How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story
One of my first big personal successes in my career was way back in 2000, when I became Polo Ralph Lauren’s in-house photographer. It was my second staff photography job, the first one being at Christie’s auction house. Polo offered me twice what I was making at Christie’s, and accepting the position was a no-brainer. […]
Ethical Cold Outreach
A couple weeks ago, my coworker Charlie got a cold email from a startup with a link to their “personalised” video pitch. I put scare quotes around “personalised” both because that’s literally how they described the video over email and because it turned out to be thoroughly impersonal trickery: the guy in the video was […]
OpenSSH 10.5 released, AI fixes now welcome
OpenSSH: Release Notes OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1 (2026-08-11) OpenSSH 10.5 was released on 2026-08-11. It is available from the mirrors listed at https://www.openssh.com/. OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support. Recently the OpenSSH team have received a large number of security bug reports, many of which are findings […]
Woman Pulled over at Gunpoint Twice After Flock Camera Glitch
Technology is supposed to make police work faster and safer. Most of the time it does. But every so often, a computer system hiccups, and an ordinary person ends up staring down the barrel of a gun for no reason at all. That is exactly what happened to Amber Newell of Brookfield, Wisconsin, not once, […]
Why Go Is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering
For a while now, software engineering has undergone a profound, fundamental shift: Where we once wrote most lines of code by hand, we now ask AI coding assistants and agents to generate large swaths of code for us. But AI needs supervision, so it is we, the humans, who must read the generated code, clean […]
Mojo 1.0
Today, the Mojo language officially reaches 1.0: a milestone the language has been building toward since its first release in 2023. Mojo has grown into a general-purpose language with a vibrant developer community writing their own libraries, tools, and applications on top of it. With Mojo 1.0, developers can now build for the long-term on […]
Show HN: Git-knife – edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
Stab your git history into shape — every commit’s message, author, and dates, edited like a table. A clean desktop GUI for editing git commit metadata directly — message, author date, committer date, author name/email. Existing GUIs (GitKraken, Sublime Merge, Fork, lazygit) reword and reorder well but treat commit dates as effectively immutable and don’t […]
Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: 11–16× Faster LLM Inference with Llama.cpp
Published on August 11, 2026 by Francesco Bonacci and Johnny Franks If you’ve been following Cua from the start, you may remember that it began with a Show HN launch for Lume, our macOS virtualization stack. Today, we’re sharing the first result from a broader effort to connect that Virtualization.framework foundation to the local computer-use […]
Launch HN: Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything
The Big Bang History of San Francisco Mongol War Tactics History of New York City A personal learning platform. Create Duolingo-style courses with short videos and games. Courses to learn about anything. Backed by YCombinator Topology Mathematics Quantum Physics Physics Yankee Traders History Modern Rockets Engineering Explainer videos Learn by watching explainer videos Each course […]
Manus will return to operating as an independent company
Manus will soon return to operating as an independent company, which will see us continue to serve our millions of users around the world. As we go through the process, it’s unavoidable that some users’ accounts will be impacted. Below, we explain what’s happening and what it means for you if your account is affected. […]