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'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey

https://gist.github.com/svieira/619d60dea942a8d4498cba3bb6b1... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060269 Points: 171 # Comments: 80
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Making big downloads resumable in Firefox

Article URL: https://lunarwatcher.codeberg.page/til/firefox/resumable-big-downloads.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061791 Points: 61 # Comments: 16
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Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum

Article URL: https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/zx-spectrum-intro Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061859 Points: 64 # Comments: 6
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Who Is Vfmaddrnd231pd?

Article URL: https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/who-is-vfmaddrnd231pd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063138 Points: 83 # Comments: 2
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Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X

Article URL: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/d-series.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063365 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
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Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch

Article URL: https://phreak.ing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063417 Points: 43 # Comments: 12
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AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

Article URL: https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063427 Points: 178 # Comments: 165
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Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34

Article URL: https://news.sky.com/story/breaking-bad-star-rj-mitte-dies-aged-34-13598332 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063831 Points: 81 # Comments: 23
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GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle

Article URL: https://nirajrajgor.com/blog/kindle-photo-frame-with-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064318 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
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Elon Musk has donated over $276 million to Republican midterm efforts

Elon Musk has handed out at least $276 million to Republican groups since July, The New York Times reports, making him both the party's top known donor and the biggest established midterm donor. $158 million of that money - one of the largest political donations in American history - has been funneled into the Senate […]
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Meta has some Wonder Full new AI models

Meta is making up for lost time in the AI race. After launching Muse Spark, the first model from its revamped Superintelligence Labs division, and buzzy AI agent Muse, it's now launching two new models it claims can go toe-to-toe with the industry's best. The new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, are available […]
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Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder

Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex tasks like coding.
A QA checklist for editing, enhancing and publishing a technical podcast
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A QA checklist for editing, enhancing and publishing a technical podcast

Disclosure: I’m the founder of Hilite. These are practical checks you can use with your existing editor; Hilite demonstrations are linked where useful. Technical conversations need careful editing because small cuts can change the meaning of an explanation. Before publishing an interview or developer podcast, review the content and the audio separately. Preserve the source Keep the original recording separate from your working edit. That gives you a reference when a cut sounds...
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Keep Command Drafts Inside Flags the Binary Actually Printed

Command reference pages stay accurate when a human freezes captured help before any model writes surrounding prose. The frozen snapshot should own every flag, default, and exit phrase that a reader might copy into a shell. A model may draft sequencing advice, failure context, and cross-links that sit beside that signed snapshot. A local check should reject any draft that names a flag the captured help never printed. Where command pages drift Help text and narrative pages diverge ...
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Zero-Downtime Database Migrations for High-Traffic Checkout Services

Your checkout service can survive a bad deploy. It cannot survive a bad migration. A migration that locks the orders table for thirty seconds during a lunch rush is an incident, not a maintenance window — and for digital storefronts selling game codes, gift cards, and mobile top-ups around the clock, there is no such thing as a quiet hour to run one. I work on backend systems behind high-volume digital delivery, including online marketplaces for digital goods like Kadokey , where a single ba...
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FAQ: A Free Shell Cannot Borrow Your Runner Tag

I keep hearing one claim in GitLab review threads. A free server cloned the repo, so it counts as a runner. Is a shell with git really a runner? I do not think that claim holds up. A runner is a process GitLab already knows. It has an id, tags, and a job history. A side shell has a checkout and a prompt. Those two objects are not the same thing. Why this FAQ exists I am not posting a speed benchmark here. I am not naming a chip, a quota, or a timer. I want a corrected m...
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OpenAPI to WebMCP in One Command

🚀 Introducing openapi-to-webmcp I built openapi-to-webmcp , an open-source tool to generate WebMCP browser tools from OpenAPI specifications. 📄 Supports JSON and YAML specifications ⚡ JavaScript by default, with TypeScript support 🌐 Browser ES module available via CDN 🛠️ CLI and programmatic API Quick start npx openapi-to-webmcp openapi.yaml The package also provides a browser entry point for generating WebMCP modules from a normalized API objec...
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WebSockets vs SSE vs Long Polling: WebSockets Won. Use SSE Anyway

In the most careful WebSockets vs SSE vs long polling benchmark I've found this year, WebSockets won. A raw WebSocket put 119,692 bytes on the wire for 1,000 events, where SSE needed 131,596. On a Node server, each idle WebSocket held about 13 KB of memory and each SSE connection about 23 KB. I'd still pick SSE (server-sent events) for most of the real-time features I see people build with Socket.IO. The numbers are below, along with why I don't think they change the answer and the nginx and ...