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🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: NoteOn 24 August 2026, cease and desist letters were sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository. UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. More details will be announced soon. A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. Inspired by the Invidious project. No JavaScript required Zero ads All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint Uses Twitter's…

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: tl;dr Try it at https://trynix.dev. Click hello, or python 3.6.2 from 2017, or two eras of hello at once, or a package that exists in no public cache. A Linux machine boots in the tab and you get a shell with those Nix packages on PATH. This is my magnum opus of Nix work. I knew all the ideas I have been creating were building blogs for something greater: nixpkgs-multiverse indexed every version of every package nixpkgs ever shipped, grail taught it version ranges and…

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Part of “Conquering Entropy”Most of the issues I have with AI-generated code are related to trust. Do I trust the person who wrote this ticket? Do I trust that the engineer who opened this PR understood the ticket and guided the coding agent to implement it properly? Do I trust the coding agent’s implementation? Do I trust our test suite to catch regressions before they hit production? Do I trust our CI/CD to properly build, test, and deploy our change? Do I trust our observability…

💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention, presented the 2026 Hugo Awards in a ceremony held at the convention on Sunday, August 30th, 2026. The full results including the detailed reports on voting are published on the LACon V website. The results will be updated here on The Hugo Awards site as soon as our bandwidth allows. Best NovelThe Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow (Tor US; Tor UK) Best NovellaThe River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia UK) Best Novelette“Never Eaten Vegetables” by…

🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In the last 28 years of publishing software, I’ve had three distinct eras of software licensing. All of my recent stuff is available under the European Union Public License 1.2, and I thought to explain why. Midgard was all LGPLv2. This was a simpler time, and there weren’t that many free software licenses around. Since Midgard was a web framework, using a weak copyleft license felt like the right thing to do. The example website shipping with Midgard was X11 licensed. When I started working…

💥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A volunteer grabs a gallon of water at a water and food distribution drive held by College Hill Baptist Church and the World Central kitchen on March 7, 2021 in Jackson, Mississippi. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Friday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit against the city of Jackson, Mississippi, which alleged the city knowingly let residents drink lead-contaminated…

💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Following the release of our Vice City web port, we are thrilled to introduce Grand Theft Auto III directly in your browser! Experience Claude's journey through Liberty City with zero downloads required. Full Save Manager: Seamlessly download, upload, and back up your save files to keep your story progress safe across devices. Touch Controls & Gamepad: Fully playable on mobile with customized touch controls, plus standard USB/Bluetooth controller and keyboard support. All Radio Stations: Cruise Liberty City with the complete authentic soundtrack from Head…