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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.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,955 posts.
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From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
The perils of logging in
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“Why not just use Lean?”
I have been told that when proposing to formalise mathematics these days, you have to explain why you are not using Lean. And that reminds me why I left the dependent-typed world 40 years ago: its cultism, insularity and conformity. Lean is a great language with good tools, a large library and a huge, enthusiastic…
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How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU
Reverse engineering the traffic system from Pizza Tycoon (1994): how the original devs drove dozens of cars through a city with almost no CPU budget.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 was awarded jointly to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai "for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis"
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Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27
Go 1.27 includes a change to the HTTP client that can make programs sending many sequential HTTP/1 requests significantly faster.
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A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
over the past week the discourse around openclaw (fka clawdbot) has absolutely exploded. it has felt to me like all threads of conversation have veered towards the extreme and indefensible. some are running openclaw with unlimited permissions on their main computers. others are running it in the cloud and blowing…
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If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?
I think the title captures the idea fully but I'll dig into it because this ain't Twitter. You're working an idea, a piece of code, or a multibillion a year SaaS app which is probably saving the world. Maybe you're automating the cloning process of grabbing
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Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories
The Glassworm supply chain attack is back. Researchers uncovered malware hidden in invisible Unicode characters across 150+ GitHub repositories, plus npm packages and VS Code extensions.
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Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses
The vulnerability has been fixed as of July 7, 2026, but the exploit was simple, and hidden email addresses may still be in third-party logs.
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28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
28.0% of 668,355 job postings open on employers' own careers sites have been up for more than 90 days. Age by category, country and applicant tracking system, the employers with the most open postings, closures and reposts. Measured at the source, monthly.
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The Cold Email
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse
Today, I loaded the 1,000th data breach into Have I Been Pwned. Reflecting on that milestone number, I pondered how to mark the occasion in writing, and what immediately came to mind was a very simple question: why is it still needed? Especially considering the emergence of privacy regulations
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Exit the Cave
Ain’t it fun, livin’ in the real world?
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I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis
Why I stopped trying to give LLM agents a better memory and instead built Lemmalog, a Datalog engine that maintains an agent's knowledge as analysis state, with provenance, retractions and incremental evaluation, plus what happened when I benchmarked it on LongMemEval and LoCoMo.
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Linux 7.2
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…
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I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog
How I embedded replies from Bluesky directly on my site.
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Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
On February 13, 2026, alongside the previously announced retirement of GPT‑5 (Instant, Thinking, and Pro), we will retire GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini from ChatGPT. In the API, there are no changes at this time.
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Apple and a hacker's future
I was happy for years in Apple’s walled garden; with AI, however, their protections feel like limitations.
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Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk
Our report examines how Taylor Farms became one of the largest produce suppliers in the U.S. and what its power means for food safety, farmers, and workers.
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Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
U.S. workers form first recognized unit as global union movement builds across Wikimedia Foundation
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A nearly perfect USB cable tester
Your USB cables may lie to your PC. Let me show you how to catch those.
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Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out
We watched almost 17k sessions across different types of personas, with 1,163 prompt variations, 75 repositories and 3 coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) actually implementing the solutions instead of just recommending one.
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Components of a Coding Agent
How coding agents use tools, memory, and repo context to make LLMs work better in practice
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TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough
Each mini-demo below covers one concept used later. Skip the ones you already know.
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15 Years of Forking
Today marks 15 years of Waterfox!
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Mamba-3
Meet Mamba-3: the SSM built for inference. Faster than Transformers at decode, stronger than Mamba-2, and open-source from day one.
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A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech
The bipartisan legislation creates a federal cause of action against government officials who coerce or attempt to coerce broadcasters, interactive computer services, or AI providers into taking actions against lawful, First-Amendment-protected speech, and establishes a transparency system for government…