Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

In the US, you can get a domain name like `somename.city.state.us` for free. If your town has its own domain, you can get nameservers from Amazon Lightsail, send the *Interim .US Domain Template* to the delegated manager for your locality, then point DNS entries at your webhost.

S-100 Virtual Workbench

The Emacsification of Software

Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book

The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization

Energy matters for AI, but the decisive layers are cloud infrastructure, data, and commercialization. On those layers the United States is ahead by a wide margin.

In-person examinations at Princeton will be proctored starting July 1

The faculty voted Monday to require universal proctoring for all in-person examinations in response to mounting concerns over AI-assisted cheating and declining student reporting of Honor Code violations. The policy, which takes effect July 1, preserves the student-run Honor Committee system while requiring instructors to serve as witnesses.

Intercom changes name to Fin

We're changing the name of our company to Fin. Intercom will live on as our customer service software platform, but Fin is our future.

A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools

A nostalgic and slightly sardonic look at the tools, IRC channels, and cultural chaos that defined the late 1990s and early 2000s hacker scene.,A nostalgic and slightly sardonic look at the tools, IRC channels, and cultural chaos that defined the late 1990s and early 2000s hacker scene.

Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration

Create copies of any Postgres database in under 6 seconds. Let coding agents test, clean, and migrate data on isolated branches with zero risk to production.

Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15

Python 3.14 shipped with a new incremental garbage collector. However, we’ve had a number of reports of significant memory pressure in production environments. We’ve decided to revert it in both 3.14 and 3.15, and go ba…

A History of IDEs at Google

Laurent Le Brun's blog

New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater

A team at the University of Hong Kong has developed a new “super steel” that can survive the harsh conditions needed to make green hydrogen from seawater. The material uses an unexpected double-protection mechanism that resists corrosion far better than conventional stainless steel. Even more impressive, it could replace costly titanium parts used in today’s hydrogen systems.

Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired

A case study in why credentials are revoked before firings.

Marco Polo: Finding a friend with only distance and motion

Finding a friend with only distance and motion.

MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

A18 Pro processor in the $599 MacBook Neo. Geekbench 6 scores 3,569 single-core, between M3 and M4. Full CPU benchmarks, power draw, and thermal analysis.

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

As time goes on, fewer games than ever are unplayable on Linux

How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?

Office Hours question asked by by Ian H. on May 1, 2026 Q: Memory prices could move from 15% to 40% of the BOM of a device. This seems incredible. So how can Apple deal with this? This has been on people's minds now for what, three, four months? I think since January. I call…

Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea

There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medication. ACCESS creates that mechanism for the first time.

Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC

Roguelike that names itself each run. WIP. Contribute to nooga/xsofy development by creating an account on GitHub.