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Why hobby coders reject LLMs: the craft is the point, not the output
Prompted by a chess-engine GitHub thread, Fogus argues that niche hobby programming scenes — OSDev, LangDev, EmuDev, RLDev, code golf, the demoscene — increasin
Wisconsin cops used Flock plate readers to build a pretext for a weed search
Sheriff's deputies in Wisconsin leaned on Flock's automated license-plate reader network to reconstruct Edward Abrams-Phillips' movements, noting that his car r
Zed's DeltaDB rethinks version control for AI-agent workflows
Zed has opened early access to DeltaDB, a version control system built around the premise that meaningful software history happens between commits, not just at
AI Images on Indie Blogs Signal AI Text, and Readers Bounce
An indie blogger argues that AI-generated header images have become a red flag rather than a decoration. When a personal blog leads with an obviously synthetic
Apple escalates OpenAI trade-secrets suit, eyes 11 more former staff
Apple has widened its trade-secrets case against OpenAI, filing for a preliminary injunction that would block OpenAI from building an AI device or other product
Bradbury's Automated House Outlives Its Owners on the Date He Set: August 2026
Ray Bradbury's 1950 short story, widely known from The Martian Chronicles, is circulating on Hacker News because the date stamped in its opening lines — August
City of Munich pays libexpat maintainer for a 6-month security sprint
Sebastian Pipping, the longtime maintainer of libexpat—one of the most widely deployed C XML parsers alongside libxml2—has landed a paid contract to work on the
Clojure gets DuckDB: joining 1.4B rows on a laptop in 2.5 seconds
The tech.ml.dataset (TMD) library gives Clojure an in-memory, column-major engine for functional data science, but it hits a wall once datasets outgrow RAM — th
Databricks and Shopify tests back Pi's bet that a leaner coding agent wins
Earendil argues that its coding harness Pi beats heavier rivals by doing less: it ships with only four tools and a system prompt plus tool definitions totaling
DeepGrove's Maple-Preview: a ternary 20B MoE that runs on-device at 200+ tok/s
DeepGrove has released Maple-Preview, an open-source reasoning language model built around two aggressive efficiency bets: a sparse mixture-of-experts design an
GenAI's Coding Boost Hits a Wall: Devs Only Write Code 14% of the Time
Six researchers—including several from Microsoft—argue that generative AI's real effect on software engineering is governed by the system around the developer,
Google AI Heavyweights Form Discovery Loop to Automate the Scientific Method
Discovery Loop is a new startup that aims to automate the full experimental loop of science and engineering — proposing hypotheses, running experiments, evaluat