What Heraldry and Mon Can Teach Us About Building Visual-Identity Generators

The personal website of Ben Overmyer

The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything anymore

If we think Is writing code dead, and AI is generating all codebases, I still think the bigger problem is people or full teams not knowing anything anymore about the system...

Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT

One random Friday at RC, I was bored and playing around with a puzzle someone had 3d printed:

When did Google get so weird?

I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...

Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"

And why you may need to repeat AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' twice. SUMMARY * AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' converts the data type from timestamptz to timestamp (example). * Now you are inadvertently using the timestamp without time zone (aka timestamp) data type, which is markedly discouraged. * There are tons of footguns with timestamp. * For example, the equality of timestamp and timestamptz will always be false. * Adding a month with + INTERVAL '1 months' is timezone-dependent. If your product

What Would a Serious AI Product Look Like?

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

Pirating the Pirates

Notes from the underground of film preservation.

Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

parley - Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC. Run your own instance for your domain; talk to anyone as user@domain from irssi or any IRC client.

Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain

Nissan’s ​​Third generation ​​e-POWER: Nissan’s various technologies, including electrification, autonomous drive, connected car & service, mobility service, and energy management, are introduced.

Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants

Scissor is a free vector and pixel graphics editor that runs entirely in your browser. No install, no account, no upload.

Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream

The long way around to screen sharing.

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

A first-person account of a 1993 NVIDIA stock option grant, a decades-later discovery of a vesting discrepancy, and how the statute of limitations settled it.

37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it

Every border anyone has drawn playing Borderline, on an empty map. The only line nobody drew is the coastline.

13 Months Sober (2025)

The idea of sobriety is now boring to me.

Ember-1

Ember-1 is a new specialized model from Fireworks Research that delivers Kimi K3’s quality with 40% fewer tokens.

Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page

E-paper shopping list for the M5Stack PaperMono, with a FastAPI server and phone web UI - seamusc/papermono-shopping-list

Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News

browse hackernews like a hacker. Contribute to ahmd-sh/hntui development by creating an account on GitHub.

What makes Lisp difficult to read?

Coding Is Not Solved

This essay challenges the common narrative that "coding is solved" with the following points: 1. Code is a side artifact of reaching clarity 2. We cannot offload our understanding to AI and that understanding is key to ownership 3. As AI capabilities and adoption improves we're going to see a price collapse for most software (market forces at play) 4. There are 3 valid cases where you don't need to read the code: POC (proof of concept), Personal Software (a growing category), and cyber attacks (acknowledging the risk but pointing it at others)