Turing Labs (YC W20) Is Hiring – GTM Sales Hacker
Ever wonder why your favorite ketchup always tastes the same? It doesn’t. The formula is constantly tweaked due to shifting crops and costs, forcing food scientists into a quarterly prayer to the gods of flavor.We thought that was silly. So we built the cheat code. Our AI platform cuts this insane trial-and-error manual process from […]
Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers
Mikael Lirbank — February 2026 Without race condition tests, every possible race condition in your system is one refactor away from hitting production. Synchronization barriers let you write those tests with confidence. What a race condition looks like You have a function that credits an account. It reads the current balance, adds an amount, and […]
Use Protocols, Not Services
Published on 15 February 2026 The Internet is almost anonymous and privacy-preserving by design. I mean, unless some administrator actively tries to track you, there is no built-in identity layer. What breaks both properties is the centralization of communication onto closed platforms, where identification becomes possible either by the hosting company itself, or by governments […]
I guess I kinda get why people hate AI
Feb 14, 2026 I’m sitting on a lānai in a hotel in Waikiki beach, writing this article, and wondering if the job I am starting nine days from now will be my last. This is a unique situation for me in a few ways—I’ve never been to Hawaii before, I think the five minutes it’s […]
WebMCP Proposal
WebMCP Abstract The WebMCP API enables web applications to provide JavaScript-based tools to AI agents. Status of this document Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Terminology 3 Security and privacy considerations 4 Accessibility considerations 5 API 5.1 Extensions to the Navigator Interface 5.2 ModelContext Interface 5.2.1 ModelContextOptions Dictionary 5.2.2 ModelContextTool Dictionary 5.2.3 ModelContextClient Interface 6 […]
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Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter
A lightweight local web app for browsing and editing Org files. The app is implemented as a single Python server (main.py) plus one HTML template (templates/index.html) and one stylesheet (static/style.css). It scans a notes directory for .org files and renders a 3-pane UI. ⚠️ There is no authentication or encryption, only run this service on […]
What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You
Building Bluehood, a Bluetooth scanner that reveals what information we leak just by having Bluetooth enabled on our devices. If you’ve read much of this blog, you’ll know I have a thing for privacy. Whether it’s running my blog over Tor, blocking ads network-wide with AdGuard, or keeping secrets out of my dotfiles with Proton […]
The Sideprocalypse
You can’t open a feed today without having AI boosters fling word salad like ”agentic engineering” or ”openclaw” into your beautiful but disapproving face. I’m terrible at predicting the future—you should ask me about selling NVIDIA stock in early 2022 some time—but one thing seems abundantly clear at this point. There’s a wonderful Swedish proverb […]
Running My Own XMPP Server
Notes from setting up Prosody in Docker for federated messaging, with file sharing, voice calls, and end-to-end encryption. About a year ago I moved my personal messaging to Signal as part of a broader push to take ownership of my digital life. That went well. Most of my contacts made the switch, and I’m now […]