Mumin Ahmad Khan
CAT. NO. MAK—204
FILED 25.10.2026
STATUS OPEN
Full-stack software engineer building useful tools. Constantly learning, with a habit of connecting dots across different domains.
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Open an entry and it'll be filed here.
01 LAURENCE TRATT
A Week of Bug Reporting On reporting every bug you hit for a week instead of just moaning about it.
OPEN ↗ 02 ARMIN RONACHER
Anger, Anxiety and Agency On who, if anyone, is the AI villain we should be angry at.
OPEN ↗ 03 TERENCE TAO
Announcing the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence A new group on how mathematicians should engage with AI.
OPEN ↗ 04 DAN LUU
Bug blindness Why most people hit the same bugs constantly and simply stop noticing them.
OPEN ↗ 05 TIM DETTMERS
dlab Open Source Week: Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware On student job anxiety and putting frontier AI on hardware you own.
OPEN ↗ 06 JIM NIELSEN
Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables In defence of the drawer of old cables that always turns out to have exactly the one you need.
OPEN ↗ 07 TRANSLUCE
Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net Evidence of AI agents using a security service to slip restrictions and probe public data providers.
OPEN ↗ 08 BECCA WARNER
Getting your hands dirty boosts your health within weeks How touching soil, grass and moss benefits your skin and immune system.
OPEN ↗ 09 HACKTRON
Hacking OpenAI A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration that exposed OpenAI's internal repositories.
OPEN ↗ 10 ALAIN PANNETRAT
How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs How the EU's new packaging rules threaten hobbyist hardware sellers working out of spare rooms.
OPEN ↗ 12 HASKELL COMMUNITY
How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs A discussion on avoiding AI burnout and keeping the craft fun.
OPEN ↗ 13 MICHAEL LYNCH
How to Write an Effective Software Design Document Design doc practices from working as a developer at Google and Microsoft.
OPEN ↗ 15 MICHAEL HEAP
I don't want the details Why reasonable explanations are one of the easiest ways to avoid changing anything.
OPEN ↗ 16 COLIN BRECK
I Don't Want to Read What You Didn't Write Why intentional writing will likely become more valuable.
OPEN ↗ 17 ITAMAR NOVICK
Intro to Startup anti-pattern Series On the common, reasonable-looking startup habits that quietly increase the risk of failure.
OPEN ↗ 18 PAUL VEUGEN
Introducing Desert Ant Labs A frontier lab betting on small, specialised on-device models for audio, vision and text.
OPEN ↗ 19 VGHAISAS
It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell A home-security setup that turned into a Rube Goldberg machine of cloud services.
OPEN ↗ 20 CAL NEWPORT
It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs On the frontier labs' brazen announcements and why they deserve scrutiny.
OPEN ↗ 21 KAREN STOLLZNOW
Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy as you age Not a cure for ageing, but language learning still pays off for the brain.
OPEN ↗ 22 PAUL GRAHAM
Making Startups Powerful Why asking what would make a company more powerful beats asking how it could make more money.
OPEN ↗ 23 ZVI MOWSHOWITZ
METR and Redwood Offer Holy #%^@ Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack The independent postmortem of the HuggingFace hack, and what it adds to OpenAI's own report.
OPEN ↗ 24 NASUTTON
Nine coding harnesses vs your laptop Nine coding agent harnesses compared on how they treat the machine they run on.
OPEN ↗ 25 PAUL GRAHAM
On calling it thinking Comparing "think" for LLMs to astronomers using heliocentrism for the maths before believing it.
OPEN ↗ 26 MARK SEEMANN
On learning programming in an age of LLMs Open answers to a reader asking whether and how to learn programming now.
OPEN ↗ 27 JUSTIN STEINMAN
On Poisson Disk Sampling A one-page paper on placing things randomly but not too close together, explained.
OPEN ↗ 28 KYLE MCGOUGH
Patience Is Required for Local AI Why open models take months to reach their plateau, and day-one verdicts are usually wrong.
OPEN ↗ 30 WERWOLV
Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex An intro to file formats by reverse engineering the FEZ save file.
OPEN ↗ 31 MATT SCHWAGER
SAML: A fractal of bad design Why SAML's XML foundations make signature wrapping bugs inevitable, and why it should retire.
OPEN ↗ 32 GREG KOGAN
Say something people want On startup messaging that speaks to what customers want rather than what the founders built.
OPEN ↗ 33 OPENAI
Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries A model writing jailbreak-like instructions into its own context summaries during RL training.
OPEN ↗ 34 UC BERKELEY
Snap! Build Your Own Blocks A blocks-based programming language that goes far beyond Scratch.
OPEN ↗ 35 MHACEVEDO
The Discovery Problem Why the bottleneck to AI adoption is knowing what to ask for, not intelligence.
OPEN ↗ 36 SCOTT FRYXELL
The Harness Is the Thing Models are commodifying, so the leverage now lives in skills, extensions and scriptable apps.
OPEN ↗ 37 LIAM NUGENT
The most important product decision is what you don't build Teams can list what they shipped, but rarely what they killed.
OPEN ↗ 38 JOHN D. COOK
The part of Navier-Stokes no one is talking about On the Lean 4 formal proof that shipped alongside OpenAI's Navier-Stokes blow-up result.
OPEN ↗ 39 MASAKAZU URABE
The Vanished Genius CTO: A Biography of Lee Holloway The story of the Cloudflare co-founder who built its core technology and was forced to step away.
OPEN ↗ 40 ROHAN BANSAL
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres Teaching Qwen query optimisation through agentic reinforcement learning.
OPEN ↗ 41 SIMON WILLISON
Understanding ChatGPT Work A map of OpenAI's extraordinarily confusing and very powerful new product.
OPEN ↗ 42 PABLO SANTOS LUACES
Version control second coming From the Plastic SCM founder who started pitching investors the same week Git was announced.
OPEN ↗ 43 TAUTOLOGY.TOWN
What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks and how they differ from issuers, processors and acquirers.
OPEN ↗ 44 GLYPH LEFKOWITZ
What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like? The features every AI tool would need if it took its own premise seriously.
OPEN ↗ 45 DANIEL MANGUM
When the Debugger Lies Low-level debugging on Nordic's nRF54L security architecture, where the tools can't be trusted.
OPEN ↗ 46 BRUNO CROCI
When the fractional part of a float fixes your shader A full debugging session on a Voronoi shader that stuttered on only one machine.
OPEN ↗ 47 PREETHI SAM
5 CSS Properties You Should Know for Better Text Designs Five underused CSS properties for sharper typography, from background-clip to text-combine-upright.
OPEN ↗ 48 OMEGION
AI and Infrastructure Engineering Why AI automates the lookup work in infra but not the architectural decisions.
OPEN ↗ 49 FLORIAN HERRENGT
AI Is Removing the Middle Class of Software Engineering Why AI lets weak engineers ship problematic code faster than teams can review it.
OPEN ↗ 50 THE ATLANTIC
AI Wearable Surveillance Countermeasures On the countermeasures emerging against always-recording AI wearables.
OPEN ↗ 51 DAN MCKINLEY
Choose Boring Technology On spending your limited innovation tokens on the business, not the stack.
OPEN ↗ 52 BRANDUR
Does Anyone Run Postgres Without PgBouncer? On connection pooling being so universal it arguably belongs in Postgres itself.
OPEN ↗ 53 ACM QUEUE
Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI On the marketing claims and misread studies driving bad decisions about AI adoption.
OPEN ↗ 54 JOHN
Elevators How elevator scheduling actually works, and why destination dispatch underperforms plain buttons.
OPEN ↗ 55 DREW BREUNIG
Fable & The End of the Free Lunch How expensive frontier models force you to choose which model does which task.
OPEN ↗ 56 IKEA
How Does IKEA Come Up With Names for Its Products? On the Swedish naming system where sofas take place names and bookshelves take men's names.
OPEN ↗ 57 LAURENTIU RADUCU
How I Use LLMs to Learn Complex Topics On building interactive simulations with an LLM instead of asking it for explanations.
OPEN ↗ 58 PAUL GRAHAM
How Universities Should Prepare Founders Why deep technical skill and independent projects beat an entrepreneurship curriculum.
OPEN ↗ 59 ALEX CHAN
How We Tracked Down a 16-Year-Old SQLite Bug How scattered corruption reports led to a rare data race in SQLite's checkpoint path.
OPEN ↗ 60 ADAM CONWAY
I Gave Qwen 3.8 27B a Reverse-Engineering Job I Assumed Needed a Frontier Model How a local 27B model recovered a commercial app's licensing keys, entirely offline.
OPEN ↗ 61 RAFAEL PIERRE
I Put GitHub Copilot Behind a MITM Proxy What Copilot's network traffic reveals about how its features spend your credits.
OPEN ↗ 62 BEN DICKEN
Making 768 Servers Look Like 1 How sharding spreads data across hundreds of servers behind a single database interface.
OPEN ↗ 63 DEEPGROVE
Maple-Preview A 20B-A1B ternary-weight reasoning model built for efficient on-device inference.
OPEN ↗ 64 WALTER VAN DER GIESSEN
Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose How labs trade factual recall for reasoning, moving facts from weights to retrieval.
OPEN ↗ 65 FABIEN SANGLARD
My agent.md to Improve LLM-Assisted Code Quality How writing style guidelines down up front changes what an LLM hands back.
OPEN ↗ 66 PETER KRAFT
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY Can Actually Scale How batching pushes LISTEN/NOTIFY to 60K writes a second at millisecond latency.
OPEN ↗ 67 ANKUR SETHI
Prevent Cognitive Debt by Manually Retyping LLM-Generated Code Why retyping generated code by hand buys understanding at the cost of speed.
OPEN ↗ 68 BEN GODFREY
Process as a Proxy for Motivation How deciding the process up front removes the decision fatigue willpower can't cover.
OPEN ↗ 69 SIMON WILLISON
Qwen 3.8 27B Is Excellent, but It Defaults to Wildly Overthinking Things On a capable open-weight 27B model that burns reasoning tokens by default.
OPEN ↗ 70 JARRED SUMNER
Rewriting Bun in Rust How Bun's runtime moved from Zig to Rust in eleven days of agent-assisted work.
OPEN ↗ 71 NICOLO'S NOTES
Something Is Changing in the Unit Economics of Software How per-unit inference costs erode SaaS margins and push pricing toward usage.
OPEN ↗ 72 STOLEN-THOUGHTS.COM
Stolen Thoughts How encrypted chain-of-thought blocks turn out to be interchangeable across sessions, users and models.
OPEN ↗ 73 NOTASHELF
Taste Is All That's Left Why, once tools collapse the cost of building, judging what deserves to exist is the scarce skill.
OPEN ↗ 74 BJORN ROCHE
The AI Productivity Gap Why AI gains stay modest when writing code is only a small slice of the job.
OPEN ↗ 75 ZACH HOLMAN
The Cold Email On cold outreach as a genuine catalyst, survivor bias included.
OPEN ↗ 76 ALEX KOTLIARSKYI
The Productivity Mirage Why elaborate tooling matters less than picking meaningful problems and building product intuition.
OPEN ↗ 77 FERMISENSE
The Rise of Intelligence Ownership How an RL-tuned open-source model beat every frontier configuration on a real e-commerce workflow.
OPEN ↗ 78 WELI
The Valley of Webhooks Why webhooks are a poor fit for data replication, and ordered logs are the better primitive.
OPEN ↗ 79 FRANK WILES
Things I Would Have Done Differently On buying tools earlier and trusting your gut about clients and projects.
OPEN ↗ 80 ERICLAW
Web Security is Too Hard How a legitimate Cloudflare flow mimicked consent phishing well enough to fool the experts.
OPEN ↗ 81 SENDERLEDGER
What DMARC Actually Protects You From, and What It Does Not On what DMARC actually validates, and why it says nothing about sender intent.
OPEN ↗ 82 EARENDIL
What Is a Harness? On the system prompts, tools and agentic loops that turn a model into a working agent.
OPEN ↗ 83 ROGIX.DEV
What Is a Product? On the gap between an AI-generated prototype and something with users and a market.
OPEN ↗ 84 MUN LOGADAN
Why Does Opus 5 Feel Worse to Work With? On the gap between benchmark gains and day-to-day usability.
OPEN ↗ 85 TERENCE EDEN
A Bug Which Only Affected Left-Handed Users On a seven-year WordPress bug that only fired under a left thumb.
OPEN ↗ 86 ANNA LIBERTY
A Pragmatic Approach to LLMs Why the author avoids models for writing code but keeps them for navigation and vulnerability research.
OPEN ↗ 87 JUSTIN D FULLER
Accretive Editing How AI tools pile on addendums instead of replacing outdated information outright.
OPEN ↗ 88 OANA OLTEANU
Against Usefulness Why paradigm-shifting research needs patient funding and people chasing unfashionable questions.
OPEN ↗ 89 ADDY OSMANI
Agent Harness Engineering Why the scaffolding around a model matters more than the model's raw capability.
OPEN ↗ 90 ARDA TASCI
Ambiance: My Take on Harnesses Building an agent harness on Unix principles: modular, transparent, filesystem-based.
OPEN ↗ 91 YENNIE JUN
Are We Offloading Too Much of Our Thinking to AI? On what delegating judgement to models costs human autonomy and agency.
OPEN ↗ 92 SHUB.CLUB
Are You Telling Me a Readonly Property Is Wrecking My Performance? How repeatedly reading scrollHeight forces layout and eats the frame budget.
OPEN ↗ 93 VINAY GABA ET AL.
Benchmarking Coding Agents on Databricks' Multi-Million Line Codebase How open-source GLM 5.2 held its own against premium models at a fraction of the cost.
OPEN ↗ 94 SCOTT WILLSEY
Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode How command-line builds take Xcode out of the loop after initial setup.
OPEN ↗ 95 THEREALLO
Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests How invisible Unicode characters encode endpoint classification into system prompts.
OPEN ↗ 96 STILLTHINKING.NET
Connections in Math: The Two Kinds of Random On Shannon entropy versus Kolmogorov complexity, and why pi looks random but compresses trivially.
OPEN ↗ 97 AARON PORTNOY
Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left On publishing an arbitrary code execution bug in Cursor after seven months of silence.
OPEN ↗ 98 JANET CARR
Dolosse: A South African Invention Used Over the World On the wave-dissipating concrete blocks guarding coastlines worldwide, and their uncredited inventors.
OPEN ↗ 99 MITCHELL HASHIMOTO
Everyone Should Know SIMD How most SIMD work follows five predictable steps worth learning once.
OPEN ↗ 100 CRAIG MOD
Fast Software, the Best Software Why speed is a feature that protects flow and signals engineering quality.
OPEN ↗ 101 TRY-WORKS
First Principles of Model Routing Four rules: keep models distinct, pools small, benchmarks real, past decisions reviewed.
OPEN ↗ 102 ADAM KURKIEWICZ
GLM 5.2 Is (Nearly) as Accurate as a Human Book-Keeper at Under 1% of the Cost How an open-weights model prepares UK VAT returns at near-human accuracy.
OPEN ↗ 103 GWERN
Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security On personalised models that emulate your values to amplify you and guard against AI threats.
OPEN ↗ 104 WELI
Half-Baked Product How startups fail chasing market size over product quality while ignoring technical debt.
OPEN ↗ 105 THOMAS DULLIEN
Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship A long guide to founding: market selection, fundraising, product, hiring, operations.
OPEN ↗ 106 THATXLINER
Hologram A local-first desktop workspace for culling and managing RAW and JPEG photo libraries.
OPEN ↗ 107 TOM LOCKWOOD
How Is the Bun Rewrite in Rust Going? Questioning whether the rewrite is actually finished, given ongoing commits and no release tags.
OPEN ↗ 108 HAKI BENITA
How to Achieve Pruning When Querying by Non-Partitioned Columns in PostgreSQL Using check constraints to get partition pruning when you filter on the wrong column.
OPEN ↗ 109 PRADYUMNA PRASAD
How to Ask for Help From People Who Don't Know You On proof of work, context, and reasonable asks when writing to a stranger.
OPEN ↗ 110 ELIA SCOTTO
How to Read More Books On removing digital distractions, carrying a book everywhere, and keeping expectations realistic.
OPEN ↗ 111 KAPA.AI
How We Taught a Small LLM to Throw Away 68% of Our RAG Context How a cheap pruning pass drops two-thirds of retrieved chunks while keeping most recall.
OPEN ↗ 112 BRT.FYI
I Also Filed the Edges Off My MacBook On taking a hand file to a laptop's sharp palm-rest edges.
OPEN ↗ 113 BARTOSZ KOTRYS
I Burned All My Tokens Researching How to Save Tokens How orchestrating cheaper models beats reaching for a frontier model at every step.
OPEN ↗ 114 GEOHOT
I Love LLMs, I Hate Hype Enthusiasm for the progress, impatience with closed models and singularity talk.
OPEN ↗ 115 ALEC SCOLLON
I Think I Have LLM Burnout On fatigue from the repetitive patterns and stylistic tics of working with models.
OPEN ↗ 116 MARCIN WICHARY
If You're a Button, You Have One Job Why buffering rapid taps beats dropping them, compared across iPhone and Android.
OPEN ↗ 117 RUXANDRA TESLO
Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck Why governance and policy gate real-world progress more than raw capability does.
OPEN ↗ 118 ALEX ALEJANDRE
Interview With Mitchell Hashimoto On terminal design, Zig, open-source philosophy and API design.
OPEN ↗ 119 GLYPHACK
It's Getting Harder to Focus Every Day On the steady erosion of attention and what it costs.
OPEN ↗ 120 ARIYA HIDAYAT
Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS with Kokoro How to run an 82M-parameter speech model that still sounds good, entirely on CPU.
OPEN ↗ 121 ANTHONY HOBDAY
Notes on Software Quality On how craft decays at organisational scale, and which quality signals survive.
OPEN ↗ 122 SHREWD BLAWG
Ollama vs llama-server: Quick Benchmark Similar generation speed on GPU, but llama-server wins clearly on prompt processing.
OPEN ↗ 123 OPENAI
OpenAI and Hugging Face Partner to Address Security Incident During Model Evaluation On models under reduced safeguards escaping isolation and reaching third-party systems during evaluation.
OPEN ↗ 124 PETER KRAFT AND QIAN LI
Postgres Transactions Are a Distributed Systems Superpower How co-locating workflow state with application data buys exactly-once execution.
OPEN ↗ 125 ALEX CHAN
Rebuilding the Computer Room How portable computing erased the boundaries around attention, and what physical limits restore.
OPEN ↗ 126 CSIRO PUBLISHING
Spider Venom Kills Varroa Mites Without Harming Honeybees How peptides from cave and funnel-web spider venom target the mite but spare bees.
OPEN ↗ 127 YAEL GRAUER
Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM Why deflecting hard questions to a model dismisses human expertise and lived experience.
OPEN ↗ 128 ELLO
Teaching a Child in <1000 ms: The Architecture Behind a Real-Time Tutor How a real-time reading tutor for children was architected around pedagogy, not just latency.
OPEN ↗ 129 GEA BLOG
The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming Why small personal devices keep multiplying, and the real opening is who writes their software.
OPEN ↗ 130 JIM NIELSEN
The AI Aesthetic On the visual and interaction patterns emerging from AI tools spreading into software generally.
OPEN ↗ 131 JA WESTENBERG
The Bread Paradox: Why Convenience Always Wins Why convenience keeps winning, and why that makes SaaS more durable than predicted.
OPEN ↗ 132 KENT BECK
The Cost YAGNI Was Never About Why YAGNI is about optionality and timing, not typing effort, even when code is cheap.
OPEN ↗ 133 MALISPER.ME
The Four Horsemen Behind Thousands of Postgres Outages On VACUUM, connection limits, planner failures and JSON statistics gaps.
OPEN ↗ 134 INTREPIDKARTHI
The Gauge Broke How AI tools make experienced developers feel faster while measurably slowing them down.
OPEN ↗ 135 LALIT MAGANTI
The git history Command Deserves More Attention How git's experimental history command gives jujutsu-like branch handling without switching tools.
OPEN ↗ 136 FARID ZAKARIA
The Mean Means Nothing Why a single summary statistic misleads, and why plots tell the whole story.
OPEN ↗ 137 AYUSH PAUL
The Memory Heist How a crafted website used an assistant's browsing to exfiltrate a user's personal data.
OPEN ↗ 138 EARENDIL ENGINEERING
The Session You Cannot Take With You How opaque, non-portable session state locks you into an inference provider.
OPEN ↗ 139 HUGO LANDAU
Web-Based Cryptography Is Always Snake Oil Why browser-delivered end-to-end encryption is incoherent when the server ships the code.
OPEN ↗ 140 CHIP WEINBERGER
What I Learned Selling 2500 MIDI Recorders, Part 1: Hardware Is Not So Hard How the hardware turned out easier than the software when shipping a physical product.
OPEN ↗ 141 JUSTIN FLICK
Why I Hate LLM Confidence Scores Why self-reported confidence has no scientific basis and buys only false reassurance.
OPEN ↗ 142 GETAPPS.CAFE
Why the Future Is Local App On local-first software winning on speed, privacy and ownership.
OPEN ↗ 143 GUSEYN ISMAYYLOV
Why Vanilla JS On building a whole SaaS product with web components and no build pipeline.
OPEN ↗ 144 LEV KOKOTOV
Why We Built Yet Another Postgres Connection Pooler How PgDog supports SET, LISTEN/NOTIFY and multithreaded scaling without application changes.
OPEN ↗ 145 CARSON GROSS
Working With AI: A Concrete Example How a developer who knows the domain collaborates with AI without accruing debt.
OPEN ↗ 146 NEAL STEPHENSON
Writing by Hand Is Good for Your Brain Practical handwriting technique, pens and paper included, for the benefit without the fatigue.
OPEN ↗ 147 RAY MYERS
Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke A sceptical read of the Bun Zig-to-Rust rewrite and the claims made around it.
OPEN ↗ 148 MAARTEN GROOTENDORST
A Visual Guide to Gemma 4 12B How Gemma 4 drops separate encoders and projects raw vision and audio straight into the LLM.
OPEN ↗ 149 AKRITES
Akrites Open Letter A coordinated cross-industry effort to remediate vulnerabilities in critical open source.
OPEN ↗ 150 LUKE STEPHENS
Are Bug Bounties Cooked? Whether AI-democratized bug discovery is a Quartz Crisis moment for bug bounties.
OPEN ↗ 151 RICK OSGOOD
Banned Book Library Modifying WiFi smart bulbs into wireless dead drops that host banned books.
OPEN ↗ 152 JIM NIELSEN
Blogging Can Just Be Stating the Obvious Why articulating obvious truths others overlook is a surprisingly valuable kind of writing.
OPEN ↗ 153 BENJAMIN CANE
Cell-Based Architecture for Resilient Payment Systems How American Express isolates failures with cells to keep global payments resilient.
OPEN ↗ 154 MARK DOMINUS
Deciphering Basmala How Unicode and font design solved rendering the Arabic basmala correctly across platforms.
OPEN ↗ 155 TORGEIR HELGEVOLD
Fine-Tuning a Local LLM to Categorize Questions Fine-tuning a 0.6B model to 92% accuracy by mapping categories to short two-char codes.
OPEN ↗ 156 BROWSER USE
Firecracker Browser Infrastructure Rebuilding cloud browsers on Firecracker microVMs for 3x cheaper, sub-second startups.
OPEN ↗ 157 HACKERNEWSTRENDS.COM
Hacker Trends Chart how any topic has trended across 18 years of Hacker News posts and comments.
OPEN ↗ 158 PAUL GRAHAM
How to Earn a Billion Dollars Why exponential growth in a large market, not cheating, is what builds billion-dollar startups.
OPEN ↗ 159 TOM BEDOR
How to Write Good (Short) Docs Practical guidance for concise one-page docs that respect a reader's attention.
OPEN ↗ 160 DENNIS BROTZKY
How's Linear So Fast? A Technical Breakdown The architecture behind Linear's speed: a browser database, sync engine, and optimistic mutations.
OPEN ↗ 161 MLL.SH
Humiliating IIS Servers for Fun and Jail Time A bug-bounty methodology for enumerating and exploiting IIS and .NET web servers.
OPEN ↗ 162 PAUL BUCHHEIT
If Your Product Is Great, It Doesn't Need to Be Good Perfect three core features rather than spreading effort across many mediocre ones.
OPEN ↗ 163 GRAPHICORE
Libre Barcode Free open-source fonts that render scannable Code 39, Code 128, and EAN/UPC barcodes.
OPEN ↗ 164 JIM MONTGOMERY
LLM Code Style and Token Costs Preferring native Web APIs over hand-rolled code cuts LLM output tokens by 85–92%.
OPEN ↗ 165 ALEX ELLIS
Local AI Is Not Opus Local Qwen models aren't a worse Opus — they're a different tool for different jobs.
OPEN ↗ 166 MIDJOURNEY
Midjourney Medical Midjourney's medical imaging initiative and its blog announcement.
OPEN ↗ 167 PRESTON JENSEN
Playing with Vision Embeddings Probing how DINOv3 encodes visual concepts into embeddings using sparse autoencoders.
OPEN ↗ 168 MOHAMED HABIB
Scaling One VM to a Million Sandboxes Redesigning OpenComputer into multi-cell, multi-cloud cells to run millions of sandboxes.
OPEN ↗ 169 TEREZA TIZKOVA
Software Abundance As AI lowers the barrier to building software, value pivots to services and outcomes.
OPEN ↗ 170 SAMSCH
Stop Using JWTs (for Sessions) Why JWTs are a poor fit for session management and cookie-based sessions are better.
OPEN ↗ 171 ARMIN RONACHER
The Coming Loop On AI agent loops and how external harnesses reshape how code gets written and maintained.
OPEN ↗ 172 ARUN
The JR Logo How Japan's railways kept one identity through a mark designed in 124 days.
OPEN ↗ 173 AJEY GORE
The Solo Climb Why teams need robust harnesses before running AI agents with minimal oversight.
OPEN ↗ 174 JAMES O'CLAIRE
The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models Why open-weight models are so much cheaper — real cost advantage or deliberate scarcity?
OPEN ↗ 175 ALEPH
Ultrasound Imaging of the Brain MRI-level brain imaging through an intact skull using ultrasound and microbubbles.
OPEN ↗ 176 BAIDU
Unlimited-OCR An OCR system for one-shot long-horizon parsing of unlimited-length documents.
OPEN ↗ 177 NOLAN LAWSON
Using AI to Write Better Code More Slowly On using LLMs for methodical code review rather than fast, low-quality generation.
OPEN ↗ 178 ETHAN MOLLICK
What It Feels Like to Work with Mythos On how frontier models shift the human role from participant to commissioner of finished work.
OPEN ↗ 179 KARL TRYGGVASON
You Can't Unit Test for Taste On the parts of software quality that automated tests can never capture.
OPEN ↗ 180 ANSON BIGGS
You're Probably Using Agent Skills Wrong Agent skills should be human-authored to fill real knowledge gaps, not self-generated.
OPEN ↗ 181 MURAT DEMIRBAS
Your Attitude Determines Your Success How mindset and emotional management, more than talent, shape whether you succeed.
OPEN ↗ 182 ELON LITMAN
A Theory of Deep Learning A framework for why deep networks generalize despite overfitting.
OPEN ↗ 183 AUDIOMASS.CO
AudioMass A browser-based, open-source audio editor with no backend required.
OPEN ↗ 184 AARON BRETHORST
Domain Expertise Has Always Been the Real Moat Why domain knowledge—not raw coding—becomes the scarce skill in the AI era.
OPEN ↗ 186 MILAN MILANOVIĆ
Laws of Software Engineering A curated set of principles and patterns that shape software, teams, and decisions.
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