I miss thinking hard

The writer feels stuck as a software engineer because they're not using their problem-solving skills as much due to relying on AI for coding. They miss the mental growth and satisfaction from deep thinking.

Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product

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The user launched their first hardware product, Brighter, a 50,000 lumens lamp, after quitting their software engineering job and faced numerous manufacturing and quality control issues. Despite these challenges, the user learned valuable lessons about the importance of detailed planning, rigorous testing, and effective communication in the hardware development process.

Data centers in space makes no sense

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SpaceX acquired xAI to form a $1.25 trillion company aiming to send data centers into space. However, experts argue this concept is a fantasy due to scalability, upgrade, and cost-effectiveness issues.

The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75

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Cable Tie Link sells the world's largest zip tie, 47 inches long and holding 2,000 pounds. It's available for $75 or in packs for $799.99 and $1,699.99.

Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery

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Craftplan is a business platform for artisanal manufacturing with tools for catalog management, inventory control, and production planning. It supports small-batch production and has features for allergen tracking and BOM versioning.

Deno Sandbox

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Deno Sandbox provides lightweight Linux microVMs for running untrusted code with defense-in-depth security. It controls network egress, protects secrets, and allows direct deployment to Deno Deploy without rebuilding.

Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game

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A person has successfully decompiled and rewritten the 2003 game Crimsonland from scratch using a combination of tools and AI models, aiming to preserve the original game's behavior and mechanics exactly. The project took two weeks and 1666 commits, with the goal of creating a working and thoroughly documented reimplementation that is faithful to the original game.

Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode

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Xcode 26.3 introduces agentic coding, allowing developers to use coding agents like Claude Agent and Codex for greater autonomy. This feature streamlines workflows, boosts productivity, and enables developers to focus on innovation.

Agent Skills

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Agent Skills provide procedural knowledge and context to agents, enabling them to perform tasks more accurately and efficiently. This open standard allows skill authors to deploy capabilities across multiple agents and teams to capture organizational knowledge.

AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines

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AliSQL is Alibaba's MySQL branch with performance optimizations and features for large-scale applications. It integrates DuckDB and supports vector processing for AI-driven applications.

New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

221 Cannon is Not For Sale

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The author's vacant land in Wilton, CT was targeted by a scammer who impersonated him and his brother, attempting to sell the property multiple times. The scammer used fake IDs and communicated through email and text messages to avoid detection.

FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention

Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust

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prek is a Rust-based alternative to pre-commit, offering faster performance and additional features. It provides a single binary with no dependencies, improved toolchain installations, and parallel hook execution.

Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins

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Y Combinator will allow its spring cohort to receive funding in stablecoins, specifically USDC, on various blockchains. This move is part of the incubator's focus on stablecoins, which are seen as a key area for startup ideas.

Qwen3-Coder-Next

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Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight language model for coding agents with strong capabilities and lower inference costs. It excels at long-horizon reasoning and multi-turn tasks, outperforming larger models in some agent-centric evaluations.

Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown

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Notepad++ developers reported a supply chain attack from June to December 2025, with attackers rotating C2 server addresses and using various infection chains. Kaspersky solutions blocked identified attacks, and the attackers used different payloads, including Cobalt Strike Beacon and Chrysalis backdoor.

1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico

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Archaeologists discovered a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in southern Mexico with well-preserved carvings and murals. The tomb provides significant information about Zapotec culture, social organization, and funereal rituals.

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

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European governments are turning to domestic or free alternatives to reduce reliance on US Big Tech companies, driven by concerns over data privacy and digital sovereignty. The push for "digital sovereignty" is gaining momentum as the US takes a more belligerent posture towards Europe.

X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok

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French prosecutor's office raided X's Paris office investigating unlawful data extraction and child pornography. Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino summoned to hearings over suspected crimes.

Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025

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Intel Xeon W-2500 and W-3500 processors had zero failures in 2025, making them the most reliable. Kingston's DRAM modules had the lowest failure rate at 0.19%.

Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too

Reference Target is a new property on shadow root objects that lets you nominate an element in the shadow root's subtree which should be the target of any attribute-based reference to the shadow host, solving a specific problem of encapsulating built-in element behavior while allowing other elements to refer to the custom element. The spec changes have been implemented in Chromium with the ...

Bunny Database

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Bunny Database is a SQLite-compatible managed service that offers low latency, flexible region deployment, and cost-efficient pricing. It's designed for developers who want a simple, reliable database without the high costs of DBaaS platforms.

Machinery and English Style (1904)

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IN every age since written language began, rhetorical forms have been to a considerable extent influenced by the writing materials and implements which were available for man’s use. This is a familiar observation in studies of the past. Is it not, then, time that somebody inquired into the effects upon the form and substance of our present-day language of the veritable maze of devices which ...

Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%

Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework

Aram and Eduard, co-founders of Modelence, created an open-source full-stack framework for AI coding, combining TypeScript and MongoDB for error prevention and schema management. Modelence aims to simplify AI app development with a built-in auth, database, and DevOps agent for observability and error handling.

Flying Around the World in under 80 Days

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A team aims to build an autonomous airship drone to circumnavigate the world in under 80 days, using solar power and hydrogen gas. The project faces challenges such as hydrogen leakage, air density changes, and navigating through hostile territories.

1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?

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Computer memory units can be either decimal or binary, with binary units often being powers of 2. The IEC introduced binary prefixes to avoid confusion, such as Ki for 1024 bytes.

China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing

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China's space program is steadily advancing with goals to land astronauts on the moon by 2030 and establish a base. NASA is concerned about being left behind, with a lunar landing by 2028 a priority.

The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019)

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The Everdeck is a 120-card system that can be adapted to play many traditional and modern games. It has a unique design with 8 suits, 15 ranks, and point values for word game scoring.