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31. Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to redefine software dev
Write great software
32. Agentic Pelican on a Bicycle
The agentic loop—generate, assess, improve—seems like a natural fit for iterating on pelicans on bicycles.
33. A Catalog of Side Effects
Optimizing compilers like to keep track of each IR instruction’s effects. An instruction’s effects vary wildly from having no effects at all, to writing a specific variable, to completely unknown (writing all state).
34. Chat Control 2.0 through the back door
35. Collaboration Sucks
If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go alone too. (mostly)
36. Array Programming the Mandelbrot Set
Josh Morrow
37. A behind-the-scenes look at Broadcom's design labs
We toured the San Jose campus where Broadcom builds network devices to run AI data centers.
38. Terminal Latency on Windows
UPDATE 2024-04-15: Windows Terminal 1.19 contains a fix that reduces latency by half! It’s now competitive with WSLtty on my machine. Details in the GitHub Issue.
39. The 'Toy Story' You Remember
Plus: newsbits.
40. Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure
Some of Stephen Wolfram’s “productivity hacks” to make his days and projects more productive. Daily life, desk environment, outside the office, presentation setup, filesystem organization, Wolfram Notebook systems, databases, personal analytics.
41. Adk-go: code-first Go toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents
An open-source, code-first Go toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control. - google/adk-go
42. Cache-Friendly, Low-Memory Lanczos Algorithm in Rust
Implementing a cache-friendly, low-memory two-pass Lanczos algorithm in Rust, focusing on efficient memory access patterns and minimal allocations.
43. Open Source Games
A list of open source games. Contribute to bobeff/open-source-games development by creating an account on GitHub.
44. Secure Coding in JavaScript
45. Learning to Model the World with Language
Dynalang leverages diverse types of language to solve tasks by using language to predict the future in a multimodal world model.
46. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
47. Why Effort Scales Superlinearly with the Perceived Quality of Creative Work
When I make something good, I often spend most of my time making thousands of high-precision edits on an artifact that I thought should have been finished hours ago.
48. Creating minimal music with code in any programming language
Making music with low-level C code, from a simple saw wave to playing melodies
49. Widespread distribution of bacteria containing PETases across global oceans
50. Ditch your (mut)ex, you deserve better
The Personal blog and musings of Chris Penner, a designer, developer and future opsimath.
51. Welcome, the entire land - "Hello, world!" in hieroglyphics
52. SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia for $5.83B
SoftBank is looking to capitalize on its "all in" bet on ChatGPT maker OpenAI.
53. Security issues discovered in sudo-rs
54. Bjarne fix your freaking language
55. Google vows to stop scam E-Z Pass and USPS texts plaguing Americans
“Phishing for dummies” kits make it easier to scam millions, Google alleged.
56. DARPA and Texas Bet $1.4B on Unique Foundry -3D heterogeneous integration
Transforming a 1980s fab, TIE pioneers 3D heterogeneous integration, promising a 100-fold performance boost with diverse semiconductor materials.
57. Bank of America Just Issued a Stark Warning: AI Boom Is Hitting a Cash Crunch
58. The R47: A new physical RPN calculator released today in 2025
59. iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone
ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket, designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.
60. A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)
A medical tract on the health effects of burying oneself alive in mud.