AI is not burying the software engineer. It is removing layers of accidental complexity and giving us a much larger canvas.

An interactive, illustrated timeline of historic moments
in humankind's quest for information. With annotations by Jeremy Norman.

Few will mourn the passing of Copilot+.

How I'm using Claude in fall 2026: Blender, CGI, and music composition, without running code on my computer or opening a single Claude Code thread myself.

Behavioral differences from Claude Opus 5 and the prompting and harness patterns that address them: effort calibration, thinking behavior in API integrations and chat, progress updates, unattended and multiagent tasks, safeguard refusals, frontend design…

The latest surge in fossil-fuel prices means it is now up to nine times cheaper in the UK to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than a petrol or diesel car, shows Carbon Brief analysis.

A free, open source, end-to-end encrypted Discord alternative: servers, channels, voice, and moderation, with no company in the middle. Now in open beta.

Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC. Run your own instance for your domain; talk to anyone as user@domain from irssi or any IRC client.

Liftoff is scheduled for Monday (Sept. 28) at 8:15 a.m. EDT (1215 GMT).

Why being smart isn't always a good thing.

In the midst of growing fears that artificial intelligence is advancing at such a rate that it may compel itself to end all life on earth, AI giants from OpenAI to Anthropic are switching up their …

Every border anyone has drawn playing Borderline, on an empty map. The only line nobody drew is the coastline.

browse hackernews like a hacker. Contribute to ahmd-sh/hntui development by creating an account on GitHub.

In 51,129 comments from six knife subreddits, the 5% most brand-heavy accounts wrote 11.3% of the brand mentions in buying threads, against 7.9% expected by chance. For one brand it is 31% against 8%. The full Reddit histories of those accounts are 4.5 years…

Tell me you don’t understand software without literally using those words!!!

E-paper shopping list for the M5Stack PaperMono, with a FastAPI server and phone web UI - seamusc/papermono-shopping-list

Dr. Martin argues that violence against educators has become dangerously normalized, with society and school systems increasingly treating physical and verbal abuse as an expected part of teaching rather than an urgent workplace safety crisis.

The Israeli military has built new outposts and slowly encroached beyond the withdrawal line in Gaza. These are signs its troops may be preparing to stay for the time being.

The personal website of Ben Overmyer

I've been using Brave for a couple months now after using Firefox for around 25 years. I think Brave will be a permanent change.