1951
Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
The one where I go crawling back.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,950 posts.
1952
Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”
Update: this post generated some interesting discussion on Hacker News. Friendly fraud is the laundered name for something that the payment system is not really able to prevent. Even though I’m pretty sure they can do way better. Particularly big and sophisticated payment providers like Stripe, with a mountain of…
1953
Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years
The Only Programming Language Built on Mathematics, Not Fashion
1954
1955
Can you see three trees?
There's a simple three-part test for whether your city has enough nature. Most fall short.
1956
Muse Ember: Our smallest, most efficient model
Muse Ember is our smallest and most efficient model, designed for complex reasoning execution and the work agents repeat all day.
1957
iPhone 17e
Apple today announced the new iPhone 17e, a powerful and affordable addition to the iPhone 17 lineup.
1958
LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
rant and building of the slop YOLO project to detect other slop YOLO projects
1959
How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
Every Browser Use Cloud session runs in its own Firecracker microVM on regular EC2. It starts in under a second and costs $0.02 per browser hour, down from $0.06.
1960
MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be
iPads should be radically touch only, and MacBooks should be keyboard-first
1961
Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items
This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team.
1962
Bunny Database
Deploy globally, query over HTTP, and scale reads with low latency. Bunny Database lets you build fast without paying the serverless tax.
1963
The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix
Following backlash, AMD agreed to fix an MITM RCE I discovered in Ryzen Master. All in all, it took them over four months to roll out the fix.
1964
From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures
A few months ago I was tasked with creating an internal tool for the company's engineers: a Chat that used a local LLM. Nothing extraordinary so far…
1965
Southwest Headquarters Tour
Table of Contents: Intro, Morning- Flight Attendant Training, Pilot Training., Lunch- Southwest Store, Social Media Serendipity., Afternoon- Network Operations Center, TechOps Hangar, Herb and Coll...
1966
Will It Mythos?
Updated on June 17th, 21st, 22nd, 24th, 26th, and 27th, and July 3rd. See notes below. OK, so Mythos finds really challenging security bugs, right? That’s why it’s cordoned off from the hoi polloi, to protect the world from such a powerful finder of exploits. But, many other LLMs can find bugs. Is Mythos uniquely…
1967
DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
When you request a certificate from Let’s Encrypt, our servers validate that you control the hostnames in that certificate using ACME challenges. For subscribers who need wildcard certificates or who prefer not to expose infrastructure to the public Internet, the DNS-01 challenge type has long been the only choice…
1968
Software Pump and Dump
A new worrying amalgamation of crypto scams and vibe coding emerges from the bowels of the internet in 2026
1969
I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop
Learn how I built an ai receptionist for my brother's mechanic shop
1970
3.4M Solar Panels
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
1971
Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)
Het Tulp Fonds dat in 2025 door OCW en NWO in het leven werd geroepen, biedt internationale toponderzoekers de kans om hun onderzoek in Nederland voort te zetten: enerzijds omdat wereldwijd de academische vrijheid onder druk staat, anderzijds omdat hun kennis en expertise een enorme impuls geeft aan de innovatiekracht…
1972
macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses
I’m sometimes late to notice new and terrible things about macOS 26 Tahoe, because I use it only for testing, on a secondary Mac. My main Mac remains on Sequoia, as enforced by Little Snitch . I was of course aware that app windows on Tahoe have exaggerated corner radiuses, but I was unaware until now that the window…
1973
A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt
Let’s Encrypt is committed to a post-quantum-safe Web PKI. The path we’re planning to take is Merkle Tree Certificates (“MTCs”), a new approach that adds post-quantum authentication to the web without sacrificing the speed and reliability that have made TLS universal. This post is about these plans and why we believe…
1974
NetBSD 11.0
The NetBSD project is pleased to (finally) announce the NetBSD 11.0 release ! See the release announcement for details.
1975
The Religion of Speed
At some point, “moving fast” stopped being a practical concern and became a moral position. You see it damn near everywhere now. How fast can we ship this...
1976
SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
The actual queries I run when I'm hunting fraud in transaction data. Velocity, impossible distances, suspicious amounts, merchant clusters, off-hours buys, and window functions.
1977
1978
Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated
With the release of Claude Fable, it is clear that Anthropic is progressing from poems to enterprise-scale narrative objects.
1979
Protect your shed
Constructing a skyscraper is a massive undertaking. You need architectural blueprints, council permits, and safety audits before the first piece of steel is even ordered. It requires hundreds of people coordinating over months or years. You can’t just throw up some drywall and hope the building holds weight. Then…
1980
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat is one of the most widely used software libre XML parsers written in C, specifically C99. It is cross-platform and licensed under the MIT license .