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Best Simple System for Now

The article proposes "Best Simple System for Now" (BSSN) as a middle ground between quick-and-dirty coding and…

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

This guide provides practical recommendations for running state-of-the-art large language models locally, with hardware…

It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026)

Over four years from late 2022 to early 2025, AI capabilities in coding have progressed from generating broken code to…

Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things

The article argues that AI marketing exaggerates the technology's capabilities by focusing on visible outputs while…

Show HN: TaskPeace – a task queue my AI coding agents pull work from over MCP

TaskPeace is a task queue management system designed for AI coding agents that integrates with Claude Code, Cursor,…

Anatomy of Persistent Memory's 3 Layers: Comparing ContextNest, Mem0 and Zep

Production-grade AI agents require a three-tiered persistent memory architecture combining governed context…

Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access

# Summary Two professional red teamers successfully infiltrated a company's network by posing as new IT employees after…

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

Valve has open-sourced the e-ink display design for the Steam Machine under the MIT license, allowing anyone to build…

PostgreSQL and the OOM Killer: Why You Must Use Strict Memory Overcommit

Ubicloud's PostgreSQL team recommends using strict memory overcommit settings to protect databases from catastrophic…

Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective

Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged at a Meta town hall that the company's recent layoffs and restructuring failed to…

Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17

Google is shutting down Gemini Code Assist on GitHub on July 17.

Please Stop the AI Confidence Theater

The author critiques the cycle of AI hype and "confidence theater," where breathless headlines repeatedly predict AI…

Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions

Researchers propose Program-as-Weights (PAW), a new programming paradigm that compiles natural-language specifications…

Goodebye Forever Probably: Why I’m leaving developer relations

A developer relations professional is leaving the field after five and a half years, citing a disconnect between the…

Inside the Luddite festival harnessing Gen Z’s rage against Big Tech

New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline.

Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor

Amazon has deployed 396 Leo satellites in low-Earth orbit, reaching the threshold needed to launch continuous internet…

Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR

Walkthrough experience includes visits to stars, exoplanets, and observatories.

Wing Commander IV and the FMV future that never quite was

C:\ArsGames takes a look at the time Chris Roberts more or less made a whole movie.

Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL

A developer has created PL/CBMBASIC, a PostgreSQL extension that allows users to write database functions using…

Wordgard: The new in-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror

Wordgard is an open-source, in-browser rich-text editor library created by the developer of ProseMirror that allows…

OpenAI: Sam Altman proposes 5% stake to the US government

Sam Altman offers 5% of OpenAI to Uncle Sam, fearing the administration might crack down harder than expected.

Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

Half-Baked Product

A founder with no baking experience launches an oven startup based on a spreadsheet projection of capturing 10% of…

Alibaba to Ban Claude Code in Workplace Over Alleged Backdoor Security Risks

Alibaba will reportedly prohibit employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code in workplace settings from July 10 due to…

Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?

I'm a bit annoyed by the feeling that we're kind of stuck when it comes to using LLMs for programming.I use Claude Code…

AI agent development hasn’t accelerated as expected, Zuckerberg says

Mark Zuckerberg’s comments came on the same day that Meta expanded its Meta Business Agent globally for businesses on…

VAP Group Unveils VAP Ventures to Back 100 Startups by 2030, Marking Its Next Chapter in Building the Global Innovation Ecosystem

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | 30 June 2026: VAP Group announced the launch of VAP Ventures, its dedicated investment arm,…

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

Switzerland achieves superior internet speeds (25 Gbit) and competitive pricing by treating fiber infrastructure as a…

Every AI Visibility Tool Is Lying to You

AI visibility measurement tools claim to show brands their ranking within ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI systems, but…