Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation
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
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 […]
Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
1. Document understanding Real-world documents are messy, unstructured, and difficult to parse — often filled with interleaved images, illegible handwritten text, nested tables, complex mathematical notation and non-linear layouts. Gemini 3 Pro represents a major leap forward in this domain, excelling across the entire document processing pipeline — from highly accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) […]
I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Could you please help with any insights about the social media vetting rules? This has been a blackbox to the visa applications – started with student visas, now being forced on work visas too from Dec 15th. That’s right, both before US Consulates when applying for visas, before CBP when applying for admission, and before […]
Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit
Additionally, there’s an ARM Immortalis-G720 GPU with ten cores and an AI accelerator with a performance of 30 TOPS. This chipset is likely slower than the Snapdragon X Elite or a current flagship smartphone chip, but it should still provide enough performance for many everyday tasks. Either way, this mainboard upgrade might only be interesting […]
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
On December 5, 2025, at 08:47 UTC (all times in this blog are UTC), a portion of Cloudflare’s network began experiencing significant failures. The incident was resolved at 09:12 (~25 minutes total impact), when all services were fully restored. A subset of customers were impacted, accounting for approximately 28% of all HTTP traffic served by […]
Jolla Phone Pre-Order
The initial sales markets are EU, UK, Switzerland and Norway. Entering other markets, such as the U.S. and Canada are to be decided due course based on potential interest from the areas. We will design the cellular band configuration to enable potential future markets, including major U.S. carrier networks.
Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring
Emerge Career’s mission is to break the cycle of poverty and incarceration. We’re not just building software; we’re creating pathways to real second chances. Through an all-in-one platform deeply embedded within the criminal justice system, we recruit, train, and place justice-impacted individuals into life-changing careers. Our vision is to become the country’s unified workforce development […]
Emacs is my new window manager
Most companies that employ me, hand me a “work laptop” as I enter the building. Of course, I do not install personal software and keep a clear division between my “work like” and my “real life.” However, I also don’t like to carry two computers just to jot down personal notes. My remedy is to […]
Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
A person holds up a sign during a protest against the authorization of glyphosate-based herbicide, in Rennes, on October 12, 2023. DAMIEN MEYER/AFP A quarter-century after its publication, one of the most influential research articles on the potential carcinogenicity of glyphosate has been retracted for “several critical issues that are considered to undermine the academic […]