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✨ Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Tyres stick to hot asphalt as I drive the Stuart Highway from Alice Springs northward, leaving the MacDonnell Ranges behind. My destination is the Warramunga facility, about 500 kilometres north — a remote monitoring station I've directed for the Australian National University for nearly 19 years, and one of the most sensitive nuclear detection facilities on Earth.When I started exploring Earth's inner core in 1997, I had no idea my calling would lead me here, or that I'd spend years driving this highway through the…

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I want to share some thoughts on my recent experience with OpenClaw. Over the past year, I’ve been actively using Claude Code for development. Many people believed AI could already assist with programming—seemingly replacing programmers—but I never felt it brought any revolutionary change to the way I work.Sure, agentic coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor have made writing code easier, but at the end of the day, I was still the one writing. It might look like the AI is doing the work,…

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: It’s been talked about for a while (in fact I covered this 6 years ago), but a lot of things have been said about the potential collapse of the Atlantic Gulf Stream, also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC. This global current that keeps Europe and North America (but especially Europe) from being covered in ice is increasingly under threat of slowing or even stopping. The results would be catastrophic.TRANSCIPT:Let’s start with the dismal outlook.Back in 2021, a study in Nature Geosciences…

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: SectorC (github) is a C compiler written in x86-16 assembly that fits within the 512 byte boot sector of an x86 machine. It supports a subset of C that is large enough to write real and interesting programs. It is quite likely the smallest C compiler ever written. In a base64 encoding, it looks like this: 6gUAwAdoADAfaAAgBzH/6DABPfQYdQXoJQHr8+gjAVOJP+gSALDDqluB+9lQdeAG/zdoAEAfy+gI AegFAYnYg/hNdFuE9nQNsOiqiwcp+IPoAqvr4j3/FXUG6OUAquvXPVgYdQXoJgDrGj0C2nUGV+gb AOsF6CgA68Ow6apYKfiD6AKrifgp8CaJRP7rrOg4ALiFwKu4D4Srq1fonP9ewz2N/HUV6JoA6BkA ieu4iQRQuIs26IAAWKvD6AcAieu4iQbrc4nd6HkA6HYA6DgAHg4fvq8Bra052HQGhcB19h/DrVCw UKroWQDoGwC4WZGrW4D/wHUMuDnIq7i4AKu4AA+ridirH8M9jfx1COgzALiLBOucg/j4dQXorf/r JIP49nUI6BwAuI0G6wyE0nQFsLiq6wa4iwarAduJ2KvrA+gAAOhLADwgfvkx2zHJPDkPnsI8IH4S weEIiMFr2wqD6DABw+gqAOvqicg9Ly90Dj0qL3QSPSkoD5TGidjD6BAAPAp1+eu86Ln/g/jDdfjr slIx9osEMQQ8O3QUuAACMdLNFIDkgHX0PDt1BIkEMcBaw/v/A8H9/yvB+v/34fb/I8FMAAvBLgAz wYQA0+CaANP4jwCUwHf/lcAMAJzADgCfwIUAnsCZAJ3AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVao= Supported language A fairly large subset is supported: global variables, functions, if statements, while statements, lots of operators, pointer dereference,…

💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Homeland security field agents are scouring the social media site Reddit, monitoring the communications of law-abiding Americans critical of the agency.The spying is revealed in a January intelligence bulletin produced by the Border Patrol and leaked to me. The subject of the report is Reddit user “Budget-Chicken-2425,” who is not a narco-trafficker, gang member, or terrorist. Just someone concerned about federal overreach.The report centers on Budget-Chicken’s call for a protest near a Border Patrol facility in Edinburg, Texas. Though the report acknowledges that anti-ICE protests…

🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I'm generally pretty pro-AI with one major exception: agentic coding. My consistent impression is that agentic coding does not actually improve productivity and deteriorates the user's comfort and familiarity with the codebase. I formed that impression from: my own personal experiences Every time I use agentic coding tools I'm consistently unimpressed with the quality of the results. my experiences interviewing candidates I allow interview candidates to use agentic coding tools and candidates who do so consistently performed worse than other candidates, failing to complete…

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A local device focused AI assistant built in Rust — persistent memory, autonomous tasks, ~27MB binary. Inspired by and compatible with OpenClaw. cargo install localgpt Single binary — no Node.js, Docker, or Python required Local device focused — runs entirely on your machine, your memory data stays yours Persistent memory — markdown-based knowledge store with full-text and semantic search Autonomous heartbeat — delegate tasks and let it work in the background Multiple interfaces — CLI, web UI, desktop GUI Multiple LLM providers — Anthropic…

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: This is a simple code exploration, inspired by (and stollen from) https://iventions.com/, saw it on X here. In this example, I'm trying to implement a menu that is revealed when the user clicks on a button. With HTML+CSS only. No JS. There are two clip-paths: The menu is revealed by a circle that grows from the top-left corner of the screen to the bottom-right corner. A fun clip-path calculation that I used here (clip-path: circle(calc(1.42 * 100vmax) at 0 0);) is based on the vmax,…