Building on ATProto
Posted 7/20/26 Bluesky’s Atmosphere Protocol has the chance to become the base for a whole generation of applications. But it’s developing in surprising and disappointing ways. I spent part of last week at the Local First Conference in Berlin. I was not surprised to find that AI coding was on everyone’s minds. Less expected was […]
A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements
Rare earth elements like lanthanum, neodymium, and dysprosium are used to build the electric motor in your car, the LED lights in your house, and the MRI machine at your doctor’s office. But first, they have to be mined and separated from each other. Historically, that purification has been a difficult, costly, process, relying on […]
What happened to TheNumbers.com
If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not. Its hand-researched data is the highest quality, tracking box office grosses, budgets, home video and streaming across more than 78,000 films and 236,000 people. It […]
The arguments against open source AI are bad
The release of Kimi K3 has opened a fresh round of angst and confused discourse. There’s a loud cohort of journalists, business leaders, and politicians arguing that open source AI is a dangerous threat. OpenAI’s Dean Ball: One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism… rather than a market product, AI is […]
Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Power your agents by your 24/7 screen recording
Hi Hacker News, I’m Louis. I built Screenpipe (https://screenpipe.com), an app that records your screen and audio locally (only!), and gives AI agents a searchable memory of what you’ve seen, said, and heard. This makes it easier to automate your repetitive tasks, turn them into SOPs (Standard Operating Procedure) and so on. I made a […]
JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)
Summary Define a simple, standard API for parsing and generating JSON documents so that doing so does not require an external library. Enable many JSON processing tasks to be accomplished with little coding. This is an incubating API. History This JEP supersedes JEP 198, Light-Weight JSON API, which was written in 2014. Circumstances have changed […]
Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
or: harness engineering is not enough Note I run a company (HumanLayer) building tools in the human/agent collaboration space, so what I’m gonna say below may be a tad biased. Perhaps in spite of that, I hope you find the subject helpful or at the very least that you find it as interesting as I […]
Cross-entropy comparison of LLM responses reveals Kimi’s similarity to Claude
Which LLM models write alike? A heat map built from their words alone. — format: typebulb/v1 name: ”You’re relatively right!” — **code.tsx** ”`tsx import React, { useEffect, useMemo, useState } from ”react”; import { createRoot } from ”react-dom/client”; import { encode } from ”gpt-tokenizer/encoding/cl100k_base”; // ── Types ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── type RawResult = { testId: string; testName: […]
Learn WebGPU for C++
No, I’d rather skip the initial boilerplate. This perfectly makes sense, you can always come back to the basic steps later. You probably want to check out the Resulting code link at the beginning and end of each page, e.g.: Are you ok with using a shallow wrapper for easier reading? Yes, I prefer C++ […]
Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL
Welcome to the online book for learning OpenGL! Whether you are trying to learn OpenGL for academic purposes, to pursue a career or simply looking for a hobby, this book will teach you the basics, the intermediate, and all the advanced knowledge using modern (core-profile) OpenGL. The aim of LearnOpenGL is to show you all […]