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The article examines the significant impact of the Apple I, Apple's first personal computer, which sparked the digital revolution and paved the way for the company's rise as a technology leader. It explores the innovative design and influence of the Apple I in shaping the personal computing industry.

The article explores the toxic legacy of the carpet industry, detailing how the use of harmful chemicals in carpet production has led to widespread environmental contamination and adverse health effects for workers and communities. It examines the industry's efforts to conceal the issues and the ongoing struggle to address the problem.

Hey HN,

Vibe coding with AI I realized it's not great at writing tests by default. I built this React testing boilerplate to fix that. It’s meant to keep your vibe coded apps maintainable post-launch. You can ship features quickly, but with a safety net that prevents regressions from silently breaking things.

We built SWEResume based on community feedback and insights from FAANG recruiters (some of them even joined us as advisors).

Our selling point is simple: ATS/LLM parsing optimized resumes, with non-generic AI content improvements based on actual successful resumes.

We spent a long time fine-tuning our formatter to be able to generate latex styled PDFs using a simple GUI editor.

The formatting and parsing improvements are free to apply and generate as much as you want.

We only charge for the deep content analysis, which actually costs us.

Initial users have loved it so far, and would love to get some feedback from the HN community!

Use code 'jungle' for a special discount for the content analysis!

The article discusses the creation of a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) mosaic, which is an art project that generates a BSOD image from a collection of smaller images. The author, Mark Russinovich, provides a detailed explanation of the process, including the software and techniques used to create the mosaic.

The elfconv repository provides a tool for converting Elf files to a binary format, allowing for easier manipulation and analysis of Elf data. The tool supports various options, such as extracting specific sections or performing symbol resolution.

Hello!

I just released a new version of Skeletoken, a package for editing tokenizers. New in this version is the ability to automatically adapt a model to an edited tokenizer.

For example, you can a new token to your tokenizer, and then ask skeletoken to add new token indices in the correct embedding tables.

Let me know what you think!

The article explores the process of compiling software in the 1990s, focusing on the technical challenges and limitations of that era, and highlighting the advancements in modern compilation techniques compared to the older approaches.

This article discusses the importance of backlinks in search engine optimization, highlighting strategies for building high-quality backlink profiles to improve website visibility and rankings in search engine results.

I built fylepad because I needed a dead-simple, local notepad that handles Markdown and tabs without the bloat of a full IDE or a browser-based app.

Why use this?

Instant: Built with Rust/Tauri, so it’s light on RAM. No Cloud: Just a local tool for quick notes (with tables, code blocks etc) and diagrams (Mermaid/PlantUML).

Tabs: I hate having 20 windows open; this keeps my scratchpads in one place.

I'm curious—what's the one feature you feel is missing from your current "quick note" workflow?

The article examines the potential impact of AI tools, such as Anthropic's Vibe, on software development and the software stock market. It explores how these AI tools could disrupt the programming industry and influence the performance of software companies.

The article discusses the potential for AI to be a reasonable and beneficial technology, highlighting the need for responsible development and thoughtful regulation to mitigate risks while harnessing the transformative power of AI.

The article discusses the rising cost of living and its impact on households in the UK. It examines how inflation, energy bills, and other expenses are causing financial strain for many individuals and families, leading to concerns about the long-term economic consequences.

The article explores the philosophy of making only what is beautiful, arguing that the creation of unnecessary or ugly things is a moral and aesthetic failure. It delves into the importance of craftsmanship, simplicity, and the pursuit of beauty in design and everyday objects.

The article discusses strategies for increasing the number of pull requests (PRs) a developer can create in a day, focusing on improving code efficiency, collaboration, and project management techniques. It provides practical tips and advice to help developers boost their PR output and become more productive.

Deploy containers from git repos on your own server. New version has a panel-based TUI with tree navigation. Written in Go, runs on Docker + SQLite.

The World Factbook is a comprehensive resource published by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

The article explores the concept of 'self-driving codebases', which refers to software systems that can adapt and evolve autonomously. It discusses the challenges and potential benefits of creating codebase that can self-monitor, self-repair, and self-improve without constant human intervention.

The article discusses how poorly designed flush door handles in China have led to numerous injuries and deaths, prompting the Chinese government to ban their use. It highlights the importance of prioritizing user safety and ergonomic design in product development.

We kept hitting a wall: our Cursor-based AI dev setup was strong on tools but the intention layer—the "why" and values—stayed implicit. So we made it explicit and baked it into the system.

Cursor Agent Factory is a meta-system that generates full AI agent development setups for different stacks. It's built on an axiom layer (we use "love, truth, beauty" as the root) and a 5-layer architecture: Integrity → Purpose → Principles → Methodology → Technical. Every generated project gets agents, skills, knowledge files, templates, and a .cursorrules that includes a Guardian protocol (Wu Wei–style: minimal intervention for alignment). Technical choices are derived from the layers above, not the other way around.

Quickstart (5 min):

  python cli/factory_cli.py --quickstart

The article discusses how various Unix operations, such as file system modifications, environment variable changes, and process management, can be performed in an atomic and transactional manner, ensuring that the operations are either fully completed or rolled back, providing consistency and reliability.

As of last weekend, two of the webapps I'm working on suffered from bad caching. One had none at all, and one had stale caching logic, which was worse than none at all.

My idea was to create adaptive caching, which gives LLMs the fastest and cleanest path possible from cache to code so that they could continuously optimize cache. I have a caching subagent now that makes 2-3 PRs a day to make small cache optimizations and, in both projects, I see a hit rate of over 95%.

The name t87s is a numeronym for the oft-cited Phil Karlton quote, with a self-inflicted off-by-one error :)

The core of the idea is to decouple invalidations and cache keys by using message passing. This makes invalidation O(1) regardless of how many entries are affected.

This has a known race condition (invalidation fires between fetch and cache write, entry looks fresh forever), which the cloud adapter solves with Cloudflare Durable Objects -- a single-threaded coordinator per tenant that serializes tag reads/writes.

Entries live in KV for fast global reads and consistency is enforced through the DO. The downside is slightly slower reads, but you get atomic transactions that are usually prohibitive in caching systems & that prevent stale data in the cache plumbing itself.

10% of cache hits are silently re-fetched and compared (a verification canary). Every operation -- hits, misses, invalidations, verifications, "blast radius" as Opus likes to call it (I've started saying this IRL and talking like an LLM...) -- is logged to SQLite in the Analytics DO, queryable via raw SQL through an API endpoint. That's what my subagent uses. It queries miss rates, stale-verification frequency, and invalidation behavior, then traces problems back to the tag schema in the codebase and opens PRs.

There are TS and Python clients that are free to use with Redis and perform well. The adaptive caching is paid with a free tier. Cache long and prosper :)

This article discusses the importance of open-source software in the modern digital age. It examines the benefits of open-source, such as increased transparency, collaboration, and innovation, and how it has become an integral part of the technology industry and broader society.

The article discusses the development of an open-source web browser called UnBrowse OpenClaw, which aims to provide a secure and privacy-focused browsing experience by leveraging the Rust programming language and novel browser architecture.

The article explores the rise of an influential pop artist named Nik, known for their unique blend of electronic and pop music. It discusses Nik's innovative approach to songwriting, their impact on the music industry, and the broader cultural significance of their work.