🚀 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,…
🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I’ve been passionate about writing “Good Code™” since before I started my career, beginning way back when I was still a kid in middle school. What is “Good Code™“? Good Question™ :) Good Code is code that is easy to read and understand. Good Code is code that is pleasing to develop with and maintain. Good Code is code that exists for a specific reason, and no more. Good Code is a product of the rare combination of talent, experience, passion, and the investment…
🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TCC : Tiny C Compiler Tiny C Compiler News [Note: I am no longer working on TCC. Check the mailing list to get up to date information.] Features SMALL! You can compile and execute C code everywhere, for example on rescue disks (about 100KB for x86 TCC executable, including C preprocessor, C compiler, assembler and linker). FAST! tcc generates x86 code. No byte code overhead. Compile, assemble and link several times faster than GCC. UNLIMITED! Any C dynamic library can be used directly. TCC is…
✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Where to next? The cost of turning written business logic into code has dropped to zero. Or, at best, near-zero. The cost of integrating services and libraries, the plumbing of the code world, has dropped to zero. Or, at best, near-zero. The cost of building efficient, reliable, secure, end-to-end systems is starting to drop, but slowly. Where does that leave those of us who have built careers in technology? Our road diverges. Not into the undergrowth of a wood, but into a dense fog. The…
🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Fast mode is in research preview. The feature, pricing, and availability may change based on feedback. Fast mode delivers faster Opus 4.6 responses at a higher cost per token. Toggle it on with /fast when you need speed for interactive work like rapid iteration or live debugging, and toggle it off when cost matters more than latency. Fast mode is not a different model. It uses the same Opus 4.6 with a different API configuration that prioritizes speed over cost efficiency. You get identical quality…
