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31. I Write Games in C (yes, C)
32. Man, 83, Tricked by Scammers, Gets 21 Years to Life for Killing Uber Driver
33. The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB
34. LLMs as the new high level language
35. Software Factories and the Agentic Moment
StrongDM's field notes on non-interactive agentic development: specs + scenarios, validation harnesses, feedback loops, and the supporting components.
36. I am happier writing code by hand
I felt the familiar feeling of depression and lethargy creep in while my eyes darted from watching claude-code work and my phone. “What’s the point of it all?” I thought, LLMs can generate decent-ish and correct-ish looking code while I have more time to do what? doomscroll? This was the third time I gave claude-code a try. I felt the same feelings every single time and ended up deleting claude-code after 2-3 weeks, and whaddyouknow?
37. Speed up responses with fast mode
Get faster Opus 4.6 responses in Claude Code by toggling fast mode.
38. Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly
39. Stories from 25 Years of Software Development
40. How to Be a Class Act
41. SCOTUS to decide if 1988 video tape privacy law applies to internet uses
42. How to squeeze a lexicon (2001) [pdf]
43. AI fatigue Is real and nobody talks about it
You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.
44. Brookhaven Lab's RHIC Concludes 25-Year Run with Final Collisions
45. First Proof
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.05192: First Proof
46. uLauncher
A distraction-free, minimal homescreen for Android. - jrpie/launcher
47. Total Surface Area Required to Fuel the World with Solar (2009)
click for larger image download high resolution PDF Note in 2021: We have updated this information graphic in August of 2021. Please see the new post, which provides more updated information related to the energy landscapes and energy oceanscapes required to power a 100% renewable energy world: https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/77565 Note in…
48. Immigrants Reduced US Deficits by $14.5T Since 1994
49. Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010)
This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline
50. Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version
Contribute to Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path development by creating an account on GitHub.
51. Modern and Antique Technologies Reveal a Dynamic Cosmos
Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology.
52. Start all of your commands with a comma
53. OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
OpenCiv3 is an open-source, cross-platform, mod-oriented, modernized remake of Civilization III by the fan community built with the Godot Engine and C#, with capabilities inspired by the best of the 4X genre and lessons learned from modding Civ3.
54. The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driving Simulation
We are excited to introduce the Waymo World Model, a frontier generative model that sets a new bar for large-scale, hyper-realistic autonomous driving simulation. 
55. The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
56. The Contagious Taste of Cancer
57. Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney
58. LineageOS 23.2
Material Expressive is here!
59. Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production
Note: I've seen some online chatter about the possibility that the footage shared in this post could be AI generated (which is pretty depressing, but here we are I suppose). I just wanted to clarify that it is not. It would be pretty daft of me to knowingly post AI generated footage on a blog…
60. Where did all the starships go?
In this Weekly Chart, we look for sci-fi books and their changing titles.