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 […]
My Father’s Instant Mashed Potatoes
[This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you’ve read them all, I’ll ask you to vote for a favorite, so remember which ones you […]
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 […]
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 […]