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Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
Why AI can make software development faster without replacing the judgment and understanding needed to build consistently good software.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,939 posts.
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Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode
If you don’t know what OpenCode is, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. The boot is made of TypeScript and the face is everything we have learned about security and systems software since the invention of the electronic computer in the 1940s. The creators describe it as an AI coding agent. As far as I can…
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The dead Internet is not a theory anymore
Bots have taken over
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Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Quake, we have collaborated with MachineGames to create a new episode, Dawn of the Machine, now available as a free update to Quake.
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Blender 5.2 LTS
The first long-term support release in 5.x series. Supported until July 2028.
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Deno 2.8
`import defer`, six new subcommands (`deno transpile`, `deno pack`, `deno bump-version`, `deno ci`, `deno why`, `deno audit fix`), network debugging in Chrome DevTools, framework-aware `deno compile`, and 3.66x faster cold npm installs.
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The hidden engineering of runways
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] September 2025 was an unusually bad month for runway overruns in the US. On the night of September 24th, an Embraer 145 with 53 people on board landed long at the Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport in Virginia, overshooting the
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Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
Why frontier AI has broken the open CTF format, hollowed out the scoreboard, and made competitive CTF performance a weaker signal than it used to be.
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AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
AI-assisted incident response can lower MTTR while leaving engineers less prepared for the complex incidents automation cannot solve.
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I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities
Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra one-shot Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino in Three.js: AI design, UX, data visualization and explorable explanations.
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A few interesting modern pixel fonts
A blog about software craft and quality
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Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
Building a custom octocopter from scratch with an RL controller that sustains flight through motor failures. Follow the build log.
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DoNotNotify is now Open Source
DoNotNotify is now open source. View the source code, contribute, and help improve the Android notification manager.
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AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study
A groundbreaking study led by Stanford Law School Professor Julian Nyarko reveals that law professors overwhelmingly prefer AI-generated answers to st
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The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind
A breakdown of what software development teams actually cost, what they need to generate to be financially viable, and why most organizations have no visibility into either number.
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GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) is a Linux kernel vulnerability found by Nebu that exists in every major distribution since 2011. Triggering the bug does not require any special kernel config or privilege. By turning it into a 97% stable privilege escalation and container escape, Google has rewarded us $92,337 in…
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Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot
Kimi K2.7 Code, an open-weight model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. This is the first open-weight model offered as a selectable option in the Copilot model picker, giving…
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The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
Globally, electricity generation per person has grown by more than 50% this century.
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Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
Discover ENAS, the license-free enterprise storage platform featuring native ZFS, secure UniFi management, scalable petabyte-class capacity, multi-site backups, and shared iSCSI storage for modern business infrastructure.
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Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment
Open-weight models are becoming the foundation for the next AI ecosystem. The US should compete in it, not wall itself off.
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Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
Researchers have shown the first direct experimental evidence that the textbook triple bond structure breaks down in heavy elements, where relativity makes the rules.
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Laguna S 2.1
Today we’re releasing Laguna S 2.1, a significant step forward in our development of models that pursue longer horizon work and make effective use of reasoning.
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Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
Today at Next ‘26, we’re launching Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the trust platform for the agentic web and the next evolution of reCAPTCHA.
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C++26 Disapproved
On October 23, 2026, the unthinkable happened. It was supposed to be a mere formality: C++26 was up for a vote by the ISO National Bodi...
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A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)
coveillance.org
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Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
Dropping Cloudflare and migrating to bunny.net, starting out with my blog.
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My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality
The first time I tried to use an LLM to speed up coding was in mid-2025. I was not impressed. I was working on libadbmdns back then, an mDNS implementation in Rust. The code produced would not even compile.
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An American Privacy Emergency
Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to…