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin"
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I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed
In memory of the Palestinians killed in the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
Git 3.0 will make SHA-256 the new default content hashing algorithm and it will be an incomprehensibly expensive and ultimately valueless and avoidable global nightmare.
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Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics
Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny pollutants, according to a University of Michigan study.
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Help I accidentally a wigglegram
It is a kind of stereo image you make by looping frames together, like as a GIF.
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Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse
I've been obsessed with procedural maps since I was a kid rolling dice on the random dungeon tables in the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide. There was something magical about it — you didn't design the dungeon, you discovered it, one room at a time, and the dice decided whether you got a treasure chamber or a dead end full…
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Claude's new constitution
A new approach to a foundational document that expresses and shapes who Claude is
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Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
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Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia
TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired MediaWiki’s most influential developer and disbanded the team whose entire job…
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Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
the question everyone is asking
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Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
Experiments with getting usable outputs out of local models on a standard Macbook
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The Post-American Internet
On December 28th, I delivered a speech entitled " A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet " for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany. This is the transcript of that speech.
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Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...
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Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager
Non-obvious advice that I wish I learned sooner.
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I’ve banned query strings
I don’t like people adding tracking stuff to URLs. Still less do I like people adding tracking stuff to my URLs.
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How to read more books
My method for reading more
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Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
JPEG XL offers better compression than JPEG, built-in HDR support, lossless JPEG transcoding, and more.
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The Cognitive Dark Forest
The open web with AIs is turning into a dark forest.
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There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis
Big week! We just finished moving the Overwatch and Fortnite wikis off of Fandom. It’s still my favorite thing in the world to help wiki editors grab control of their projects and make them awesome (and not covered with a dozen auto-playing video ads!)
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GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic collaborators.
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Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
Starting in 2027, smartphone batteries will once again be replaceable in the EU. Learn all about the new regulation and what this means for users.
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JetKVM Mini
A JetKVM from $33, wired or wireless. New open-source firmware, the same web interface.