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A stray commit buried multiple levels deep cost me months

A developer spent months planning a major code migration only to discover deep in their work that hidden database…

Morph (YC S23) Is Hiring Member of Technical Stuff

Morph, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2025, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff to optimize its inference…

Anime User Interfaces

This post is a curated collection of anime user interface (UI) designs and visual aesthetics, compiled on what appears…

From MIT: AI financial advice is surprisingly good

MIT researchers found that artificial intelligence provides surprisingly sound financial advice, with people following…

Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter

Atom feed format is technically superior to RSS in several important ways that go beyond ideological preference.

The 14 Steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone

The author details the surprisingly complicated 14-step process required to access their office with a new phone after…

Shittu 'robbed' - are AI boxing judges the answer?

After commentators claim England's Dimeji Shittu was "robbed" in the Commonwealth Games final, is judging helped by…

YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview

A San Francisco AI startup CEO apologized after offering job interviews to applicants who got the company's logo…

Seedance 2.5

Seedance 2.5, a new-generation video creation model, has launched with major upgrades enabling users to generate up to…

Diátaxis

Diátaxis is a systematic framework for organizing technical documentation around four distinct user needs: tutorials,…

Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps

Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.

The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder

Jim, a bootcamp developer with charisma and ambition, rapidly ascended in tech through a network connection that led to…

YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’

Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs…

But can your calculator run Linux?

The HP Prime G2 graphing calculator can run Linux, allowing users to execute applications like xcalc and even Doom on…

Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now

Google News has significantly degraded as a research tool, with its filtering features becoming increasingly unreliable.

Show HN: Cockpit for you Claude Code agents in Rust

Episko is a Cockpit interface for managing Claude Code agents in Rust, providing a dashboard to monitor multiple…

Signal Structure of the Starlink Ku-Band Downlink (2023) [pdf]

Chess Engine Dev Community Openly Hostile to AI Assisted Development

A chess engine developer has publicly criticized an AI-assisted project for incorporating optimizations from open-source…

CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting

I cannot provide a summary of this article because the text provided does not contain the actual content of a CISA alert…

Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead?

Apple's new Upgrade program is the latest sign that smartphone ownership is changing.

Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576

A soundness bug in the Lean kernel's handling of nested inductive types with phantom parameters was discovered on July…

Scanning 7.6 Petabytes of HuggingFace Training Data for Secrets

Researchers scanned 7.6 petabytes of public datasets on Hugging Face and found 221,303 live credentials across 6,003…

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

# Summary Google systematically undermined RSS feed adoption through an "Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish" strategy,…

NetBSD 11.0

NetBSD 11.0 has been released, with installation images available for multiple architectures including separate CD-ROM…

Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT

OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.

A directory of people who love RSS

A new directory called "I ♥ RSS" has been launched to catalog websites and people who use RSS feeds.

Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter

Kaisel is a Dart 3 native router for Flutter that uses typed routes as values instead of string paths, eliminating the…

Franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every .com Is Taken

Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast

Pgtestdb, a Go/Postgres testing package, uses Postgres template databases to clone test databases extremely…