If you're remote, ramble(stephango.com)
890 points by lawgimenez | 423 comments
Steph Ango's short blog post recommending small remote teams create personal "ramblings" channels in their chat app for informal updates and social cohesion.
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Modern Node.js Patterns(kashw1n.com)
795 points by eustoria | 379 comments
Blog post titled "Modern Node.js Patterns for 2025" covering current Node.js practices such as ES modules, web-standard APIs, and streams.
Writing a good design document(grantslatton.com)
509 points by kiyanwang | 130 comments
An essay by Grant Slatton giving advice on how to write a good software design document, prompted by a question from a friend on Twitter.
Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models(anthropic.com)
390 points by itchyjunk | 128 comments
Anthropic research post introducing persona vectors, a method for monitoring and controlling character traits in language models, with a link to the paper.
So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)
369 points by UglyToad | 199 comments
Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.
Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest(ioccc.org)
351 points by mdl_principle | 100 comments
Index page for the 2024 (28th) International Obfuscated C Code Contest, linking to the winning entries.
Tokens are getting more expensive(ethanding.substack.com)
341 points by admp | 230 comments
Substack essay by Ethan Ding arguing that AI token usage costs are rising and cheaper models won't save consumer AI subscription margins, citing Claude Code and Windsurf.
Automerge 3.0(automerge.org)
327 points by surprisetalk | 29 comments
Blog post announcing Automerge 3.0, a local-first data sync engine release that cuts memory usage by over 10x and cleans up text APIs.
UN report finds UN reports are not widely read(reuters.com)
326 points by anjneymidha | 122 comments
Reuters article on a United Nations report finding that the UN's own reports are not widely read.
Italy's pizza detectives(bbc.com)
44 points by pseudolus | 56 comments
Learnable Programming (2012)(worrydream.com)
42 points by kunzhi | 7 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: The US Relies on 51 Forty-five-year-old ships to Transport its Military Overseas [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/8/3/a7c63bd2-c831-4d0d-8ee2-14bced611a5b.jpg)
How to Leave Substack(leavesubstack.com)
21 points by thecosas | 0 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Parsing without ASTs and Optimizing with Sea of Nodes [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/8/3/dec11719-f9df-42a0-b141-0b1a696dfc7b.jpg)
