Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects
Pebble queue is eventually consistent; crow is immediately thirsty Funded · ready syrinxian/pitcher · issue #19 1Funded 2Plan 3Code & CI 4Review 5Merged Reserved $5.00 Spent so far $0.00 Funding pool · live 1 backer · $5.00 pooled Plan 1 of ≤3 · awaiting your approval +# Delete the pebblebus distributed queue +Call pitcher.Drop synchronously, in order, […]
JSON-LD Explained for Personal Websites
JSON-LD, also known as JSON Linked Data, is a format for adding structured data to webpages. It can aid web crawlers in understanding the semantic structure of your site, qualifying you for richer link previews, and even potentially improving your search ranking. It’s been 4 months since my first post where I described building this […]
Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers, uncles, anyone in that role!
My shortened story: due to factors in Soviet controlled Poland, my uncle played my dad role. He took me to a quarry to fire Estes-style rocket cars, and all that.. he also managed to steal a Milicja (military police) siren from work, and put it on the back of my banana style bike. As an […]
Wildcard (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Applied ML Engineer
About Wildcard Wildcard is the agentic commerce optimization platform for ecommerce and retail brands. We help brands understand, improve, and monetize how their products show up across AI shopping agents. We’re building the mission control for agentic commerce: visibility (AEO & GEO), recommendations, execution, attribution, and automation in one platform. As shopping shifts from traditional […]
Burnout Is Real in the OSS World, Says John-David Dalton, Creator of Lodash
For more than a decade, Lodash has been one of the most widely used libraries in the JavaScript ecosystem. Its utilities appear in countless projects, often quietly working behind the scenes, and today has over 100 million npm downloads each day. But like many critical open source tools, Lodash began as the work of a […]
The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software
Last week I wrote about leaving Stainless and my intention to work on building my side project River into a small, sustainable business. When I sent that letter, a few people asked about my thought process in trying to run a software company in the age of AI: “Are you crazy?! Anything you ship can […]
(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python))
(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python)) This page has two purposes: to describe how to implement computer language interpreters in general, and in particular to build an interpreter for most of the Scheme dialect of Lisp using Python 3 as the implementation language. I call my language and interpreter Lispy (lis.py). Years ago, […]
Who Owns Your ATProto Identity? Hint: It’s Probably Not You
After writing my previous article about Bluesky’s centralization risks, I got into the weeds on how the PDS (Personal Data Server) works. The more I looked at it, the worse it got. I was originally worried about Bluesky going rogue and deleting accounts or locking people in. It’s actually the least scary thing your PDS […]
Identity verification on Claude
Being responsible with powerful technology starts with knowing who is using it. Identity verification helps us prevent abuse, enforce our usage policies, and comply with legal obligations. We are rolling out identity verification for a few use cases, and you might see a verification prompt when accessing certain capabilities, as part of our routine platform […]
David Ahl’s Basic Computer Games Ported to C
These haven’t been tested, validated, debugged, or verified! Use at your own risk: Yes, I used Google Anti-Gravity to convert the programs from GW-BASIC to ’C’, but what a better learning tool than to debug a program? This repository contains a ’C’ port of the classic GW-BASIC games from David Ahl’s ”BASIC Computer Games” and […]