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31. Stop using natural language interfaces
Natural language is a wonderful interface, but just because we suddenly can doesn't mean we always should.
32. Handling secrets (somewhat) securely in shells
33. Why We Built Our Own Background Agent
The craft of engineering is rapidly changing. We built our own coding agent to accelerate faster.
34. EOL hardware should mean open-source software
Read "EOL" on Marciano Planque's blog
35. The Stick in the Stream
36. We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
37. Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
Claude Code's agentic capabilities, now for everyone. Give Claude access to your files and let it organize, create, and edit documents while you focus on what matters.
38. A deep dive on agent sandboxes
How modern coding agents use OS-level sandboxing with macOS Seatbelt and Linux Landlock to balance powerful tool access with security.
39. Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests
Content creators are leveraging high follower counts to apply for the visa for ‘individuals with extraordinary ability’
40. Superhuman AI exfiltrates emails
Superhuman AI was able to exfiltrate sensitive emails from user accounts - without the user even being aware. This vulnerability was rapidly remediated by the Superhuman team.
41. Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well
A sampling of recent news
42. Show HN: AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor
43. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
44. FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI [video]
45. Why Real Life is better than IRC (2000)
You can get dressed up all special, and people notice When you eat RL chocolate… you can taste it. If you do phone a friend at 4am to say "I'm down" they...
46. Exa-d: How to store the web in S3
Discover the latest in AI research and semantic search technology on the Exa blog. Learn how our neural network search engine provides high-quality web data for AI applications
47. Apple Creator Studio
Apple Creator Studio is a collection of powerful creative apps for making music, video editing, creative imaging, and visual productivity.
48. We rolled our own documentation site
you don't need mintlify
49. Everything you never wanted to know about file locking (2010)
(Foreshadowing: I found a bug in MacOS X 10.6's fcntl(F_SETLK) locking that could cause corruption of sqlite databases. To see if your syst...
50. Elevated error rates on Opus 4.5
Claude's Status Page - Elevated error rates on Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4.5.
51. Terra - A rolling-release Fedora repository
Terra is the community Fedora repository which makes it easy to install and maintain software packages.
52. Going for Gold: The Story of the Golden Lego RCX and NXT
The rare gold LEGO RCX and NXT bricks have been revealed! The epic tale involves trips to the US and Billund, a Technic dinosaur, a local jeweler, a group of AFOL superfans and lots of cake.
53. The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
54. Is it a joke?
55. The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]
56. Choosing learning over autopilot
I use ai coding tools a lot. I love them. I’m all-in on ai tools. They unlock doors that let me do things that I cannot do with my human hands alone.
57. Vanderbilt University plans new campus in San Francisco
58. ADHD. How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
59. Understanding the Types of Data in Data
Discover the key types of data in data science, from structured to unstructured, and learn their significance in analytics and machine learning applications.
60. TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
A LLM trained only on data from certain time periods to reduce modern bias - haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM