Gauntlet AI (YC S17): Fly you to Austin, train you in AI, give you $200k+ job
The Problem Your job won’t make you AI-first. Nothing will — unless you force it. You’re already reading the papers, experimenting between meetings, pushing yourself to stay ahead. That energy is real — but scattered effort won’t close the gap. You need a forcing function to go from curious to dangerous. Gauntlet exists because the […]
Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities
Hey HN! We’re Hayden, Ronan, Avi, and Warren of Voltair (https://voltairlabs.com/). We’re making weatherized, hybrid-fixed drones deployed for power utility inspections. Here’s some footage: https://vimeo.com/1173862237/ac28095cc6?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=… and a photo of our latest prototype: https://imgur.com/a/bYHnqZ4. The U.S. has 7M miles of power lines (enough to go to the moon and back 14 times), and they’re aging. Over […]
Launch HN: Canary (YC W26) – AI QA that understands your code
Hey HN! We’re Aakash and Viswesh, and we’re building Canary (https://www.runcanary.ai). We build AI agents that read your codebase, figure out what a pull request actually changed, and generate and execute tests for every affected user workflow. Aakash and I previously built AI coding tools at Windsurf, Cognition, and Google. AI tools were making every […]
Prompt Injecting Contributing.md
I maintain awesome-mcp-servers, one of the most popular GitHub repositories. Over the last 12 months, I’ve manually reviewed and closed over 2,000 pull requests. It’s always been a lot of work, but rewarding – it aligns with my interests, and the repository serves as a genuine resource for the community. Something changed earlier this year. […]
macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal
Ah, the joys of waking up to find the Mac’s done an overnight upgrade… and erm, suddenly things stop working. Thankfully, me and Claude managed to work out what the fuck is going on… I’m sharing here, as well as having raised in on https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/22280434 (that seems to need a login?). # Bug Report: macOS […]
The Shape of Inequalities
… beneath a 🌘 Waning Crescent …symmetry isn’t just a preference for “pretty” shapes. Contents While I was randomly browsing the web, I came across this nice picture: Roland H. Eddy, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, 1985 And it tickled my imagination a little, just enough to write this short post. After writing my previous […]
Consensus Board Game
I have an early adulthood trauma from struggling to understand consensus amidst a myriad of poor explanations. I am overcompensating for that by adding my own attempts to the fray. Today, I want to draw a series of pictures which could be helpful. You can see this post as a set of missing illustrations for […]
OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier
Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2026-03-19 from the queueing for Terabitia dept. OpenBSD’s PF packet filter has long supported HFSC traffic shaping with the queue rules in pf.conf(5). However, an internal 32-bit limitation in the HFSC service curve structure (struct hfsc_sc) meant that bandwidth values were silently capped at approximately 4.29 Gbps, ” […]
Astral to Join OpenAI
I started Astral to make programming more productive. From the beginning, our goal has been to build tools that radically change what it feels like to work with Python – tools that feel fast, robust, intuitive, and integrated. Today, we’re taking a step forward in that mission by announcing that we’ve entered into an agreement […]
Juggalo Makeup Blocks Facial Recognition Technology (2019)
Last year, Ticketmaster and LiveNation invested in a former military facial recognition company, with the hope that the technology could be used to both strengthen and speed up event entry. If that prospect thoroughly creeps you out, here’s a simple life-hack to defeat Big Brother: become a Juggalo. In a revelation that is sure to freak […]