Leaving Intel
I’ve resigned from Intel and accepted a new opportunity. If you are an Intel employee, you might have seen my fairly long email that summarized what I did in my 3.5 years. Much of this is public: It’s still early days for AI flame graphs. Right now when I browse CPU performance case studies on […]
A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
A month’s supply of Miebo, Bausch & Lomb’s prescription dry eye drug, costs $800 or more in the U.S. before insurance. But the same drug — sold as EvoTears — has been available over-the-counter (OTC) in Europe since 2015 for about $20. I ordered it online from an overseas pharmacy for $32 including shipping, and […]
Perpetual Futures
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 { […]
Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf]
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Framework Sponsors CachyOS
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
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
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
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 […]