The United States needs fewer bus stops - Works in Progress Magazine
Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective. It can turn a service people tolerate into one they’re happy to use.
Falsehoods programmers believe about time
Over the past couple of years [I have spent a lot of time][checklist] debugging other engineers' test code. This was interesting work, occasionally frustrating but always informative. One might not...
Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid
Coal makes a bit of a comeback, if only by accident.
I’ve had this sense that HN has gotten absolutely innundated with bots last few months. First most obvious giveaway is the frequency with which you see accounts posting brilliant insights like 13 60 well and t6ctctfuvuh7hguhuig8h88gd to f6gug7h8j8h6fzbuvubt GB…
Fake Job Interviews Are Installing Backdoors on Developer Machines
Microsoft found attackers weaponizing Next.js “technical assessments” that trigger C2 the moment you open the project in VS Code. Three execution paths, same backdoor.
I’ve been a .com purist for over two decades of building. Once, I broke that rule and bought a .online TLD for a small project. This is the story of how it went up in flames.
AI "Vibe Coding" Threatens Open Source as Maintainers Face Crisis
Daniel Stenberg shut down cURL's bug bounty after AI submissions hit 20%. Mitchell Hashimoto banned AI code from Ghostty. Steve Ruiz closed all external PRs to tldraw. Economic research shows "vibe coding" weakens the user engagement that sustains open source.…
When access to knowledge is no longer the limitation
Let's do this thought experiment together. I have a little box. I'll place the box on the table. Now I'll open the little box and put all the arguments against large language models in it. I'll put al
A terminal-based coding agent
I Contain Multitudes
The Agentic Coding Simul
Inspite of all the hype around personal assistants, personal agency still feels far from reality. It feels like we are the ones grinding for the agents today - constantly reviewing plans, uploading context and providing agents access to tools.
Agents are not thinking, they are searching
Prologue
KeePass has long been the gold standard and darling of the tech world due to its unrelenting commitment to security, stability, and data sovereignty. However, the XML format which the KDBX file format has been predicated on since 2007 has become a persistent f…
Lime's billing model is encouraging cyclists to run red lights
Per-minute billing on rental bikes may be the worst incentive for good behaviour.
Stop Writing if in Bash
We Solved Execution. Now What?
AI solved execution. The bottleneck now is purpose.
"SaaS is Dead" - they say - Dmitry Kudryavtsev
SaaS is Dead. Everywhere you look -- be it HackerNews, Reddit, or LinkedIn -- they claim that SaaS is dead. Armed with a laptop and $100 Claude Code subscripti...
Since childhood, I was captivated with sciences. The interest was fueled by a trove of children’s encyclopedias my parents got for me, and for a few years, the primary kind of present I got was books full of illustrations about space, animals, technology, the …
The Rise of Agent-to-Agent Apps
SaaS won't die—it'll transform into data providers for AI agents. Learn why Agent-Native apps and Agent-to-Agent marketplaces are the next app ecosystem.
No Good Engineer is Arrogant | Agilitza Blog
Why humility isn't just a nice trait for engineers—it's a requirement. If you think you've mastered engineering, you're not doing anything challenging.
I freaking love the new tools I built for myself
Building with Claude is a real joy and empowerment.
09 February 2026
Row Locks With Joins Can Produce Surprising Results in PostgreSQL
The strange edge case that triggered our assertions
It's not about what a company does, but how it affects your token budget
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Hydrogen fuel cell trucks exist. They work. The problem is everything around them: production efficiency, infrastructure economics, and a competitor called 'the grid' that's already everywhere.
What if iteration is all we need?
What if every ceremony in software development was a workaround for expensive human iteration? What happens when juniors learn architecture on day one and spec-driven development turns out to be waterfall in disguise? Are we in the best restaurant in the world…
Let Developers Cook
The case for extremely early prototyping in the age of AI
Agents can do things pretty good, actually!
SaaS is (ought to be) dead
Replacing SaaS subscriptions with an hour of agentic coding
How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
One engineer used AI to rebuild Next.js on Vite in a week. vinext builds up to 4x faster, produces 57% smaller bundles, and deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command.