“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers(blog.senko.net)
761 points by senko | 446 comments
Blog post by Senko Rašić arguing that the claim "code was never the hard part" amid LLM coding hype is an insult to programmers.
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Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments(mezha.net)
541 points by theanonymousone | 249 comments
News article reporting that Denmark will require high school students to orally defend their written assignments to counter AI-assisted cheating.
Fastmail offers EU data region(fastmail.com)
484 points by groomlake | 277 comments
Fastmail blog post by CEO Bron Gondwana announcing an EU data region option for storing customer email data in Europe.
My server is a phone now(seg6.space)
460 points by seg6 | 224 comments
Blog post about rooting a CMF Phone 1 and using Termux to run personal home server infrastructure on it.
_for-sale DNS records(specification.website)
417 points by shaunpud | 157 comments
A Website Spec guide page explaining the _for-sale DNS TXT record (RFC 10023) for advertising that a domain is available for purchase.
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones(deepmind.google)
397 points by bhavansig | 121 comments
Google DeepMind blog post announcing that its WeatherNext AI weather model achieves improved accuracy in forecasting tropical cyclones.
Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face(simonwillison.net)
370 points by 882542F3884314B | 360 comments
Simon Willison blog post building a timeline of OpenAI's accidental attack on Hugging Face, based on a Black Hat USA 2026 presentation video.
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded(discourse.nixos.org)
358 points by Meleagris | 182 comments
NixOS Discourse announcement that the Nixpkgs core team has disbanded, reviewing its achievements and citing unsustainability and maintainer health.
Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs(github.com)
351 points by epestr | 95 comments
GitHub repository for Project Rosenbridge by xoreaxeaxeax, documenting and demonstrating a hardware backdoor found in some x86 CPUs.
Dithered QR Codes(andrewt.net)
337 points by jmusall | 37 comments
A personal web page explaining how to make dithered QR codes that embed a picture, with a generator tool and source code.
NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year(space.com)
327 points by wglb | 72 comments
Space.com news article on how NASA made power changes so Voyager 2 can keep one of its last instruments running for another year.
We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled(shopify.engineering)
317 points by adletbalzhanov | 220 comments
Shopify Engineering blog post on replacing Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations using SKIP LOCKED, composite primary keys, and connection visibility.
LinkedIn Feed Blocker(github.com)
158 points by andrewpollack | 94 comments
To save C, we must save ABI (2022)(thephd.dev)
107 points by gurjeet | 117 comments
Picking berries is my meditation(tsoon.com)
93 points by mooreds | 73 comments
Cave of the Crystals(en.wikipedia.org)
50 points by ColinWright | 3 comments
The USSR in 100 Photographs(trinixy.ru)
42 points by decimalenough | 24 comments
![Screenshot of web.njit.edu: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/8/8/015ed2af-7163-4793-8e31-c210a856edc9.jpg)
SQRL wan't wrong, it was early(sjg.io)
18 points by simonjgreen | 4 comments
