Tech Needs Humanists More
Whoever speaks badly, thinks badly and lives badly. We must find the right words: words are important! —Nanni Moretti A reader reached out to me the other day to talk about the future of tech writing as a profession. They asked me a pretty good question: What skills would you prioritize in this age of […]
Boards of Casio
24th September 2026 While working away on the CZP-1, which was at least initially an effort to create a Casio CZ-101 on a web page I happened to see this YouTube video by oliveoil22: The immediate question was “How can I make those sounds in the CZP-1?”. Luckily for me oliveoil22 had also shared their […]
The last day of the dinosaurs, as an interactive painting
The Last Day: An interactive dinosaur painting | echohive echohive / The Last Day Get AmplifiedSunday LabMembershipConsultingExperimentsField notes Build with AI ↗About A 2.5D PAINTING · MADE BY OPUS 5.5 One golden evening on a Cretaceous river, and the rock that ended the age of dinosaurs, painted plate behind plate. Hell Creek, imagined 66 million […]
Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
86Box emulates an old PC at the hardware level. CPU timing, chipset behaviour, ISA and PCI buses, graphics chipsets, sound devices, and disk controllers all matter to getting period software to behave properly. That does not guarantee identical performance to the original hardware, as the Cinebench results below illustrate. Frankly the project is fascinating and […]
CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2
Introduction This blogpost is the second and final part of our Avast research and will focus on the exploitation of CVE-2025-13032, a double-fetch vulnerability we discovered in Avast’s kernel driver. This post recaps the bug and walks through how we exploited it on an up-to-date Windows 11 system at the time of the finding. Feel […]
Goodbye Google
Thursday 24 September 2026 Discussion thread on HN Today I’m sending the following email: I’m resigning from Google today. This has not been an easy decision. I love my colleagues and my work environment, and being paid handsomely to solve fun puzzles has been amazing. But my team’s goal is ultimately to make AI much […]
Plan mode is dead
Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI. My belief in this idea was so strong that I built and launched an entire desktop coding app around it. Nuanced was motivated by the observation that AI had radically increased the speed and volume of […]
Remembering Johannes Doerfert
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Johannes Doerfert, on September 17, 2026, at the age of 36, after a battle with cancer. Johannes was one of the most prolific and respected contributors to the LLVM compiler project, and his loss will be deeply felt. Johannes was born […]
Google’s first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1
The only real test Google says it has conducted testing on the ground, but launching the satellite will provide a fuller picture of the current challenges. For example, the team will need to evaluate how Tensor chips handle space conditions. In many space missions, hardware is designed specifically for extreme temperatures or radiation, but these […]
Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance
My name is Paul. I’m a developer, an explorer and I’ve got ADHD. As of the beginning of August, I’m also unemployed. This last part, along with everything else this past year, has caused me a great deal of stress. While our balcony zen garden project is yet to be completed, I had an idea […]