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31. My role as a founder-CTO: year 8
2025. What a year it has been. If a normal year as a startup founder already feels like four or five regular years, this one felt closer to a full decade. Th...
32. So I started cloning the Wii U gamepad [video]
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33. Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design [pdf]
34. Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
The most powerful semantic search over alignment-adjacent documents. Fully embedded. Fully explorable.
35. iPhone driving macOS 15.6, with native M4 driver partially patched for A18
36. Tell HN: Happy New Year
37. The Compiler Is Your Best Friend, Stop Lying to It
The compiler is a powerful tool, yet many developers have a painful relationship with it. Can we do better?
38. Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke
39. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923)
40. Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
Greg Abel faces the challenge of taking over Berkshire Hathaway from the legendary Warren Buffett this week.
41. Bulgaria joins euro area from 1 January
On 1 January 2026, Bulgaria will adopt the euro as its currency, marking an important milestone for the country, for the history of the euro, and for the EU as a whole.
42. Only 5 Sears stores remain in the U.S.
43. Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder
Manufacturer Incat built Hull 096 to run between Buenos Aires and Uruguay, dubbing it the ‘most complex’ project it has ever undertaken
44. All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision
45. When square pixels aren't square
When you want to get the dimensions of a video file, you probably want the display aspect ratio. Using the dimensions of a stored frame may result in a stretched or squashed video.
46. Microtonal Spiral Piano
Spiral Synth: A microtonal playground for exploring xenharmonic scales and custom tunings.
47. Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris
48. Blog: PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review
A look back at the major changes to PyPI in 2025 and related statistics.
49. Fifteen Most Famous Transcendental Numbers
50. Doom in Django: testing the limits of LiveView at 600.000 divs/segundo
Based on the latest tests I've published, Django LiveView appears to be the fastest dynamic frontend (I'm sure more variables can be measured). OK...
51. Kitchen Optimizations
There's a lot written about how to be more time-efficient in the kitchen, but most of that concerns just a few aspects of food preparation. (Can I make this ...
52. If childhood is half of subjective life, how should that change how we live?
If childhood is half of our subjective life, how should that change how we live?
53. The rise of industrial software
54. Privacy and control. My tech setup
I have 15+ years of software engineering experience across different parts of the tech stack including networking libraries, congestion control, performance improvements, Backend, and Android development.
55. AI Labs Are Solving the Power Problem
Bring Your Own Generation, Sayonara Electric Grid, Turbines vs. Recips. vs. Fuel Cells, Why Not Build More CCGTs?, Onsite Power TCO
56. Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics
TiXL is an open source software to create realtime motion graphics. - tixl3d/tixl
57. Nvidia GB10's Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side
GB10 is a collaboration between Nvidia and Mediatek that brings Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture into an integrated GPU.
58. Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself [pdf]
59. Observed Agent Sandbox Bypasses
We've been running Claude, Codex, and Gemini in sandboxed yolo mode (--dangerously-skip-permissions, --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox, --yolo) for a few months, logging what happens each...
60. Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps
With support for Microsoft Store Office 365 apps discontinued, it's time to consider making the move to the Click-to-Run version the company's programs.