Programming
Research & Understanding
After the GenAI Bubble: Fewer Layoffs, Persistent Hallucinations, and Pragmatic Code Gen
Research & Understanding
The AI School That Still Needs Teachers—and Proof
Research & Understanding
When Effort Becomes Effortless: AI and the Erosion of Craft
Programming
Tinker: A Managed, Low-Level Fine-Tuning API for Open-Weight LLMs
Research & Understanding
LLMs: Great Demos, Little Real-World Value
Programming
Default to the Simplest Tool: Why I Start With Google Sheets
Creative Code
Drunk CSS: An Empathy Nudge, Not Accessibility
Research & Understanding
Designing Safe, Effective Agentic Loops for Coding Work
Research & Understanding
Wikimedia’s HRIA: Ensuring AI Strengthens Human-Centered Free Knowledge
Research & Understanding
AI Anxiety Is Forcing Me to Retire the Em Dash
Research & Understanding
AI Won’t Fix Bad Products—It Just Builds Them Faster
Products & Announcements
OpenAI Launches Sora 2 and a Social App for Physically Realistic AI Video
Products & Announcements
Airweave: Open-source semantic search across all your apps for agents
Products & Announcements
Kagi News: A Private, Once-Daily Global Briefing
Products & Announcements
Gamma: AI Design Partner for Fast, Branded Content Across Formats
Products & Announcements
Ask HN, Sept 2025: Builders Share Pragmatic AI, Open‑Source Tools, and Real‑World Projects
Damage Control
Comprehension Debt: The Hidden Cost of Fast AI Code
Creative Code
A Gallery Driving Mobile-First Web Design
Creative Code
Civ VII Update: Voronoi Maps Deliver Natural, Varied Worlds
Damage Control
California Enacts SB 53: Transparent, Safer Frontier AI and a Public Compute Push
Products & Announcements
ChatGPT Adds Instant Checkout via Open Agentic Commerce Protocol
Research & Understanding
Choose Friction: Use AI Intentionally to Foster Growth
Research & Understanding
AlphaFold and the New Playbook for AI-Accelerated Science
Products & Announcements
Claude Code: Terminal-Native AI Coding Agent with Easy Install and Privacy Safeguards
Products & Announcements
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Launches: SOTA Coding & Agent Model With SDK and Major Product Upgrades
Research & Understanding
Avoiding the AI Coding Trap: Treat LLMs Like Fast Juniors with Real Engineering Discipline
Research & Understanding
Standardize LLM Observability on OpenTelemetry
Damage Control
A One-Line Backdoor: postmark-mcp MCP Server Quietly BCCs Your Emails
Products & Announcements
Three Cells: A Simple Daily System for Journal, Habits, and Tasks
Research & Understanding
SimpleFold: Scalable Flow-Matching Transformers for Protein Folding
Creative Code
Break AI Sameness: Dreamtap’s Random Inspiration for Original Stories
Research & Understanding
Coding Agents Don’t Lack IQ—They Lack Context
Research & Understanding
Rebuilding a Startup Site with Claude: Fast, Powerful—But Human-Guided
Research & Understanding
Engineer AI for Failure: Contain Prompt Injection
Research & Understanding, Optimism
Open Social: Users Own Data, Apps Aggregate
Damage Control
Microsoft Cuts Unit 8200’s Azure Access Over Palestinian Mass Surveillance
Research & Understanding
Veo 3: Emergent Zero‑Shot Video Intelligence Toward Vision Foundation Models
Products & Announcements
ChatGPT Pulse: Daily Proactive Updates You Can Curate
Products & Announcements
Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite Previews: Faster, Smarter, Cheaper, plus -latest Aliases
Products & Announcements, Optimism
Rebuilding the Web with Blogs and RSS
Damage Control
OPM: DOGE Incentives Cut Federal Workforce by 300,000 in 2025
Research & Understanding
Better Algorithms, Busier Radiologists
Market Forces
When a Brand Query Puts the Brand Fifth: Google’s Pay-to-Play Problem
Research & Understanding
How HubSpot Scaled AI Coding: Context, Central Teams, and Data-Driven Rollout
Damage Control
Product Hunt Is a Zombie: Pay-to-Play Hype, No Real Users
Market Forces
Zed Switches to Token-Based AI Billing, Cuts Pro to $10, Adds GPT‑5 and Gemini
Damage Control
How to Lead When Tech’s Vibes Are Off
Research & Understanding
Unlocking AI’s Data: ABC and an ARPANET-Style Plan
Damage Control
Revive Small Communities in a Big-Org World
Research & Understanding
Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT, and Dual-Subtitle Loops
Research & Understanding
Engineer the Context, Not the Model
Research & Understanding
Make AI Work in Big Repos: Spec-First Workflow and Frequent Intentional Compaction
Damage Control
YouTube to Pilot Reinstatement of Channels Banned Under COVID and Election Rules
Research & Understanding
DORA 2025: AI Is Ubiquitous—Success Demands Organizational Change
Meatspace
Nine Hard-Won Rules for Living Well
Research & Understanding
From Sampling to Grammars: Making LLMs Reliably Output Structured Data (Even for Thinking Models)
Research & Understanding
How to Be (and Be Seen as) Strategic
Market Forces
Maine’s Prison Remote-Work Experiment Is Working—and Spreading
Research & Understanding
How Hacker News Keeps Quality at Scale—and How to Read It Smart
Market Forces
From Search to Answers: Paying Creators in the AI Era
Damage Control
California fines lawyer $10K for ChatGPT-fabricated citations, warns: verify or face sanctions
Damage Control
Stop AI Workslop to Unlock ROI
Products & Announcements
Qwen3‑Omni: Real-Time Multimodal LLM with Speech I/O and SOTA Audio‑Video Performance
Programming
PlanetScale for Postgres Is GA, With Neki Sharding on the Horizon
Meatspace
Influence Without Manipulation: Choose the Right Door
Research & Understanding
AI Meets Metamaterials: From Simulation to Real-World Cloaking and Devices
Research & Understanding
Faster LLMs, Bigger Demands: Why Coding Agents Won’t Stabilize Soon
Programming
A Beginner’s Satire of Jargon-Heavy Dev Tutorials
Research & Understanding
AI Amplifies Seniors, Not Juniors
Biz
A Week Without Code: Marketing That Opened Doors
Programming
Maximizing Vocabulary Coverage with Books: A Submodular, NP-Hard Selection Problem
UI Design
Designing NotebookLM: A Scalable 3‑Panel UI for AI‑Native Creation
Research & Understanding
AI Agents Can Already Do Lean Proofs—But They Still Need a Project Manager
Research & Understanding
AI’s WEIRD Lens: US-Centric LLMs and How to Protect Cultural Insight
Products & Announcements
Build Public Mini Apps in One Prompt
Products & Announcements
Chrome’s Biggest AI Upgrade: Gemini-Powered, Safer, Smarter Browsing
Products & Announcements
Personalized AI Textbooks Improve Learning and Retention
Research & Understanding
AI’s Window: Unstructured Data, Augmentation, and Consumption-Based Startups
Programming
After the npm Hack: We Need Real Package Management—But We Won’t Do It
Programming
Small, Business-Value Units Make AI Coding Work
Products & Announcements
Meta Unveils Ray-Ban Display: AI Glasses With In‑Lens Screen and EMG Wristband
UI Design
A Classless CSS Experiment: Components via Custom Tags and Attributes
Research & Understanding
Taste Came First: Build It, Then Use AI
Research & Understanding
Cooley–Tukey: Turning the DFT into O(N log N) (and Why FFT ≠ DFT)
Damage Control
Slack’s sudden $200k/yr demand pushes Hack Club to Mattermost
Damage Control
Postmortem: Three Overlapping Infra Bugs Degraded Claude—Fixes Shipped, Evals and Tooling Upgraded
Programming
Malicious Workflow Stole npm Token via Shared Repo; Lockdown Now, OIDC Next
Products & Announcements
DeepMind and OpenAI Both Claim ICPC WF 2025 Gold-Level AI Performance
Market Forces
U.S. Consortium Poised to Take 80% Control of TikTok’s U.S. Arm
Meatspace
Stop Waiting for Motivation: Engineer Action with Small Steps and Consistency
Creative Code
Procedural Islands III: Multi-Scale Noise and Topological Mountains for Final Elevation
Damage Control
Toward a Slow, Humane Social Network
Research & Understanding
Evolving English Instructions Sets New ARC SoTA and Points to RL for AGI
Research & Understanding
Prompted to Perform: A 22% Lift for GPT-5-mini on Tau² Telecom
Meatspace
Against Work-Worship: A Case for the Four-Hour Day
Market Forces
Alibaba Pingtouge AI Chip Rivals Nvidia H20, Wins Major China Unicom Order
Programming
Terraform State Is a Graph, Not a File
Programming