AI has good suggestions for bad writing but bad suggestions for good writing.

Was talking to @nik.digital earlier and he mentioned he never knew I wrote blog posts outside of the CS stuff. He’d found samwho.dev/blog/having-... and found it funny that I threw my back out waiting for my wife to give birth. 🫠

i didn't want to buy an Oura Ring, so i decided to learn vibe coding instead! Sleep Lab - a progressive web app to make use of Garmin's sleep data and measure which tactics actually improve my sleep, starting with mouth tape 😂 github: github.com/chiaracokien... all tips & advice welcome!

In my March retro, I explain why the next few years will be scary in terms of software security and what the prototype of my family photo sharing app looks like mtlynch.io/retrospectiv...

BREAKING: You checked the weather this morning. And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep. Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones. No warrant required. Our @citizenlab.ca investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1 citizenlab.ca/research/ana...

We're not prepared for how quickly AI models have progressed at discovering security vulnerabilities mtlynch.io/claude-code-...

Glad to see healthcare providers actually facing consequences for their terrible data privacy practices: theshoestring.org/2026/03/24/j...

@jmduke.com www.jmduke.com/posts/mistre... Yes! Great movie. "There's no adultery when you're eighteen. You should all be touching each other all the time."

I spent 16 hours writing a design doc by hand. Then, I used AI to generate competing docs in 5 minutes. Can you pick out the human design doc from the AI versions? refactoringenglish.com/blog/ai-vs-h...

I made my first contribution to Firefox. It's a one-character fix to prevent a crash when reading a particular type of malformed Ogg-Vorbis media file. Surprisingly fast review from Mozilla! Reviewed and merged in under 1h. phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D288636

In my February retrospective, I discover most people who purchase my writing book live in countries where English is not the primary language. And I realize I've been using AI coding too much. mtlynch.io/retrospectiv...

Do you work in fundraising? Do you want a job that isn't evil? Signal is hiring a director of major gifts: jobs.lever.co/signal/68f75...

I've worked as a developer for 20 years, and writing has always been a key part of my career and technical growth. refactoringenglish.com/chapters/why...

Me, two days after discovering I can purchase remote nix builds as a service

Over the summer, I met a romance novelist at a party, and she gave me one of the best tips I've found for attracting new readers to my book: showcase other writers. mtlynch.io/retrospectiv...

exe.dev is still behind a credit card for now while we develop some more techniques for dealing with people who abuse systems (even a credit card doesn't entirely work). But if you are a human who wants an invite code to skip the CC for a month, happy to DM you one.

I'm on Hacker News today! I wrote about my eighth year as a bootstrapped founder.

I tried to claim a rebate for installing an EV charger at my home, and I discovered my electricity supplier was publicly exposing all of my information, including home address, phone number, email, plate numbers, and VIN. mtlynch.io/eversource-r...

The showed us cute missing dogs & we consented to turning our doorbell cameras into a mass human tracking system. Mark my words, Ring's Search Party will become the next Flock. Only instead of just being sketchy cameras installed in parking lots, it will be everywhere. That's their play.

I've now been an indie founder for eight years, and last year was my favorite. I wrote all year and figured out what kind of business matches me as a founder. mtlynch.io/bootstrapped...

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log.pfad.fr/2026/softwar... This is such a cool feature of NixOS that I should use more

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

I've been leaning towards Tubi being the streaming service, and now I think it's official: they have Season 1 and Season 2 of one of the best science and technology comedy shows ever made… "Look Around You". Thanks, Tubi. Thubi. tubitv.com/series/30001...

🔗 ➡ fly.io/blog/design-...

I made enough money from komorebi this month to cover my rent for the first time I started the project in 2020 It might not seem so big when there are so many announcements of AI startups raising millions every week But it's pretty big to me

This past weekend, I went back to Broadview for the first time since being federally indicted. I will put my body on the line no matter how many times it takes.

Big milestone! 🎉 My first app is now on Setapp. I’ve been a subscriber since 2017, so this feels pretty surreal. 🤩 Transcrybe live-translates any audio on your Mac: go.setapp.com/stp1479?refA...

In December, I implemented regional pricing for my book, created my first mobile app (a MeshCore client), and started my first cross-language library.

@jmduke.com can you update your site's repo so I can submit a PR to fix this *egregious* bug in your review of The Diplomat?

Sprites.dev by @fly.io is a very cool new thing: it solves two of my pet problems at once, developer sandbox environments for coding agents and a JSON API for executing untrusted code I wrote more here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/9/s...

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

Wrote my first weekly update www.chiaracokieng.com/update-for-t... Inspired by @mtlynch.io !

Got a notification that I was using 600x my normal CDN credits. I checked it expecting an aggressive LLM scraper. But nope, just Google, downloading the same 3 MB file from me every three seconds.

New blog post! A close look at Tahoe menu icons https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

My article about the HN's top bloggers of 2025 is on the front page of HN. Honestly, I'm quite relieved after it flopped yesterday. I don't mind pandering to HN, but it's embarrassing when even that fails.

The underlying data for this is available as CSV files with open CORS headers, so I had some fun loading it into Datasette Lite and querying it with WebAssembly SQLite simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/2/m...

With 2025 complete, I can finally declare the most popular bloggers of Hacker News: 1. @simonwillison.net - 20,117 points 2. @jeffgeerling.com - 10,813 points 3. Sean Goedecke - 10,804 points 4. Brian Krebs - 10,699 points 5. @neal.fun - 8,936 points refactoringenglish.com/blog/2025-hn...

I just added discounted regional pricing based on purchasing power parity for my book. You can pay in your local currency based on your PPP. refactoringenglish.com/early-access/

“And what are your reasons for creating a photo sharing app?” mtlynch.io/retrospectiv...

New blog post: Certificate Authorities Are Once Again Issuing Certificates That Don't Work www.agwa.name/blog/post/ca...

many people were asking for it and now the full cut of the onion parody of jubilee debates is now up on youtube!

I've been experimenting with MeshCore, a technology that allows you to send text messages even when you have no phone or Internet coverage. mtlynch.io/first-impres...

@chriscoyier.net Hi Chris, we took your advice 😉 Check out our updated blog layout! blog.kagi.com/orion

Three years ago I sold my agency to one of our long time clients and went to work for them. I made it 11 months before I got fired. I wrote about the experience, how it felt, and what I took away from it: www.andrewaskins.com/how-to-get-...

From @evanhahn.com "These old books often have passages that lack clarity but overflow with panache. If you like hearing someone described as 'impervious to the shafts of ridicule and insensible to slights,' you’ll like this writing style." evanhahn.com/story-of-the...

I was recently re-reading Crafting Interpreters and was struck by how delightfully effective its introduction is. In just four sentences, @stuffwithstuff.com establishes exactly what you'll learn from the book and why you'll enjoy learning it with him. refactoringenglish.com/blog/craftin...

How many clicks could it possibly take to add a simple VLAN to OPNsense?