Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people
2025-09-06 I’ve just started to migrate some repositories from GitHub to Codeberg. I’ve wanted to do this for a long time but have stalled on it because I perceived Codeberg as not being ready and the migration process as being a lot of (boring) work. It turns out that is only partially true and wildly […]
European Parliament decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop
This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is. Post Tuta tuta.com did:plc:hrl5pa232nb72z4f2dyyhasr You did it! 🥳 European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop. This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must […]
End of ”Chat Control”: EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller
The controversial mass surveillance of private messages in Europe is coming to an end. After the European Parliament had already rejected the indiscriminate and blanket Chat Control by US tech companies on 13 March, conservative forces attempted a democratically highly questionable maneuver yesterday to force a repeat vote to extend the law anyway. However, in […]
Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids
After a grueling seven weeks of court proceedings and more than 40 hours of tense deliberations across nine days in one of the country’s most closely watched civil trials, jurors handed down a landmark decision in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday, finding Instagram and YouTube responsible for the suffering of a Chico, Calif., […]
Swift 6.3
Swift is designed to be the language you reach for at every layer of the software stack. Whether you’re building embedded firmware, internet-scale services, or full-featured mobile apps, Swift delivers strong safety guarantees, performance control when you need it, and expressive language features and APIs. Swift 6.3 makes these benefits more accessible across the stack. […]
Show HN: Robust LLM Extractor for Websites in TypeScript
Robust Web Data Extractor Using LLMs and Browser Automation Lightfeed Extractor is a Typescript library built for robust web data extraction using LLMs and Playwright. Use natural language prompts to navigate web pages and extract structured data. Get complete, accurate results with great token efficiency — critical for production data pipelines. 🤖 Browser Automation in […]
The Last Contract: William T. Vollmann’s Battle to Publish an Epic (2025)
William T. Vollmann in Rome, Italy, 2023, Photograph, Maria Moratti via Getty Images A few years ago, the novelist William T. Vollmann was diagnosed with colon cancer. The prognosis wasn’t great but he went ahead with the treatment. A length of intestine drawn out and snipped. It was awful but it worked. The cancer went […]
The Cassandra of ’The Machine’
One day, Mrs. Pengelley came to London seeking the assistance of Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective with the mustache, whose “little grey cells” assist him in solving mysteries. With a troubled look, she tells him that she fears she is being slowly poisoned. The doctor doesn’t see anything much the matter, she says. He […]
Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
There is a distinct, visceral kind of pain in watching an otherwise brilliant engineer hold down the Backspace key for six continuous seconds to fix a typo at the beginning of a line. We’ve all been there. We learn ls, cd, and grep, and then we sort of… stop. The terminal becomes a place we live in-but we […]
Running Tesla Model 3’s computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars
Tesla runs a bug bounty program that invites researchers to find security vulnerabilities in their vehicles. To participate, I needed the actual hardware, so I started looking for Tesla Model 3 parts on eBay. My goal was to get a Tesla car computer and touchscreen running on my desk, booting the car’s operating system. The […]