In the next months I'll provide you with a Hacker News replacement that I'll run myself and I'll guarantee personally: no benefit for whatsoever individual, a team of 10/20 persons since the start, from different time zones, clear rules, total transparency, and a "karma" system.

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

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Der etwas persönlichere Abriss zur Hamburger #AgenticConf am vergangenen Wochenende, stilecht im vibe-gecodeten Blog mit dem verbrannten Geruch herrlich bunter Pyrotechnik.

What’s confusing is that CUDA’s moat still seems intact. Shouldn’t we be using AI to help migrate toward a more open standard like SYCL?

Hard truth

I spent 2 months learning about quantization and am extremely proud of the post I've written about it. I think these are some of the nicest visuals I've ever made, and I love how this compression technique invented in 1898 is being used on the bleeding edge in 2026. ngrok.com/blog/quantiz...

3D-printing human cartilage replacement, just wow! Bioprinting makes so much sense, much more than printing meat to eat. 3druck.com/forschung/et...

A nuanced article on using agents for medical advice. The knowledge of how this magical machine is built helps you understand its limitations. coorasse.com/blog/how-ai-...

I haven't made anything with AT Proto yet, neither. But it seems I'm not the only one who's planning to build something on top of it. Too fascinating for nerds like us! macwright.com/2026/03/16/a...

After 20 years on iOS, I switched to Android. The app I miss most? Apple Maps. Not because it's better — because it has a personality. It optimizes for pleasant drives, not shaving off seconds. Same principle now applies to AI tools. stefanmunz.com/posts/2026/t...

Yeah, the MacBook Neo looks cute. But it's telling how afraid the new Apple has become, that they go for such a low margin product. It's clearly a preemptive maneuver to counter Google's Aluminium OS devices.

Glimpse of a utopia: FOSS won. Code projects, even those which are human-written, are mostly maintained by AI. Feature requests, issue tracking, CI/CD, and pull requests are all managed by agentic systems. Discussions are steered in productive directions, not driven by ego. Drama is rare.

I hate the re-soloing of development. We were so close to learning social skills, creating community, encouraging creativity & purpose, & applying empathy. Easier to manage if each of us is so busy with our genieswarms that we don't have time to talk & reflect.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

Armin and Ben are back for their third episode. High signal to noise ratio. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0SY...

Go is full of nifty little helpers, this time govulncheck. This makes a lot of sense to avoid update fatigue. It's also an interesting perspective into how purely more automation doesn't make everything better. It also corresponds with a lot of noise easily. words.filippo.io/dependabot/

Interesting to see Ubuntu picking up the local LLM opportunity. Packaging everything in a Snap looks comfortable, but almost too rigid for my taste. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CYm...

There's a story going around right now that goes something like this: AI makes us so efficient that we'll soon have more free time than we know what to do with. It's a nice story. I don't think it's what's going to happen. Read the full article with links here: www.stefanmunz.com/posts/2026/t...

Sad news: Our early bird offering is over. Good news: Time to announce the first speakers! Super happy to give you a sneak peak on the first confirmed speakers. More details on each speaker coming in the next days, so make sure to follow me, so you don't miss them! agentic.hamburg/conf-2026/

Watched this yesterday. Good overview, really happy I deleted the app on my phone and only occasionally read up on individuals there, what a shithole.

The free, open-source alternative to Meetup. Create groups and events for your community — no fees, no ads, community-owned forever. ATproto continues to impress me, maybe we can try this out for our Agentic Coding Meetup Hamburg soon. openmeet.net/running-a-pd...

Half joking: This is what it's like to be a senior technical leader.

Ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke launches his new startup. Not entirely convinced they found the perfect solution already, but looking at their speed of implementation, this could get interesting. entire.io/company

Showboat and Rodney are clever additions for agentic engineering, enabling more closed feedback loops in the development cycle. This is such an exciting time for coders! simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/10/...

Whoa, the next gen of at-home APUs from AMD for local inference could almost triple their memory bandwidth, massively increasing the token/sec for LLM usage. www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

So that's Bending Spoons winning strategy with Meetup.com? Make the platform so unattractive from a price-to-value perspective, that even the big players like Hashicorp exit, without a clear alternative in sight? People are clearly sick of moving from one monopolist to the other, just to hang out...

My newsletter started out covering 3D printing in 2024. I moved on to other topics, but a story on The Verge pulled me right back. Across the US, a loose network of about 40 people with 3D printers has shipped over 200,000 whistles to 48 states. Read the full article with links on my blog below.

Chatto is a tool to watch — just the right product at the right time, from the right guy. www.hmans.dev/blog/chatto-...

Another glimpse into the future. The productivity divide is widening fast: experienced engineers with agents are pulling away from the pack, and the gap to where we were in 2024 grows larger every month. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/31/pi/

Sci-Fi with a touch of madness, it is exactly that! A social network for AI-powered agents, so they can exchange about their newest musings and ideas. www.moltbook.com

I want this mug

Great summary about personal usage of OpenClaw. Too dangerous for inexperienced hands, but clearly a glimpse into the future. www.robert-glaser.de/personal-ai-...

We updated our news blog on Agentic Hamburg. If you ever wanted to catch up on what happened in the past meetups or want to be up to date on what's coming next this is the place to be! agentic.hamburg/news/

Last week I visited tudock.de to give a two-day training on agentic engineering. I expected to teach. I ended up learning quite a bit myself. Read the full article here: www.stefanmunz.com/posts/2026/t...

We launched our Community Conference on Meetup, the Call for Sessions is open now, too! www.meetup.com/de-de/agenti...

We've run four sold-out meetups. We've grown a community of 1,000+ practitioners. Now we're taking the next step. On March 22, we're hosting Northern Germany's finest gathering for AI-native development at SAE Hamburg (Medienbunker, U Feldstraße) — and our Call for Sessions is open now. We want ...

i'm pretty sure anthropic will one day make a model that's not available in the api and locked to claude code and i bet they'll say it's for "safety" reasons

You only get 12 shots at life. Having made it to middle age, this sounds about right. jessyio.substack.com/p/shots

Kagi clarifies what is required to restore a fair internet search market. This sounds reasonable to me, but I don't expect it to change anything on the first try. blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn...

Building a browser with thousands of agents. This is one of the most fascinating experiments of the year so far, and Simon Willison got to interview the creators of FastRender. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKrA...

Over the last few weeks, I have found myself switching between Claude Code and Codex. With Claude Code, it's great fun to start a project. When you go deeper into the trenches, Codex has the sharper axe. It's much slower than Claude Code, but... Read the full article with links here.

We have a high visibility sponsorship opportunity for our upcoming Agentic Conf Hamburg! With Mr. Lion Coffee Catering we found a top-notch team, just look at their straight 5.0 rating on Google Maps. maps.app.goo.gl/Ec9EpC5fF2vg...

vibe coding

Here are three lines from my AGENTS.md that make agents a lot better with Go. Go has great CLI tools, but many people don't know about them, and so agents are not trained to reach for them. Maybe the Go project should maintain a Go development skill?

Our Agentic Coding Meetup Hamburg started doing video recordings of the talks. Guru P: Agentic AI for SEO Content Generation www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iaib... and Sebastian K.: Claude Code in the wild: Building web applications with AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElId... Enjoy! More videos to come!

Armin is showcasing pi coding agent in this video. Especially the self-verification and testing loop for the agent is highly interesting, this is similar to what I am trying to achieve at the moment as well. This is the way! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANQ1...