Zhipu AI · z.ai
GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
Zhipu AI announces GLM-5, a frontier model designed for complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks with strong benchmark performance.
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Writings that are worth sharing.
February 2026
papers.ssrn.com
GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment
A research paper examining how GPT-5 performs on legal reasoning tasks, finding it outperforms federal judges in certain experimental settings.
the-ai-native.company
AI-First Company Memos
A curated collection of "AI-first" memos from CEOs at Shopify, Duolingo, Klarna, and others, revealing three competing philosophies about what it means to be an AI-native company.
Cam Pedersen · campedersen.com
The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
A thought experiment exploring how the technological singularity might unfold not as a dramatic event, but as a mundane Tuesday where the world quietly changes forever.
Antoine Boulanger · ablg.io
Competition is not market validation
Challenges the common startup wisdom that having competitors validates your market, arguing that competition alone tells you nothing about whether customers will pay for your solution.
publicdomainreview.org
Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)
A collection from the Public Domain Review showcasing Doi Toshitsura's beautiful 1832 Japanese illustrations of snow crystals, predating Western scientific photography of snowflakes by decades.
Arseniy Shishaev · arseniy.wtf
Never Work with Bad People
A personal essay arguing that no career opportunity is worth tolerating toxic colleagues, and that the long-term costs of working with bad people always outweigh short-term gains.
vangemert.dev
"Nothing" is the secret to structuring your work
Explores how intentionally leaving empty space and unstructured time in your workflow paradoxically leads to better productivity and creative output.
publicdomainreview.org
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Labor Behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
A Public Domain Review essay uncovering the invisible labor of typists—often women—who shaped modern literature by transcribing, editing, and interpreting the handwritten drafts of famous authors.
blog.adafruit.com
New York's budget bill would require "blocking technology" on all 3D printers
Adafruit reports on a New York State budget bill that would mandate "blocking technology" on all 3D printers to prevent the manufacturing of firearms components.
agentskills.io
Agent Skills
An open format developed by Anthropic for giving AI agents new capabilities and expertise through portable, version-controlled skill packages adopted by leading AI development tools.
Simon Berens · simonberens.com
Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product
A candid retrospective on the unexpected challenges of manufacturing and shipping a first hardware product, from supply chain surprises to customer support realities.
January 2026
Paul Kinlan · aifoc.us
The browser is the sandbox
Explores how browser sandboxing technology, originally designed to safely run untrusted web code, could serve as a security foundation for AI-powered desktop automation tools.
Gwern · gwern.net
First, make me care
An essay on the art of writing compelling hooks and introductions, arguing that the most important skill for any writer is making the reader care within the first few sentences.
Sean Goedecke · seangoedecke.com
How I estimate work
A practical framework for estimating software projects that accounts for uncertainty, unknown unknowns, and the common traps that lead engineers to consistently underestimate.
Łukasz Klim · whileforloop.com
I Like GitLab
A defense of GitLab against its critics, highlighting the features and workflows that make it a compelling alternative to GitHub for certain development teams.
Jason Willems · jasonwillems.com
The tech monoculture is finally breaking
Argues that after decades of corporate consolidation, technology is becoming fun again as consumers embrace diverse, single-purpose devices and niche brands beyond Apple and Google.
Jampa Uchoa · jampa.dev
Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager
Hard-won lessons from a decade of engineering management, covering the human side of leadership—building trust, handling conflict, and knowing when to step back.
Nikola Balić · nibzard.com
The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns
A comprehensive guide to building production-grade AI agent systems, covering architecture patterns, reliability strategies, and real-world implementation pitfalls.
Anthropic · github.com
Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
Anthropic releases its original performance optimization take-home challenge, tasking candidates with minimizing clock cycles on a simulated machine starting from a 147,147-cycle baseline.
Paul Musgrave · musgrave.substack.com
The Old World Order Is Dead
An analysis of the post-WWII international order's collapse, arguing that the institutions and norms that defined global politics for decades have irreversibly broken down.
John Paul Tasker · cbc.ca
'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos
Prime Minister Mark Carney declares at Davos that the U.S.-led rules-based international order has ended, urging middle powers like Canada to build strategic autonomy in energy, defense, and supply chains.
Isabel · read.isabelunraveled.com
A rationalist's guide to manifestation
Bridges the gap between rationalist skepticism and manifestation practices, arguing that visualization and intention-setting can be effective tools when understood through a psychological rather than mystical lens.
news.ycombinator.com
Should you combine your personal website and blog or keep them separate?
A Hacker News discussion exploring the tradeoffs between merging a personal portfolio site with a blog versus maintaining them as separate entities.
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Which common map projections make Greenland look smaller?
A curious Hacker News thread exploring map projections that minimize Greenland's apparent size, with suggestions ranging from Peters to Goode Homolosine projections.
Olivia · weirdmedievalguys.substack.com
The secret medieval tunnels that we still don't understand
Explores the mysterious network of narrow, hand-carved tunnels found beneath medieval European settlements whose purpose remains unknown to historians and archaeologists.
yahoo.com
Google co-founder reveals that "many" of the new hires do not have a degree
Reports on Google co-founder Larry Page revealing that many recent hires lack college degrees, signaling a shift toward skills-based hiring in Big Tech.
penntoday.upenn.edu
When employees feel slighted, they work less
Penn Wharton research showing that employees who perceive unfair treatment reduce their work output, with implications for management and organizational culture.
Simon Willison · simonwillison.net
Scaling long-running autonomous coding
Examines the emerging pattern of scaling AI coding agents by running them autonomously for extended periods, and the infrastructure and supervision challenges this creates.
Aella · knowingless.com
The Overly Analytical Guide to Escorting (2021)
A data-driven, deeply analytical breakdown of the escorting industry, applying rationalist methodology to pricing strategies, client management, and market dynamics.
zanlib.dev
Reliable Signals of Honest Intent
Explores the concept of costly signaling in human relationships and negotiations—how people can credibly demonstrate genuine intentions through actions that would be irrational to fake.
Sean Goedecke · seangoedecke.com
I'm addicted to being useful
A personal reflection on the compulsion to always be productive and helpful, examining how the addiction to usefulness can become a trap that crowds out rest and self-care.
github.com
Show HN: Mastra 1.0, open-source JavaScript agent framework from the Gatsby devs
The team behind Gatsby launches Mastra, an open-source TypeScript framework for building AI agents with model routing across 40+ providers, workflow orchestration, and production observability.
Alexander Rose · longnow.org
A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)
Reveals how the Hoover Dam contains a hidden astronomical monument designed to mark the current position of the stars, creating a time capsule readable 26,000 years in the future.
Ernesto Van der Sar · torrentfreak.com
Nvidia contacted Anna's Archive to access books
Reports on an expanded class-action lawsuit alleging NVIDIA management gave "the green light" to contact Anna's Archive, a shadow library, to access millions of pirated books for AI training.
cia.gov
Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf]
The CIA's declassified WWII field manual instructing ordinary citizens on how to subtly sabotage organizations through bureaucracy, inefficiency, and procedural obstruction—eerily familiar to modern corporate life.
Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya · ntietz.com
3D printing my laptop ergonomic setup
A walkthrough of designing and 3D printing a custom ergonomic laptop stand, from initial frustrations with commercial options to iterating on CAD designs and final assembly.
Sean Muirhead · seanmuirhead.com
Targeted Bets: An alternative approach to the job hunt
Proposes a focused job search strategy of deeply researching a small number of companies and making "targeted bets" rather than mass-applying to hundreds of positions.
Dmitry Kudryavtsev · kudmitry.com
Dead Internet Theory
Examines the conspiracy theory that the internet is increasingly populated by bot-generated content, and how AI-generated text is making this once-fringe idea feel uncomfortably plausible.
Colin Marshall · openculture.com
Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13
Tells the story of "The Torment of Saint Anthony," painted by Michelangelo at age 12 or 13, and how infrared analysis at the Met revealed it as an original work rather than a copy.
Cong Wang · wangcong.org
Personal Taste Is the Moat
Argues that in an age of AI-generated content, personal taste and aesthetic judgment become the most defensible competitive advantage for creators and builders.
ismypubfucked.com
Find a pub that needs you
A playful community tool that helps you discover local pubs that need more patrons, combining pub data with a cheeky call to support your neighborhood watering hole.
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
A Hacker News discussion where developers share strategies for managing ADHD-related thought patterns, from structured note-taking systems to medication and mindfulness practices.
Anthropic · claude.com
Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
Anthropic introduces Cowork, extending Claude Code's agentic capabilities beyond software engineering to general knowledge work like research, analysis, and writing.
Karl Voit · karl-voit.at
Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead
A detailed critique of Markdown's fragmented ecosystem—dozens of incompatible flavors, ambiguous syntax, and poor extensibility—with suggestions for more robust alternatives.
Addy Osmani · addyosmani.com
The next two years of software engineering
Predicts how AI will reshape software engineering over the next two years, from automated code review and testing to the changing role of senior engineers as AI supervisors.
Simone Poggiali · github.com
The Concise TypeScript Book
A comprehensive yet concise open-source guide to TypeScript, covering the language from basics to advanced patterns in an accessible, example-driven format.
news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language
A symbol-based programming language designed for AI generation rather than human writing, using ASCII glyphs to achieve 35-45% fewer tokens than Python while remaining human-readable.
Terence Tao · mathstodon.xyz
"Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI"
Terence Tao discusses how AI tools autonomously solved Erdős Problem #728, noting that the real breakthrough is AI's emerging ability to rapidly write and rewrite clear mathematical exposition.
marending.dev
Visual regression tests for personal blogs
A practical guide to setting up visual regression testing for personal websites, catching unintended CSS changes before they reach production.
December 2025
Jess Cockerill · sciencealert.com
'Off switch' discovery could help clear our brains of a common parasite
Scientists discover a molecular mechanism that could deactivate Toxoplasma gondii, the brain parasite estimated to infect roughly a third of the global population.
Andrew Nesbitt · nesbitt.io
How uv got so fast
A deep dive into the performance engineering behind uv, the blazing-fast Python package manager, examining the architectural decisions and Rust optimizations that make it orders of magnitude faster.
Aaron Francis · github.com
Publishing your work increases your luck
Makes the case that consistently publishing your work—code, writing, or ideas—dramatically increases serendipitous opportunities by expanding your surface area for luck.
learnix-os.com
LearnixOS
An educational project that teaches you how to build a POSIX-compliant operating system from scratch using Rust, with comprehensive documentation and step-by-step guidance.
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
A Hacker News thread where developers share their skill-development goals for 2026, spanning VR development, computer graphics, side projects, and expanding social circles.
purplesyringa · purplesyringa.moe
Faster practical modular inversion
A technical deep dive into a novel algorithm for modular inversion that achieves practical speedups over existing methods, with benchmarks and implementation details.