🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The other day, I saw a viral tweet saying that people talking about how LLMs are causing slow, bloated, code are going to eat crow once they re-write everything in super-optimized assembly. We're not quite at the point where we want to write everything in assembly, but some variant of what Nolan Lawson said about testing, you can choose how many bugs you want now, which I less eloquently noted here, is becoming more true for performance. In response to a comment in my last…
🔥 Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Biotech & Health,TC 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Michael Polansky is remarkably unassuming for someone operating in a corner of the world known for outsize egos. Seated at a leafy patio outside a popular bakery in Mill Valley, an affluent town about 15 miles north of San Francisco, Polansky — bespectacled, his fresh face framed by dark hair shot through with gray — has the look and the friendly demeanor of a young professor. He is, in fact, both the founder of a buzzy AI and biology startup called Outer Biosciences…
🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: HN comments are terrible. On any topic I’m informed about, the vast majority of comments are pretty clearly wrong. Most of the time, there are zero comments from people who know anything about the topic and the top comment is reasonable sounding but totally incorrect. Additionally, many comments are gratuitously mean. You'll often hear mean comments backed up with something like "this is better than the other possibility, where everyone just pats each other on the back with comments like 'this is great'", as if…
💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: On June 30, Paul Atkins, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, stood before the Economic Club of New York and delivered a history lesson. With the nation’s 250th birthday days away, Mr. Atkins told his audience that the Declaration of Independence and Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations,” both products of 1776, rest on “the same conviction: trust the individual, not the institution.” America’s founding documents, he said, “in many respects, reflect Smith’s central themes,” and the founders, wary of concentrated power “whether lodged in…
✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Note: to protect the company, I swapped out anything that could point back to it for fake examples. The domain electricscootercompany.com.br, the app package, and the user details (slug, name, and email) are all made up. None of it matches the real company. It started with a news article. A company had just dropped a bunch of electric scooters in my city. Most people saw a new way to get around town. I saw a fleet of internet-connected devices running on a backend nobody had…
🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: We're sharing an update on our efforts to help more teams use frontier capabilities for cyber defense. Claude Mythos 5 is now available in Claude Security, and coming soon to partners' cyber defense tools. We're also launching a $35M fund to help secure open-source software and sharing plans to expand our Cyber Verification Program.In April, we launched Project Glasswing to put our most capable frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview (and its successor, Claude Mythos 5), in the hands of a small group of organizations…
🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Posted on August 3, 2026 by Adam Wespiser The seats of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston are somewhat comfortable. A plush base you can almost sink into, but only enough elbow room for you or your neighbor, not both. By the end of an hour, you’ve explored the full space of position adjustments, and have the type of “settle in” feeling I only feel on flights. The final talk of Systems Distributed 2026, titled Mission-Critical, by Joran Dirk Greef, opened with a definition…
💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Tumble Forth Hello, my name is Virgil Dupras, author of Collapse OS and Dusk OS and I'm starting a series of articles that aims to hand-hold my former self, a regular web developer, into the rabbit hole leading to the wonderful world of low level programming. Hopefully, I can hand-hold you too. The general goal is to broaden your perspectives on the subject of computing. I intend do to that through story arcs leading, step by step, to some nice and shiny objective. I also…
🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I updated my Galactic Compass app for iPhone with augmented reality mode. Background: Galactic Compass is a floating green arrow that always points the way to the middle of the Milky Way, 26,000 light years away. Here’s the announcement blog post from 2024. It went kinda viral at the time. It was in the “top free apps” charts at the App Store briefly. In the Travel category. (I keep a list of press mentions over on Acts Not Facts.) Why so popular? Probably because…
✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Our desktop app captures meetings without a bot and streams them to the cloud. For months, the recording engine was the hardest part of the product to make reliable. We'd fix one class of edge case, ship it, and a new one would surface the next week. Different root causes, same pattern. The engine ran in the render process of our Electron app. We tried the obvious fixes: tighter lifecycle management, moving work off the main thread, isolating it from React's render cycle. Each…