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Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,955 posts.
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WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale
From one open-ended prompt to an explicit, explorable, and editable 3D world.
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Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?
If vibecoding is what people say it is, the world should be drowning in vibecoded artifacts right now. Two years of access. Millions of people with the tools. The barrier supposedly fell, right? RIGHT? So where is everything?
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I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
I try to pay attention to the small things that affect my quality of life. When something keeps bothering me, I want to investigate, find a likely cause, and act on it. What changed recently is what I'm willing to build to support that. With AI tooling, projects I
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XML is a cheap DSL
Lessons about XML from the open source IRS Tax Withholding Estimator.
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We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year
Learn how AI was used to rewrite JSONata into a faster Go library, reducing costs and improving data processing performance.
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I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
We reviewed 22 ML conference submissions this summer. Fifteen had fabricated citations, hallucinated authors, or clear LLM slop, so we complain about that a bit, and release the paper references audit we now run.
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High-Level Is the Goal
Why should anyone care about low-level programming?
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Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design
Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.
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Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
In late 2025 the company behind MinIO decided to abandon it to pursue other commercial interests. As well as upsetting a bunch of folk, it also put the cat amongst the pigeons of many software demos that relied on MinIO to emulate S3 storage locally, not to mention build pipelines that used it for validating S3…
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Dutch National Cyber Security Center is Offline because it uses PHP
Overzicht van de laatste alerts, nieuwsberichten, publicaties, expertblogs en de meest recente verhalen van ondernemers.
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How much of HN is AI?
TL;DR: 62% as of September 2026. This is up from ~40% in February.
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Node.js needs a virtual file system
Node.js now has a virtual filesystem. Learn why VFS matters for testing, sandboxing, Single Executable Apps, and running generated code directly in me
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I Am Not a Reverse Centaur
About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me, even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me to use them. I'm not going to repeat the…
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Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend
Somewhere between 'ask Claude for a quick opinion' and 'Claude is writing our Jira tickets,' we lost the plot. AI agents are brilliant implementers. They're also confidently wrong about every decision that matters. And when it all falls over, they won't be the ones carrying the bag.
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Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases
Real-SWE benchmarks frontier AI models on private production codebases licensed from real companies. Eighteen models across twenty-five tasks.
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Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
I found this tiny fanless Thunderbolt 25G Ethernet adapter. With a little tinkering, it actually works.
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Pharo 14
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
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Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
Linux phones now have the hardware and software to succeed, but it is an open question whether they will become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly.
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50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player
The Great Return: From Digital Abundance to Analog Meaning
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My “grand vision” for Rust
I don’t think I’ve ever quite articulated my “grand vision” for Rust, despite having written a fair bit about the language and its features. There is a lot I could say here, but currently there are three directions of development which I find particularly interesting:
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Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals
As a member of the Zig core team, one of the most impactful projects I’ve been involved with is the implementation of incremental compilation into the Zig compiler. This feature allows the compiler to detect which individual functions and declarations have changed since a project was last built, recompile only that…
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METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack
Yesterday I covered the OpenAI technical report on the HuggingFace hack. That report had one key new piece of information, and some good prosaic steps OpenAI will be taking to strengthen its alignm…
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30 Years of ReactOS
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time
When those of us in the Vulkan® working group want to modify the API—whether it’s a new hardware feature to expose, a new use case we want to address, or even just a gap in the spec we want to address—we have one invaluable tool that we make heavy use of: extensions! Extensions are a wonderful way for us to get…
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The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs
This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB .
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Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
Spur scanned 6,038 LG and Samsung smart TV apps and found 2,058 with residential proxy SDKs, exposing privacy and home network risks.