hcker.news — day · include: Small Web

How to ask for help from people who don't know you

2026-07-02T13:19:22Z

485 points by FigurativeVoid | 70 comments

Article: https://pradyuprasad.com/writings/how-to-ask-for-help/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48761118

CarPlay Is Additive

2026-07-03T01:02:45Z

327 points by sprawl_ | 428 comments

Article: https://www.caseyliss.com/2026/7/2/carplay-is-additive-you-dolts
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48769397

The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable

2026-07-02T19:11:57Z

140 points by Riseed | 174 comments

Article: https://blog.okturtles.org/2026/07/short-leash-ai-method/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48766026

No LLM Code in Dependencies

2026-07-02T14:17:23Z

117 points by edward | 109 comments

Article: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/no_LLM_code_in_dependencies/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48762008

FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet

2026-07-02T22:48:00Z

33 points by k1m | 11 comments

Article: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/fbi-seizes-netnut-proxy-platform-popa-botnet/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48768374

Show HN: I measured the half-life of 41,301 Show HN launches. It's 7 hours

2026-07-02T11:38:20Z

28 points by jonnonz | 7 comments

Article: https://jonno.nz/posts/your-show-hn-dies-in-7-hours/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48759838

Small Molecules Have More Information per Atom Than Biologics

2026-07-02T23:34:37Z

13 points by sebg | 4 comments

Article: https://corinwagen.github.io/public/blog/20260701_information_content.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48768768

Good APIs Age Slowly

2026-07-02T14:34:43Z

13 points by birdculture | 0 comments

Article: https://yusufaytas.com/good-apis-age-slowly
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48762268

Designing Systems Series

2026-07-03T09:06:15Z

9 points by yusufaytas | 2 comments

Article: https://yusufaytas.com/series/designing-systems
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48772701

Engineering Career Series

2026-07-02T16:14:15Z

9 points by yusufaytas | 1 comments

Article: https://yusufaytas.com/series/engineering-career
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48763668

Tiny-C Reference Manual Excerpt

2026-07-02T13:30:41Z

9 points by surprisetalk | 0 comments

Article: https://permacomputer.solarpunk.au/?p=204
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48761319

Understanding Is the New Bottleneck

2026-07-02T19:55:20Z

8 points by alpaylan | 2 comments

Article: https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2026/07/02/understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48766517

A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator

2026-07-03T09:36:31Z

7 points by hosteur | 2 comments

Article: https://kottke.org/26/04/day-in-the-life-of-an-enshittificator
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48772954

Measuring Input Latency with VK_EXT_present_timing

2026-07-02T15:38:52Z

7 points by ledoge | 0 comments

Article: https://themaister.net/blog/2026/07/02/my-side-quest-measuring-input-latency-with-vk_ext_present_timing/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48763228

Mozilla Thundermail – standard Big Tech, anti-user TOS and privacy policy

2026-07-02T12:25:04Z

6 points by nekusar | 1 comments

Article: https://infosec.exchange/@crankylinuxuser/116847878544800671
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48760379

The Most Effective Screen Time Passcode Is One You Can't Remember

2026-07-02T19:08:29Z

6 points by adesertrained | 0 comments

Article: https://mindfultech.bearblog.dev/the-most-effective-screen-time-passcode-is-one-you-cant-remember/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48765990

High-performance Rust: Understanding and eliminating memory fragmentation

2026-07-02T16:00:35Z

6 points by dabinat | 0 comments

Article: https://kerkour.com/rust-high-performance-memory-fragmentation-allocations
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48763496

Google's exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat

2026-07-03T01:52:09Z

5 points by colinprince | 2 comments

Article: https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48769767

Removing Idle Uploads

2026-07-02T20:45:37Z

5 points by Cider9986 | 1 comments

Article: https://blog.catbox.moe/post/821058172332769280/removing-idle-uploads
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48767135

We need an accounting system for cognitive debt

2026-07-02T20:30:45Z

4 points by mikaelaast | 0 comments

Article: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MikaeI/cognizance/refs/heads/main/we_need_an_accounting_system_for_cognitive_debt.txt
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48766966

Low-level Haskell: The cursed way to emulate inline assembly in Haskell/GHC, or

2026-07-02T14:42:04Z

4 points by fanf2 | 0 comments

Article: https://minoki.github.io/posts/2026-06-30-haskell-inline-asm.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48762376

Pull Requests Are for Humans

2026-07-02T13:46:50Z

3 points by rmccue | 1 comments

Article: https://journal.rmccue.io/498/pull-requests-are-for-humans/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48761578

Building a Passive Ethernet Tap

2026-07-02T12:41:24Z

3 points by birdculture | 1 comments

Article: https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/building-a-passive-ethernet-tap/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48760610

Understanding Is the New Bottleneck

2026-07-03T07:46:01Z

3 points by ingve | 0 comments

Article: https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2026/07/02/understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48772116

Claude Code Settings That Made Me a Faster Software Architect

2026-07-03T04:52:09Z

3 points by javatuts | 0 comments

Article: https://jsdev.space/claude-code-settings-software-architect/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48770897

In Defense of AI Mandates

2026-07-03T03:34:40Z

3 points by backlit4034 | 0 comments

Article: https://charity.wtf/2026/07/02/in-defense-of-ai-mandates-xpost/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48770400

Building an Intern

2026-07-03T00:21:41Z

3 points by ghiculescu | 0 comments

Article: https://cra.mr/building-an-intern/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48769140

Why I Love Coding (2012)

2026-07-02T19:35:59Z

3 points by downbad_ | 0 comments

Article: https://henrikwarne.com/2012/06/02/why-i-love-coding/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48766309

What does your user agent do?

2026-07-02T18:59:43Z

3 points by kinlan | 0 comments

Article: https://paul.kinlan.me/ua-tracer/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48765873

AI will make biological extinction risks worse before it makes them better

2026-07-02T13:15:03Z

3 points by surprisetalk | 0 comments

Article: https://mdickens.me/2026/06/29/AI_will_make_biorisk_worse_before_making_it_better/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48761069

The proper way to verify age & other attributes without revealing identity [pdf]

2026-07-02T12:33:15Z

2 points by EGreg | 2 comments

Article: https://magarshak.com/papers/privacy/Personal.pdf
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48760492

Buy or wait on local LLM hardware during the memory crunch

2026-07-02T12:01:22Z

2 points by thefrontierlab | 1 comments

Article: https://thefrontierlab.ai/buy-or-wait-local-llm-hardware/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48760089

Swimming Pools, Pee, and Trying to Delete Your Data from the Internet

2026-07-03T09:32:10Z

2 points by jruohonen | 0 comments

Article: https://www.troyhunt.com/swimming-pools-pee-and-trying-to-delete-your-data-from-the-internet/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48772933

ClickHouse is winning the observability wars

2026-07-03T09:31:06Z

2 points by hiyer | 0 comments

Article: https://matduggan.com/clickhouse-is-winning-the-observability-wars/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48772926

Why Build vs. Buy is the wrong question

2026-07-03T05:58:08Z

2 points by quii | 0 comments

Article: https://quii.dev/Why_%22Build_vs_Buy%22_is_the_Wrong_Question
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48771331

AI dev platform that keeps project context across the whole codebase lifecycle

2026-07-03T04:27:59Z

2 points by RihabAI | 0 comments

Article: https://brunelly.com/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48770705

Building the T.LY iOS App

2026-07-02T23:45:39Z

2 points by TimLeland | 0 comments

Article: https://timleland.com/building-the-tly-ios-app/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48768863

Greyshark AUV – Biologically Inspired High-Performance Underwater Drone

2026-07-02T22:41:24Z

2 points by EA-3167 | 0 comments

Article: https://www.hisutton.com/Greyshark-AUV.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48768307

Proving the fundamental theorem of arithmetic in Agda

2026-07-02T17:42:04Z

2 points by fanf2 | 0 comments

Article: https://byorgey.github.io/blog/posts/2026/06/26/FTA.lagda.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48764886

The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work"

2026-07-02T14:07:56Z

2 points by hn_acker | 0 comments

Article: https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/02/canonization/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48761868

What Should We Optimize Away?

2026-07-02T12:45:21Z

2 points by surprisetalk | 0 comments

Article: https://www.autodidacts.io/holistic-optimization/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48760651

Closed class hierarchies in .NET 11

2026-07-02T12:43:20Z

2 points by ingve | 0 comments

Article: https://andrewlock.net/exploring-the-dotnet-11-preview-4-closed-class-hierarchies/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48760631

ClickHouse is winning the Observability Wars

2026-07-02T11:19:18Z

2 points by emschwartz | 0 comments

Article: https://matduggan.com/clickhouse-is-winning-the-observability-wars/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48759650

Authenticating MCPs: three ways we do it

2026-07-02T11:00:36Z

2 points by mattjstn | 0 comments

Article: https://matthew-johnston.com/authenticating-mcps/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48759460

I replaced my GitHub runners with Lambda MicroVMs, and maybe you should too

2026-07-03T08:18:49Z

1 points by touristtam | 1 comments

Article: https://lucvandonkersgoed.com/2026/07/01/i-replaced-my-github-runners-with-lambda-microvms-and-maybe-you-should-too/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48772354

Wordpalette – what color is a word?

2026-07-02T12:02:24Z

1 points by gaigalas | 1 comments

Article: https://alganet.github.io/wordpalette/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48760101

Deepest hand dug well in the world

2026-07-02T11:33:06Z

1 points by zeristor | 1 comments

Article: https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/places/utilities/woodingdean-well/woodingdean-well
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48759784

The AI Superforecasters Are Here

2026-07-03T08:52:00Z

1 points by Michelangelo11 | 0 comments

Article: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-ai-superforecasters-are-here
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48772586

The Law of Leaky Abstractions (2002)

2026-07-03T08:04:52Z

1 points by SmartHypercube | 0 comments

Article: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48772255

Scripting fm, Apple's Foundation Models CLI

2026-07-03T07:44:48Z

1 points by theraven | 0 comments

Article: https://petegoldsmith.com/2026/07/02/2026-07-02-fm-pcc-not-available-in-this-context/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48772110