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Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard
I spent years building one of the most popular LED strip visualizers on GitHub. It's the kind of project that's easy to get started but diabolically hard to master.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,957 posts.
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How machines learned precision
How do you make an accurate machine without one to copy? Explore flat surfaces, screw-cutting lathes, and millionth-of-an-inch measurements through interactive 3D figures.
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OpenSSH 10.6p2 Critical workaround for alpine without PAM
OpenSSH release notes
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A Theory of Deep Learning
Where noise hides when deep neural networks generalize.
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Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era
The Simons Foundation today announced a new set of initiatives that will help the mathematics community navigate the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in the field. Under a partnership…
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A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms
The OpenAI algorithm for the FFT is less a breakthrough and more a malicious exploit.
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The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
We share how AI-native founders are using Claude at every stage of the startup journey, with practical exercises, frameworks, and prompts.
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Gleam Is Now on Tangled
⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
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AI code and software craft
Update (Feb 17, 2026)—I no longer agree with many statements made in this blog post. I am leaving it here unmodified. See my follow-up: AI can sort of code, can't write .
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Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
The moment an agent needs to deploy something, it slams face-first into a wall built for humans. Today we're rolling out Temporary Accounts on Cloudflare Workers. Any agent can now run wrangler deploy — temporary and get a live Worker in seconds.
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Make.ts
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How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine
If you’re reading this, there’s a very good chance you’ve seen this famous image of three iterations of SpaceX’s Raptor rocket engine.
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GitHub and the crime against software
An investigation into collapse of Github and how the decay of our tech infrastructure is a crime against software. Detailed comparisons of Github, Gitlab, Codeberg, and more from a distributed systems and software performance expert.
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"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok
Four frontier models, a blank canvas, and colored pencils. We tracked every stroke, dollar, and output as they tried to draw the Mona Lisa.
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Microsoft mishandling example.com
TL;DR: Since at least February 2020, Microsoft's Autodiscover service has incorrectly routed the IANA-reserved example.com to Sumitomo Electric Industries' mail servers at sei.co.jp , potentially sending test credentials there.
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More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams
A rundown of seven more common mistakes is system architecture diagrams and how to fix them
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What is a database transaction?
What are database transactions and how do SQL databases isolate one transaction from another?
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Principles for Fast Tokio Applications
A microscope for Tokio and Rust applications
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Stripe acquires Clerky
We're happy to announce that Clerky has agreed to join Stripe!
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FFmpeg 101 (2024)
A high-level architecture overview to start with FFmpeg.
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A week of using Codex more than Claude
Claude goes above and beyond what is asked and guesses what you might want. Codex does what you tell it and stops at the first sign that it might be done. Ten impressions from a week of using Codex more.
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Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive: In retrospect, he said, the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected,” and that the company’s bets on the new structure “haven’t come to fruition yet.”
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NP-overrated
If you learned about NP-hard problems in university, your takeaway was probably this:
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Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning
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How Claude Code works in large codebases
The most successful Claude Code deployments share a set of recognizable patterns across configurations, tooling, and org structure. This article is part of Claude Code at scale, a new series covering best practices for engineering organizations building with Claude Code at enterprise scale.
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GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano
GPT-5.4 mini and nano are smaller, faster versions of GPT-5.4 optimized for coding, tool use, multimodal reasoning, and high-volume API and sub-agent workloads.
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I don't want your PRs anymore
Notes by `dpc`
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If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe
A concrete example of why using native HTML as much as possible is better than slapping ARIA on top of things.