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Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library

Bonsai is a UI library developed by Jane Street for building reactive web applications in OCaml, inspired by Elm and…

Octane – React's programming model, compiled

Octane is a compiled version of React that eliminates virtual DOM overhead and removes common React limitations like…

The Shape of Things to Come

The author discusses building coding systems called "harnesses" to automate complex work, arguing they must be…

Sol SyncUp Gathers Telecom, Data Center, and Energy Leaders for Singapore Infrastructure Summit

The global internet ecosystem is shifting from a centralized model to something that is decentralized and verifiable.

The AI Productivity Gap

Despite AI's promise to dramatically boost developer productivity, the actual gains remain modest because coding…

Show HN: I created a project management system

is.team is a new project management platform that consolidates task tracking, whiteboarding, and team communication into…

Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors

The Rust project proposes introducing new traits like `Move` and `Forget` that allow types to opt out of being moved in…

Ordinary WiFi Can Now Identify People With Near-Perfect Accuracy

Scientists at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have demonstrated a way to identify people using ordinary…

Don't be a meat proxy

People should stop simply copying and pasting AI responses verbatim to others, as this adds no value when recipients can…

AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included

Researchers have developed a novel "Locksmith Loop" method to validate AI-generated Java migrations of legacy COBOL…

Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send cust. device IDs to AT&T

An Apple engineer claims he was fired in June 2024 after refusing to send customer device identifiers (serial numbers…

OpenAI's super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics

OpenAI's super PAC is funding an anonymously operated AI-generated news site called Acutus that publishes articles…

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

RFC 9851: TLS 1.2 is in Feature Freeze

RFC 9851 puts TLS 1.2 into feature freeze, prohibiting any new changes except for urgent security fixes, new TLS…

Show HN: Isopolis – isometric pixel map of SF

CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K

CP/M-386 is an early-stage operating system implementing CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M-68K, featuring…

Show HN: ssh ssh.place

ssh.place is a collaborative drawing canvas accessible via SSH that allows anyone with an SSH key to draw pixel art…

Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App

Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, described an experiment where he tasked Claude with rewriting the Claude…

Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap

Book Corners, a library for public bookcases that sources data from OpenStreetMap, initially planned to sync…

Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

"Shitty" is a fast terminal emulator written in C++ that prioritizes performance over memory safety.

AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

An AI-generated poster won first place in the 2026 Ohio State Fair Poster Contest, prompting organizers to announce they…

Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1

Starting August 1, California's DROP (Delete Request Opt-out Platform) becomes enforceable, requiring registered data…

Show HN: Mu – Tools for Agents

Mu is a suite of 67 internet tools (including news, web search, mail, weather, and more) accessible to AI agents through…

The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air

The global memory chip shortage appears to be affecting the availability of Apple’s most popular Mac.

Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI…

Bubble Memory

Bubble memory was an obsolete type of non-volatile computer memory, as exemplified by Intel's 7110 magnetic-bubble…

Show HN: Draco – A single-binary, self-hostable Firecrawl alternative in Rust

Draco is a single-binary, self-hostable web scraper written in Rust that serves as a lighter alternative to Firecrawl,…

AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens

The article draws parallels between historical market manias (tulips, cryptocurrencies) and the current AI boom, arguing…

EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

The EU's open-source age-verification project requires hardware-bound attestation to prevent credential copying, but…