Perpetual Futures

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Programming note: Bits about Money is supported by our readers. I generally forecast about one issue a month, and haven’t kept that pace that this year. As a result, I’m working on about 3-4 for December. Much financial innovation is in the ultimate service of the real economy. Then, we have our friends in crypto, […]

Fizz Buzz in CSS

Fizz Buzz in CSS – Susam Pal By Susam Pal on 06 Dec 2025 What is the smallest CSS code we can write to print the Fizz Buzz sequence? I think it can be done in four lines of CSS as shown below: li { counter-increment: n } li:not(:nth-child(5n))::before { content: counter(n) } li:nth-child(3n)::before { […]

Framework Sponsors CachyOS

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Hey CachyOS Community, We have some massive news to share today. Framework, the company behind the modular and repairable laptop revolution, is now sponsoring CachyOS. For an open-source project like ours, finding hardware partners who genuinely care about Linux is rare. Framework has not only provided us with a Framework Laptop 16 to help us […]

A two-person method to simulate die rolls

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I’ve traveled to Xi’an to play with my friend, Zambon21. There are some boring time which must be passed, and so we tried to pass them using brain-procedurally generated simplified D&D-like campaigns. As all D&D campaigns requires dice, ours is no exception. But by then we were presented with no other tools except our mortal […]

Why we built Lightpanda in Zig

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Because We’re Not Smart Enough for C++ or Rust Francis Bouvier Cofounder & CEO Friday, December 5, 2025 TL;DR To be honest, when I began working on Lightpanda, I chose Zig because I’m not smart enough to build a big project in C++ or Rust. I like simple languages. I like Zig for the same […]

The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out

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On OpenAI’s new social app, Sora 2, a popular video shows a disturbingly lifelike Sam Altman sprinting out of a Target store with stolen computer chips, begging police not to take his “precious technology.” The clip is absurdist, a parody of the company’s own CEO, but it also speaks to a larger conversation playing out […]

Onlook (YC W25) the Cursor for Designers Is Hiring a Founding Fullstack Engineer

Hey HN! I’m Daniel, building Onlook, the Cursor for Designers. We built an open-source collaborative canvas for code that lets designers and developers craft incredible web experiences together. Since launching, Onlook hit #1 on Hacker News, was the #1 trending repo on GitHub—above DeepSeek + Anthropic—and has earned over 23,000 GitHub stars. We’re looking to […]

Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation

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Synadia and TigerBeetle have together pledged $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation over the next two years in support of the language, leadership, and communities building the future of simpler systems software. I first saw Zig in 2018, seven years ago. Two years later, I chose Zig over C or Rust for TigerBeetle. In 2020, […]

Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust

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I have a hobby. Whenever I see the comment // this should never happen in code, I try to find out the exact conditions under which it could happen. And in 90% of cases, I find a way to do just that. More often than not, the developer just hasn’t considered all edge cases or […]