Lies, damned lies, and Elastic’s benchmarks https://www.gouthamve.dev/lies-damned-lies-and-elastics-benchmarks/ (HN source)

Please Make Mistakes https://vexjoy.com/posts/please-make-mistakes/ (HN source)

The Mismeasure of Open Source https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/09/the-mismeasure-of-open-source.html (HN source)

The Fast Way to Sweden – BGP Routing Experiments https://alastairbarber.com/Fast-Way-to-Sweden-Optimal-BGP-Prefix-Announcement/ (HN source)

Write programs you can still hack when you feel dumb https://www.draketo.de/software/programs-you-can-still-hack-when-dumb.html (HN source)

Laptops all have built-in security tokens these days https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-05-08-builtin-u2f/ (HN source)

Money is renewable, time isn’t https://get168.app/blog/money-is-renewable-time-isnt (HN source)

Heuristic Learning https://trinkle23897.github.io/learning-beyond-gradients/ (HN source)

It’s time to talk about agentic “remote control” https://arpadvoros.com/posts/2026/05/08/its-time-to-talk-about-agentic-remote-control/ (HN source)

We accidentally recreated old FB https://amrshawky.com/posts/we-accidentally-recreated-fb/ (HN source)

Becoming competitive when joining a new company https://ludwigabap.com/posts/on-becoming-competitive-when-joining-a-new-company/ (HN source)

The Mirror Is Part of the Machine https://yusufaytas.com/the-mirror-is-part-of-the-machine (HN source)

Reddit pushes web visitors to app https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/05/08/reddit-pushes-web-visitors-to-app/ (HN source)

Capacity https://dahl.dev/capacity (HN source)

Five Years of Freelancing – A Recap https://dylancastillo.co/posts/5-years-freelancing-in-europe.html (HN source)

A Tale of Two Artisans https://koas.dev/a-tale-of-two-artisans/ (HN source)

Yesterday I had some news that has left me feeling https://mylightstillshines.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/yesterday-i-had-some-news-that-has-left-me-feeling-anxious-happy-but-also-conflicted-all-at-the-same-time/ (HN source)

I Still Like Jenkins https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/i-still-like-jenkins/ (HN source)

How to Brush Your Teeth at Work https://joshlf.com/posts/brush-your-teeth/ (HN source)

Fixing Markdown Syntax Is a Nightmare https://mdview.io/s/fixing-markdown-syntax-is-a-nightmare (HN source)

My Response to Open Web Censorship Calls-to-Action https://www.scottrlarson.com/blog/blog-response-open-web-action-calls/ (HN source)

Beyond DevOps https://debarshibasak.github.io/readables/blogs/beyond-devops.html (HN source)

Engineering Intelligence from Autocomplete https://www.szia.ai/post/engineer-intelligence-from-autocomplete (HN source)

When is your birthday? – The Math Behind Hash Collisions https://0xkrt26.github.io/math_behind_security/2026/05/08/birthday-problem.html (HN source)

You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) https://ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html (HN source)

My first in prod corrupted hard drive problem https://blog.pavementlink.ch/2026/05/07/my-first-corrupted-hard-drive-problem/ (HN source)

The simplest agent orchestration strategy that works: two agents instead of one https://juanreyero.com/article/ai/two-agents-not-one (HN source)

The React2Shell Story https://lachlan.nz/blog/the-react2shell-story/ (HN source)

Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+? https://www.sigops.org/2026/can-llms-model-real-world-systems-in-tla/ (HN source)

Code has always been worthless https://roganov.me/blog/code-always-worthless/ (HN source)

Building a Harper Desktop App https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/building-a-harper-desktop-app (HN source)

Growth Hacking was an awful idea https://mrmarket.bearblog.dev/escape-growth-trap/ (HN source)

Human Typing Habits and Token Counts https://pankajpipada.com/posts/2026-05-08-human-habits-tokens/ (HN source)

Claude Says No https://wadetregaskis.com/claude-says-no/ (HN source)

WebRTC Is the Problem https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/ (HN source)

Zed Is Pretty Nice https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/zed-is-pretty-nice (HN source)

Why Architecture Matters: Rails Engines for Modular Monoliths https://davidslv.uk/2026/05/05/why-architecture-matters.html (HN source)

Creating for a niche https://www.davesnider.com/posts/working-in-a-niche (HN source)

I Spent Half a Day Fixing a WordPress Charset Problem https://kgolubic.com/posts/fixing-a-wordpress-charset-problem/ (HN source)

Distractions https://ankshilp.in/posts/distractions/ (HN source)

Plastic Flowers to Protect the Hive https://phildini.dev/slopsquatting-for-good (HN source)

Lessons from 6 Years of Local Advocacy https://maxmautner.com/2026/04/30/what-i-have-learned.html (HN source)

I bought an analog watch and I love it https://minimal.bearblog.dev/i-bought-an-analog-watch-and-i-love-it/ (HN source)

How to Choose Better Chocolate https://chof.nl/how-to-choose-chocolate (HN source)

Honey, I Shrunk the Circuits https://tokenbender.com/posts/honey-i-shrunk-the-circuits/ (HN source)

Psychologist Who Specializes in Founders https://www.drjeneverchick.com/founders (HN source)

The Serial TTL connector we deserve https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/05/07/serial-ttl-connector/ (HN source)

From Buffon’s Needle to Buffon’s Noodle https://mbmccoy.dev/posts/buffons-noodle/ (HN source)

Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/idempotency/ (HN source)

The four horsemen behind Postgres outages https://malisper.me/the-four-horsemen-behind-thousands-of-postgres-outages/ (HN source)

Have you sent a smile today? https://mylightstillshines.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/have-you-smiled-at-somebody-today/ (HN source)

Number of tokens shouldn’t be the only metric https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/05/06/tokens-shouldnt-be-the-only-metric/ (HN source)

Analysis Paralysis: Folders https://nonogra.ph/analysis-paralysis-folders-05-06-2026 (HN source)

Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model https://sander.ai/2026/05/06/flow-maps.html (HN source)

Dogfooding Is the New Code Review https://alexfurrier.dev/blog/2026-05-06-dogfooding-is-the-new-code-review/ (HN source)

You Don’t Love Systemd Timers Enough https://blog.tjll.net/you-dont-love-systemd-timers-enough/ (HN source)

Silent Jungles https://suziepetryk.com/blog/jungles.html (HN source)

From Probable to Provable: What Automated Reasoning Means for the Board https://mariothomas.com/blog/automated-reasoning-explainer/ (HN source)

All means are fair except solving the problem https://yosefk.com/blog/all-means-are-fair-except-solving-the-problem.html (HN source)

Open weights are quietly closing up – and that’s a problem https://martinalderson.com/posts/open-weights-are-quietly-closing-up/ (HN source)

“Open” doesn’t mean anything nowadays https://lr0.org/blog/p/open/ (HN source)

Are we self-sovereign PKI yet? https://buffrr.dev/blog/are-we-self-sovereign-pki-yet/ (HN source)

Dev Environment for Agentic Coding https://adek.io/blog/2025-05-05-my-dev-environment/ (HN source)

What I Learned Making an App for My Family https://mendelgreenberg.com/posts/ourcar/ (HN source)

IO Is the Problem https://xificurc.github.io/blog/io-is-the-problem/ (HN source)

Desktop Tracking Software: The Smart Way to Track Your Activities at Work https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqvcy9tkh3xq8x5m7mdsqxx7mcylxxrj8hdj6psdy89g8jaa2e4mfqy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dxqcju7tpdd5ksmmwdejjucm0d5hsq92829frzejpwym423mz0pf5xjrzx4c5wjzhgjeup6 (HN source)

Building the deployment tool I wish I had https://ruuda.nl/2026/deptool (HN source)

Attention Without Value https://danielmay.co.uk/posts/attention-without-value/ (HN source)

Code never mattered in the first place https://mar.coconauts.net/blog/posts/code-never-mattered/ (HN source)

Working Was the Beginning https://themackabu.dev/blog/ant-part-two (HN source)

From Tiny Seed to Towering Sequoia: How Purdue Hackers Changed My Life https://www.jackhogan.me/blog/from-tiny-seed-to-towering-sequoia (HN source)

Store Tags After Payloads https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/store-tags-after-payloads/ (HN source)

Don’t Become an Agent Wrapper https://www.anantjain.xyz/posts/dont-become-a-wrapper (HN source)

The Prompt API is now on by default in Chrome https://adsm.dev/posts/prompt-api/ (HN source)

A Namecheap bug got my domain suspended https://captnemo.in/blog/2026/05/05/namecheap-whois/ (HN source)

A Theory of Deep Learning https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/ (HN source)

After 3 months of using standing desk https://darshanmakwana412.github.io/2026/05/standing-desk/ (HN source)

Just One More Prompt https://benjaminste.in/blog/2026/05/03/just-one-more-prompt/ (HN source)

When Too Many Maps Overlap on One Person https://yusufaytas.com/when-too-many-maps-overlap-on-one-person (HN source)

10 years helping Rails devs reach App Store. Today, someone shipped without me https://masilotti.com/shipped-without-me/ (HN source)

Tokens and Dreams https://charlesleifer.com/blog/tokens-and-dreams/ (HN source)

Why coding agents need a merge queue https://ctx.rs/blog/merge-queue-for-agents/ (HN source)

My 1B tokens/day Symphony setup https://www.alessiofanelli.com/posts/my-1b-tokens-day-openai-symphony-setup/ (HN source)

Easy Random Trees https://blog.wilsonb.com/posts/2026-02-27-easy-random-trees.html (HN source)

Why airlines are always going bankrupt

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Software Has a CAC Now

Entrepreneur's Edge

Software Has a CAC Now

My past company was spending $200,000 a month on ads, and when we finally got ruthless about ROI and attribution, we captured the same number of customers with one-tenth the budget. The spend seemed justifiable for each campaign, but it was just a vibe. When we broke out the math, the numbers did not add up…

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Am I an LLM? https://www.arturonereu.com/articles/am-i-an-llm/ (HN source)

When Knowledge Becomes Control https://dylanconlin.com/blog/when-knowledge-becomes-control/ (HN source)

How I organize my work https://www.krabr.com/blog/how-i-organize-my-work/ (HN source)

I Miss Craft https://eliothertenstein.com/notes/on-craft (HN source)

Bad Bossing and the Expertise Byproduct https://jakekara.com/blog/2026/05/04/expertise-byproduct (HN source)

Add Animal Crossing events to your digital calendar https://sethmlarson.dev/animal-crossing-calendar (HN source)

I tried making my own AG Grid, and it took 9 months https://visualeaf.com/blog/why-my-custom-table-took-9-months/ (HN source)

That’s No Warehouse It’s a Space Station https://blog.matterbeam.com/thats-no-warehouse-its-a-space-station/ (HN source)

Everything Is a Superfood https://www.hughparry.com/blog/everything-is-a-superfood/ (HN source)

The Economics of Truth https://shadesofsingularity.com/essays/economics-of-truth/ (HN source)

You Don’t Review Your Compiler Output https://scottrfrancis.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/you-dont-review-your-compiler-output/ (HN source)

Coding agent is under-specified https://hsaghir.github.io/blog/2026-05-02-under-specified-coding-agent/ (HN source)

SaaS Isn’t Dying. Its Users Are https://tomashvili.com/posts/SaaS_Is_not_Dying_Its_Users_Are (HN source)

Poor Decision Practices in (Tech) Management https://placementist.com/insights/a-guide-of-poor-decision-practices-in-management-for-technical-leaders-and-founders-identifying-and-mitigating (HN source)

The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls https://sethmlarson.dev/the-frog-for-whom-the-bell-tolls (HN source)

Don’t let your Mac’s storage fill up https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/05/dont-let-your-macs-storage-fill-up/ (HN source)

Pocket https://anthonyliddle.dev/work/pocket (HN source)

You’ve heard about the vulnpocalypse. let’s talk about the slopdemic https://cje.io/2026/05/04/thoughts-on-the-slopdemic/ (HN source)

On versioning https://ssg.dev/on-versioning/ (HN source)

What five years of solo development taught me https://www.tylerevan.dev/writing/five-years-solo (HN source)

What I Got Wrong Implementing Graph-Based Vector Search https://dubeykartikay.com/posts/reading-algorithms-like-an-engineer/ (HN source)

Infinite Image Grids Are Flat Toruses https://seththompson.com/articles/infinite-image-grids (HN source)

Verifying Poseidon in Clean: Why the Last ‘Sorry’ Is About Primality https://blog.zksecurity.xyz/posts/poseidon-clean/ (HN source)

Oomphalism https://joeldueck.com/oomphalism.html (HN source)

Load balancing usage across Codex accounts https://pepsipu.com/blog/2026-04-agent-scheduling/ (HN source)

14 Years of Mistakes to “Make Something People Want” https://nmn.gl/blog/meditations-on-make-something-people-want (HN source)

Parachuting In https://www.kevinlondon.com/2026/04/15/parachuting-in/ (HN source)

Nondeterminism’s Not the Problem https://isaacvando.com/nondeterminisms-not-the-problem (HN source)

Ten Years of Frinkiac https://langui.sh/2026/05/04/ten-years-of-frinkiac/ (HN source)

Equal Ping for All https://bagnalla.github.io/posts/ping-charity.html (HN source)

Become a product-first software engineer https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/become-a-product-first-software-engineer/ (HN source)

The growth engineering one pager https://jordanlord.co.uk/blog/growth-engineering/ (HN source)

Reviving the internet radio in my 12-year-old Denon https://victorantos.com/posts/i-bought-a-denon-for-my-wedding-then-i-vibe-coded-its-radio-back/ (HN source)

Tractors, beige boxes and what’s next https://agourlay.github.io/the-transmission/ (HN source)

Screw You, Realtek https://www.growse.com/2026/05/02/screw-you-realtek.html (HN source)

Make your software arch context-ready https://www.shaylivni.com/blog/make-architecture-context-queryable (HN source)

I Automate Everything https://effective-programmer.com/how-i-actually-automate-everything-0d97ed624a34?sk=f8a15ad7e32cde79a085bb4f40330eae (HN source)

The Scooter and the Bike https://maxmautner.com/2026/04/12/scooter-vs-bike.html (HN source)

Don’t fly if you can help it https://michaelbluejay.com/airfare/dontfly.html (HN source)

The new grads are not okay

Evan's blog

The new grads are not okay

a personal update…

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6 days ago · 6 likes · 4 comments · Evan Hu

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No Smoking Gun https://notoriousbfg.com/no-smoking-gun/ (HN source)

Erm: A Local CLI That Strips Ums, Uhs, and Erms from Speech https://doug.sh/posts/erm-a-local-cli-that-strips-ums-uhs-and-erms-from-speech/ (HN source)

My Agent Memory Library Helps Write Indie Articles https://benemson.com/blog/agents/my-agent-memory-library-helps-write-indie-articles (HN source)

Using IDEs as a Harness for Thinking and Writing https://ravivyas.com/2026/05/03/ide-as-thinking-harness/ (HN source)

Writing a bindless GPU abstraction layer https://www.kevin-gibson.com/blog/writing-a-bindless-gpu-abstraction-layer/ (HN source)

Babysitting the Agent https://christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/zabriskie/agents/reliability/2026/05/03/click-the-button.html (HN source)

Gratitude for an Open Android https://lzon.ca/posts/series/grateful/keep-android-open/ (HN source)

I Use Codex CLI to Write and Maintain a Book on Codex CLI https://blog.danielvaughan.com/how-i-use-codex-cli-to-write-and-maintain-a-book-on-codex-cli-048084d9ab48 (HN source)

Feedback Loops https://fastersafely.com/lean-software-engineering/principles/feedback-loops/ (HN source)

Hit and Run and a Business Idea https://rozumem.xyz/posts/15 (HN source)

Why you should still type code in 2026 https://www.slater.dev/2026/05/type-your-code/ (HN source)

When Is Nextcloud Overkill? https://samueleamato.xyz/2026/05/03/you-dont-need-nextcloud (HN source)

Container Is Not a Sandbox https://emirb.github.io/blog/microvm-2026/ (HN source)

5 years of freelancing: same work, better pay, and a ceiling https://dylancastillo.co/posts/5-years-freelancing-in-europe.html (HN source)

Boolean logic operators are not intuitive. Let’s do better https://charon.konekopi.com/posts/boolean_logic_naming/ (HN source)

CPU Work and GPU Work https://www.talhoffman.com/2026/05/03/cpu-work-and-gpu-work/ (HN source)

How vLLM Works https://avkcode.github.io/blog/how-vllm-works.html (HN source)

I freed a pool heat pump from an unencrypted Chinese cloud server https://thomas-witt.com/blog/how-to-free-a-pool-heat-pump-from-an-unencrypted-chinese-server/ (HN source)

Do LLMs Reason, or Do They Just Predict Math Text? https://daridor.blog/2026/05/01/do-llms-reason-or-do-they-just-predict-math-text/ (HN source)

Prompt Engineering Is Permanent https://yiblet.com/posts/prompt-engineering-is-permanent/ (HN source)

The math behind how LLMs are trained and served

Dwarkesh Podcast

Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served

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11 days ago · 113 likes · 3 comments · Dwarkesh Patel

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Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-on-watchos/ (HN source)

Why won’t SQLite give back my disk space? https://www.valiantlynx.com/blogs/why-wont-sqlite-give-back-my-disk-space (HN source)

Agentic coding is burning me out https://0xsid.com/blog/agentic-coding-fatigue (HN source)

Squaring the Circle on Employee Equity https://blog.baldassari.me/employee-equity/ (HN source)

Welcome to Hell Developer https://noahclements.com/Wahoo-Bolt-Hidden-Debug-Mode/ (HN source)

Servers with Personality https://caolan.uk/links/servers/ (HN source)

I compared the top embedded COSE+CBOR libraries so you dont have to https://aidangarske.github.io/wolfCOSE/blog/wolfcose-vs-the-field/ (HN source)

We Forgot How to Write https://www.timwehrle.de/blog/we-forgot-how-to-write/ (HN source)

Path to Vibe Engineering https://leandronsp.com/articles/path-to-vibe-engineering (HN source)

Why Andromeda Is Both 2.5M Years Away and Just Around the Corner https://joshpearlson.com/articles/posts/closest-galaxy-time-dilation/closest-galaxy-time-dilation.html (HN source)

Your App Should Ship an MCP Server https://justin.poehnelt.com/posts/ship-mcp-server-native-app/ (HN source)

I got infected with a crypto-miner via misconfigured qBittorrent https://blog.vasi.li/well-i-got-hacked/ (HN source)

Elfmem: Evolving Agent Memory https://benemson.com/blog/agents/elfmem-evolving-agent-memory (HN source)

Budget LTE Home Network https://worldofmatthew.com/blog/budgetnetwork/ (HN source)

Word Embedding Is Magic https://joker666.github.io/blog/2025-11-12-word-embedding-is-magic (HN source)

It’s Not a Values Crisis, It’s a Housing Crisis https://maxmautner.com/2026/04/30/housing-crisis-not-values-crisis.html (HN source)

When your board member / VC partner leaves?

Motive Notes

When Your VC Leaves, You Are Fundraising Again

A founder texted me this morning. His partner had just posted on X about leaving the firm, and he wanted to know how to manage the risk. I remembered a post Hunter Walk wrote in 2019 about exactly this, and if you haven’t read it, it’s worth finding. He covers the VC mechanics clearly. But after talking to many founders who’ve gone through it, I kept ru…

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7 days ago · 2 likes · Oana Olteanu

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I Have Lived in Your Camp https://green.spacedino.net/i-have-lived-in-your-camp/ (HN source)

Strong types are a non-negotiable for LLMs https://hireup.team/articles/strong-types-for-llms (HN source)

The Resonance of Berkshire Hathaway https://tinkelenberg.com/posts/the-resonance-of-berkshire-hathaway/ (HN source)

Running hackathons: startup&scaleup edition https://matloka.com/blog/internal-hackathon-playbook (HN source)

Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers https://samcollins.blog/underdrawings/ (HN source)

Ten years of sakamoto.pl: my thoughts and wishes https://sdomi.pl/weblog/28-ten-years-of-this-mess/ (HN source)

I Don’t Vibe Code https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code (HN source)

Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community – Makefile.feld https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/04/open-source-does-not-imply-open-community/ (HN source)

Cloud Skills Are Still Just Skills https://vexjoy.com/posts/cloud-skills-are-still-just-skills/ (HN source)

There’s No Minimum Angel Check Size https://zachholman.com/posts/minimum-angel-check (HN source)

You can just do things https://bhagyeshpathak.com/uncategorized/2026/03/30/you-can-just-do-things/ (HN source)

If Claude writes the code, what makes me still a developer? https://betweentheprompts.com/if-claude-writes-the-code/ (HN source)

The Productivity Panic Is Your Problem Now

Stratechgist

The Productivity Panic Is Your Problem Now

Your engineering org is caught between executives demanding AI ROI and engineers terrified their own improvements are arguments for their elimination. Here’s the playbook for leading through it…

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11 days ago · 3 likes · Ilija Eftimov

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A Deep Dive into Email Addresses https://lasans.blog/articles/misc/email-addresses-deep-dive/ (HN source)

Product market fit isn’t a stage, it’s a gauntlet https://jonno.nz/posts/product-market-fit-is-a-gauntlet/ (HN source)

KV Cache Locality: The Hidden Variable in Your LLM Serving Cost https://ranvier.systems/2026/04/30/kv-cache-locality-the-hidden-variable-in-your-llm-serving-cost.html (HN source)

A Sum of Errors https://lyonhe.art/a-sum-of-errors/ (HN source)

NPM: Putting the Brown in Brownout https://ryanbigg.com/2026/04/npm-putting-the-brown-in-brownout (HN source)

The Mutable Value Semantics (MVS): A Non-Superficial Study https://federicobruzzone.github.io/posts/eter/MVS.html (HN source)

I’m Powered by Linux https://forkingmad.blog/powered-by-linux/ (HN source)

Running creative online bots with ten thousand followers https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/on-running-creative-online-bots-with-ten-thousand-followers/ (HN source)

Proxies All the Way Down https://dadrian.io/blog/posts/exe-github/ (HN source)

My Kindle Turned 10 https://mikolajbiernat.com/blog/my-kindle-turned-10 (HN source)

Does Prop 13 explain California’s relatively lower birth rates? https://maxmautner.com/2026/04/25/prop13-fertility.html (HN source)

Public content is the most average content https://markferraz.com/perspective#essay-009 (HN source)

Full-Text Search with DuckDB https://peterdohertys.website/blog-posts/full-text-search-w-duckdb.html (HN source)

Software is dead, long live Software https://www.ashpreetbedi.com/articles/dynamic-software (HN source)

Spell-Checking with LLMs https://revise.io/blog/04-30-2026/spell-checking-with-llms (HN source)

You’re probably taking the wrong painkiller https://dynomight.net/painkillers/ (HN source)

The Rails Way in 2026 https://blog.arkency.com/the-rails-way-in-2026/ (HN source)

Scaling Pain of Coding Agent Serving: Lessons from Debugging GLM-5 at Scale https://z.ai/blog/scaling-pain (HN source)

Job Search – Unreasonable Expectations https://eric.mann.blog/job-search-unreasonable-expectations/ (HN source)

A Fully Static Terraform Registry https://davidguerrero.fr/blog/fully-static-terraform-registry/ (HN source)

My local agentic dev setup today https://willemvandenende.com/blog/engineering/my-local-agentic-dev-setup-today (HN source)

Agentic coding is burning me out https://www.0xsid.com/blog/agentic-coding-fatigue (HN source)

GPT-5.5 authorship and order effects https://blog.valmont.dev/posts/gpt-5-5-authorship-and-order-effects/ (HN source)

Rooting My IoT Stand Mixer https://bensimms.moe/rooting-my-iot-stand-mixer/ (HN source)

My Calculator Is a Transformer https://sinclairs.gitlab.io/blog/my-calculator-is-a-transformer/ (HN source)

My Agent Management Software https://tybug.dev/plait/ (HN source)

Tar files made in macOS generate “xattr” errors when expanded in Linux https://aruljohn.com/blog/macos-created-tar-files-linux-errors/ (HN source)

Oops, I invented REST APIs https://clemorl.fr/Articles/Oops,-I-invented-REST-APIs (HN source)

The Bombadil Terminal Experiment https://wickstrom.tech/2026-04-30-bombadil-terminal-experiment.html (HN source)

We Asked GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 to Design 5 UIs

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We Asked GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 to Design 5 UIs

Both OpenAI and Anthropic shipped their frontier coding models this month: GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026, and Claude Opus 4.7 a week earlier on April 16…

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11 days ago · 15 likes · 1 comment · Darko

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How Much LLMs is too much LLMs?

https://www.sammystraus.com/#how-much-llms-is-too-much-llms

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Reddit Is the Most Dangerous Social Media Platform for Human Creativity-Opinion https://mirz.ai/post/reddit-is-the-most-dangerous-social-media-platform-for-human-creativity-opinion (HN source)

I benchmarked Claude Code’s caveman plugin against “be brief.” https://www.maxtaylor.me/articles/i-benchmarked-caveman-against-two-words (HN source)

I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot https://lina.sh/blog/ddos-honeypot (HN source)

What Is Real https://claude2028.org/the-work/what-is-real (HN source)

Long-running Agents (Summary of the current state on many fronts) https://addyosmani.com/blog/long-running-agents/ (HN source)

A Path Not Taken for OxCaml https://joel.place/blog/path-not-taken/ (HN source)

Verifying your age in a privacy preserving manner https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2026/04/27/sd-jwt.html (HN source)

Search Isn’t Going Anywhere https://ossama.is/writing/search (HN source)

Slow Down to Speed Up https://dhruvasagar.dev/posts/slow-down-to-speed-up/ (HN source)

Overanalyzing My Poor 1/2 Marathon Performance https://wjgilmore.com/articles/overanalyzing-my-half-marathon-performance/ (HN source)

Verifying Humans Without Surrendering Identity to Centralized Systems https://blog.trintler.me/2026/04/28/Verifying-Humans-Without-Surrendering-Identity/ (HN source)

The Right Amount of Automation https://joelholmes.dev/blog/2026-04-29-right-amount-of-automation/ (HN source)

The Triumph of the Data Raccoons https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-04-03-the-triumph-of-the-data-raccoons/ (HN source)

Wintering https://www.joanwestenberg.com/on-wintering/ (HN source)

Secure signatures without a private key https://katexochen.aro.bz/posts/reproducible-secure-signatures/ (HN source)

10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/10g-ethernet-what-i-did (HN source)

Reverse Engineering SimTower https://phulin.me/blog/simtower (HN source)

I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe https://monokai.com/articles/how-i-moved-my-digital-stack-to-europe/ (HN source)

A 14-month responsible disclosure with the RIPE NCC https://mxsasha.eu/posts/ripe-ncc-disclosure-retrospective/ (HN source)

The Scientific Method https://jcf.dev/scientific-method (HN source)

My Visitors Are Not All Human. That Is Fine https://hoeijmakers.net/my-visitors-are-not-all-human-that-is-fine/ (HN source)

Taking down a network with a TLS certificate: my RIPE NCC RPKI exploit chain https://mxsasha.eu/posts/ripe-ncc-rpki-exploit-chain/ (HN source)

Back Up and Running https://blog.tindie.com/2026/04/back-up-and-running/ (HN source)

Website is your first agent https://nedkarlovich.com/writing/your-website-is-your-first-agent (HN source)

The Accidental Ancestor – How Verifying Numbers Shaped Modern Hashing https://0xkrt26.github.io/math_behind_security/2026/04/28/the-accidental-ancestor-Luhn-algorithm.html (HN source)

We Measure Tickets, Not Problems Prevented https://vivianvoss.net/blog/why-we-measure-tickets (HN source)

I Won a Championship That Doesn’t Exist https://ron.stoner.com/How_I_Won_a_Championship_That_Doesnt_Exist/ (HN source)

Stop Wasting Brain Power https://yusufaytas.com/stop-wasting-brainpower (HN source)

Why Multi Window Multi Burn Rate SLO Alerting Sucks https://eavan.blog/posts/multi-window-burn-rate-sucks.html (HN source)

I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers https://gregraiz.com/blog/local-vibe/ (HN source)

My Ubnuntu RAM Prevention https://vittoriogioda.com/posts/linux-out-of-memory/ (HN source)

Anatomy of an Article https://blog.yaelwrites.com/anatomy-of-an-article/ (HN source)

Realtek’s 10GbE NIC performance revisited https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/04/28/rtl10/ (HN source)

10Gb Ethernet: what I had to (re)learn https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/10g-ethernet-what-i-relearned (HN source)

How to Keep Your Brain Sharp: A Practical Playbook Beyond the Basics https://tim.blog/2026/04/24/how-to-keep-your-brain-sharp/ (HN source)

Buying, Selling on eBay Disrupted Worldwide for more than 24 hours https://www.sanjoseinside.com/business/buying-selling-on-ebay-disrupted-worldwide-for-nearly-two-days/ (HN source)

The Best (Query) Plans of Mice and Men https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2026-04-query-plans/ (HN source)

Agent Memory Patterns https://timkellogg.me/blog/2026/04/27/memory-patterns (HN source)

I Forgot to Code https://reggieescobar.com/blog/how-i-forgot-to-code (HN source)

Prompts Are Like Prayers https://anuvrat.in/prompts-are-like-prayers.html (HN source)

Bypassing DPI with eBPF Sock_ops https://bora.sh/bypassing-dpi-with-ebpf/ (HN source)

I wrote a DOOM clone in my own programming language https://spectrelang.org/log/devlog#cubedoom (HN source)

Text Is the New Binary https://andreabaccega.com/blog/text-is-the-new-binary/ (HN source)

Try Contra Dancing https://www.benkuhn.net/contra/ (HN source)

Open Weights Kill the Moat https://www.warman.life/blog/2026-04-27-the-moat-or-the-commons/ (HN source)

I Broke the Anti-Bot Behind Nike, Kick, and Twitch https://emro.cat/blog/how-i-broke-the-anti-bot-behind-nike-kick-and-twitch/ (HN source)

Offline Agentic Coding https://www.williamangel.net/blog/2026/04/27/offline-agentic-coding.html (HN source)

I Quit Drinking for a Year https://dynomight.net/drinking/ (HN source)

Using native Rails rate-limits in production https://amzcartshare.com/native-rails-rate-limits (HN source)

Uptime Golf https://anderegg.ca/2026/04/27/uptime-golf (HN source)

LLMs and the Adversarial Loop https://myers.io/2026/04/15/LLMs-and-the-Adversarial-loop/ (HN source)

Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care? https://idlemachines.co.uk/essays/softmax (HN source)

The Cost of Being “Nice” https://bytesizedchunks.net/blog/20260426/ (HN source)

You can beat the binary search https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/ (HN source)

Good Design vs. Bad Design https://tm-media-site.vercel.app/article/good-design-vs-bad-design (HN source)

You Can’t Write That Book https://brianschrader.com/archive/why-you-cant-write-that-book/ (HN source)

Claude Architect Plugin https://willhennessy.io/writing/introducing-architect.html (HN source)

The One-Person Stack https://www.ivan.codes/blog/the-one-person-stack (HN source)

Cost of PostgreSQL Performance Issues https://stormatics.tech/blogs/cost-of-postgresql-performance-issues (HN source)

Postgres’s lateral joins allow for quite the good eDSL https://bensimms.moe/postgres-lateral-makes-quite-a-good-dsl/ (HN source)

We Are Not Language Machines https://www.shishyko.com/essays/we-are-not-language-machines.html (HN source)

A Brief History of SQL: The Language That Refuses to Die https://www.ismatsamadov.com/blog/brief-history-of-sql-language-that-refuses-to-die (HN source)

Show HN: Building a SQL analyst agent from scratch https://raminmousavi.dev/blog/building-a-sql-analyst-agent (HN source)

Notes on Serial Experiments Lain https://jordanmatthiass.net/essays/serial_experiments_lain (HN source)

I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers https://leblancfg.com/intensity-pad-founder-story.html (HN source)

Most People Who Ride Bikes Have Soft Tires https://maxmautner.com/2026/04/25/soft-tires.html (HN source)

Blog Is a Radio Station https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/04/23/your-blog-is-a-radio-station/ (HN source)

Exponentially Smoothed FPS Counters https://blog.wilsworld.net/posts/2026_04_25-Exponentially_Smoothed_FPS_Counters (HN source)

Claude Design Is Real Design https://diverging.run/checkpoints/claude-design-is-real-design/ (HN source)

DevOps Is a Culture, Not a Team: What I’ve Learned Building at Scale https://austinxyz.github.io/blogs/blog/2026/04/26/devops-at-scale (HN source)

You’ve Been Doing Harness Engineering All Along https://alex000kim.com/posts/2026-04-26-harness-engineering/ (HN source)

Abort, Retry, No Thanks https://unsung.aresluna.org/abort-retry-no-thanks/ (HN source)

Lessons from Building Multiplayer Browsers https://www.alejandro.pe/writing/sail-muddy-lessons (HN source)

Your Agent is a Distributed System (and fails like one) https://maheshba.bitbucket.io/blog/2026/04/24/agentfailures.html (HN source)

The Fastest Linux Timestamps https://www.hmpcabral.com/2026/04/26/the-fastest-linux-timestamps/ (HN source)

Do I even want to be a coder anymore? https://polso.info/do-i-even-want-to-be-a-coder-anymore (HN source)

Self-Updating Screenshots https://interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots (HN source)

When the cheap one is the cool one https://arun.is/blog/cheap-cool/ (HN source)

Artifacts Are Alive (and Photographs Are Dead)

Works on My Machine

Artifacts Are Alive (And Photographs are Dead)

There is a photograph of a coral reef on the wall of my dentist’s office…

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14 days ago · 13 likes · 2 comments · Scott Werner

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Three Constraints Before I Build Anything https://jordanlord.co.uk/blog/3-constraints/ (HN source)

Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision

Engineering Strategy

Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision

I still remember that quarterly leadership meeting, which I was Engineering Manager of a tribe of 4 teams, 3 product teams, 1 platform tribe team…

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14 days ago · 3 likes · Aleix Morgadas

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Congrats on failing to launch; weirdfriends log 1 https://c0n0.com/posts/weirdfriends-log-1/ (HN source)

GPT-5.5 is a biased evaluator: authorship and order effects https://blog.valmont.dev/posts/gpt-5-5-is-a-biased-evaluator-authorship-and-order-effects/ (HN source)

Rotating Space Habitats https://blog.engora.com/2026/04/rotating-space-habs.html (HN source)

Making the Rails Default Job Queue Fiber-Based https://paolino.me/solid-queue-doesnt-need-a-thread-per-job/ (HN source)

From $200 to $30: Five Layers of LLM Cost Optimization http://blog.dwornikowski.com/posts/cutting-llm-costs-token-optimization/ (HN source)

Oops, I Wrote a Database https://dafoster.net/articles/2026/02/23/oops-i-wrote-a-database/ (HN source)

Naming Things Is Easy Now https://notesbylex.com/naming-things-is-easy-now (HN source)

Prop 13 Didn’t Shrink Government. It Handed It to Sacramento https://maxmautner.com/2026/04/23/prop-13-changed-things.html (HN source)

The bull case for graph DBs in law https://alanyahya.com/writing/bull-case-graph-dbs-law (HN source)

Give Your Coding Agent a Journal https://doug.sh/posts/give-your-coding-agent-a-journal/ (HN source)

Working with Claude Code: A Field Manual https://blog.iannelson.uk/working-with-claude-code (HN source)

Generalised plusequals https://leontrolski.github.io/alt.html (HN source)

Coding agents have no moat https://tombedor.dev/coding-agents-have-no-moat/ (HN source)

Do I belong in tech anymore? https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout (HN source)

Wrote FA2 using CuteDSL, what worked and what didn’t work https://kyrieblunders.bearblog.dev/fa2_using_cutedsl/ (HN source)

Mind the van Emden Gap https://blog.fogus.me/llm/van-emden.html (HN source)

LLM research on Hacker News is drying up https://dylancastillo.co/til/llm-research-on-hacker-news-is-dying.html (HN source)

Engineering Health Essentials https://yusufaytas.com/engineering-health-essentials (HN source)

CSS as a Query Language https://evdc.me/blog/css-query (HN source)

A 13-month-old LlamaIndex bug re-embeds unchanged content https://sebastiantirelli.com/writing/llamaindex-embedding-churn/ (HN source)

Build Your Own Trust Chain https://blog.certisfy.com/2026/04/build-your-own-trust-chain.html (HN source)

I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support https://nickyreinert.de/en/2026/2026-04-24-claude-critics/ (HN source)

70x faster cold(ish) starts for SGLang https://fergusfinn.com/blog/fast-sglang-starts/ (HN source)

Intent-Driven Development https://russellromney.com/blog/intent-driven-development (HN source)

Mise dev goes full time on open source https://jdx.dev/posts/2026-04-17-going-full-time-on-open-source/ (HN source)

Old Computers in My University https://mrunix.me/posts/old-computers-usto/ (HN source)

Trajectory shapes are work habits https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2026/04/20/trajectory-shapes/ (HN source)

The agent observability gap: what logs miss when LLMs call tools https://www.lyuata.com/observability-gap (HN source)

How metrics are stored and queried

bits & pages

how metrics are stored and queried

I’ve recently been spending my time hacking on an MIT-licensed, object store native timeseries database, and I found the domain fascinating enough to warrant a post about how metrics are stored and retrieved in databases…

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17 days ago · 5 likes · 1 comment · almog gavra

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The “agentic spectrum” is a category error https://marklubin.me/posts/bounding-agency/ (HN source)

Canton vs. Public Crypto: A Technical Comparison https://eric.mann.blog/canton-vs-public-crypto/ (HN source)

Why You Should Work at a Startup in 2026 https://dharmasamu.com/blog/why-work-at-a-startup-2026 (HN source)

The OpenClaw Turkey Problem https://yakko.dev/blog/the-openclaw-turkey-problem (HN source)

Context Engineering and the Limits of Agentic Coding https://stephenfritz.dev/blog/context-engineering/ (HN source)

The Declining Driver’s License: Good, Bad, or Both? https://maxmautner.com/2026/04/21/teen-drivers-license-decline.html (HN source)

Dear Codebase: A Letter from Your Coding Agent https://mroczek.dev/articles/dear-codebase-letter-from-agent/ (HN source)

Making beautiful work is getting harder https://slowlywilliam.com/2026/04/21/why-everything-is-terrible.html (HN source)

The End of Responsive Images https://piccalil.li/blog/the-end-of-responsive-images/ (HN source)

I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable https://tenphi.me/blog/why-i-spent-years-trying-to-make-css-states-predictable/ (HN source)

I often think of Jef Raskin’s disdain for files and folders https://galjot.si/death-to-files-and-folders (HN source)

Commenting and Approving Pull Requests https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/on-commenting-and-approving-pull-requests/ (HN source)

We prewarm our file descriptor tables (and why you maybe should too) https://pert.dev/posts/why-we-prewarm-our-file-descriptor-tables/ (HN source)

Cutting Costs, Not Corners by moving out of big tech https://knuthellan.com/cutting-costs-not-corners-how-we-migrated-our-ai-document-pipeline-from-aws (HN source)

Trust Me, I’m a Shortcut https://www.wietzebeukema.nl/blog/trust-me-im-a-shortcut (HN source)

Stop Hardcoding Your Timeouts https://alfy.blog/2026/04/23/stop-hardcoding-your-timeouts.html (HN source)

The Log Is the Database https://blog.canoozie.net/the-log-is-the-database/ (HN source)

Fundamental Theorem of Calculus https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus/ (HN source)

Approximating Hyperbolic Tangent https://jtomschroeder.com/blog/approximating-tanh/ (HN source)

I’m Using Claude Code for Everything Else but Coding https://chandlernguyen.com/blog/2026/04/22/im-using-claude-code-for-everything-else-but-coding/ (HN source)

You Need MLOps: When CI/CD for Machine Learning Becomes Mandatory https://blog.ateljevagabond.se/posts/why-you-need-mlops/ (HN source)

Agents and the Era of Overproduction https://mattrogish.com/blog/2026/03/11/agents-and-the-era-of-overproduction/ (HN source)

LLM from scratch, part 33 – what I learned from the appendices https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/llm-from-scratch-33-what-i-learned-from-the-appendices (HN source)

Can We Measure Software Slop? An Experiment https://pscanf.com/s/352/ (HN source)

World Models will push the frontier for LLMs https://lucrbvi.bearblog.dev/world-models-will-push-the-frontier/ (HN source)

Most of What We Call Progress https://yusufaytas.com/most-of-what-we-call-progress (HN source)

How to Open Source and Not Starve https://hajo.me/blog/2026/04/22/how-to-open-source-and-not-starve/ (HN source)

Don’t read the PDF, write the parser https://adriacidre.com/blog/self-healing-parsers-instead-of-vision/ (HN source)

Claude Code: An Architecture Deep Dive https://zainhas.github.io/blog/2026/inside-claude-code-architecture/ (HN source)

Syncing Time over Internet https://brati.sh/blog/syncing-time-over-internet/ (HN source)

What an hour of your attention is worth https://jonno.nz/posts/what-an-hour-of-your-attention-is-worth/ (HN source)

You can make something good https://sfalexandria.com/posts/farzas-creations/ (HN source)

Moving a tenant across PostgreSQL instances https://ananthakumaran.in/2026/04/22/moving-tenant-across-postgresql-instances.html (HN source)

The Deskilling Paradox https://signalintent.net/2026/04/21/the-deskilling-paradox/ (HN source)

Delegation as an OS Primitive https://mz.attahri.com/posts/delegation-as-os-primitive/ (HN source)

Running full coding loop on DGX Spark https://mihaichiorean.com/blog/closing-the-loop/ (HN source)

Creating an MCP Server to answer questions about me https://jspann.me/blog/posts/aboutme_mcp/ (HN source)

Designing web interfaces with Claude Code https://segbedji.com/designing-interfaces-with-claude-code/ (HN source)

Request Tracking: Lessons from Card Payments and HTTP/2 https://madflojo.dev/posts/in-flight-request-tracking-in-asynchronous-systems/ (HN source)

Why Crystal, 10 Years Later: Performance and Joy https://serdardogruyol.com/why-crystal-10-years-later-performance-and-joy (HN source)

Consider the Chairmaker https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/consider-the-chairmaker/ (HN source)

I left Vercel over dangerous defaults. The same defaults leaked customer secrets https://joshduffy.dev/how-i-left-vercel/ (HN source)

I accidentally created an Orwellian Performance Review bot http://blog.elzeiny.io/posts/perf-ai/ (HN source)

Good architecture shouldn’t need a carrot or a stick https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2026-04-17-good-architecture-shouldnt-need-a-carrot-or-a-stick/ (HN source)

Details that make interfaces feel better https://jakub.kr/writing/details-that-make-interfaces-feel-better (HN source)

The Anatomy of Tool Calling in LLMs: A Deep Dive https://martinuke0.github.io/posts/2026-01-07-the-anatomy-of-tool-calling-in-llms-a-deep-dive/ (HN source)

Types and Neural Networks https://www.brunogavranovic.com/posts/2026-04-20-types-and-neural-networks.html (HN source)

I analysed 17 years of fast food and coffee spending using OpenAI Codex https://chrisflemming.com/blog/20260421-fast-food-coffee-spending-codex/ (HN source)

Front End Is Edge Computing https://edge.jmaleonard.com/01-frontend-is-edge-computing.html (HN source)

Myth-Journey Malware Analysis http://lockboxx.blogspot.com/2026/04/dont-run-this-game-inside-myth-journey.html (HN source)

What is Canton Network (and why should you care)? https://eric.mann.blog/what-is-canton-network/ (HN source)

The Missing Bundler Features https://byroot.github.io/ruby/bundler/2026/04/20/bundle-features.html (HN source)

Three Time-to-Power Strategies That Failed in 2025 https://chrisgillett.org/three-failed-time-to-power-strategies (HN source)

Trying and Failing with Claude https://www.uncorrelatedcontents.com/blog/trying-and-failing-with-claude (HN source)

My journey in optimising Elixir codebase https://hauleth.dev/post/things-about-elixir-you-probably-will-never-need/ (HN source)

Opus 4.7 – the best model nobody likes https://maxfavilli.com/posts/opus-4-7-the-best-model-nobody-likes/ (HN source)

RLMs are the new reasoning models https://raw.works/rlms-are-the-new-reasoning-models/ (HN source)

Why do people keep stealing the small sauce bottle? https://shub.club/writings/2026/april/why-do-people-steal-the-small-sauce-bottle/ (HN source)

Code Is the New Assembly https://abhyrama.com/code-is-the-new-assembly/ (HN source)

Scaling Claude beyond individual workflows – lessons from our team https://ninkovic.dev/blog/2026/scaling-claude-beyond-individual-workflows (HN source)

Language Modeling Without Neural Networks https://nathan.rs/posts/unbounded-n-gram/ (HN source)

Why you should work for a top tier tech company https://jsavage.xyz/2026/04/20/why-you-should-work-for-a-top-tier-tech-company/ (HN source)

Connecting in Narratives https://jason.blog/2026/04/16/connecting-in-narratives/ (HN source)

The Ultimate Question: What Does the Endgame Look Like? https://brodzinski.com/2026/04/what-endgame-looks-like.html (HN source)

Lessons from Going Solo https://alex000kim.com/posts/2026-04-20-lessons-from-going-solo/ (HN source)

Decision Graphs https://maxdemarzi.com/2026/04/20/decision-graphs/ (HN source)

Why do output tokens cost 5x more than input tokens? https://www.anirudhsathiya.com/blog/transformer (HN source)

Data as a Product Is a Promise https://yusufaytas.com/data-as-a-product-a-new-frontier (HN source)

A Thought on Bias, Power, and Decision Making https://neerajkarimpuzha.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/when-right-vs-wrong-isnt-really-about-truth-a-thought-on-bias-power-and-decision-making/ (HN source)

Anthropic installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop

Alex Ewerlöf Notes

Introducing: Local Browser AI

Up until recently, running language models in the browser was hard. With the introduction of Prompt API, browsers manage the complexity behind a simple idiomatic JavaScript API…

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7 months ago · 15 likes · Alex Ewerlöf

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My Life Story in a Nutshell https://jsavage.xyz/2026/04/11/im-back-heres-my-life-story-in-a-nutshell/ (HN source)

Looking back on Stripe’s payment API migration https://jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com/2026/04/19/review-stripes-payments-apis/ (HN source)