Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students

Doing the Work

Flexible metaprogramming with Rhombus

Factories are just rooms

FreeBSD Ate My RAM

I spent a whole month researching FreeBSD's kernel's virtual memory system to understand why tools like htop, btop and fastfetch report different information about RAM usage. I ended up submitting patches to all of these projects.

Half-Baked Product

A fable about ovens, founders, and the second-highest priority that never gets done.,A fable about ovens, founders, and the second-highest priority that never gets done.

PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit

In this blog post, we will explain how strict memory overcommit protects your database from catastrophic OOM (out of memory) kills. We will also share how a one character kernel bug forced us to temporarily disable this setting. Finally, we will explain our heuristic for determining the right memory overcommit limit. Hopefully, this will help you find the right setting for your workloads.

Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror

Best Simple System for Now (2025)

You can have your cake and eat it, as long as you bake it carefully. ‘We can do this the quick way and pay later, or the thorough way and pay now.’ This seems to be a fundamental dichotomy in software development, between ‘perfectionism’ and ‘pragmatism’, but I do not think it has to be a trade-off at all.,You can have your cake and eat it, as long as you bake it carefully. ‘We can do this the quick way and pay later, or the thorough way and pay now.’ This seems to be a fundamental dichotomy in software development, between ‘perfectionism’ and ‘pragmatism’, but I do not think it has to be a trade-off at all.

Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own

While Valve will not be making and providing their own e-ink display for the Steam Machine, they have opened it up so anyone can now do it.

Costco is the anti-Amazon

Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug with TLA+

Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite bug with TLA+: We model the WAL race condition to reproduce the issue, verify the fix, and analyze if dqlite is vulnerable.

My dad helped build North America's oat supply chain: Can it be remade?

In the wake of headlines about the “Oat Mafia” attempting to disrupt America’s oat infrastructure, one writer shares some lessons from the recent past.

Show HN: Mcpsnoop – Wireshark for MCP (transparent proxy and live TUI)

Wireshark for MCP. A transparent proxy that shows every real tool call between your AI client and your MCP servers, live in your terminal. - kerlenton/mcpsnoop

The Fall and Rise of Screwworm

Every spring, as sure as the seasons, and for generations unknown, screwworms began their annual march northward from their overwintering sanctuaries in Mexico and South Texas.

ClawdMojis – A Clawd for Every Occasion

Pixel-art Slack emoji of Clawd 🦀 — a growing cast of animated variants, generated entirely with Python + math. PRs welcome! - afspies/ClawdMoji

60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it

cut Fable 5 token usage by rendering text context as images - teamchong/pxpipe

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

Everything I know about running LLMs locally. Contribute to jamesob/local-llm development by creating an account on GitHub.

A Cali. farmer is giving away tons of nectarines that he's not allowed to sell

A California farmer has been giving away free nectarines this week amid a legal dispute with a food market and distributing company claiming exclusive rights over the variety of white nectarine he grows.