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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,936 posts.
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Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
Last year I predicted there would be a significant (2008+) economic crash that year. The year is now 2026 and I was wrong. At the time my main argument was essentially this: The unemployment rate just follows these smooth curves, covid was an exception, and it was due to jump again. Not very scientific I […]
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I rebooted my social life
Some self-help for the New Year
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The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple dependencies and several kilobytes of JavaScript? How did we make a built-in browser control so complicated?
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Lobbying is corruption
On lobbying, corruption, and the same animal under two names
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NetHack 5.0.0
NetHack 5.0 is an enhancement to the dungeon exploration game NetHack, which is a distant descendent of Rogue and Hack, and a direct descendent of NetHack 3.6.
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I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
I’ve decided to archive the source code of my Ruby gems to make it clear that I’m no longer working on them; I’ve written this post to link from them in order to explain why.
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Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
Reflections on autonomy and the value of thinking for ourselves
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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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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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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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AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals
A compressed 8KB docs index in AGENTS.md achieved 100% on Next.js 16 API evals. Skills maxed at 79%. Here's what we learned and how to set it up.
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An Introduction to Meshtastic
Discover Meshtastic: a community-driven, open-source project using LoRa radios for long-range, off-grid communication.
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Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine
I’m happy to announce the release of Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine. It is now available on GitHub. Box3D repository You can think of Box3D as a fork of Box2D, extended with many features needed for 3D games. Some additions: Triangle mesh collision Height-field collision Baked compound collision The core…
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I'm becoming AI-blind
Recently I've been catching myself having these little moments at work, when I'm trying to read a document someone has sent me and my brain somehow refuses to analyze it. It feels like I'm reading it, but I'm unable to focus on its content. I sat down to analyze these situations and realized they all have a common…
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I am worried about Bun
Bun is excellent software. Anthropic owns it now, Bun sits under Claude Code, and Claude Code getting worse makes me worried Bun could follow the same enshittification path.
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The startup's Postgres survival guide
A guide to preventing Postgres from toppling over.
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AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
Companies that treat AI as an autonomous agent are disappointed. Those that treat it as an exoskeleton—an amplifier of human capability—are seeing…
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Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
Show HN is Hacker News’ “showcase” page where makers show and discuss what they’ve built. A few days ago I shared my own project(https://news.ycombinator.com...
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Leaving Mozilla
> On burn-out and bull-headedness
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EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
foodwatch laboratory tests reveal the presence of pesticide residues in everyday foods — including substances not approved in the EU.
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Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
A responsible disclosure write-up on an organization-wide ArcGIS API key embedded across multiple public front-end bundles.
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Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
A Look at Recurrent Depth, Hidden Chains of Thought, and Recent Research on Looping Transformer Blocks
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Warranty Void If Regenerated
Tom Hartmann had not planned to become a Software Mechanic.
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New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste
The energy-efficient desalination system produces fresh water without chemical additives and transforms leftover salts into useful materials.
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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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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…