Show HN: Quantifying opportunity cost with a deliberately ”simple” web app
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Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
Businesses running on Stripe generated $1.9 trillion in total volume, up 34% from 2024, and equivalent to roughly 1.6% of global GDP. Beyond payments, Stripe’s Revenue suite is on track to hit an annual run rate of $1 billion this year. Stripe powers 90% of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and 80% of the Nasdaq […]
Modeling Cycles of Grift with Evolutionary Game Theory
We are in a golden age of grift. Where adventurers once flocked to California or the Yukon because “there was gold in them thar hills,” the fastest way to get rich today is by fleecing suckers. We’ve got crypto rug pulls, meme stocks, nutritional supplements, MLMs—anything to make a quick buck. Fraud is hardly a […]
Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26)
1. Background Since the popularization of garbage collection (GC) in Lisp almost 70 years ago, managed runtimes have provided developers a with kind of magic: automatic memory management. This freed programmers from managing complex lifecycle management. This, along with many other ideas, influenced the design of Smalltalk. Following this lineage, Smalltalk was also one of […]
Sovereignty in a System Prompt
Table of Contents The Sovereign Promise The $41 Million Black Box Hardcoded Patriotism Same Question, Four Models Alignment by Wrapper Sanitizing History What Real Progress Could Look Like Closing The Sovereign Promise The concept of sovereign AI is straightforward: a country should have the capability to build, train, and deploy its own AI models without […]
I Pitched a Roller Coaster to Disneyland at Age 10 in 1978
In 1978, for my 10th birthday, I went to Disneyland and got to ride a new roller coaster called Space Mountain. It figuratively and literally took my breath away. I loved every second of it and that night, I couldn’t fall asleep; I just kept thinking about how exhilarating it was. Then, a wild thought […]
Show HN: SNKV – SQLite’s B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings)
What is SNKV? SNKV is a lightweight, ACID-compliant embedded key-value store built directly on SQLite’s B-Tree storage engine — without SQL. The idea: bypass the SQL layer entirely and talk directly to SQLite’s storage engine. No SQL parser. No query planner. No virtual machine. Just a clean KV API on top of a proven, battle-tested […]
Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
The latest update of Firefox, version 148, introduces a much-anticipated ”AI kill switch” feature, allowing users to disable AI functionalities such as chatbot prompts and AI-generated link summaries. Mozilla emphasizes that once AI features are turned off, future updates will not override this choice. This decision reflects the company’s new revenue-focused strategy regarding AI integrations. […]
Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes
Hide .env secrets from prAIng eyes. AI coding tools like Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, and others can read files in your project directory, which means a plaintext .env file is an accidental secret dump waiting to happen. This isn’t theoretical. It is a known issue that has happened to me several times (even after explicitly […]
Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS
About x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. Yes, the Cascading Style Sheets CSS. No JavaScript required. What you’re seeing above is a C program that was compiled using GCC into native 8086 machine code being executed fully within CSS. GitHub ⧸ Fedi, Bluesky, Twitter Frequently Asked Questions Is CSS a programming language? Do you […]