Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI
I use AI coding tools every day. Claude Code for most of my actual work. I’ve tried the alternatives – Gemini, Codex, open-source models. I keep coming back. Not because of loyalty. Not because of marketing. Because the alternatives keep failing me in the same specific way. A new model drops. It tops the benchmarks. […]
Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet
Hardwood is built with high performance in mind. It applies many of the lessons learned from 1BRC, such as memory-mapping files or multi-threading. I am planning to share more details in a future blog post, so I’m going to focus just on one specific performance-related aspect here: Parallelizing the work of parsing Parquet files, so […]
Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase
You’ve inherited a 300k lines of spaghetti code. What do you do now? Large, untested, poorly documented codebases are tricky to work with. They’re very hard to reason about. You can’t move fast in a complex codebase. Stuck in the quicksand of Legacy Code The thing is, they called you to change that codebase! You […]
BuildKit: Docker’s Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything
Posted on February 25, 2026 • 5 minutes • 912 words Most people interact with BuildKit every day without realizing it. When you run docker build, BuildKit is the engine behind it. But reducing BuildKit to “the thing that builds Dockerfiles” is like calling LLVM “the thing that compiles C.” It undersells the architecture by an order […]
just-bash: Bash for Agents
A simulated bash environment with an in-memory virtual filesystem, written in TypeScript. Designed for AI agents that need a secure, sandboxed bash environment. Supports optional network access via curl with secure-by-default URL filtering. Note: This is beta software. Use at your own risk and please provide feedback. Table of Contents Security model The shell only […]
Anthropic ditches its core safety promise
Anthropic, a company founded by OpenAI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition. Instead of self-imposed guardrails constraining its development of AI models, Anthropic is adopting a nonbinding safety framework that it says can and will change. In a blog post Tuesday outlining its new […]
Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications
Modified molecule shows diminished respiratory depression—the leading cause of opioid overdose deaths—while retaining full pain-blocking capability. February 11, 2026 LA JOLLA, CA—Fentanyl is one of the most effective drugs for managing severe pain, yet it carries substantial risks of addiction and respiratory depression, the dangerous and sometimes fatal slowed breathing. These safety concerns have limited […]
The real cost of random I/O
The random_page_cost was introduced ~25 years ago, and since the very beginning it’s set to 4.0 by default. The storage changed a lot since then, and so did the Postgres code. It’s likely the default does not quite match the reality. But what value should you use instead? Flash storage is much better at handling […]
Number of UK workers on zero-hours contracts hits record high ahead of crackdown
Getty Images Archie Mitchell Business reporter 24 February 2026 472 Comments The number of workers on zero-hours contracts has hit a record high, ahead of Labour’s planned crackdown on the practice from next year. A surge in 16-to-24-year-olds and workers not in full-time education helped drive the number of people employed on the contracts to […]
Show HN: Agent Swarm – Multi-agent self-learning teams (OSS)
Built by desplega.sh — build by builders for builders! agent-swarm.mp4 Multi-agent orchestration for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and other AI coding assistants. Agent Swarm lets you run a team of AI coding agents that coordinate autonomously. A lead agent receives tasks (from you, Slack, or GitHub), breaks them down, and delegates to worker agents […]