A New Chapter for Bluesky
After several intense and incredible years building Bluesky from the ground up, I’ve decided to step back as CEO and transition to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer. In 2019, I set out to build an open protocol for social media, with the goal of enabling the development of a new generation of […]
Show HN: The Mog Programming Language
This guide requires JavaScript to display. What if an AI agent could modify itself quickly, easily, and safely? Mog is a programming language designed for exactly this. Overview Mog is a statically typed, compiled, embedded language (think statically typed Lua) designed to be written by LLMs – the full spec fits in 3200 tokens. An […]
Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse
Procedural medieval islands from 4,100 hex tiles, built with WebGPU and a lot of backtracking. Run the live demo · Source code on GitHub Every map is different. Every map is seeded and deterministic. I’ve been obsessed with procedural maps since I was a kid rolling dice on the random dungeon tables in the AD&D […]
DARPA’s new X-76 Experimental Plane
Eliminating one of the battlefield’s most difficult choices – between the high speed of an aircraft that needs a runway and the go-anywhere flexibility of a slower helicopter – is the goal of DARPA’s SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies (SPRINT) program. Announcing DARPA’s Newest X-Plane, X-76 SPRINT’s experimental aircraft, officially revealed as the X-76, is […]
Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents
Hello Hacker News! We’re Filip, Stavros, and Vivek from Terminal Use (https://www.terminaluse.com/). We built Terminal Use to make it easier to deploy agents that work in a sandboxed environment and need filesystems to do work. This includes coding agents, research agents, document processing agents, and internal tools that read and write files. Here’s a demo: […]
Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and Nvram
Repairing a dead power supply and replacing the NVRAM in a vintage UNIX workstation. If you worked in computing in the early 90s, studied computer science around then, or just had a keen interest in computers, the chances are that Sun Microsystems was a familiar name and their workstations were highly coveted. At this time […]
Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
March 9, 2026 Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month—released a new version. Version 7.0 is 48 times faster than its predecessor, supports multiple cores, and was redesigned from the ground up. Anthropic’s Claude is listed as a contributor. The […]
I’m Getting a Whiff of Iain Banks’ Culture
The US has been acting powerful recently and it reminded me of this question: What does it feel like to fight against a powerful AI? Not for normal people for whom there’s no difference between competing against a strong human or a strong AI, (you lose hard either way) but for the world’s best humans. […]
Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw
Website · Discord · Skills Store · Demo Video Demo Video · Join our Discord Server Node 22+ required. npx denchclaw Opens at localhost:3100 after completing onboarding wizard.
Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps
To house the hundreds or thousands of temporary workers needed to build an AI data center, developers are increasingly relying on temporary villages known as man camps. This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields. For example, as a Bitcoin mining facility in rural Dickens County, Texas is […]