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A beginning for mathematics
A positive vision for the future of mathematics: how our institutions can deepen human understanding as AI transforms mathematical research.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,955 posts.
2402
Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak
We’re building new Portals for audio, network, VPNs, and more!
2403
It's the memory latency, stupid
When your database CPU is at 100%, what is it actually doing? Memory stalls, CPU caches, and how radix partitioning makes GROUP BY faster.
2404
MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
Encora Therapeutics, which developed a wrist-based device that reduces essential tremor, started as a project in MIT’s famous product-design class, 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes).
2405
The State of Context Engineering
As models improve, they bring surprising challenges for those building apps and harnesses. How context engineering has changed this year, and where it’s headed.
2406
Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)
A new way to think about brainpower.
2407
What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes
So I've been job hunting lately. Reading job postings, doing interviews, talking to engineering teams at like a dozen companies. And I noticed...
2408
The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)
This blog post goes into quite some detail about how I first booted Linux on my M4 Mac mini. I encourage you to look up terms and concepts you don’t know, since I cannot explain all the background in this post ;)
2409
Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
TL:DR; Pebble Time 2 Shipping Status Pebble Software Updates PT2 Issues You’ve Reported Pebble Round 2 Production Update Index 01 Production Update Pebble Ti...
2410
The contagion of fear
I have a difficult confession to make — a shameful incident that I have never spoken of, even to those closest to me.
2411
The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
A WebGPU shader on an untrusted site can hang a Mac's graphics, making the desktop UI unusable until a restart is forced. All the victim needs to do is click a link. This issue reproduces cross-browser on MacOS, but not other OSes.
2412
CSS-Tricks in Limbo
I’m sad to say that CSS-Tricks is stuck in limbo again. The site was acquired by Digital Ocean in 2022, and it continued to run under their ownership until February of 2023, when DigitalOcean fired the people working on it. The site stayed latent for a year before DigitalOcean re-hired lead editor Geoff Graham in June…
2413
Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
How to switch inputs between desktop and laptop on one monitor using built-in KVM and DDC
2414
How to make a living as an artist
An essay by fnnch on making a living as an artist.
2415
Fix your tools
Last week I had to diagnose a bug in an open source library I maintain. The issue was gnarly enough that I couldn’t find it right away, but then I thought: if I set a breakpoint here and fire up the debugger, I will likely find the root cause very soon… and then proceed to mercilessly destroy it! So I rolled up my…
2416
An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
Plane radar is a neat little project that pulls nearby ADS-B traffic, plots each aircraft by distance and bearing, and shows the details directly on a cute little screen.
2417
New iPad mini
Apple unveils the all-new iPad mini, featuring an OLED display in a thinner design, a leap in performance with A20 Pro, and water and dust resistance.
2418
The kids with phones are alright
T here was a remarkable video going around the Scottish socials yesterday which led to quite a bit of media coverage . It’s a four-minute long video showing some furious Scotrail passengers confronting a drunk middle-aged pervert who is quietly filming a group of quiet, sober 16- and 17-year old girls heading home…
2419
Coding agents could make free software matter again
I've been vibe-coding a lot lately. Like, a lot a lot
2420
Anthropic, please make a new Slack
Slack will be the Waterloo of closed data.
2421
Our approach to advertising
OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer quality.
2422
Networking changes coming in macOS 27
We are under warning that macOS 27 is likely to remove support for AFP, and lately some additional requirements for connection to certain servers. This explains how these could affect you.
2423
Meta's legal team abandoned its ethical duties
From Big Tobacco to Menlo Park — and the collapse of legal ethics
2424
A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?
A 30-game battle royale across eleven LLMs, $482 of inference, and one finding that should change how you read model benchmarks.
2425
Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days
The original Snowboard Kids has been fully decompiled in only 84 days! In this post I delve into what changed and what lessons might apply to future projects.
2426
Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
Infrastructure “We should own our infrastructure.” A lot of people would instinctively nod in agreement with that statement. Yet who “we” refers to shifts depending on the type of infrastructure. Highways, railways, bridges, and ports require nation-scale efforts. The water supply is usually put into the hands of…
2427
Scaling Git at OpenAI
How OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend designed for the scale of development that Codex makes possible.
2428
Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights
In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the Trump administration and the European far right.
2429
Why senior engineers let bad projects fail
When I was a junior engineer, my manager would occasionally confide his frustrations to me in our weekly 1:1s. He would point out a project another team was working on and say, “I don’t believe that …
2430
Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs
In part 1 of this series , we found that users generally view the most popular collaborative text editing algorithms (including the most popular library, Yjs ) as silently corrupting their documents when the algorithms resolve direct editing conflicts. We argued that, while this is potentially ok for live…