Military Standard on Software Control Levels

The mil-std-882e standard specifies levels of software control, i.e. how dangerous the software can be based on what it is responsible for. Although the standard is a little more complicated, we can simplify to essentially four levels: The most alarming case is when the software has direct control of something that can be immediately dangerous […]

Agent Skills is now an open standard

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In October, we introduced skills—a way to teach Claude repeatable workflows tailored to how you work. Today we’re making skills easier to deploy, discover, and build: organization-wide management for admins; a directory of partner-built skills from Notion, Canva, Figma, Atlassian, and others; and an open standard so skills work across AI platforms. Manage skills across […]

JEDEC developing reduced pin count HBM4 standard to enable higher capacity

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The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association is developing a way to increase overall high bandwidth memory (HBM) capacity with longer channel distances to enable more HBM stacks per GPU. JEDEC is the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council. Standard Package High Bandwidth Memory (SPHBM4) is similar to an HBM4 device with its silicon substrate, but with […]

Launch HN: Pulse (YC S24) – Production-grade unstructured document extraction

Hi HN, we’re Sid and Ritvik, co-founders of Pulse. Pulse is a document extraction system to create LLM-ready text. We built Pulse as we realized that although modern vision language models are very good at producing plausible text, that makes them risky for OCR and data ingestion at scale. When we started working on document […]

Mistral OCR 3

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Highlights Breakthrough performance: 74% overall win rate over Mistral OCR 2 on forms, scanned documents, complex tables, and handwriting. State-of-the-art accuracy, outperforming both enterprise document processing solutions as well as AI-native OCR solutions Now powers Document AI Playground in Mistral AI Studio, a simple drag-and-drop interface for parsing PDFs/images into clean text or structured JSON […]

Using TypeScript to Obtain One of the Rarest License Plates

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Most people never think twice about the random mix of letters and numbers the DMV assigns them. I’m not one of those people. Online, I’ve always chased having a clean and memorable digital identity. Over the years, I’ve been able to pick up handles like my first + last name on Instagram (@jlaf) and full […]

Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

18th December 2025 In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of LLM tool, who deposits giant, untested PRs on their coworkers—or open source maintainers—and expects the “code review” process to handle the rest. […]

Spain fines Airbnb €65M: Why the government is cracking down on illegal rentals

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Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?

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You will recall the Apple Account fiasco of Paris Buttfield-Addison, whose entire iCloud account and library of iTunes and App Store media purchases were lost when his Apple Account was locked, seemingly after attempted to redeem a tampered $500 Apple Gift Card that he purchased from a major retailer. I wrote about it, as did […]

Please Just Try Htmx

Please Just Fucking Try HTMX A measured-yet-opinionated plea from someone who’s tired of watching you suffer Look. I’m not going to call you a fucking moron every other sentence. That’s been done. It’s a whole genre now. And honestly? HTMX doesn’t need me to scream at you to make its point. The sweary web manifesto […]