Why we built Lightpanda in Zig
Because We’re Not Smart Enough for C++ or Rust Francis Bouvier Cofounder & CEO Friday, December 5, 2025 TL;DR To be honest, when I began working on Lightpanda, I chose Zig because I’m not smart enough to build a big project in C++ or Rust. I like simple languages. I like Zig for the same […]
The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out
On OpenAI’s new social app, Sora 2, a popular video shows a disturbingly lifelike Sam Altman sprinting out of a Target store with stolen computer chips, begging police not to take his “precious technology.” The clip is absurdist, a parody of the company’s own CEO, but it also speaks to a larger conversation playing out […]
Onlook (YC W25) the Cursor for Designers Is Hiring a Founding Fullstack Engineer
Hey HN! I’m Daniel, building Onlook, the Cursor for Designers. We built an open-source collaborative canvas for code that lets designers and developers craft incredible web experiences together. Since launching, Onlook hit #1 on Hacker News, was the #1 trending repo on GitHub—above DeepSeek + Anthropic—and has earned over 23,000 GitHub stars. We’re looking to […]
Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation
Synadia and TigerBeetle have together pledged $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation over the next two years in support of the language, leadership, and communities building the future of simpler systems software. I first saw Zig in 2018, seven years ago. Two years later, I chose Zig over C or Rust for TigerBeetle. In 2020, […]
Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust
I have a hobby. Whenever I see the comment // this should never happen in code, I try to find out the exact conditions under which it could happen. And in 90% of cases, I find a way to do just that. More often than not, the developer just hasn’t considered all edge cases or […]
Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
1. Document understanding Real-world documents are messy, unstructured, and difficult to parse — often filled with interleaved images, illegible handwritten text, nested tables, complex mathematical notation and non-linear layouts. Gemini 3 Pro represents a major leap forward in this domain, excelling across the entire document processing pipeline — from highly accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) […]
I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Could you please help with any insights about the social media vetting rules? This has been a blackbox to the visa applications – started with student visas, now being forced on work visas too from Dec 15th. That’s right, both before US Consulates when applying for visas, before CBP when applying for admission, and before […]
Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit
Additionally, there’s an ARM Immortalis-G720 GPU with ten cores and an AI accelerator with a performance of 30 TOPS. This chipset is likely slower than the Snapdragon X Elite or a current flagship smartphone chip, but it should still provide enough performance for many everyday tasks. Either way, this mainboard upgrade might only be interesting […]
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
On December 5, 2025, at 08:47 UTC (all times in this blog are UTC), a portion of Cloudflare’s network began experiencing significant failures. The incident was resolved at 09:12 (~25 minutes total impact), when all services were fully restored. A subset of customers were impacted, accounting for approximately 28% of all HTTP traffic served by […]
Jolla Phone Pre-Order
The initial sales markets are EU, UK, Switzerland and Norway. Entering other markets, such as the U.S. and Canada are to be decided due course based on potential interest from the areas. We will design the cellular band configuration to enable potential future markets, including major U.S. carrier networks.