Why don't more developers "use the platform"?

For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those…

Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

Punch black holes in space and sling a ship home round them.

Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

Why agents need project documentation instead of retrieval from old conversations.

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

FTL: A new operating system for clouds

So You Think You Could Be an Electrician?

Funny how the people telling kids to get jobs in the trades tend to be white-collar.

Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

Here are 21 reasons I delayed getting my EMT licensed, sorted loosely by ridiculousness.

Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?

How I massively over-engineered a trivial problem again because I just can't help myself

Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion?

Thoreau BASIC 3.2 is a free 64-bit BASIC interpreter for Windows x64 and bootable x64 UEFI, with GW-BASIC-style syntax, native x64 JIT, multicore PARFOR, 24-bit graphics, sprites, networking, General MIDI/GS wavetable sound, MIDI, WAV, FLAC and Opus playback.

Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family

Amazon redesigned the Kindle, offering six new devices, flush-front displays, edge-to-edge color, and the first Bluetooth page-turn remote.

Your body of work thinks back at you

Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code

How to prompt Opus 5.5, steer a long run, and check your results in Claude apps and Claude Code.

The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager

Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

Sometimes the law is not the law

Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 78B total and 3B active parameters, a context of up to 1M tokens and open weights under Apache 2.0, specialized for sovereign, mission-critical work.

Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web

How GPT, Claude, and Muse perform on multilingual research, source access, human-in-the-loop and observability

OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'

David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology

Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video]

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