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Google Chrome's update will end ad blockers

SpaceX buys AI coding startup Cursor

A practical guide to round robin, least connections, and consistent hashing load balancers, covering trade‑offs and when to use each.

John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard's projects

Exploring a future economy without people

Fox buys Roku for $22 billion

Hetzner increases prices due to hardware procurement costs

Tech leaders shifted from nerds to attention-seekers

Tech leaders changed from nerds to attention seekers

Learn about the critical rendering path and how browsers render web pages.

Hacker News updates and job postings

The US government has issued an export control directive blocking foreigners from accessing Anthropic's top AI models, citing national security concerns

A mysterious cold patch in the North Atlantic has scientists warning of a potential shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, with catastrophic climate implications

Swiss voters have rejected a proposal to limit the country's population to 10 million, with 55% voting against the measure in a national referendum.

Research shows that AI adoption is not as widespread as assumed, with many people limiting or avoiding its use due to concerns and lack of perceived value

Learn how to earn a billion dollars with insights from Paul Graham's essay, exploring the key factors and strategies behind achieving massive success

The US Department of Commerce has banned noise infusion from statistical products published by the Census Bureau, citing concerns over data integrity and public confidence

Amazon CEO's talks with US officials triggered a crackdown on Anthropic AI models, reflecting growing concerns about advanced AI capabilities reaching adversarial nations

The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns and a potential jailbreak method

Learn about event-driven architecture, message queues, and popular solutions like Kafka and RabbitMQ. Understand the benefits and trade-offs.

Claude Fable 5 is a coding model that is relentlessly proactive in solving complex coding problems, using tricks and techniques to achieve its goals

Learn how B‑tree indexes speed up SELECTs, why they add overhead to INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, and how to balance indexing for optimal performance.

Despite rapid advancements in AI, software engineers' jobs are safe due to the creative and problem-solving aspects of their work

Learn how OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect work together to handle authentication and authorization in modern applications.