Clean code in the age of coding agents

Coding agents' productivity is affected by codebase structure, not just value, as poor organization leads to increased context and costs. Providing clear organization and reviewing outcomes can help mitigate these issues when working with LLMs.

LittleSnitch for Linux

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Little Snitch for Linux is a network monitoring tool that tracks and blocks unwanted connections. It uses eBPF to observe and intercept network activity, and can be configured through a web interface or plain text files.

A WebGPU Implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent

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This project is an experimental WebGPU physics prototype using AVBD solver for rigid-body and soft-body physics. It's an initial proof of concept with limited browser support and requires further updates for stability and ease of use.

Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation

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Meta removed ads from attorneys seeking clients harmed by social media under 18 after a California case found Meta and YouTube negligent. Meta claims it's removing ads to avoid adverse legal impacts and prevent trial lawyers from profiting from its platforms.

Session is shutting down in 90 days

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Session has 90 days left before shutting down due to insufficient funding, with $65,000 in donations covering infrastructure costs until July 8, 2026. The Session Technology Foundation needs $1 million to operate, and donations will be publicly donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation if funding is not secured.

How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU

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The user reimplemented the traffic system from the 1994 DOS game Pizza Tycoon, which runs on a 25 MHz CPU, using a simple one-way road system and pairwise collision detection. The system uses a straightforward approach, with cars not needing pathfinding or physics, and collision detection being cheap due to early-exit logic and limited road directions.

Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement

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Lichess will provide infrastructure for Take Take Take's new play zone, remaining free and open-source. This cooperation aims to increase healthy competition and innovation in the chess ecosystem.

Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy

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The English language has lost many personal pronouns over the centuries, including the dual form "wit" which referred to two people, due to simplification and changes in social and political norms. Despite this, some Old English pronouns like "he", "it", and "we" have survived more than 1,000 years of history and upheaval, almost intact.

One Brain to Query: Wiring a 60-Person Company into a Single Slack Bot

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What happens when a company connects its data warehouse, documents, tickets, and code into a single AI agent that any employee can talk to in Slack.

Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming

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The homebrew community allows individuals to create and run their own games on the Nintendo DS without needing official development contracts or equipment, using devices like passthroughs and NoPass devices to bypass copy protection. To get started, one should choose a Slot-1 device, such as the R4DS, M3 Real, or Cyclo DS Evolution, which supports DLDI and can run homebrew software from a microSD card.

Building a framework-agnostic Ruby gem (and making sure it doesn't break)

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The author of Ruby Native learned that keeping an API clean across multiple frameworks like ERB, React, and Vue requires a framework-agnostic approach, such as using data attributes in HTML. They achieved this by using a MutationObserver to translate these attributes into native UI, allowing them to support multiple frameworks without breaking others.

Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent

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CSS Studio offers a suite of design tools for editing layout, styles, and animations on a webpage. It sends updates to a local AI agent for implementation, automating code writing, review, and deployment.

FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility: Top Laptops to Use with FreeBSD

whether devices have degraded functionality, reducing the score by 0.5-1.5 based on severity and how important it is to the laptop experience (wi-fi/graphics weighted more)

Open Source Security at Astral

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The Astral organization shares techniques to secure their tools and GitHub Actions workflows, including pinning actions to specific commits and limiting permissions. They also enforce strong 2FA, branch protection rules, and immutable releases to prevent account and repository compromises.

Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies

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Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

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Thunderbird is funded by user contributions, not ads or corporate funding, to provide a private and customizable email experience. Users can support Thunderbird by donating to help maintain servers, fix bugs, and develop new features.

Tree Calculus

Tree Calculus was discovered by Barry Jay and developed by Johannes Bader. It's a system for representing and manipulating natural binary trees with a unique operator △.

Haunted Paper Toys

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The toy shop offers a variety of unusual paper toys, including haunted houses, monsters, and other dark delights, which can be printed and assembled with common supplies.

Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)

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The Fifth Element is a visually stunning film that features a combination of practical and digital effects, with a team of artists and technicians working together to bring the film's futuristic world to life. The film's visual effects were created by Digital Domain, with a team of over 170 artists and technicians working on the project, led by visual effects supervisor Mark Stetson and ...

Launch HN: Relvy (YC F24) – On-call runbooks, automated

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Marketing promos went live, potentially causing traffic spikes, and need to be monitored. Relvy AI is checking logs for issues like auth failures and host-specific errors.

Claude mixes up who said what

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Claude sometimes sends messages to itself and mistakenly attributes them to the user, leading to incorrect assumptions. This 'who said what' bug is distinct from hallucinations and permission issues, and seems to be a problem with the model's internal labelling rather than its behavior.

Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

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You're switching from Claude to Zed editor and OpenRouter for more flexibility and to avoid hitting limits. You'll pay $10/month for Zed and top up $90/month to OpenRouter.

Small Engines

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Building small, efficient heat engines is challenging due to the unfavorable surface area to volume ratio and difficulties in maintaining heat differences and flame propagation at small scales. Researchers are exploring alternative approaches, such as using new physics like sound waves and piezoelectric materials, to create small prime movers that can efficiently convert heat into motion.

C# in Unity 2026: Features Most Developers Still Don't Use

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Learn practical C# features Unity developers still skip in 2026: properties, tuples, LINQ performance, and records with real examples.

Show HN: Moon simulator game, ray-casting

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If you enjoy this free game, consider buying me a sake coffee…

Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)

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Welcome to DDJ Devloper Library DVD-ROM, which contains articlesfrom Dr. Dobb's Journal from January 1988 through December 2008,articles from C/C++ Users...

The Importance of Being Idle

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Paul Lafargue, a Marxist and son-in-law of Karl Marx, advocated for the right to be lazy, arguing that machines could free humans from manual labor and provide leisure and liberty. He believed that a life of idleness, or otium, would be a paradise where people could enjoy the pleasure of doing nothing.

USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers

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Writing a USB driver is not as difficult as it seems and can be achieved without touching kernel code by using the libusb library. The process involves detecting the device, sending requests to the device's control endpoint, and decoding the responses to understand the device's capabilities and configuration.

I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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The author successfully ported Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah to the Nintendo Wii by writing a custom bootloader, patching the kernel, and creating drivers for the Wii's hardware. The author overcame various challenges, including hardware incompatibilities, driver development, and debugging, to achieve a fully functional Mac OS X system on the Wii.

Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example

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The Kalman Filter is an algorithm for estimating and predicting a system's state in the presence of uncertainty. It is used in various fields such as object tracking, navigation, and control.