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Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
Explore Q2 2026 failure rates across 354,415 Backblaze drives, plus standout models and emerging CMR, SMR, and HAMR storage technologies.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,954 posts.
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Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys
There is no need to update symmetric key sizes as part of the post-quantum transition, due to the details of how Grover's algorithm scales. Most authorities agree.
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But yak shaving is fun (2019)
KO | EN | Discussions on HN Alexandr frolov (CC BY-SA 4.0) This blog doesn’t use a static site generator or framework like Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. I tried a few of them at first, but they gave me too little freedom to customize, so I decided to build the blog myself. Early on I just wrote posts in ...
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Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents
We're building AI Gateway into a unified inference layer for AI, letting developers call models from 14+ providers. New features include Workers AI binding integration and an expanded catalog with multimodal models.
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Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state
Introduction: Fascism at the End of Industrial Civilization This essay argues that the United States is drifting toward a distinctly twenty‑first‑century form of fascism driven not by mass parties …
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The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python
A perceptron explained from scratch in Python, with interactive demos. Learn weights, bias, the decision boundary, epochs, learning rate, and why we normalize data.
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GCC 16 has been released
This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 16. You may also want to check out our Porting to GCC 16 page and the full GCC documentation .
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The user is visibly frustrated
In this article, I try to understand why coding agents can be infuriating to use. I think the problem is their conversational UX: they behave enough like helpful colleagues to trigger our social instincts, but they don't learn, adapt, or take responsibility the way people do, which makes their repeated mistakes feel…
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Building a TUI is easy now
How we built and shipped a terminal UI for Hatchet in 2 days using Claude Code, the Charm stack (Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss), and a tight feedback loop.
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The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
Using artificial analysis benchmarks we try to predict when an open source LLM will be released that matches frontier LLMs.
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What's Earth's dominant species by mass?
You might have heard that all the ants in the world weigh as much combined as all the humans. That isn’t true. We outweigh ants 5 to 1.1 Termites might have us beat, though.2 Either way, it’s not r…
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Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform
Office.eu launches in The Hague as a 100% European alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, built on open-source technology and European infrastructure.
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Jira Is Turing-Complete
Engineering folklore holds that Jira (Atlassian's project-tracking tool) is Turing-complete . Existing claims point vaguely at automation features without exhibiting a reduction. This article supplies a proof, with setup instructions and execution trace.
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You can't unit test for taste
I’m building In the Long Run where runners do virtual runs on famous routes around the world. The app tallies up your Strava mileage and plots your total distance as progress against country- or continent-spanning routes. The intention is to provide long-term inspiration and motivation; life is a marathon, not a…
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Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
Atlassian AI ‘Rovo’ is susceptible to zero-click data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection, bypassing organization-level web search controls.
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Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)
There is an extremely important question about the near-future of AI that almost no-one is asking. We’ve all seen the graphs from METR showing that the length of tasks AI agents can perform has been growing exponentially over the last 7 years. While GPT-2 could only do software engineering tasks t
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Voxel Space (2017)
Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code
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RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython
I’m happy to announce that RISC-V platforms are now officially supported by CPython. 🎉 🚀
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Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun
Scientists using the NSF Inouye Solar Telescope discovered Kelvin-Helmholtz instability on the Sun, shedding light on solar activity and space weather.
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Slop is not necessarily the future
Everyone's worried about slop, but good code will prevail, not only because we want it to, but because economic forces demand it.
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How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
AI forced me to abandon evidence-based best pedagogy practices, focus on oral and written exams, and redo most assignments. Here is what we did in 17-645...
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How AI destroys institutions
Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies encourage cooperation and stability, while also adapting to changing circumstances. The real superpower of institutions is their ability to evolve and adapt…
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Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot
A continuously updating analysis of bot vs. human traffic, AI training, fetching, search indexing, browsing, robots.txt compliance, and AI chat referrals across 5,000+ websites.
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Tcl/Tk 9.1
Tcl/Tk 9.1.0 is the current development work on Tcl and Tk, aiming toward stable releases in September 2026. They add new features and interfaces to the foundation of Tcl/Tk 9.0.
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Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
In the 2010 film Tron: Legacy , there's a scene where the main character Sam Flynn sits down at a computer in his father’s study, and types some commands to try to figure out what Flynn senior had last been working on, before mysteriously disappearing.
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Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
A blog about software craft and quality
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We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code
Your AI-built product works, but past 100,000 lines every change breaks two things. Three senior engineers make your codebase maintainable again. One week, fixed price, guaranteed.