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We Mourn Our Craft
nolanlawson.com

I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off o…

I Write Games in C (yes, C)
jonathanwhiting.com
SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes
xorvoid.com
U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession
forbes.com
British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years
bbc.com

The move is part of the government's new road safety strategy, which plans to reform driving laws in Britain.

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney
spillhistorie.no

Roar Granevang - You know he did other things than Larry, right?

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - Last week I hinted at a demo I had seen from a team implementing what Dan Shapiro called the Dark Factory level of AI adoption, where no human even looks …

First Proof
arxiv.org

To assess the ability of current AI systems to correctly answer research-level mathematics questions, we share a set of ten math questions which have arisen naturally in the research process of the authors. The questions had not been shared publicly until now; the answers are known to the authors of the questions but will remain encrypted for a short time.

Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE
bbc.com

More than 900 Google employees signed a letter opposing company links to federal immigration actions.

Software factories and the agentic moment
factory.strongdm.ai

StrongDM's field notes on non-interactive agentic development: specs + scenarios, validation harnesses, feedback loops, and the supporting components.

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development
susam.net
France's homegrown open source online office suite
github.com/suitenumerique

La Suite numérique is a set of open-source applications for digital collaboration and teamwork. It offers modern solutions for the digital workplace. - La Suite numérique

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used
blog.alaindichiappari.dev

Alain - Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
rlhfbook.com

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has become an important technical and storytelling tool to deploy the latest machine learning systems. In this book, we hope to give a gentle introduction to the core methods for people with some level of quantitative background. The book starts with the origins of RLHF -- both in recent literature and in a convergence of disparate fields of science in economics, phil

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly
spritely.institute
Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing
wsj.com
The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
washingtonpost.com
Claude Code Is the Inflection Point
newsletter.semianalysis.com

Doug O'Laughlin - What It Is, How We Use It, Industry Repercussions, Microsoft's Dilemma, Why Anthropic Is Winning

UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone
bbc.com

It comes after some batches made by Nestle and Danone were recalled after being contaminated with a toxin.

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself
jesperordrup.github.io

Jesper Ordrup - A vocal technique reference covering 21 techniques: registers, styles, effects, embellish, and dynamics.

Hello world does not compile
github.com/anthropics

Tested inside fedora 43 container, ubuntu 26.04 container and on regular fedora 42 installation, same error Took example directly from README.md GCC is present and can compile code just fine: root:...

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo
si.edu
Why I Joined OpenAI
brendangregg.com
WebView performance significantly slower than PWA
issues.chromium.org
I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor
andrewjrod.substack.com

Andrew - Launch of an experiment to use AI-Scientists to accelerate research of a "solved" disease.

Epstein arranged a meeting between highest-level Russian spy and Peter Thiel
bsky.app/profile/robertscotthorton.bsky.social

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server
developers.googleblog.com
Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM
github.com/phreda4
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r3 programing language - ColorForth inspired. Contribute to phreda4/r3 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Early Christian Writings
earlychristianwritings.com
OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
openciv3.org

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.

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox
github.com/valdanylchuk
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BreezyBox shell demo for esp32s3. Contribute to valdanylchuk/breezydemo development by creating an account on GitHub.

Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped
educationnext.org

Tim Daly - It was the worst of times

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI
github.com/pydantic

A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI - pydantic/monty

Waymo exec admits remote operators in Philippines help guide US robotaxis
eletric-vehicles.com

Cláudio Afonso - Waymo’s Chief Safety Officer disclosed Wednesday that some of the remote operators who assist its self-driving vehicles in navigating difficult scenarios are based in the Philippines.

Tell HN: I'm a PM at a big system of record SaaS. We're cooked
news.ycombinator.com
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Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use
vecti.com
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Man who videotaped himself BASE jumping in Yosemite arrested, says it was AI
latimes.com

A California man is facing a criminal charge for allegedly BASE jumping off Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park during the federal government shutdown last year.

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
eljojo.github.io
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An offline tool that encrypts files and splits the decryption key among trusted friends using Shamir's Secret Sharing. Open source.

How to effectively write quality code with AI
heidenstedt.org

AI is rarely optional anymore, but how can you still be proud of your craft? Discover the workflow to effectively write high-quality, robust code using AI tools.

Uber Found Liable in Rape by Driver, Setting Stage for Cases
nytimes.com
Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes
bitsaboutmoney.com

The financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are some observations for investigators with badges, press cards, or GoPros.

Trump shares video with racist clip depicting Obamas as apes
bbc.co.uk

The White House defended the post at first, calling to "stop the fake outrage", as members of both parties condemned the video.

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing
infisical.com

After 5 years in DevOps, I moved into Solutions Engineering. Here’s what I was missing, what changed, and who this path might be for.

The Waymo World Model
waymo.com

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. 

macOS No Longer Ships with Emacs
batsov.com

While I was setting up my new mac mini yesterday I noticed something interesting - Apple have stopped shipping the ancient Emacs 22.1 with macOS! As I was mostly using Windows + WSL2 in the past 5 years I had missed the exact moment when this happened, but after some digging I discovered that the change was first made in macOS 10.15 (“Catalina”), which was released in October 2019.

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
sheldonbrown.com
NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing
inpractice.yimbyaction.org

Jeff Fong - They want to shut down our right to be heard in the first place.

An Update on Heroku
heroku.com

Nitin T Bhat - Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers. There is no change

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
github.com/microsoft

A security-focused library OS supporting kernel- and user-mode execution - microsoft/litebox

Amazon plunge continues $1T wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off
cnbc.com
How virtual textures work
shlom.dev
Wall Street just lost $285B because of 13 Markdown files
martinalderson.com

Anthropic's 'legal tool' that triggered a $285bn selloff is 156KB of markdown. The panic reveals a hard truth about the future of software.

FORTH? Really!?
rescrv.net
Hackers (1995) Animated Experience
hackers-1995.vercel.app
LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers
alperenkeles.com
U.S. asks American citizens to 'leave Iran now'
cnbc.com
Anna's Archive Loses .PM Domain, Adds Greenland (.GL) Backup
torrentfreak.com
I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
kirkville.com

Many ads in Apple News served by Taboola are clearly scams.

Show HN: Agent Arena – Test How Manipulation-Proof Your AI Agent Is
wiz.jock.pl
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TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
nytimes.com
US Immigration on the Easiest Setting
pluralistic.net
$300B Evaporated. The SaaS -Pocalypse Has Begun
forbes.com
Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy
caltech.edu

A major technological advance in DNA writing enables researchers to construct and create in the language of biology

A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
niemanlab.org

A new bill in the New York state legislature would require news organizations to label AI-generated material and mandate that humans review any such content before publication. On Monday, Senator Patricia Fahy (D-Albany) and Assemblymember Nily Rozic (D-NYC) introduced the bill, called The New York…

Things Unix can do atomically (2010)
rcrowley.org
Systems Thinking
theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com

A blog about software development and programming.

Ask HN: 10 months since the Llama-4 release: what happened to Meta AI?
news.ycombinator.com
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Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust
github.com/artifact-keeper
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artifact-keeper has 7 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

Volkswagen overtook Tesla as Europe's top EV seller in 2025
reuters.com
Waiting for Postgres 19: Better planner hints with path generation strategies [video]
youtube.com
I reversed Tower of Fantasy's anti-cheat driver: a BYOVD toolkit never loaded
vespalec.com

How four layers of authentication in a production anti-cheat driver still hand you a complete BYOVD toolkit

What's at the Other End of 8.8.8.8?
blog.nono.io

Brian Cunnie - 8.8.8.8 is Google’s “free, global DNS resolution service”, so popular that it’s been lampooned by XKCD. It has a wonderfully straightforward front-end: the IP address 8.8.8.8. But that begs the question: what’s on the back-end? Do the authoritative nameservers receive queries from 8.8.8.8 or some other IP address? Spoiler: the queries don’t originate from 8.8.8.8; instead, the queries originate from a range of IP add

Solving Shrinkwrap: New Experimental Technique
kizu.dev
GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
iankduncan.com

Why GitHub Actions is the Internet Explorer of CI, and why Buildkite offers a better path forward for teams that care about developer experience.

We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands
bbc.com

A couple who stayed in Shenzhen discovered their intimate moments were filmed as spy-cam porn.

Bitcoin gets a zero price target in wake of Burry warning
seekingalpha.com

Bitcoin outlook turns bearish as Pivotus’ Richard Farr targets BTC at $0 and Michael Burry warns of a “death spiral.” Get the risks and key levels now.

C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)
faultlore.com
Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?
news.ycombinator.com
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The RCE that AMD won't fix
mrbruh.com

After reporting a RCE in AMD's auto-update software, they decided to not patch it due to it requiring a man-in-the-middle attack to perform.

Please stop using OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot
xda-developers.com

It could cause you a lot of problems.

Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate
apnews.com

Residents of a small coastal Cuban town face severe hardships despite living near energy sources. Santa Cruz del Norte experiences daily blackouts and fuel shortages, forcing people to cook with coal and firewood.

India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
theguardian.com

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (2023)
blog.janestreet.com

At Jane Street we use a pattern/library called “expect tests” thatmakes test-writing feel like a REPL session, or like exploratoryprogramming in a Jupyter no...

Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)
newworker.org
Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents
github.com/stablyai
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Slack automation CLI for AI agents. Contribute to stablyai/agent-slack development by creating an account on GitHub.

It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
tigerdata.com

Stop managing multiple databases. Postgres extensions replace Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Redis, MongoDB, and InfluxDB with BM25, vectors, JSONB, and time-series in one database.

Animated Engines
animatedengines.com
Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo
support.claude.com
LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
github.com/mdp

Contribute to mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerprinting development by creating an account on GitHub.

Bitcoin drops below $67,000 as selloff heats up and pessimism grows about crypto
cnbc.com
The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
scottaaronson.blog

Last night, I was taken aback to discover that my name appears in the Epstein Files, in 26 different documents. This is despite the fact that I met Jeffrey Epstein a grand total of zero times, and …

We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
anthropic.com

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

My AI Adoption Journey
mitchellh.com
Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]
youtube.com
Ardour 9.0
ardour.org

The open-source cross-platform digital audio workstation

Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code
axios.com
Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models
arxiv.org

Frontier large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini are increasingly used for mental-health support with anxiety, trauma and self-worth. Most work treats them as tools or as targets of personality tests, assuming they merely simulate inner life. We instead ask what happens when such systems are treated as psychotherapy clients. We present PsAIch (Psychotherapy-inspired AI Characterisation), a two-s

PsiACE/Skills – A small, shared skill library
github.com/PsiACE

A small, shared skill library by builders, for builders. - PsiACE/skills

The Wyden Siren: Senator's Cryptic CIA Letter Pattern Has Never Been Wrong
techdirt.com

If you’ve been paying attention to surveillance and civil liberties issues over the past fifteen years, you’ve likely learned to recognize a particular pattern. Senator Ron Wyden will o…

GPT-5.3-Codex
openai.com

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