1021
The Agent SDK
The Agent SDK is the framework we use to build our own managed agents like Bugbot, Security Reviewer, and Rollouts. Define agents in code and deploy them with one command.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,421 posts.
1022
They lied to you. Building software is hard
Every week there seems to be a new tool that promises to let anyone build applications 10x faster. The promise is always the same and so is the outcome.
1023
British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
This year, British Column has moved to year-round Pacific Time. How does that affect date data?
1024
So you want to write an “app” (2025)
I touched "every" OS so you don't have to
1025
1026
Job queues are deceptively tricky
A worked out example of different job queueing semantics and how they affect workloads.
1027
The RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub
Today, we are excited to announce the Early Availability of the RISE RISC-V Runners , a free, managed GitHub Actions runner service that gives any open source project access to real RISC-V hardware in their CI pipelines. No emulation, no cross-compilation hacks, no waitlist. Install a GitHub App, change one line in…
1028
Announcing Rust 1.96
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
1029
How Kubernetes Probes Work
Learn how probes work interactively on simulated Kubernetes clusters running in your browser.
1030
New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output
Explore new GCC 16 features for C++ developers. Learn about improved hierarchical error messages, updated SARIF output, and experimental HTML diagnostic tools.
1031
Racket v9.3
_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.3 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release:: The `raco setup` command can generate markdown documentation, using the `--doc-mark...
1032
Farewell, Rust for web
Farewell, Rust for web. For now…
1033
Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature
On Canada Day (July 1), 2026, Anthropic shipped a surprising "easter egg" to users of Claude Code: `2.1.198` includes an efficiency bypass which allows agents to continue on without being blocked on direction from a human.
1034
1035
Let's make the worst Htmx
Learning how htmx works by building one from scratch.
1036
The Little Bool of Doom (2025)
A short story about debugging and how sometimes what's true is false. Starring everyone's favourite uncle, Undefined Behaviour.
1037
Lix – universal version control system for binary files
Lix is a version control system you import as a library. It records semantic changes to enable diffs, reviews, rollback, and querying of edits.
1038
Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Long Task Planning
In the previous part of the Build A Basic AI Agent From Scratch series, we added the essential tools to our agent to allow it to work…
1039
A good AGENTS.md is a model upgrade. A bad one is worse than no docs at all
We pulled dozens of AGENTS.md files from across our monorepo and measured their effect on code generation. The best ones gave our coding agent a quality jump…
1040
Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation
An aggregation is some kind of summary of a set of data. This can be the sum, length, minimum, etc. It is quite common to want to calculate such a summary repeatedly, e.g. “the maximum noise level in dB for the past 30 seconds” for a nuisance detector. In such a case we say there is a sliding window over our data, and…
1041
How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++
CVE is a database used for categorizing and reporting security vulnerabilities in software. There are various kinds of vulnerabilities that can be reported. Some of them are caused simply by bugs in the program logic (like a recent CVE reported in Cargo), but some of the most nasty ones are caused by memory unsafety…
1042
Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi
Why I swapped GNU stow's symlink farm for chezmoi: one command to bootstrap a Mac with Homebrew packages and macOS settings, a small daily sync loop, and agent skills shared between Claude Code and Codex.
1043
Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
After quite a long while, Hyprland 0.55 is upon us! This is an enormous update by each measurable metric - commits, contributors, features and changes.
1044
1045
1046
Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked
Mimicking the operation more accurately.
1047
I Wrote a Scheme in 2025
One year minus one week ago to the day I published an article announcing the new Scheme implementation I was writing, scheme-rs . Today I am excited to announce that scheme-rs has reached its first version, 0.1.0 . You can check it out at it’s website ( scheme-rs.org , which should be updated to scheme.rs at some…
1048
1049
Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin
From imperative chaos to nix-darwin
1050
Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language
I made a programming language. I'm sorry.