How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer

A website for debloated open source alternatives

The Vibe Tax

Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware

My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

Fable and the End of the Free Lunch

My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes

What Is a Harness?

Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests

Explain it to me like I'm ten

Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG

I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day

Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?

Phoenix tried a reflective coating on black asphalt; noon surface heat fell 12°F

Etched Sohu vs. Nvidia: Transformer ASIC vs. GPU (2026)

Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed

Predicting AI model release dates with stats

I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI

The Remote Work Challenge: Lessons from 5 Cities

The End of an Athlon

AI and Infrastructure Engineering

Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider

Erik Brynjolfsson says an AI "job apocalypse" is unlikely

From Front Panel to Program: Thinking Like a PDP-8

MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust

Kodak DC50 now usable on the Apple II

To become a better writer, read as much as you can

I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes

LinkedIn Has Accidentally Become a Dating Site

I Dream of Quieter Computing

JIT Compiling Code in 5μs

Things I want in a modern relational query language

I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)

The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)

Isometric Plotter

Powerful extensions do not need powerful code

Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive

How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt

Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi

NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier

Fast and Hard Code

Risk of transmission of amyloid β pathology via transfused blood products

Show HN: Mnemosyne Local hierarchical memory engine for AI agents (MCP Native)

ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data

My Obituary for Dr Tim King, Tripos, AmigaOS, Helios and UK Online Pioneer

Vintage Computer Fair West 2026