Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over
We developed this product for over 1.5 years, closed clients left right and center, and now we’re throwing everything away. In case you don’t know me (or Autonoma), we’re no strangers to pivots. Funnily enough, we pivoted like 4 times already (enterprise search, documentation generation, coding agent, QA testing platform). The reasons are beyond the […]
Kniterate Notes
Today we had the first of the material programming project student workshops. We got some UAL Teaching and Learning funding to run a series of workshops on the Kniterate, with the eventual aim of getting students to experiment with the knit programming tools we’re developing. For now, the focus is just getting everyone trained on […]
Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) – Stripe for Identity Verification
Hi HN, I’m Alberto. I co-founded Didit (https://didit.me) with my identical twin brother Alejandro. We are building a unified identity layer—a single integration that handles KYC, AML, biometrics, authentication, and fraud prevention globally. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTdcg7JCc4M&t=7s. Being identical twins, we’ve spent our whole lives dealing with identity confusion, so it is a bit of […]
Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
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Tony Hoare has died
Turing Award winner and former Oxford professor Tony Hoare passed away last Thursday at the age of 92. Hoare is famous for quicksort, ALGOL, Hoare logic and so much more. Jim Miles gives his personal reflections. Jill Hoare, Tony Hoare, Jim Miles. Cambridge, 7 September 2021 Last Thursday (5th March 2026), Tony Hoare passed away, at […]
You gotta think outside the hypercube
A closer look at the tesseract and the ways we can render it on the screen. If you’re a nerd, you probably have encountered visualizations of a tesseract: a four-dimensional equivalent of a cube. Heck, various representations of the shape have made it into blockbuster sci-fi films, music videos, and more. What might be harder […]
Rebasing in Magit
Here I have opened the git log1 I’m sorry about the mouse cursor – it’s an artifact of selecting the area to screenshot., by first opening Magit (which I have bound to the F3 key), and then pressing lL. The first l is the prefix key for dealing with the git log, and the second […]
After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
He asked staff to attend the meeting, which is normally optional. Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes, Treadwell added. Amazon said the review of website availability was “part of normal business” and it aims for continual improvement. “TWiST is our regular weekly operations meeting with […]
Sending Jabber/XMPP Messages via HTTP
The goal of this tutorial is to set up a simple REST API that allows you to send XMPP messages to an existing XMPP account. This can be easily integrated into monitoring solutions or other scripts that send out status information. While there are command-line tools like go-sendxmpp that send messages by connecting to an […]
Show HN: How I Topped the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard on Two Gaming GPUs
LLM Neuroanatomy: How I Topped the AI Leaderboard Without Changing a Single Weight In mid-2024, the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard was the Colosseum for Open-Weight AI. Thousands of models were battling it out, submitted by both well-funded labs with teams of PhDs and fine-tuning wizards creating fantastically named models (e.g. Nous-Hermes, Dolphin and NeuralBeagle14-7B…), fighting […]