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A practical guide to cutting operating costs to the extreme using VPS, Go, SQLite, and local AI.
Anthropic lowered the cache TTL on March 6
An analysis suggests that Claude Code's cache TTL changed from 1 hour to 5 minutes.
Gaming the Most Watched AI Agent Benchmarks
8 major AI agent benchmarks are all shown to be vulnerable to score manipulation.
The Orange Pi 6 Plus
A deep review examining the hardware and Debian Trixie software maturity of the Orange Pi 6 Plus
Response to the Axios Development Tool Compromise Incident
Due to the impact of the Axios supply chain attack, OpenAI is replacing its macOS signing certificates.
Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250 Writerdeck
A procedure for installing OpenBSD-current on the Pomera DM250/DM250X/XY and how to recover it.
The Communist Apple II, and a Story of Not Knowing What You Were Testing for 14 Years
Pravetz and ISCAS-85 show the value of reverse engineering.
Trying to Install Every Firefox Extension
An experiment log scraping and analyzing roughly 80,000+ Firefox extensions.
Watgo, a WebAssembly Toolkit for Go
watgo, a pure-Go tool supporting WAT parsing, validation, encoding, and decoding, has been released
FluidCAD - JavaScript-based Parametric CAD
It's a JavaScript Parametric CAD project that operates via webview and local files.
AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel
This summarizes the principles for licensing, signing, and attribution when AI helps with Linux kernel contributions.
JSON formatter Chrome plugin now goes closed-source and injects adware
The open-source JSON Formatter has switched to a commercial closed-source model, leaving behind a Classic version.
Industrial Design Files for Keychron Keyboards and Mice
Keychron has released CAD/industrial design files for its keyboards and mice.
Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) - Get PRs from cloud agents
Twill.ai runs Claude Code and Codex in cloud sandboxes and hands you back PRs.
WireGuard New Release
After resolving a Microsoft signing issue, WireGuard has put out a new release for Windows.
Helium is hard to replace
The collapse of the helium supply chain is shaking the medical, semiconductor, and space industries.
CPU-Z and HWMonitor Hacked
CPUID's official download path was compromised, distributing malware through CPU-Z and HWMonitor.
After shipping a transaction bug, I built a linter
The story of building a custom linter that catches DB calls escaping Go transaction boundaries.
TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale
Google has unveiled TorchTPU, which brings PyTorch natively onto TPUs.
Explaining the Raft Consensus Algorithm with "Mean Girls" (2019)
Using the Mean Girls analogy, it breaks down Raft's quorum and leader election in an easy-to-understand way.