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Bluesky's ATProto adds 'spaces,' bringing gated non-public data to a public network
Bluesky has shipped an alpha of ATProto spaces, the protocol's first mechanism for storing data that isn't broadcast to the whole network. Until now every recor
Bruce Eckel Releases 'Thinking in Python' as a Free Online Book
The page is the landing/table-of-contents for 'Thinking in Python,' a new online book by Bruce Eckel, author of the long-running 'Thinking in Java' and 'Thinkin
Hister: A self-hosted, full-content search index for pages and files you keep
Hister is an open-source (AGPLv3) search engine you run yourself, designed to index the full text of web pages you visit and local files you keep rather than ju
Moxie Marlinspike unearths a 2006 journal entry about scrapping metal in Pittsburgh
Moxie Marlinspike — the cryptographer behind Signal — posted an old journal entry, dated roughly 2006 and titled "Scrap," recounting his early days renovating a
No article content provided for RF Cafe submission
The source for this item contains no article text — only the site name "RF Cafe" and a bare link to rfcafe.com. There is nothing substantive to summarize: no re
One week living in Codex instead of Claude: faster edits, leaner code, blunter tone
A developer spent a week defaulting to OpenAI's Codex instead of Anthropic's Claude for real Ruby and Rails work, and came away with a portrait of two agents wi
Racket: The Lisp That Lets You Build Your Own Programming Language
This tutorial introduces Racket, a modern descendant of Lisp, the 1958 language that pioneered ideas now considered standard: garbage collection, first-class fu
The NetBSD email: how one admin's OS switch saved his weekends (and his marriage)
A 2005 advocacy email resurfacing on Hacker News tells the story of Gary Rolland, a UK network admin who migrated his company's mission-critical infrastructure
The Z80 at 45: Why a 1976 CPU Refuses to Die
Zilog's Z80, released in 1976, became one of the most enduring microprocessors ever made. Designed by a team under Federico Faggin — who had already led Intel's
typ.ing: a minimalist web typing trainer, not a security story
The linked page is the landing screen for typ.ing, a browser-based typing trainer built to improve speed and accuracy on a physical keyboard. Beyond the pitch a
Users Claim Anthropic Is Quietly Throttling Claude Code's 'Effort' in an A/B Test
A widely-shared post alleges that Anthropic is running a server-side experiment that compresses the 'effort' scale for Fable 5 sessions in recent builds of Clau
Your Local LLM Isn't Dumb — Your Inference Stack Is Diverging From the Lab's
The gap between a model's advertised benchmarks and how it feels on your own hardware isn't imagination — it's the inevitable result of running the same weights