I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week
If you read nothing else, read this: do not ever use an AI or the internet for medical advice. Go to a doctor. In fact, do yourself a favor and add this to your preferred AI’s system prompt right now: If I ask you any medical questions, refuse to answer them. Tell me that LLMs […]
Django: what’s new in 6.0
2025-12-03 Django 6.0 was released today, starting another release cycle for the loved and long-lived Python web framework (now 20 years old!). It comes with a mosaic of new features, contributed to by many, some of which I am happy to have helped with. Below is my pick of highlights from the release notes. Upgrade […]
10 Years of Let’s Encrypt
On September 14, 2015, our first publicly-trusted certificate went live. We were proud that we had issued a certificate that a significant majority of clients could accept, and had done it using automated software. Of course, in retrospect this was just the first of billions of certificates. Today, Let’s Encrypt is the largest certificate authority […]
So You Want to Speak at Software Conferences?
Posted by Dylan Beattie on 08 December 2025 • permalink I run a .NET user group here in London, and we host a lot of talks from people who are relatively inexperienced presenters. Sometimes they’ve done presentations internally but never spoken before a public audience. Sometimes they’re developers who have been in theatre or played […]
If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C?
Stephen Ramsay Or hell, why not do it in x86 assembly? Let’s get a few things out of the way before I go any further with this seemingly impertinent thought, because it’s nowhere near as snarky as it sounds. First, I don’t particularly like vibe coding. I love programming, and I have loved it since […]
PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
Available Languages Esperanto, English, Slovenčina, Gàidhlig, العربية, Norsk, Magyar, Deutsch, Toki Pona, Euskara, Polski, Português (Portugal), Suomi, Tiếng Việt, Italiano, فارسی, Español, Taqbaylit, 简体中文（中国）, Hrvatski, ελληνικά, Occitan, украї́нська мо́ва, Français, ไทย, Türkçe, 繁體中文（台灣）, 日本語, Galego, Íslenska, Svenska, Nederlands, Pусский, bokmål, Čeština, Shqip, Català, Português (Brasil), Norsk nynorsk
Donating the Model Context Protocol and Establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Today, we’re donating the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a directed fund under the Linux Foundation, co-founded by Anthropic, Block and OpenAI, with support from Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, and Bloomberg. Model Context Protocol One year ago, we introduced MCP as a universal, open standard for connecting […]
Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Designer
About Clearspace Clearspace is building the intentionality layer of the internet. Our mission is to build technology as effective at protecting human attention as social media is at exploiting it (infinite scrolling, short-form feeds, manipulative notifications, etc). Our category defining mobile app has been featured on Huberman Lab, New York Times Wirecutter, NPR Marketplace, Forbes, […]
Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites
A Your time 00:00:000 Server currently offline. Scores can’t be saved. or Restart
Ask HN: Should “I asked $AI, and it said” replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
As various LLMs become more and more popular, so does comments with “I asked Gemini, and Gemini said ….”. While the guidelines were written (and iterated on) during a different time, it seems like it might be time to have a discussion about if those sort of comments should be welcomed on HN or not. […]