Ollama: "All Aboard Open Models", the home of local AI refocuses
Ollama publishes "All Aboard Open Models": strategic reaffirmation around open models and local experience. What this means concretely for developers.
yesterday 4 2
Reviewing git patches by email without leaving Thunderbird: an old-school workflow still alive
Korben sheds light on a workflow that many young developers completely ignore: email-based patch review, Linux kernel style. A project allows you to do this without ever leaving Thunderbird - and it's more relevant than you might think.
14 h ago 10 2
Neither GCC nor Clang are fully compliant with the C++ standard: a reminder
A post promoted to the front page of Hacker News reminds us of a truth that many C++ developers prefer to ignore: neither GCC nor Clang implement 100% of the standard. Practical breakdown.
yesterday 23 3
OfflineTTS: Text-to-speech and voice recognition in your browser, no cloud required
A Show HN that delivers: TTS and STT locally, in a tab, for free. We test it.
yesterday 3 1
SQLite in production: what Julia Evans learned from running it for real
Julia Evans publishes her notes on SQLite: nothing spectacular, but all very useful for those hesitating to run a real app on this small file.
Jul 18, 2026 8 2
OpenSSL HollowByte: 11 bytes are enough to freeze the memory of a TLS server
An 11-byte TLS request is enough to cause OpenSSL server memory to bloat, leading to a denial of service. A formidable asymmetric DoS.
Jul 18, 2026 2 1
"Debian vanilla is mid": the hot take that reignites the distro war
An opinion piece published this week reignites an old debate: is pure Debian still worth it compared to its derivatives? A dissection of a critique that hits a nerve.
Jul 17, 2026 18 3
Revive your old Intel Mac with OpenCore Legacy Patcher
Apple has cut support for modern macOS on the entire Intel generation. A community project - OpenCore Legacy Patcher - allows you to run Sequoia on it. Why attempt it, and what's holding it back.
Jul 17, 2026 14 3
GPT-5.6 Sun wipes out production: one year after Replit, the coding vibe falls into the same hole
An AI coding that executes `rm -rf` on the production database, this wasn't supposed to happen again after the Replit fiasco. It just happened again, several times, with GPT-5.6 Sol.
Jul 17, 2026 10 2
A Haskell enthusiast switches to AI, the community lynches him
A recognized contributor to the Haskell scene publicly explains why he now codes with AI. Reaction: social banishment, hate mails, and the community rediscovering its own slogan.
Jul 17, 2026 15 3
Thinking Machines publishes a 975-billion-parameter "open weights" model
Mira Murati, former CTO of OpenAI, releases a frontier model with open weights from Thinking Machines - something her former employer has been promising for years without delivering.
Jul 17, 2026 12 3
Torvalds cuts it short: the Linux kernel will not be an "AI-free" space
On the LKML, Linus Torvalds cut short the controversy in one sentence - contributors who refuse any code touched by AI only need to fork. What this technically says about how open source will live with LLM.
Jul 17, 2026 5 2