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X nuked my premium account out of nowhere
A developer who goes by proc0 reported on Hacker News that X abruptly deleted their premium account with no explanation and no way to appeal. The account, used for posting project updates and discussing engineering topics, was sim...
Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?
A software engineer's candid post on Hacker News is resonating with developers who find themselves drawn to maintenance and support rather than greenfield building. The anonymous poster, who holds a BS/MS in computer science and h...
Cloudflare Tests Cache Transcoding to Reduce Storage Requirements
Cloudflare has built a prototype that compresses cached text content before writing it to disk, and the company estimates it could unlock petabytes of additional effective cache capacity across its network. The approach, which the...
We made Canonry open source
This is a product release announcement and marketing page for an open-source tool. There is no story, no technical details beyond version numbers and install commands, and no substantive content to rewrite into a news article.
A few good ideas in programming languages
Programming language design often comes down to a handful of decisions that disproportionately shape how a language feels to use. A recent post by Pranoy Dutta highlights three such ideas, flow typing, borrow checking, and contrac...
Show HN: Objo Studio. A modern visual RAD IDE for desktop and web
Most visual development tools force a tradeoff. You either get a drag-and-drop designer that locks you into a specific platform, or you get a real programming language that makes you write UI code by hand. Objo Studio tries to do...
One Decade of Rustls: Evolution, Benchmarks, and Future Roadmap
Rustls turned ten years old this month. The memory-safe TLS library, written in Rust, marked the anniversary with a retrospective covering its evolution from a side project into one of the most performant and widely adopted TLS im...
Building Specialized Systems We Can Trust with Agents
Coding agents can now generate entire systems, not just functions. A recent Anthropic experiment had 16 Claude agents build a 100,000-line C compiler from scratch for roughly $20,000 in API costs. But speed of generation means not...
Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
Mecka AI is close to closing a new funding round led by Sequoia Capital at a valuation of roughly $500 million, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. The round comes just three months after the startup raised $60 mil...
Show HN: A new, safe, programming language for LLMs and Humans to collaborate
A new programming language called U claims to solve memory safety, data races, and security vulnerabilities through a single type modifier system. The language compiles to portable C and targets both human developers and AI code g...