On (not) using “cryptographic hashes” for hash table keys
Software Engineering
Agentic Coding Is a Trap
Show HN: Tyche: An experimental distributed trading pipeline in Go Java
WhatCable, Framework, and USB-C ·
The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
PostgreSQL
Henrietta Dombrovskaya: PG DATA 2026. The talks I am most excited about. Part 3
After Part 1 and Part 2, here comes the Friday schedule! I hope that on the second day of the conference, I will have more time to attend different talks and actually stay and listen! My absolutely-most-anticipated Friday talk is Paul Jungwirth’s Migrating to a Temporal Schema. I hope I do not need to explain why. It has been more than ten years since I first tried to implement an asserted versioning model in Postgres, and I took in all the endless possibilities that opened up when you i...
Simpson's Paradox
Object Storage
Buckets and objects are not enough
Introduction to Atom
DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper
Supercollider
LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction
Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician
Adding a feature to a closed-source app
AI Hardware
xAI Is Reportedly Using Just 11% of Its 550k Nvidia GPUs
Networking Protocols
Broadcasting GPS on the local network
X / Twitter
‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art
Show HN: Software Engineer to Novelist: Writing a Book Like Coding
xAI
ASU Using AI Tool to Create Courses from Professors' Work Without Their
AI Psychosis
People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia
Prompt Engineering
Talking to Transformers
Why TUIs Are Back
Anthropic
Separating what AI does well from what code does well
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Text-to-CAD
EVs and Transportation
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars (2023)
Privacy
Ghost Operators: How Israeli Telecoms Were Exploited to Track Citizens Worldwide
I Recreated the Apple Lisa Computer Inside an FPGA – The LisaFPGA Project
Large Language Models
In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate diagnoses than emergency room doctors
Running official Arch Linux on Arm (not to be confused ArchLinuxARM)
Generative AI
The Oscars Just Banned AI from Winning Acting and Writing Awards
Maybe AI Isn't a Bubble After All
SRE
Southwest Headquarters Tour
The Hiddn Financial Bubble in AI Infrastructure [pdf]
AI Coding Tools
Uncle Bob: It's Over
I Built SpecDD Because AI Kept Forgetting What We Were Building
AI Psychosis
For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day
Homelab & Self-Hosting
bhatti — Own your metal
Startups and Venture
TechCrunch Mobility: How do you issue a ticket to a robotaxi?
A Desktop Made for One
Show HN: I built a RISC-V emulator that runs DOOM
Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery
Containers
Your Container Is Not a Sandbox
Security Through Obscurity Is Not Bad
Caching Strategies
I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now
What Is Z-Angle Memory and Why Is Intel Developing It?
Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
EVs and Transportation
The Petroleum System Is Entering Its Volatile Decline Phase
Platform Engineering
Breaking Up with WordPress After Two Decades
Monitoring and Alerting
Alert-Driven Monitoring
VPN and Tunneling
Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs
Haskell: Debugging
git-async web demo - A git browser in the browser
Embedded Systems
Embedded Rust or C Firmware? Lessons from an Industrial Microcontroller Use Case
Defense Tech
Japan is deploying ultra-cheap cardboard drones built for swarm warfare
Space Tech
All Four Sentinel-1 Satellites Are Now Live
My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS
Minimal Viable Zig Error Contexts
Out of the box, Zig provides minimal and sufficient facilities for error handling --- strongly-typed error codes. Error reporting is left to the user. Idiomatic solution is to pass a Diagnostics out parameter (sink) to materialize human-readable strings as needed.
Utilyze measures how efficiently your GPU is doing useful work
Exploit Development
Benchmarking a Bug Scanner
Thoth – open-source Local-first AI Assistant
Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services
Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web
AI Psychosis
Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study
Large Language Models
Learning Pseudorandom Numbers with Transformers
pgBackRest is dead. Now what?
Blockchain
Forging ZK proofs to mint arbitrary DUSK tokens
Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16
AI Psychosis
Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me (BBC)
Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
Microsoft AI
Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share
LLM Evaluation
Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
Microsoft
Windows API Is Successful Cross-Platform API
Simple and Correct Snapshot Isolation
Open Source
Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
SPEC CPU 2026 Overview / What's New?
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