🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Duration 11 years (02011-02022) STAKES $1,000 will go to Bletchly Park Trust if Keith wins,or The Internet Archive if Haughey wins. Keith's Argument "Cool URIs don't change" wrote Tim Berners-Lee in 01999, but link rot is the entropy of the web. The probability of a web document surviving in its original location decreases greatly over time. I suspect that even a relatively short time period (eleven years) is too long for a resource to survive.I would love to be proven wrong. Haughey's Argument Though much…
✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Saturday, 8 August 2026 Yesterday I published an article titled “App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours”. I have retracted it. Its premise was so fundamentally wrong that there’s no point merely correcting or editing it. Even the title, as I explain below, was inaccurate. Although the original is now retracted, I’m not memory-holing it. The text of the original story is available, for transparency and accountability, in plain text (Markdown, natch) and PDF (preserving original presentation). Both of those versions include a preface…
💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Staying out of trouble In a “best practices” document published by the Authors Guild, the professional organization urges writers to “respect your fellow authors and do not use generative AI to purposely copy or mimic the unique styles, voices, or other distinctive attributes of other writers’ works in ways that harm the value of their works or attempt to profit from them. Apart from the ethical issues, mimicking a fellow writer’s unique voice or style could subject you to claims of unfair competition or copyright…
🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Americans do not care for artificial intelligence. Recent polling shows that their attitudes mostly range from ambivalence to horror. Some observers have suggested that opposition to AI is due to poor PR from industry leaders. If tech titans hadn’t been so convinced that boasting of their apocalyptic powers was the best way to raise capital, the argument goes, then the American public would be on board. Chinese public opinion, for instance, is considerably more favorable. But these discrepancies can be read another way. The taste for…
🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: What it is os8088 boots from the first sector of a floppy into a graphical desktop. There is no DOS underneath it and no command line anywhere in it -- the 512-byte boot sector loads a 40KB kernel, the kernel works out which display adapter the machine has and switches it into graphics, borrows the video card's own 8x8 character set, and puts up a menu bar. Everything after that is the interface you remember from a 1984 Macintosh: windows you drag by the…
🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is clear many aspects of work and life will be transformed—including programming. One of the comments I hear often lately boils down to “LLMs may be good at coding, but software was never the hard part” and “coding is easy, it's figuring out what to code that's hard”. I believe that's a gross insult to all programmers everywhere. If coding is…
🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: For a while, my personal infrastructure lived on a small Hetzner VPS. It ran a few web apps, a remote browser called Surf, Caddy, and the usual supporting cast. Nothing particularly serious. It worked, I just didn’t like paying for it. One of the apps I run, Surf, made the compromise difficult to ignore. The cheapest shared machines were fine until Chrome had real work to do, at which point they felt starved. Dedicated CPU machines fix that, but cost enough each month to make…
🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: With a title like “Intel Just Matched Apple Silicon. Seriously.“, the latest video from [Jeff Geerling] makes some pretty bold claims. But as we’d expect from [Jeff], he’s got the benchmarks up on GitHub for both the MacBook Neo and Dell’s latest XPS 13 to back it up. We’ve embedded the full video below, which has [Jeff]’s comparative review of the two laptops. The Mac wins on iGPU, sound, and not shipping Windows, while the Dell gets points for being able to load Linux…
🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: US or EU? Your choice Many of you have been telling us that where your email is stored matters to you. There are various reasons for this, like local law, keeping your data close to home, or compliance. You can now make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam. Previously, all accounts were stored entirely in the US. Now you have more choice. Built by us, not rented from someone else We’ve installed our own…
🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: “What we’re trying to teach them is there are no escape valves … Every time they create a new mechanism in which they try to get out of the noose, we just close it off,” Rubio said. “They certainly can’t wait us out. Certainly this isn’t going to go away for the next [two and a half] years.”The Trump administration has kept a constant thumb on Cuba, starting with a blackout-inducing oil blockade in January that has directly contributed to widespread food insecurity, economic collapse,…