Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,947 posts.
My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustration that an astrology app was rejected for being an astrology…
The next stable version of Ruff is out now.
ChatGPT Work is an agent that can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work.
Krea 3 is a new image editing model built for production. It keeps your product intact and is priced for volume.
A previously unknown 2005 cyber sabotage framework patches high-precision calculation software in memory to silently corrupt results.
Modifying the optical properties of biological tissues with tartrazine
GambleAI I’ve been coding a lot with AI since November, when we all noticed it got really good. And it is quite good for instantly generating something th...
There are three ways to do AI coding at home without spending like a company, and which one fits depends mostly on how much you trust the next year of hardwa...
Hey you, Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical …
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here’s what I’ve figured out …
As a follow-up to the similar milestone reached for our WSL image a few months ago, I’m happy to share that Arch Linux now has a bit-for-bit reproducible Docker image! This bit-for-bit reproducible image is distributed under a new “repro” tag. The reason for this is due to one noticeable caveat: to ensure…
three layers of system health, AI as cognitive system 3, what's expensive if agents make coding free, and the future of source code
On my Introduction to A* page I cover the basics of the A* graph search algorithm for finding shortest paths. Here’s an example from the town of Denerim in Dragon Age Origins. Try moving the start and goal to see A* in action:
We're not in a February 2020 moment, and ordinary people will be fine
Large language models encourage smart financial behavior, but they fall short on the more subtle aspects of saving and investing, according to MIT Sloan’s Taha Choukhmane and co-authors.
How to run Claude Code with the `--dangerously-skip-permissions` flag in a safe way
Today everybody's doing AI code review. Here's how Greptile's viewpoint is differentiated - independence, autonomy, and feedback loops.
A practical about:config checklist to declutter Firefox right-click menus on macOS, disabling AI/chatbot prompts, link previews, OCR, visual search, and other low-value context menu items.
Best practices for writing a design doc based on my experience working as a developer at Google and Microsoft.
Today, we're introducing Mercury 2 — the world's fastest reasoning language model, built to make production AI feel instant.
Hundreds of hours, many late nights, and a working Game Boy emulator in F# with sound, running on desktop and web.
A selected list of timeless and influential papers in distributed systems that shaped the research in the field. Intended to serve as a good…
I’m writing this post from a hospital bed. And I couldn’t be happier. You hear folks say chemotherapy sucks, but until you go through it yourself, you don’t really know how bad it can be. It remains a popular activity only because it’s better than the alternative. My first exposure to chemotherapy was with this […]
A complete guide to quantization: how LLMs store parameters as floats, why shrinking them to 4 or 8 bits barely hurts accuracy, and how to measure the tradeoff.
Tim Cook had an extraordinary run — and impeccable timing, both in terms of when he became CEO, and when he is stepping down.
Where are they now? You won't believe her new look!
Anthropic may have just committed the biggest business blunder of 2026 -- and we're less than two weeks in. To understand why, let's briefly rewind to 2025, the year when agentic AI went mainstream.
How I repurposed my old gaming PC to set up a home server for data storage, backups, and self-hosted apps.
