How good engineers write bad code at big companies
Every couple of years somebody notices that large tech companies sometimes produce surprisingly sloppy code. If you haven’t worked at…
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Migrating the Main Zig Repository from GitHub to Codeberg
← Back to News page Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg November 26, 2025 Ever since git init ten years ago,…
Report claims that Apple has yet again put the Mac Pro “on the back burner”
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Leaving Meta and PyTorch
**Leaving Meta and PyTorch** It’s finally time… November 6th, 2025 [https://soumith.ch/blog.html](https://soumith.ch/blog.html) Eleven years at Meta. Nearly all my professional life….
The IDEs we had 30 years ago … and we lost
The IDEs we had 30 years ago… and we lostA deep dive into the text mode editors we had and…
What Does George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Mean in 2024?
Edmond O’Brien and Jan Sterling during the filming of a 1956 adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 Harry Todd / Fox Photos…
OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion
In Brief Posted: 10:39 PM PDT · October 14, 2025 Image Credits:Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images Connie Loizos OpenAI…
Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
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Rating 26 years of Java changes
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The fixer’s dilemma: Chris Lehane and OpenAI’s impossible mission
Chris Lehane is one of the best in the business at making bad news disappear. Al Gore’s press secretary during…
How to save the world with ZFS and 12 USB sticks: 4th anniversary video (2011)
About 4 years ago, a few colleagues and myself got together and we created a short video about the coolness…
North Korean Scammers Are Doing Architectural Design Now
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyTalented North Korean coders and developers have, for years, been getting hired for remote…
New deep tech fund Wave Function Ventures raises $15 million
When Jamie Gull graduated from Stanford University in 2007 with a master’s degree in aeronautics, there was one place he…
After nine years of grinding, Replit finally found its market. Can it keep it?
While AI coding startups like Cursor raise brow-raising rounds on barely three years of existence, Replit’s path to a $3…
Google just erased 7 years of our political history
Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of…
Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?
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I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster
I ordered a set of 10 Compute Blades in April 2023 (two years ago), and they just arrived a few…
WASM 3.0 Completed
Wasm 3.0 Completed Published on September 17, 2025 by Andreas Rossberg. Three years ago, version 2.0 of the Wasm standard…
The 50 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now (September 2025)
CommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyWhile Netflix seemingly led the way for other streaming networks to create compelling original…
You Want Technology With Warts
I normally skip presentations because I prefer reading, but Building the Hundred-Year Web Service (YouTube) was worth the time.11 Note…