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What if every git commit was just a folder you could browse?
Julia Evans built git-commit-folders: mount your git repo over NFS and suddenly every commit becomes a directory you can grep, vim, or pipe into anything.
When Google's Update Deletes Your IDE and Leaves a Chatbot in Its Place
Google's Antigravity 2.0 update silently replaced a working developer IDE with a chatbot at I/O 2026 - and the only fix was a full system purge.
The AI answer is an ad
Google embedded Gemini-generated ads directly into AI Mode search results. Here's what shipped, why HN is furious, and why the adblocker crowd finally has a…
Python 3.15's Most Useful Changes Flew Under the Radar
Python 3.15 ships lazy imports and a Tachyon profiler, but the quietly useful additions are TaskGroup.cancel(), fixed context manager decorators, and…
The VSCode extension that robbed GitHub
GitHub confirmed ~3,800 internal repos were stolen after one employee installed a trojanized Nx Console extension - and the attackers want $50K for the data.
Hosting a website on a $1 microcontroller
One programmer squeezed a real TCP/IP stack onto a $1 AVR chip using SLIP over serial. The site is slow, the TCP is buggy, and it loads.
A country of 500,000 just became OpenAI's first national AI experiment
Malta is giving ChatGPT Plus to every citizen who completes a 2-hour AI course. First real national AI pilot, or political vote-buying? HN has thoughts.
One minute of 720p video from a single GPU - how did we get here so fast?
SANA-WM is a 2.6B open-source world model that generates minute-long 720p video with 6-DoF camera control on one GPU. NVIDIA trained it on 64 H100s in 15 days.
XS: A 2.9 MB Binary That Is an Entire Programming Toolchain
XS packs compiler, debugger, formatter, package manager, and six backends into one 2.9 MB binary that runs on Linux, macOS, ESP32, and more.