"We aren't in a constitutional crisis until he defies the Supreme Court." Are we there yet or are the goalposts breaking a land speed record?

punk band name: Executable Markdown

I worked on a few fairly prominent efforts in open source (Istio, OpenAPI), but I think of all of them, it’s gRPC that I think has the coolest story. Pull up a chair and set for a spell (any inaccuracies in what follows are 100% my fault for having a bad memory!).

New from 404 Media: a leaked email suggests Ring's 'Search Party' feature, which it advertised at the Super Bowl, won't be limited to just turning on neighborhoods' cameras to search for dogs. CEO Jamie Siminoff said the feature is “first for finding dogs.” www.404media.co/leaked-email...

> I find this whole thing mostly very saddening. Not because some company used my diagram. As I said, it's been everywhere for 15 years and I've always been fine with that. What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care:

Jesse Jackson appeared on Sesame Street in 1973. During his appearance, he led a group of children in reciting his well-known poem “I Am Somebody,” a message focused on self-worth and empowerment The segment became one of the most memorable celebrity appearances from the early seasons of the show.

Babashka 1.12.215: Revenge of the TUIs blog.michielborkent.nl/babashka-1.1... One of the most exciting babashka release thus far! (If you encounter the blog post link on HN, please upvote it (please don't share a direct HN link as this is penalized by HN's algorithm). Thank you!) #clojure #babashka

now that Git 2.53 is out, the Git data model @omarieclaire.bsky.social and I wrote is on the official Git website! git-scm.com/docs/gitdata...

> I think we need to focus on our overall approach to software engineering and treat AI as a tool. A powerful tool, a new kind of tool, but still a tool. Hard to pick what to quote from Russ Cox on how the Golang team should think about AI contributions (and more broadly).

The woke Cracker Barrel redesign that didn't happen is an obvious example of white erasure and his corn meal mush brain couldn't even bring it up. /s

Inspiring: RFK Jr's nutrition chatbot recommends the best foods to insert into your rectum. “Start — whole peeled carrot, straight shaft, narrow end for insertion, wider crown end as base.” www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutr...

Real-time profiling in the terminal 👀🔥 🚒 eprofiler-tui — A TUI flamegraph viewer for OTLP profiling data 💯 Streams profiles over gRPC & renders an interactive/zoomable flamegraph. 🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui.rs ⭐ GitHub: github.com/rogercoll/ep... #rustlang #ratatui #tui #profiling

We’re all looking for the guy who did this

Chart only go up

I feel like a lot of automations folks are doing with agents can probably be done mostly by shell scripts in a more deterministic fashion. Maybe just use a LLM for some categorization, instead of to do the whole thing.

Narrator: Republicans were not all that into following Christ in the first place.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Republicans friend of mine 1 year ago: "I don't think we're there yet." Where "there" was authoritarianism.

Guys, the purpose of tailscale is to keep idiots *off* your network

We got Palantir's user guide for ELITE, the tool they made for ICE: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

The Venn diagram of people fantasizing about replacing deterministic code with ambiguous prose and ex-dungeon masters that peaked in middle school is ... a circle. Roll for initiative.

These people need to touch grass soul.md

Congress will do nothing with crickets from the "soap, ballot, ammo box crowd."

OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice

The Hype House Theory by @reckless.bsky.social on the Vergecast.

"Hey I wonder if the latest models still reproduce the benchmark canary strings?" Got it first try from Opus 4.5 🫠

Of all the things that never happened, this the most

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

Your gaslighting level is: North Korea

LLMs are for easy things like solving Erdos problems, not hard things like aligning stakeholders

that GitHub can't get their PR diff UI to be not broken is the strongest case I'm aware of against LLM productivity gains

Their heaven has a housing crisis too.

James Talarico: “The business model of social media depends on us leaving behind our real human relationships. That is the biggest competitor to these platforms. Their competitors are churches and neighborhoods and pubs — the complicated, beautiful human relationships that we require to live.”

Whether its shooting women in the face or pouring water on pavement, both sides have committed acts of violence.

This is a very striking piece by @davekarpf.bsky.social - short, clear, to-the-point, and not just about AI agents doing coding: open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's far past time to hold companies and employers accountable for entertaining ICE contracts.

Finger is so tiny.

The end is nigh.

Trump, if he's known for anything, is known for a rock solid moral core. He has morals. The best morals.

Regulator is opening 2026 with an interview with someone who'd know a thing or two about the Trump-Nvidia chip deal: Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser under President Joe Biden, who had implemented the restrictions on selling high-end chips to China. www.theverge.com/policy/85681...

The auto industry for decades: ads with stock trucks doing things they will absolutely never do in real life like rock scrambling in Moab or towing ocean freighters. Microsoft CoPilot Marketing: hold my beer.

So he still lives in NYC confirmed

Curt Cignetti is a goldmine

AI Bro: LLMs will kill SaaS Me:

Gonna mix it up and wish everyone an auld lang tangent for New Year's. Seriously. Let 2026 be the year you learn Lisp, Prolog, Forth ... go on an old programming language tangent for great good.

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

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