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121. The Emacs Widget Library: A Critique and Case Study
Engineering manager, Emacs enthusiast, and open source maintainer. Writing about software, tooling, and personal productivity.
122. Every GitHub Object Has Two IDs
How I reverse-engineered GitHub node IDs to avoid a database migration and discovered their dual ID system along the way.
123. The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
124. Proving (literally) that ChatGPT isn't conscious
There is nothing it is like to be a Large Language Model
125. Show HN: A fast CLI and MCP server for managing Lambda cloud GPU instances
Unofficial CLI and MCP server for Lambda cloud GPU instances - Strand-AI/lambda-cli
126. Denmark's struggle to break up with Silicon Valley
From a media blockade to “nationalizing” government software, Denmark has become a laboratory for resisting U.S. Big Tech. But is the price of sovereignty too high?
127. The Day the Cell Towers Died
128. A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel
The University of Minnesota has been banned from contributing to the Linux kernel after a body of research drew ire from the developer community. Lessons were learned — though not entirely the lessons the researchers intended.
129. Have Taken Up Farming
ex program, en farm
130. Ask HN: Audio analysis models, how to train to learn sound patters?
131. Code and Let Live
How we learned to stop worrying and love writeable root filesystems.
132. US factory headcount falling despite Trump's promised manufacturing boom
133. Show HN: 1D-Pong Game at 39C3
A simple 1D-Pong game built with an ESP32 (WEMOS D1), a WS2812B LED strip, and two buttons - ogermer/1d-pong
134. 4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin
Berliner Morgenpost and Ecosia are giving away an enormous crop of potatoes for free to Berliners to save them from waste.
135. Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files
Search the Epstein archive — an AI agent grounded in indexed emails, messages, and documents, powered by Nia
136. ASCII Clouds
Self-taught web developer and designer creating unique digital experiences
137. Media Player Classic Qute Theater
Media Player Classic Qute Theater. Contribute to mpc-qt/mpc-qt development by creating an account on GitHub.
138. Handling secrets (somewhat) securely in shells
139. No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams
Sharing a reluctant, "node & postgres" approach to engineering management for early-stage startups
140. 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.
141. Upgrading DrizzleORM logging with AsyncLocalStorage
Filling in the missing half of Drizzle’s query logs
142. FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI [video]
143. Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
144. LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
In 1623 the German Wilhelm Schickard produced the first known designs for a mechanical calculator. Twenty years later Blaise Pascal produced a machine of an improved design, aiming to help with the large amount of tedious arithmetic required in his role as a tax collector. The interest in mechanical calculation showed no sign of reducing in the subsequent centuries, as generations of people worldwide followed in Pascal and Wilhelm’s footsteps, subscribing to their view that offloading mental energy to a machine would be a relief.
145. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
146. GitHub Is Down
147. Introducing tempo
TUI Client for Temporal. Contribute to galaxy-io/tempo development by creating an account on GitHub.
148. The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]
149. Taiwan will invest $250B in U.S. chipmaking under new trade deal
The U.S. and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement to build chips and chip factories on American soil, the Department of Commerce announced Thursday.
150. 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