Pi, more than a coding harness https://mkaz.blog/code/pi-more-than-a-coding-harness/ (HN source)

The failure your LLM dashboard can’t see https://percentes.ai/writing/2026/the-failure-your-dashboard-cannot-see/ (HN source)

Pi vs. OMP (Oh My Pi Agent) https://composio.dev/content/pi-vs-omp (HN source)

Reading is linear contradictions arent https://wyzer.it/blog/three-kinds-of-contradiction-manual-review (HN source)

Learnings from SecAgent Development https://demirbey05.github.io/posts/learnings-from-secagent-dev/ (HN source)

Building the Open Task Light https://jamesbvaughan.com/open-task-light/ (HN source)

Thank u, next: Replacing Next.js with a vibe-coded framework https://maxleiter.com/blog/thank-u-next (HN source)

The Browser’s Main Thread Is Expensive https://kciter.so/posts/the-expensive-main-thread/en/ (HN source)

Adverse Selection and Markouts https://machow.ski/posts/markouts_and_adverse_selection/ (HN source)

Two Ends of Programming https://lambdaland.org/posts/2026-08-31-two-ends-of-programming/ (HN source)

I Built My Agent Computer in the Cloud https://www.hadijaveed.me/2026/08/27/agent-computer-in-the-cloud/ (HN source)

How Harnesses Implement Skills and MCPs https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/demystifying-skills-and-mcps/ (HN source)

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/ (HN source)

Nix Is Right. Its Cost Is Not https://nrd.sh/blog/store-was-never-the-point.html (HN source)

I Built an Agent Harness to See What’s Inside https://mamonas.dev/posts/agent-harness-to-see-whats-inside/ (HN source)

Why is Arrays.fill 265 times slower on G1GC? https://krzysztofslusarski.github.io/2026/08/19/g1barrier.html (HN source)

Not Becoming a Cyborg https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/31/on-not-becoming-a-cyborg/ (HN source)

Existentialism: People Must Create Their Own Purpose https://blog.nathanlangley.dev/posts/existentialism.html (HN source)

The Domain Software Engineer https://patent.dev/the-domain-software-engineer/ (HN source)

Escaping Spotify’s Recommendation Basin https://ykumar.me/blog/spot-kick/ (HN source)

Logging the trades my bot rejected was worth more than logging the ones it took https://regimetoken.xyz/skipped-trades (HN source)

What Are You Coding? https://blog.sebastiansastre.co/posts/what-are-you-coding/ (HN source)

The End of the End of History https://www.georgesaines.com/blog/2026/8/30/ay9695585u93lsxfuwh8iu587ec99f (HN source)

Rediscovering Sublime Text https://blakewatson.com/journal/rediscovering-sublime-text/ (HN source)

I found two Shopify plugin vulns with GLM-5.3 Flash https://alec.is/posts/i-found-two-shopify-plugin-zero-days-in-a-bathtub/ (HN source)

I Dislike the Scoville Scale https://bengodfrey.dev/blog/units/ (HN source)

Underdo the Competition https://www.shaanpuri.com/essays/underdo-the-competition (HN source)

↗ Any user process can escalate to root https://www.vesto.me/2026/08/31/any-process-escalate-root.html (HN source)

Can a voice agent tell “mmhm” from an interruption? https://izmailov.dev/blog/smart-conversation (HN source)

We are all juniors again https://blog.arkency.com/we-are-all-juniors-again/ (HN source)

Creating Backup Storage Sucks https://smarmelling.com/posts/creating-backup-storage-sucks.html (HN source)

I wish we had more time https://kg.dev/thoughts/more-time (HN source)

The Universe as a Minified Bundle https://andrewarrow.dev/2026/moons/2/day/9/the-universe-as-a-minified-bundle/ (HN source)

The Age of Average https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average (HN source)

I was wrong about MCPs https://mega.dev/wrong-about-mcps (HN source)

A Modest Proposal for Anthropic https://tornikeo.com/a-modest-proposal-for-anthropic/ (HN source)

Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable https://maurycyz.com/misc/etherfiles/ (HN source)

On Inevitability https://borretti.me/article/on-inevitability (HN source)

If You Knew God Exists, Wouldn’t You Become a Priest? https://joecmarshall.com/posts/if-you-knew-god-exists-wouldnt-you-become-a-priest/ (HN source)

No agents after 8 pm https://sparsethought.com/2026/08/19/no-agents-after-8pm/ (HN source)

I am no longer letting Claude Code add itself as Co-author in my commits https://igupta.in/blog/why-i-am-no-longer-letting-claude-code-add-itself-as-coauthor/ (HN source)

We Just Wanted to Deploy a PHP Website https://sarah-robin.com/blog/we-just-wanted-to-deploy-a-website (HN source)

The LLM is not Intelligence https://www.vivekv.info/posts/llm-is-not-intelligent (HN source)

Founder Mode vs. Founder Drift https://keithbrown.com/founder-mode-vs-drift/ (HN source)

Keeping “Engineering” in “Software Engineering”

Max Gale

Keeping “engineering” in “software engineering”

Most of the time, prompting coding agents is not practicing the art of software engineering. And that’s totally fine. Sometimes, you simply want to describe a feature in a few sentences and have the agent spit out the changes. But other times, you want real engineering, which involves applying well-reasoned consideration to the constraints, the current …

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2 days ago · Max Gale

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Crossing Boundaries with Integration Events https://deniskyashif.com/2026/08/29/crossing-boundaries-with-integration-events/ (HN source)

Nothing Left to Say https://jdranpariya.com/writings/nothing-left-to-say/ (HN source)

Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex https://werwolv.net/posts/file_format_reverse_engineering/ (HN source)

Accidentally Hacked Three Family Members https://blog.nathanlangley.dev/posts/accidentally-hacked-family.html (HN source)

The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati https://micahflee.com/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati/ (HN source)

Postscriptum on LLMs: pelicans on bicycles with a twist https://danilo.segan.org/blog/llm/postscript-pelicans-on-bicycles (HN source)

LLMs are making me lose my savviness https://pgaleone.eu/ai/2026/08/29/losing-savviness/ (HN source)

Just Ship https://0sql.com/posts/just-ship/ (HN source)

Telling an agent to be honest isn’t enough https://www.habchy.dev/writing/telling-an-agent-to-be-honest-isnt-enough (HN source)

Save Yourself from Any Drama by Not Commenting https://livingkindfully.bearblog.dev/save-yourself-from-any-drama-by-not-commenting/ (HN source)

Tiny World Model https://paul.mou.dev/posts/2026-08-16-twm/ (HN source)

Now Hiring: Senior Open Source Maintainer https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/28/now-hiring-senior-open-source-maintainer.html (HN source)

Building Autonomous Goal Loops That Deliver https://jx0.ca/building-autonomous-goal-loops-that-deliver/ (HN source)

Subagents and the Art of Spending More https://azuanz.com/posts/subagents-and-the-art-of-spending-more/ (HN source)

No Thank You https://jsrn.net/personal/2026/08/21/no-thank-you.html (HN source)

Primer: Worktrees and Coding Agents https://davidgomes.com/worktrees-coding-agents/ (HN source)

The Ultimate Dream https://blog.br11k.dev/2026-08-29-the-ultimate-dream (HN source)

To Human Is to Explore https://panchamkhaitan.com/blog/to-human-is-to-explore (HN source)

LSPs for LLMs https://ianbarber.blog/2026/08/11/lsps-for-llms/ (HN source)

Shortlinks https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2026/8/28/shortlinks (HN source)

Highlighting My Code Based on How Much I Care https://hank.bond/posts/highlighting-my-code-based-on-how-much-i-care/ (HN source)

Everything Claude Saw: A Transparent Account of the Chardet v7 Rewrite http://dan-blanchard.github.io/blog/chardet-rewrite-controversy/ (HN source)

Agentic Workflow Design: Six Principles for 2026 https://www.amyzyuan.com/thoughts/agentic-workflow-design-2026 (HN source)

A Little Less Software Clutter https://aradar.top/posts/targz-manager/ (HN source)

How Are You? https://joshholtz.com/blog/2026/08/27/how-are-you.html (HN source)

From Designed to Evolved Software https://eakman.dev/from-designed-to-evolved-software/ (HN source)

My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictures https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/tiny-cafe/ (HN source)

Intelligence is no longer the bottleneck https://fulghum.io/agi (HN source)

It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell https://blog.vghaisas.com/rube-goldberg-doorbell/ (HN source)

How I shamed the slop machine https://bbuyukliev.blogspot.com/2026/08/how-i-shamed-slop-machine.html (HN source)

Free intelligence is getting better https://notes.npilk.com/free-intelligence (HN source)

BPF Token Delegation https://naveensrinivasan.com/posts/2026-08-27-bpf-token-delegation/ (HN source)

Mountains of Work https://nichedesign.bearblog.dev/mountains-of-work/ (HN source)

LLMs are multi-layered user interfaces https://www.gtothesquare.com/llms-the-multi-layered-user-interface (HN source)

Lost in translation: What I learned trying to speedrun subtitles with LLMs https://blog.burkert.me/posts/listers/ (HN source)

A Perfect SimCity https://www.jeffquast.com/post/a-perfect-simcity/ (HN source)

My Business Is Dying https://bankstatementconverter.com/blog/posts/2026-08-28-business-is-dying/ (HN source)

The Easy Part of Building Is Over https://debarshibasak.github.io/readables/blogs/building-is-going-to-be-more-difficult (HN source)

My GE smart scale’s body fat is just 1.5 × BMI − 17.5 https://aiandtractors.com/ge-cs10h-body-fat-formula/ (HN source)

Using LLMs to Make the Emacs Web Browser Great Again

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The Minolta SR-T I kept for myself https://robertmay.photography/journal/the-minolta-sr-t-i-kept-for-myself (HN source)

De-slop the text you shouldn’t be writing anyway

Paired Ends

De-slop the text you shouldn't be writing anyway

I judiciously use AI to help with writing and editing. I never let AI speak for me. And I typically don’t use AI for first drafts — this is where the thinking happens, where you actually have to think about how prior art fits into your current work, how data supports an argument, and where the gaps are…

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The Loyalty Test: When “Our Side” Matters More Than the Truth https://matttaylortvnews.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-loyalty-test-when-our-side-matters.html (HN source)

There Aren’t Really 30 Million Vegetarians in Brazil https://jacobeliason.com/posts/2026-08-27-vegetarians-in-brazil/ (HN source)

Why do OpenAI’s GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part four: digging into dropout https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/08/why-do-openai-gpt2-weights-beat-mine-4-ift-dropout (HN source)

A Training Cluster for This Economy https://derekrodriguez.dev/a-training-cluster-for-this-economy/ (HN source)

Reverse Engineering My ADHD Test https://nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-adhd-test? (HN source)

Fixing My Kinesis Advantage https://lukaswerner.com/post/2026-08-25@kinesis-advantage-build (HN source)

I just needed a thing that listens https://ivanlugo.dev/writing/i-just-needed-a-thing-that-listens/ (HN source)

The asteroid currently hitting front end web development https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/ (HN source)

How I communicate as an engineer https://dhrumil.ca/thoughts/how-to-communicate-as-an-engineer (HN source)

Futurism Is Always Extreme https://borretti.me/article/futurism-is-always-extreme (HN source)

Don’t Let LLMs Play Telephone with Your Ideas https://blog.yfzhou.fyi/posts/prompt/ (HN source)

A scooter is cheating, a cargo bike is rude, the car is fine https://maxmautner.com/2026/08/25/scooter-is-cheating.html (HN source)

Agents Should Be Durable, Not Long-Lived https://julin.ai/2026/08/26/durable-agents/ (HN source)

Thoughts on LLM Pair Programming https://brennenputh.me/blog/llm-pair-programming-thought/ (HN source)

The benefits of data lakehouses are overstated: open data != open platform https://www.tomwphillips.co.uk/2026/08/the-benefits-of-data-lakehouses-are-overstated/ (HN source)

Infrastructure as Raclette https://lois.postu.la/posts/infrastructure-as-a-raclette (HN source)

Treat Meetings as Crucibles https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2026/08/24/treat-meetings-as-crucibles/ (HN source)

To raise VC, think like a VC first https://nmn.gl/blog/to-raise-vc-think-like-a-vc-first (HN source)

My life in plain text, revisited: Planova and one Markdown file per day https://rvier.fr/posts/my-life-in-plain-text-using-planova-EN (HN source)

The Illusion of Absolute Security in Cryptography https://jani.isohanni.fi/the-illusion-of-absolute-security-in-cryptography/ (HN source)

The Harness Is the Thing https://scott-fryxell.github.io/blog/the-harness-is-the-thing/ (HN source)

Silicon Valley Is Not Ambitious Enough https://mayank-agrawal.com/essays/silicon-valley-is-not-ambitious-enough/ (HN source)

Controlling when CSS custom properties are computed https://jakearchibald.com/2026/css-custom-property-compute-time/ (HN source)

Strange People but Very Smart https://voiceinthemachine.com/2026/08/20/strange-people-but-very-smart/ (HN source)

I had some free time, so I tried to pwn V8 https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/08/i-had-some-free-time-so-i-tried-to-pwn-v8/ (HN source)

Everything in Its Place https://resolve.works/articles/everything-in-its-place/ (HN source)

Zone of Acceptance https://ryanlatta.com/leadership/zone-of-acceptance/ (HN source)

Software Engineering finally exists https://shapelessai.com/notes/software-engineering-finally-exists (HN source)

I Stabilized Never Type https://blog.ihatereality.space/0C-never-type/ (HN source)

Why I use this paid search engine (Uruky) https://crazysteve.bearblog.dev/uruky-is-a-pretty-great-search-engine/ (HN source)

Problem with Concurrent Linter Fixes https://jfmengels.net/concurrent-linter-fixes/ (HN source)

The End of Programming https://pauldix.com/the-end-of-programming (HN source)

Software is now user-generated content https://valentinewatkins.com/software-is-now-user-generated-content/ (HN source)

Do I Believe in Global Warming? https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-i-believe-in-global-warming.html (HN source)

An interactive introduction to the spanning tree protocol https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-spanning-tree (HN source)

I Love SQL; I Hate SQL https://tylerhillery.com/blog/i-love-sql-i-hate-sql/ (HN source)

Say Something People Want https://www.gkogan.co/say-something-people-want/ (HN source)

Using a shock collar to stop myself doomscrolling https://011.sh/posts/pavlov/ (HN source)

Multi-agent workflows have an amnesia problem https://empirical.gauzza.com/blog/multi-agent-amnesia-multi-agent-workflows-amnesia-problem (HN source)

A scale invariance property of PCA https://jslandy.com/pca-invariant/ (HN source)

I Put 8.8B Tokens on My CV https://victorantos.com/posts/i-put-8-billion-tokens-on-my-cv/ (HN source)

I made a list of developer programs https://pran.sh/blog/awesome-developer-programs (HN source)

Freedom to Handcraft Software https://rohanrd.mataroa.blog/blog/freedom-to-handcraft-software/ (HN source)

Thinking Is Slow. Copying Is Fast https://michaelgv.uk/posts/2026/08/thinking-is-slow-copying-is-fast/ (HN source)

Actually Queryable Executables https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables (HN source)

Tech (Or Political?) Choices https://manualdousuario.net/en/tech-choices-macstories/ (HN source)

The Monopoly of Hate https://riccardogenco.github.io/The-Monopoly-of-Hate/ (HN source)

The language around language models https://dilpreet.co/blog/2026/8/25/the-language-around-language-models (HN source)

I built a forgetting curve for an agent with one user https://eris-system.dev/blog/forgetting-curve (HN source)

The Internet Is Becoming an App https://polding.eu/2026/08/21/the-internet-is-becoming-an-app-here-is-what-the-research-says/ (HN source)

Silence Is a Feature https://aradar.top/posts/silence-is-a-feature/ (HN source)

Have We Forgotten How to Design? https://lmnt.me/blog/have-we-forgotten-how-to-design.html (HN source)

Vector search in PostgreSQL: deduplicating speakers with pgvector and HNSW https://rvier.fr/posts/deduplicating-speakers-with-pgvector-and-hnsw-EN (HN source)

Micro Language Implementation: Calcium https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202608/micro_language_implementation_calcium (HN source)

Robotics needs a Model T moment https://robo.inc/blog/robotics-model-t-moment (HN source)

Doing the math on prediction markets for clinical trials https://mattlane.us/stories/bettor-up (HN source)

Your “File” Menu Isn’t About Files https://adam.farkas.pro/your-file-menu-isnt-about-files/ (HN source)

I Still Miss Writing Code https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/08/19/still-miss-writing-code/ (HN source)

Ox-Alpha Is GLM https://dejan.ai/blog/ox-alpha/ (HN source)

Writing Fast Attention Backward Kernel for 5090 in CUDA https://hoanh.space/blog/attention-backward-5090-cuda/ (HN source)

Gatekeepers Are Dead, Long Live the Gatekeepers https://brianschrader.com/archive/gatekeepers-are-dead-long-live-the-gatekeepers/ (HN source)

The changing role of finite-state model checking https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-08-24-finite-state-future/ (HN source)

Pinning Claude Code https://www.olafalders.com/2026/08/24/pinning-claude-code/ (HN source)

How to choose chocolate (not based on percentage) https://chof.nl/how-to-choose-chocolate (HN source)

Postmortem for the Lean Kernel Soundness Bug Hunt https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-24-postmortem-for-the-kernel-soundness-bug-hunt/ (HN source)

Reclassification https://tldrisk.com/beyond-basics/reclassification/ (HN source)

LLM Text Watermarking, by Hand https://srcecde.me/notes/llm-watermarking-by-hand/ (HN source)

Stochastic Parrots Can Be Intelligent https://azeemba.com/posts/stochastic-parrots-can-be-intelligent.html (HN source)

Migrating to the New Tangled Knot2 https://jola.dev/posts/migrating-tangled-knot2 (HN source)

When social platforms reward reaction, blogging rewards reflection https://alexandrelion.com/blogging-to-stay-away-from-micro-blogging/ (HN source)

Software Factories Can Handle UX https://www.chrismdp.com/software-factories-can-handle-ux/ (HN source)

Agent Is Not the Model https://code.joejag.com/2026/your-agent-is-not-the-model.html (HN source)

Authenticity and the Dead Internet https://schmud.de/posts/2026-08-10-cowboy-clothes.html (HN source)

Scaling a WebSocket gateway to 40k+ concurrent users with Redis pub/sub https://e-mahmoudi.me/blog/fanout-architecture-millions-concurrent-websockets/ (HN source)

The Observability Pain Cycle https://nikola-petkovic.com/blog/2026/08/07/observability-pain-cycle/ (HN source)

Hiding a Prompt in a Tokenizer https://stephantul.github.io/blog/prompt/ (HN source)

How LLMs remember, schedule, and stream tokens https://ssenthilnathan3.github.io/blog/kutty-vllm/ (HN source)

Figma Is Not Reality https://yoshitha.net/blog/figma-is-not-reality/ (HN source)

Focus Is the Main Feature: Why I Miss the Old Claude Code https://alexkras.com/focus-is-the-main-feature-why-i-miss-the-old-claude-code/ (HN source)

The Real Imposter Syndrome https://minimallysustained.com/blog/2026-08-19 (HN source)

Optimizing memory use in a Markdown parser https://blog.kowalczyk.info/a-n8wf/optimizing-memory-use-in-markdown-parser.html (HN source)

Engineerification https://eug.github.io/posts/engineerification.html (HN source)

My experience as a first time speaker https://blog.guillheu.dev/articles/first-time-speaker/ (HN source)

The silence that reads as safety https://zaferbalkan.com/silence/ (HN source)

The Vibe Tax https://insufferable.dev/posts/vibe-tax/ (HN source)

Powerful extensions do not need powerful code https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2026/08/23/powerful-extensions-do-not-need-powerful-code/ (HN source)

How to Report a Bug So It Gets Fixed https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/howtoreportabug/ (HN source)

Building a Better Inner Loop https://bradleygibbs.dev/posts/building-a-better-inner-loop/ (HN source)

I Shouldn’t Need an LLM to Explain My LLM https://daviesgeek.com/I-Shouldn%E2%80%99t-Need-an-LLM-to-Explain-My-LLM (HN source)

There’s no substitute for real-world experience https://mattcasmith.net/2026/08/23/no-substitute-real-world-experience (HN source)

Do LLM quants impact as much as we think? https://rakuensoftware.com/blog/which-quant-beats-how-many-bits (HN source)

Cache-Control for LLMs https://www.gojiberries.io/cache-control-for-llms/ (HN source)

We Have the Model, Why Do We Need You? https://hank.bond/posts/we-have-the-model-why-do-we-need-you/ (HN source)

Software Design https://misfra.me/2026/software-design/ (HN source)

Eliminate GPU Waste by Cutting the Retry Tax https://rahmipruitt.me/content/gpu-retry-tax/ (HN source)

How often should a zombie team win? https://jordanlord.co.uk/blog/simple-elo-football-model/ (HN source)

Fast and Hard Code https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/22/fast-hard-code/ (HN source)

Slop Debt https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/slop-debt/ (HN source)

Treat your brain like a baby https://gisbi.me/blog/treat-your-brain-like-a-baby (HN source)

A short essay on the times we’re living in https://michelangelogubinelli.com/essays-and-dissertations/when-the-room-is-in-motion/ (HN source)

Code Doesn’t Speak for Itself https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/code-doesnt-speak-for-itself (HN source)

gRPC-Web Should Have Fixed gRPC https://kmcd.dev/posts/grpc-web-should-have-fixed-grpc/ (HN source)

Episode 2: Life After Stripe https://jondlm.github.io/website/blog/life_after_stripe/ (HN source)

Single file apps with Gleam and Bun https://alistair.sh/gleam-bun-apps (HN source)

Turn any REST API into the shape of another https://bryanhu.com/shotgun/ (HN source)

The Great Convergence https://nicholascharriere.com/blog/the-great-convergence/ (HN source)

You Shouldn’t Exist https://www.marcnitzsche.de/you-shouldnt-exist/ (HN source)

The Creation of Abulafia https://blog.veitheller.de/abulafia.html (HN source)

Rise of the Software Factory https://www.terezatizkova.com/blog/rise-of-the-software-factory (HN source)

Vibe Writing https://www.jotaen.net/23sHT/vibe-writing/ (HN source)

Why Do I Work? https://jondlm.github.io/website/blog/why_do_i_work/ (HN source)

Platforms Should Let Agents Talk https://domenkozar.com/2026/08/21/platforms-need-neutral-agent-attribution/ (HN source)

Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/19/three-ways-to-smuggle-sqlite-into-nix (HN source)

How good are agents at CAD? https://www.seldon.global/blog/cadbench (HN source)

Why do we need new agentic browser

Sergey Bolshchikov

Why Do We Need a New Agentic Browser

For thirty years, “user” meant a person with eyes, a mouse, and patience. Browsers render pixels. DOMs are trees built for layout engines. JavaScript mostly exists to make things look and feel right to a human sitting in front of a screen…

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The Last 20% https://vpetersson.com/2026/08/21/the-last-20-percent/ (HN source)

How Juniors learn the trade when an agent writes the code https://www.moystard.com/blog/ai-native-juniors/ (HN source)

A year of databases: how I fell in love with programming again https://dennypenta.github.io/mynameis/blog/year-databases-11 (HN source)

What if consciousness isn’t hard to compute, but hard to evolve? https://saeidaliei.github.io/posts/consciousness-computability-decidability-evolvability/ (HN source)

The software business after code scarcity https://dri.es/the-software-business-after-code-scarcity (HN source)

Doing Everyone Else’s Job https://yosefk.com/blog/doing-everyone-elses-job.html (HN source)

Anomaly Detection with LLMs for Cybersecurity https://ngrislain.github.io/blog/2026-8-20-language-models-are-anomaly-detectors/ (HN source)

My own embedding models benchmark focused on code duplication detection https://rkochanowski.com/article/embedding-benchmark/ (HN source)

Elasticsearch Isn’t Dead. You Probably Don’t Need It https://insight.jatinjainsaraf.com/elasticsearch-isnt-dead-you-probably-dont-need-it (HN source)

My experience buying ads in ChatGPT: the good, the bad and the ugly https://successfulsoftware.net/2026/08/13/my-experience-buying-ads-in-chatgpt-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ (HN source)

SQLite plans can drastically differ with CTE and temp table https://askrecall.dev/blog/44-minute-ci-job/ (HN source)

Repository Is Your Swarm https://nicktrevino.com/your-repository-is-your-swarm.html (HN source)

How to Not Burnout https://alikhil.dev/posts/how-to-not-burnout/ (HN source)

Everybody watches some TV https://profane-tmesis.info/everybody-watches-some-tv (HN source)

Stop Making TUIs https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/08/20/stop-making-tuis/ (HN source)

Dashboard Touch DIY touch sensor for Mac https://www.anildash.com/2026/08/20/introducing-dashboard-touch/ (HN source)

SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/ (HN source)

Excluded from everywhere: incompatible with every system I entered https://msakkal.me/en/ (HN source)

Buoyant software – improves when models improve https://blog.rajivayyangar.com/buoyancy/ (HN source)

Everyone Says Assembly Is Untyped–Everyone Is Wrong https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/08/20/designing-odins-inline-asm/ (HN source)

The machine never raises its voice https://shivanshuag.com/blog/the-machine-never-raises-its-voice/ (HN source)

I Am Morally Opposed to Updating My Claude.md https://alex-jacobs.com/posts/claudemd/ (HN source)

What Is a Harness? https://earendil.com/posts/what-is-a-harness/ (HN source)

I Finally Got Discouraged By DevTo https://thibaultduponchelle.github.io/I-finally-got-discouraged-by-devto (HN source)

Issues in the Repo https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/20/issues-in-the-repo.html (HN source)

My Thoughts on Agentic Coding https://vucenovic.dev/blog/agentic-coding-thoughts/ (HN source)

Two ways to make Opus 5 concise https://hjerpbakk.com/blog/2026/08/20/making-opus-5-concise (HN source)

Oh My OpenCode Slim https://fabiobiffi.com/2026/oh-my-opencode-slim-free-multi-agent-programming-with-opencode-big-pickle-%f0%9f%a5%92/ (HN source)

Qwen 3.8 27B is a great open model https://williamcallahan.com/blog/qwen-3-8-27b-is-a-great-open-model (HN source)

LLM Reasoning Traces Are Not Audit Records https://rye.ai/blog/cot-faithfulness-reasoning-traces-not-audit-logs/ (HN source)

I wanted to talk to a turbine, so I spent 18 years building NthDimension https://syscon.gr/blog/20260820.html (HN source)

Is Cloudflare Pro Worth It? https://blog.fernvenue.com/archives/is-cloudflare-pro-worth-it/ (HN source)

Reclaim the Terminal https://nishantjosh.dev/blogs/reclaim-the-terminal/ (HN source)

I hijacked my Hacker News habit to learn Spanish https://www.orangecrumbs.com/stories/how-i-hijacked-my-hacker-news-habit (HN source)

Faster pull requests are faster horses https://royalicing.com/2026/faster-pull-requests-faster-horses (HN source)

Why Obsidian and Claude Code is such a good match https://lukasvonkunhardt.com/obsidian-claude-code-setup/ (HN source)

Vibe-Coding Safe Firmware https://lantra.nl/bare-metal-vibecoding/ (HN source)

SQLite for Everything https://joecode.com/2026-08-19-sqlite3/ (HN source)

Bill Atkinson and Dithering Algorithms https://landonswartz.github.io/blog/dithering-algorithms/ (HN source)

Don’t Instantiate Value Object https://aleksandar-b.github.io/blog/posts/dont-instantiate-value-objects (HN source)

The job ain’t quite the same https://prashanth.world/the-job-aint-the-same/ (HN source)

HTML Can Do That https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/ (HN source)

PWA: Personal Web Apps https://ma.ttias.be/pwas-personal-web-apps/ (HN source)

My text only coding agent gave itself vision https://nickbusey.com/article/2026-08-18-agent-invented-vision/ (HN source)

Where the Tool Stops and I Begin https://rivetrune.com/notes/where-the-tool-stops/ (HN source)

Where do people spend their money? https://gingerjuice.club/article/where-do-people-spend-their-money-38516e54 (HN source)

My experience with the Fitbit Air after a month https://www.kulman.sk/en/a-month-with-fitbit-air/ (HN source)

Why crypto’s best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto? https://konstantintkachuk.com/writing/depin-is-dead-long-live-infrastructure-as-a-service/ (HN source)

When deny doesn’t win: least-privilege permissions for Claude Code https://blogs.zethian.com/when-deny-doesnt-win.html (HN source)

The three pillars of observability were never designed https://greptime.com/blogs/2026-08-11-observability-three-pillars-history (HN source)

Caveman Saves Tokens by Doing Less, Not Just Saying Less https://stuckinalocalminima.com/blog/2026/caveman/ (HN source)

A Quest Most Worthy https://bengodfrey.dev/blog/a-quest-most-worthy/ (HN source)

My coding agent invented its own vision https://nickbusey.com/article/2026-08-18-agent-invented-vision/ (HN source)

Everyone is asking someone else for money https://www.gonzocapital.net/everyone-is-asking-someone-else-for-money/ (HN source)

Modern, Stable APIs for Your Nextcloud Application https://carlschwan.eu/2026/08/18/modern-stable-apis-for-your-nextcloud-application/ (HN source)

Moving to a Lonely Forge https://jackson.dev/post/moving-to-a-lonely-forge/ (HN source)

My Personal AGI https://chadnauseam.com/random/my-personsal-agi (HN source)

Do Not Talk About LLMs https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/do-not-talk-about-large-language-models (HN source)

Who Benchmarks the Benchmark? https://shukla.io/blog/2026-08/gym.html (HN source)

Software Factories Are Distributed Systems https://www.sjarmak.ai/writing/software-factories-are-distributed-systems/ (HN source)

Why Are Plumbers Paid More in the US?

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Extensible Software in the Age of LLMs https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/extensible-software-in-the-age-of-llms/ (HN source)

Things That Used to Be Normal and Are Now a Luxury https://albertogalca.com/5-things-that-used-to-be-normal-and-are-now-a-luxury (HN source)

I reverse-engineered my HVAC because I couldn’t turn it off reliably https://blog.backslasher.net/breezy.html (HN source)

Self-hosting your ATProto PDS https://jola.dev/posts/self-hosting-your-pds (HN source)

Learning always pays dividends someday https://ad4mou.com/posts/learning-pays-dividends (HN source)

You shouldn’t let agents talk to each other https://trpevski.com/blog/multi-agent-orchestration-routing-and-failure-recovery/ (HN source)

Claude Max 20x plan as open source subsidy https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/claude-max-20x-plan-as-open-source-subsidy/ (HN source)

When it comes to LLM, it’s you who’s using it wrong https://www.vinoth.net/llm-wrong (HN source)

Ranking the Most Brilliant Birds with Math and Data https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/fairly-ranking-the-most-brilliant-birds/ (HN source)

Notes on purposeful skill maintenance/improvement/neglect https://www.alexejgossmann.com/skill-maintenance-improvement-neglect/ (HN source)

Detecting goroutine leaks with synctest/pprof https://antonz.org/detecting-goroutine-leaks/ (HN source)

How I Under-Engineered My Book https://chriskiehl.com/article/how-i-under-engineered-my-book (HN source)

Let the app idea die in the chat https://misikir.com/ideadie.html (HN source)

Artisinal developer aschews LLM assistance https://www.jumboframeinternet.com/post/27/ (HN source)

How I Over-Engineered My Book https://ben.balter.com/2026/08/17/how-i-over-engineered-my-book/ (HN source)

The Best Way to Make Your (Small) Vision Language Model Smarter https://loganbolton.github.io/blog/vlm-verification/ (HN source)

Attempting a Game https://derekrodriguez.dev/attempting-a-game/ (HN source)

Benchmark Driven Development https://charlesazam.com/blog/benchmark-driven-development/ (HN source)

Session Visualization with Obsidian https://jimmyislive.dev/posts/session-visualization/ (HN source)

LLMs Aren’t Writing https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/08/llms-arent-writing/ (HN source)

The outstanding engineer who wanted to become a mediocre manager https://maroun-baydoun.com/blog/from-outstanding-engineer-to-mediocre-manager/ (HN source)

Do That Which Makes Your Life Easy https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/do-that-which-makes-your-life-easy (HN source)

Harnesses Are “Situated Agents” https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/08/14/harnesses-are-situated-agents.html (HN source)

The Artifact Is No Longer Proof of Competence https://eliasson.me/articles/the-artifact-is-no-longer-proof-of-competence (HN source)

You Have Arrived https://andys.blog/you-have-arrived/ (HN source)

RSS/Atom Feeds Are Critical https://fyr.io/post/feeds-are-critical (HN source)

Stop Reasoning Blindly https://charlesazam.com/blog/stop-reasoning-blindly/ (HN source)

OpenTelemetry traces: why deprecating span events is a terrible idea https://mcorbin.fr/en/posts/2026-08-17-otel-span-deprecation (HN source)

My Microscope Is a Dashcam https://xecaz.com/reverse.engineering/tomlovdm9/ (HN source)

Don’t use an LLM for your README.md https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/don-t-use-an-llm-for-your-readme-md/ (HN source)

Are LLMs good in-context tabular classifiers? https://juleskreuer.eu/research/tabbench-llm (HN source)

More methods for forecasting code automatiom

AI Futures Project

Q2.5 2026 Timelines Update: Uplift and Revenue

Tl;dr: Our timelines haven’t changed much (they got slightly shorter) but our modeling and evidence base have noticeably improved, so we feel somewhat more confident…

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Code Is the Byproduct https://yagmin.com/blog/code-is-the-byproduct/ (HN source)

Harnessing the Power of Slop Driven Development https://hank.bond/posts/harnessing-the-power-of-slop-driven-development/ (HN source)

A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-day-of-week (HN source)

The Best pattern is the one you can understand https://hank.bond/posts/the-best-pattern-is-the-one-you-can-understand/ (HN source)

The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later https://ivan-gavran.github.io/0-social-processes-paper (HN source)

Making stinkarm stink less, or more? https://xnacly.me/posts/2026/making-stinkarm-stink-less/ (HN source)

Double-double: 31 digits of precision without leaving the FPU https://marekfiser.com/blog/double-double-arithmetic/ (HN source)

You can just choose how many bugs you want now https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/16/you-can-just-choose-how-many-bugs-you-want-now/ (HN source)

Why Pi Is My Goat Agent Harness https://thinhcorner.com/blog/pi-agent/ (HN source)

I’m Creating a Minimal Dark Software Factory https://joeldare.com/creating-a-minimal-dark-factory (HN source)

Why LLMs Are Unreliable Language Detectors https://igorstechnoclub.com/why-llms-are-unreliable-language-detectors/ (HN source)

Being Ambitious and Being a Dad https://nicholascharriere.com/blog/being-ambitious-and-being-a-dad/ (HN source)

I stopped my Claude Code subagents from running on Fable instead of Sonnet https://thomas-witt.com/blog/blog-subagent-model-pin/ (HN source)

Your harness design is probably bad https://datavorous.github.io/writing/harness/ (HN source)

I built my own root DNS so I could stop renting names https://anthony.dev.profullstack.com/blog/013-post.html (HN source)

Oh-My-Claudecode, Orchestration Layer That Removes Humans from the Build Loop https://www.zhcinstitute.com/research/oh-my-claudecode-multi-agent-field-notes/ (HN source)

Writing code isn’t the bottleneck anymore, reading is https://threedots.tech/post/understanding-code-is-bottleneck/ (HN source)

We cut RAG costs 5x without losing quality https://trpevski.com/blog/scaling-rag-chunking-reranking-and-cost-optimization/ (HN source)

Is Software Still the Point? https://janbosch.com/field-notes-is-software-still-the-point/ (HN source)

Connecting my Illumos box to a Japanese ISP https://skalski.dev/connecting-my-illumos-box-to-a-japanese-isp/ (HN source)

Optimal Ask https://blog.lukesalamone.com/posts/optimal-ask/ (HN source)

Vim Fugitive in Action https://dzx.fr/blog/introduction-to-vim-fugitive/ (HN source)

Systemic Risks in the Managed PostgreSQL Industry: Extension Risks https://mehmetince.net/part-1-6-systemic-risks-in-the-managed-postgresql-industry-extension-risks-are-real-exploiting-postgis-memory-corruption-bug-at-neondb-supabase-and-many-more/ (HN source)

I wrote OSS for fun. They called it Exceptional Talent https://ryoppippi.com/blog/2026-08-15-uk-gtv-en/ (HN source)

Which Data Repository Should You Use? http://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/which-data-repository-should-you-use.html (HN source)

The largest App Clip deployment https://larrysalibra.com/the-worlds-largest-app-clip-deployment/ (HN source)

The road to Seahaven, or how I run my agent harnesses without permission prompts https://philipmw.github.io/blog/2026/08/seahaven/ (HN source)

5G, full bars, nothing loads: Or how I learned to start learning with LLMs https://www.dumky.net/posts/5g-full-bars-nothing-loads-learning-with-llms/ (HN source)

Lessons Learned from Fixing Flaky Tests with Claude https://henrikwarne.com/2026/08/15/lessons-learned-from-fixing-flaky-tests-with-claude/ (HN source)

I Remain a Skeptic https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/i-remain-a-skeptic (HN source)

So Who’s Going to Buy All These Tokens? https://horse.energy/who_buys_the_tokens.html (HN source)

Could a computer scientist build a brain? https://stankerstjens.github.io/could-a-computer-scientist-build-a-brain/ (HN source)

Dual Battery Automation in Home Assistant (Part 2) https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2026-07-26_dual_battery_automation/ (HN source)

Lazy loading YouTube embeds in Hugo https://eternodevir.com/palimpsests/logs/lazy-loading-youtube-embeds/ (HN source)

Custom FreeBSD Ucarp Setup https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/custom-freebsd-ucarp-setup/ (HN source)

N8N in Production: Lead Qualification That Works https://trpevski.com/blog/n8n-in-production-lead-qualification-that-works/ (HN source)

Codex hit 15M users four months early https://aicharts.grok.me/c/codex-growth (HN source)

Every Check Was Green. Five Guarantees Were Not https://ai2rules.dev/blog/every-check-was-green/ (HN source)

App:Unforgetful https://marco.org/2026/08/14/unforgetful (HN source)

The End of Mathematics https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/8/11/the-end-of-mathematics (HN source)

Yes, Code Review Is Still Necessary https://mattmccormick.ca/yes-code-review-is-still-necessary/ (HN source)

Randomness Is a Tax – Until It Isn’t https://www.sidhantbansal.com/2026/When-is-randomness-an-asset-vs-a-tax/ (HN source)

It’s time to stop doing code reviews https://blog.brokk.ai/its-time-to-rip-off-the-band-aid-and-stop-performing-code-reviews/ (HN source)

Spectre on RISC-V Silicon https://lukasgerlach.me/blog/2026-spectre-on-riscv-silicon-usenix/ (HN source)

What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine https://eliasfarhan.ch/gamedev/cpp/2026/08/14/srnative-01-why-a-custom-engine.html (HN source)

The Bots Always Find Something https://faingezicht.com/articles/2026/08/14/the-bots-always-find-something/ (HN source)

Status enum lives in five files https://cannibalcode.com/blog/2026-08-your-status-enum-lives-in-five-files/ (HN source)

What do we do if many people aren’t working? https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/08/14/what-do-we-do-if-many-people-arent-working/ (HN source)

Structure Was Always the Hard Part https://jasonfleetwoodboldt.com/2026/05/04/structure-was-always-the-hard-part/ (HN source)

Code Is the Hard Part https://bbuyukliev.blogspot.com/2026/08/code-is-hard-part.html (HN source)

My VP Eng told me to stop working on observability https://www.jevy.org/articles/my-vp-eng-told-me-to-stop-working-on-observability/ (HN source)

Multi-Modeling the Rocket Monster https://mikkelmalmberg.com/2026/multi-modeling-the-rocket-monster (HN source)

Why Not Always OCR? https://bankstatementconverter.com/blog/posts/2026-08-14-why-not-always-ocr/ (HN source)

Anthropic Is not worth much at all https://s-1.vercel.app/posts/why-openrouter-can-be-the-next-great/ (HN source)

Changing Devtools Is Cheap. Owning Them Isn’t https://lalitm.com/post/changing-devtools-is-cheap-owning-them-isnt/ (HN source)

Technological breakthroughs are easy to miss https://johnjdavis.io/posts/technological-breakthroughs-are-easy-to-miss/ (HN source)

My skinner box It was made for me https://sgt.hootr.club/blog/this-is-my-skinner-box/ (HN source)

Vibe coding local first personal apps in mid-2026 https://www.flourish.org/2026/08/personal-apps/ (HN source)

Coding was never the hard part

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My app for Shipaton 2026: Two Weeks In https://darrylbayliss.net/im-building-for-shipaton-2026-week-two/ (HN source)

Hello, me. It’s been a while https://themech.net/2026/08/hello-me-its-been-a-while/ (HN source)

30× faster binary multivector ColBERT late interaction in Vespa https://oskrim.github.io/engineering/2026/08/13/chunked-hamming-maxsim.html (HN source)

Compute-Optimal Is Not Cluster-Optimal https://szha.ai/blog/compute-optimal-is-not-cluster-optimal/ (HN source)

I want extern “fil-C” https://domenkozar.com/2026/08/13/i-want-extern-fil-c/ (HN source)

Headless Xcode: From Prompt to Simulator with MCP https://artemnovichkov.com/blog/headless-xcode-from-prompt-to-simulator-with-mcp (HN source)

The DeepSeek Thesis

ChinaTalk

The DeepSeek Thesis

What does Liang Wenfeng want? The CEO of DeepSeek is now richer than either Dario Amodei or Sam Altman. Backed by his careful watch and the immense wealth of his hedge fund, a little-known group of researchers in Hangzhou has managed to consistently command the world’s attention — and they keep giving their work away for free. The motivations behind Lia…

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20 days ago · 70 likes · 4 comments · Irene Zhang

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Write for People https://vickiboykis.com/2026/08/12/write-for-people/ (HN source)

What’s behind the rise of teens spying for Russia? https://mssv.net/2026/08/13/whats-behind-the-rise-of-teens-spying-for-russia/ (HN source)

Agentic Engineering Is Just Everything We Haven’t Been Doing https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/agentic-engineering-is-just-everything-we-havent-been-doing/ (HN source)