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I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace
Building a completely offline AI workspace with local LLMs, sandboxed code execution, and browser automation — no cloud dependencies, maximum privacy.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,789 posts.
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Load Balancing
A bottom-up, animated guide to HTTP load balancing algorithms.
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Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls
Journalists should stop saying that the evidence is just correlational
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Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card
51,000 business enthusiasts get my weekly digests. It could connect you with an investor or poke your business mindset (1.4M+ views.)
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Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
thoughts, talks, docs and unpopular opinions
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Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
We saved 76% on our cloud bills while tripling our capacity by migrating to Hetzner from AWS and DigitalOcean. Digital Society is a not-for-profit cooperative helping you get your projects off the ground and realise the value of your data.
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Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, a next-generation model with stronger capabilities in coding, science, and cybersecurity, paired with its most advanced safety stack.
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Hunting Down My Son's Killer
To find it, a team of scientists at Duke University used whole-exome sequencing (a protein-focused variant of whole-genome sequencing) on me, my wife and my son.
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GPT-4.5
We’re releasing a research preview of GPT‑4.5—our largest and best model for chat yet. GPT‑4.5 is a step forward in scaling up pre-training and post-training.
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The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
Last week Google introduced Gemini Pro 1.5, an enormous upgrade to their Gemini series of AI models. Gemini Pro 1.5 has a 1,000,000 token context size. This is huge—previously that …
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Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites
An investigation into how Stripe tracks your users and what you can do to prevent it
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Making Hard Things Easy
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy
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Time to Take a Stand
It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about some of the actions taken by President Trump’s administration. There are many actions from his first week that are objectionable. In...
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I still use Flash
How I Still Use Flash in 2022
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Our First Certificate Is Now Live
Let’s Encrypt passed another major milestone by issuing our first certificate. You can see it in action here. Our cross signature is not yet in place, however this certificate is fully functional for clients with the ISRG root in their trust store. When we are cross signed, approximately a month from now, our…
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Study mode
Introducing study mode in ChatGPT, a new learning experience that helps you work through problems step by step, guiding students with questions, scaffolding, and feedback for deeper learning.
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Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
TLDR: Despite claiming to backup all your data, Backblaze quietly stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders - along with potentially many other things.
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How Dwarf Fortress is built
Dwarf Fortress is one of those oddball passion projects that’s broken into Internet consciousness. It’s a free game where you play either an adventurer or a fortress full of dwarves in a randomly generated fantasy world. The simulation runs deep, with new games creating multiple civilizations with histories…
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Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States
On December 21, 2018, the United States House of Representatives voted to enact H.R. 4174, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2017, in a historic win for open government in the …
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Gemma: New Open Models
Gemma is a family of lightweight, state-of-the art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models.
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Installing a payphone in my house
When I was growing up in the 90s, I remember wanting to get on the Internet. My parents weren’t going to help me, so I called up an ISP and said I wanted to set up an account. They asked for my name and I gave them a fake name. And then they asked for a credit card number and I told them I had to find my wallet and…
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Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
As the role of mobile devices in people's lives expands even further, mobile app developers have become a driving force for software innovation. At Microsoft, we are working to enable even greater …
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YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
We’ve heard from some founders that they’re nervous about applying to YC because they worry they won’t be able to get visas to attend interviews or the summer program. We will hold a day of interviews in Vancouver for founders we’d like to interview but can’t get US visas. We will also experiment with allowing…
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Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone.