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Bird brains (2023)
A kea parrot in New Zealand learned to drag traffic cones onto a highway so cars would stop and humans would feed it. That sent me down a rabbit hole on how we actually measure bird intelligence.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,950 posts.
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Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost
Universities and hospitals are repurposing existing drugs through late-stage trials with funded costs up to 90% lower than those taking place in the pharmaceutical industry.
1803
False claims in a widely-cited paper
A couple months ago we had a post, This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street executives, top government officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally flawed, and the scholarly community refuses to do anything about it. which was about…
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Using an engineering notebook
One of my core software engineering practices is writing, by hand, in a physical notebook [1] . It's one of the most important things I do to remain productive and effective. Maybe the single most important. And it's a practice that I see very few others using!
1805
Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding
We develop frontier AI methods to reinvent chip development, collapsing traditional design timelines, closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, and enabling a Cambrian explosion of custom silicon.
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My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it
In 2014 I wrote http_build_url, a temporary PHP polyfill for AOL's CMS. Twelve years and nearly 20 million installs later, I'm deprecating it.
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Actually Queryable Executables
I was pleasantly surprised and happy to see that my article ‘Your executable is a SQLite database’ resonated with people. It is a format I have been thinking about for a while, and the idea seems to have struck a chord with others.
1808
The last time my family was replaced by technology
My great-great-grandfather thought he’d be replaced by technology too. He was a farrier in Mandres-en-Barrois, the small village in rural France where I grew up.
1809
OpenClaw is changing my life
I want to share some thoughts on my recent experience with OpenClaw. Over the past year, I’ve been actively using Claude Code for development. Many people believed AI could already assist with programming—seemingly replacing programmers—but I never felt it brought any revolutionary change to the way I work. Sure…
1810
Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs
Results from AI agent permission game: which attacks beat human reviewers, and which safe commands got blocked instead.
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Swift 6.3
Swift is designed to be the language you reach for at every layer of the software stack. Whether you’re building embedded firmware, internet-scale services, or full-featured mobile apps, Swift delivers strong safety guarantees, performance control when you need it, and expressive language features and APIs.
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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage?") is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment. Maybe you lik
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Gentoo Linux 2025 Review
News and information from Gentoo Linux
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Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD
Last week we released version 0.2 of pgrust. This release was all about performance. It’s 10x faster than the previous version of pgrust. On OLTP benchmarks, pgrust is 30% faster than Postgres, and on Clickbench, Clickhouse’s benchmark for analytical databases, pgrust is 300x faster than Postgres. It’s even ahead of…
1815
YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
We'd love to keep using your feeds in our feed readers, but we're gonna need them to work.
1816
FreeCAD v1.1
After an enormous amount of work and dedication from FreeCAD contributors we are delighted to announce that FreeCAD Version 1.1 is now released and available for download. There are significant amo…
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Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs
I am excited to announce that I am joining ClickHouse, Inc. to establish and lead a new research team at ClickHouse Labs.
1819
Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises
In my previous blog posts, Azure’s Weakest Link? and Azure’s Weakest Link - Full Cross-Tenant Compromise, I gave an overview of the severely insecure architecture behind API Connections in Azure, a part of Azure Logic Apps, and an instance of a full cross-tenant compromise using these inherent flaws. Now I am back…
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Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important
and why communication is so important
1822
Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5
Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, and second only to Claude Opus 5.5 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index
1823
Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI
European AI leader Mistral AI is acquiring Emmi AI in one of Europe’s most important and strategic AI acquisitions to date.
1824
Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome
Guillaume Técher — Personal website
1825
We ported the original Doom to SQL
CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.
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OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
Pricing information for the OpenAI platform.
1827
Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding
Working with AI is less predictable than traditional software. That makes leadership skills such as context, clarity, and feedback more valuable.
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Beauty in DVD Menus
The best part of digital video disc isn't the video.
1829
NetNewsWire Turns 23
NetNewsWire 1.0 for Mac shipped 23 years ago today! 🎸🎩🕶️ Here’s where things are on this particular February 11: we just shipped 7.0 for Mac and iOS, and now we’re working on NetNewsWire 7.0.1. After a big release, no matter how careful we are, there are often some regressions to fix and tweaks to make right away, so…
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Dolphin Progress Release 2603
Dolphin started out as a GameCube emulator in 2003. In 2008, experimental Wii support was added. And now, in 2026, Dolphin enters the realm of arcade emulation with support for the Sega, Namco, and Nintendo arcade effort, the Triforce, finally arriving. Want to learn more about the Triforce? Check out our deep dive…