I don’t enjoy the Internet any more
I grew up on the Internet. I spent a significant proportion of my childhood, and later my adult life, on message boards, blogs, social networks, chatrooms, and other online communities. I made friends, found jobs, and was exposed to so many new concepts thanks to the Internet. Many of my core beliefs were sharpened by […]
The Benchmarkpocalypse
The benchmarkpocalypse The benchmarkpocalypse | Patreon There’s been a lot of talk about the vulnpocalypse, to which I don’t have much to add because I’m not a security person, but I haven’t seen much discussion on the closely related (and to be fair, less serious, issue), the benchmarkpocalypse. While it’s become easier than ever to […]
Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?
New software releases? Who cares. Learning new CS concepts? Whatever. Studying for the next interview? Job probably won’t even exist in a year. Working on that side project? No one will care because it’s just another addition to the mountain of slop, and the guy bagging your groceries can do it. Everything is done and […]
Cursor Origin
Origin is currently released in early beta. You can create repos, push and pull with git, mirror from GitHub, browse and search code, open and merge pull requests, and share with your Cursor team. Please submit any and all feedback to [email protected] to help us make the product better.
Un-AI Your Internet
In this section you’ll be dropping chrome like the absolute shitshow that it’s become, and picking up a different browser. If you’ve already been using chrome for a while, this might come with some small learning curve, but probably not. Nearly every modern browser will happily import your bookmarks and saved passwords from any other […]
Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
Sometimes I take a screenshot of a post I like, either to send it to friends/meme channel or to save a “durable” copy. Like this one (I’ve cropped out the rest of the interface): Original, if you want to reskeet it I noticed the Bluesky logo in the right corner and thought that it was […]
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full Aug 17, 2026 Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full In the mid-90s the coolest thing to buy for a PC, besides the incredibly expensive Intel Pentium, was a CD-ROM drive. With their capacity of 640 MiB (three times the storage of PC HDD […]
Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
Today i bring the working main camera! Building on the work nondescriptpointer did on the wide lens camera i have written the driver for the main camera and now its working alongside auto focus and color correction. The color correction still a work in progress, but you can already see how much it improved the […]
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Exacto (highest tool-calling accuracy). The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually […]
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
At a glance, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy looks like a new think tank dedicated to Israel/Palestine. The organization churns out think-tank style reports on questions such as “Does AIPAC Use ‘Dark Money in Elections?” and “Is Israel Carrying out a Deliberate Campaign of Starvation in Gaza?” But the Hanover Institute is not a […]