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Prefix Note As this post is gaining more attention than expected on HN, I want to make some things clear - although I thought they are obvious. It sounds like a rant about Claude’s quality in general - if you don’t read to the end. But my concerns are more focused on the support performance and token issues - fully…
OpenRouter is joining forces with Stripe. Same mission, same name, same product, same roadmap, and routing that stays driven by what's best for you.
I accidentally clicked a shady YouTube ad that mimics an iOS “Storage Full” alert, reported it (twice), and Google still said it was fine. Meanwhile, Gemini flags it in seconds for deceptive design...
The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare! Astro remains open-source, MIT-licensed, and platform-agnostic. With Cloudflare's support, we're focusing 100% on building the best framework for content-driven websites. Astro 6 beta is available now.
I owe my family and all of you an apology. I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry. Throughout my life, my ...
You don’t have to shop on Amazon to pay Amazon's high prices.
As someone who prefers using services via their websites, I’ve gotten terribly jaded lately. Almost everyone wants me, and by extension, you, to use their darn apps to consume content and off their web versions.
In 2022, I wrote about the damning fall of events tech company Pollen. The short of it: Pollen seemed to have pulled off the improbable feat of building a business in the notoriously low margin industry of events, surviving Covid-19, and building a solid software engineering organization. In April
Since early this year, Michael Malis (of pgrust ) has been showing me interesting things he's done and saying
The internal logic of the world’s strangest corporations
I don’t think people have thought hard enough about how bad this could get.
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.
The one where Apple decides consent doesn’t matter anymore.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work.
The hard part of writing software has never been the writing. It was building a working model of the domain in your head first. Before you could ship a payroll…
I was curious how well the predictions of the most widely cited AI skeptic I've seen (Ed Zitron) have done, so I looked at how his predictions panned out. To disclose my own biases, I've never had a particularly strong pro or anti AI progress position. For example, in 2022, I did a comprehensive look at predictions…
Today, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared some changes with Google DeepMind teams.
Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX.
Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.
Liberty has costs, but it's worth it.
Early in my software engineering career, the UK-based startup I worked at, GenieDB, was taken over by a US Venture Capital fund, Frost VP, owned by Stuart Frost. I was functionally the only piece that came to the US. The code was rebuilt, the rest of the team eventually rotated out, even the core strategy was…
How Delve managed to falsely convince hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied about it when exposed and called out
A few years ago I was in a meeting with developers and someone asked a simple question: “What’s the right framework for a new Windows desktop app?” Dead silence. One person sugges…
Building in consumer hardware as a software engineer
Why senior developers talk in terms of complexity while the rest of the business is worried about uncertainty. And what to do about it now that AI is in the picture.
After decades of explosive growth, Austin, Texas, in the 2010s was a victim of its own success. Lured by high-tech jobs and the city’s hip reputation, too many people were competing for too few homes. From 2010 to 2019, rents in Austin increased nearly 93%—more than in any other major American city. And home sale…
Update (9 Apr 2026): Another one. A helpful person sent in Microsoft 365 Copilot for US Government. That's 81. Chart updated.
