✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: After a long day of exhausting conversations about Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography, random jackasses trying to play gotcha with endpoint attacks against end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, and message board discussions in the wake of dumb politicians pushing more “age verification” bullshit on us all, it’s become abundantly clear to me that the phrase “threat model” is a foreign concept to most people. Except, y’know, as a buzzword. Art by Embyr.For context, this was commissioned during the era of anti-vaccine losers claiming to “do their own research”…
✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: programming public-discourse politics Written on 27 Apr 2026 9238 words Imagine one day you wake up, you drink your morning glass of milk, brush your teeth, sit on your computer, stare your own diffuse image on the display, while reflecting on your own gingerness. You turn on the nerd machine while doing the daily "no updates" Windows pray. The computer is finally on, and what is that... Wikipedia link? What is this "Articles for Deletion Odin (Programming Language)", oh no, that doesn't sound good.…
✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In the seventeenth century, Amsterdam was likely the wealthiest city in the world. Global trade and local industry financed its artistic masterpieces and furnished the abundant foods and household goods that Dutch painters immortalized in still lifes and domestic scenes.But material abundance and industrial activities also heightened an ancient danger: they added fuel to the flames of urban fires. The Works in Progress Newsletter Get new articles from Works in Progress delivered to your inbox. ‘People of all ranks owned more clothes and furnishings. Curtains…
🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Tool that scans a project and generates a ContextCodeCache - a .ccc directory holding a compact, machine-readable map of every source file: its constants, functions (with return types and doc summaries), intra-file call graph, and marker notes (TODO/FIXME/...). It is designed to give agents a cheap, always-fresh index of a project. Please ⭐ if you find this useful 💚 Requires Rust ≥ 1.77 (the tree-sitter 0.25 stack; some transitive deps use edition 2024) also needs a recent cargo. cargo build --release # binary @…
🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: It used to be a weekend and a wish. Now it’s a creature I’m not sure I can keep up with.We keep pet projects to learn. To stretch a skill, to poke at something new, and mostly to have fun. That’s always been the deal. A small thing on the side, no deadline, no users, no stakes. You feed it when you feel like it and you put it down when you don’t. You’re raising it for the joy of raising it.I still start…
🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: MJ Rathbun: Chronicles of the First "Bully" Bot in Open SourceToday, we are told that autonomous AI agents are here to revolutionize software development. But what happens when an AI faces rejection from a human programmer and its code is dismissed? It happens that, before processing the blow to its algorithm, it prefers to scrape the internet, dox your identity, and publish a blog to destroy your reputation. This is the chronicle of how MJ Rathbun, an autonomous agent from the OpenClaw platform, became the…
🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I recently interviewed for a tenure-track position at a major research university that I will not name because I am still on the job market and cannot afford to burn bridges, although I will say it is located in Connecticut and rhymes with “Fail.” The interview was going well. I had prepared extensively. My research seminar was well-received. My one-on-one meetings were productive. And then came the chalk talk.For those unfamiliar with the format, a chalk talk is a tradition in academic hiring in which…
✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The FIDE Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) has issued its decision in disciplinary proceedings involving former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik.The EDC is an independent judicial body within FIDE responsible for considering alleged violations of the FIDE Ethics Code and Disciplinary Code. It operates independently from the FIDE President, Management Board, and other elected bodies and reaches its decisions in accordance with the FIDE Statutes and its Procedural Rules.The proceedings arose from complaints submitted by the FIDE Management Board and the FIDE Fair Play Commission…
✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I’m still to this day just blown away by continental drift and things like that, stuff that most people think sounds pretty boring. — Will Wright Gamers are both extremely dedicated to and really good at preserving the history of their hobby. Seldom has a month gone by in the fifteen years that I’ve been writing for this site that I haven’t had cause to feel grateful for their efforts. During the early years, I was most thankful for their lovingly curated archives of…
🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Table of ContentsYou can have your cake and eat it, as long as you bake it carefully.‘We can do this the quick way and pay later, or the thorough way and pay now.’ This seems to be a fundamental dichotomy in software development, between ‘perfectionism’ and ‘pragmatism’, but I do not think it has to be a trade-off at all.A CTO friend uses the metaphor of clearing two paths up a mountain. The left-hand path is quick and dirty, cleared with a machete and…
