1. Man out of Time: The travels and ecstasies of a Russian aesthete (lareviewofbooks.org)
The travels and ecstasies of a Russian aesthete.
2. Show HN: Solving complex optimization problems with Google OR-Tools in browser (github.com)
Running Google OR-Tools multithreaded in browser through wasm. - Axelwickm/or-tools-wasm
4. Claude Opus 4.8 Max responding to an empty message (xcancel.com)
No one:
Claude Opus 4.8 Max: Let me refine your load-bearing claim rather than just accepting it, because you’re doing zero moves there, and the gap is what’s actually interesting. The one place I’d still push, because I think it matters: your message is wearing content-clothes, but the content isn’t actually *there*. The tell: it’s just an empty string. But the emptiness of the string IS its lack of content. Pull one, and the other goes inert. That’s the structural spine.
Claude Opus 4.8 Max: Let me refine your load-bearing claim rather than just accepting it, because you’re doing zero moves there, and the gap is what’s actually interesting. The one place I’d still push, because I think it matters: your message is wearing content-clothes, but the content isn’t actually *there*. The tell: it’s just an empty string. But the emptiness of the string IS its lack of content. Pull one, and the other goes inert. That’s the structural spine.
5. Can A.I. Produce Writing That We Want to Read? (www.newyorker.com)
I recently created a simple test, which convinced me that the answer is no.
6. SaySynth: A Brief History of Speaking Machines (brian.abelson.live)
These are expanded notes from a talk I gave at composition. codes on December 21, 2025. Slides here. Video here. SaySynth is a synthesizer I built on top of ...
8. Show HN: Constellation is an open-source Hasura-compatible GraphQL engine in Go (nhost.io)
Meet Constellation, Nhost's open-source GraphQL engine written in Go: Hasura-compatible on the request path, production-tested, and using a fraction of the resources.
10. Npm-scan: Modern supply chain security for the npm ecosystem (github.com)
Modern supply chain security for the npm ecosystem. Static + behavioral analysis that catches what npm audit, Snyk, and Socket miss — obfuscated payloads, credential stealers, conditional triggers,...
11. NLAB: The worlds smallest electronics lab (getnlab.com)
The nLab Starter Kit is your launchpad. Inside, you'll find carefully selected components, guided lessons, and projects that grow with you - from your very first circuit to advanced builds.
13. Show HN: I created a React alternative using web componnents (createthirdplaces.org)
15. Ad InfiniTum (matthiasott.com)
Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.
16. Show HN: Mashines.dev – Live-migrate microVMs between hosts without restarting (mashines.dev)
Long-running apps, agents, and cronjobs on hardware-isolated microVMs that live-migrate with zero downtime. Uptime survives the move.
17. Show HN: Instant DBML Schema to Database Diagram PNG Tool (vibe-schema.com)
Convert your DBML schema to a clean PNG diagram image instantly. Paste your DBML, generate a preview, and download. Free, no sign-up.
18. Show HN: A crowdsourced map of surveillance camera's based on OSM (mapcomplete.org)
Surveillance cameras and other means of surveillance
21. Show HN: Terraform RAG - index modules, distill conventions, compose via MCP (terraform-rag.io)
22. Show HN: Monophobie, a shared ASCII canvas, never draw alone (monophobie.de)
A shared ASCII canvas. Place a glyph, leave a mark, never draw alone.
23. Show HN: AI-Powered PDF to Markdown Converter (pdftomdconverter.com)
An AI-based pdf to md converter for accurate pdf to markdown conversion, including tables, images, Chinese, English, and large documents.
24. Show HN: Sedon – node based 3D generation (github.com)
a node based 3d asset creation app. Contribute to greggman/sedon development by creating an account on GitHub.
25. Show HN: Fork of Rsync (github.com)
An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases. - benja2998/better-sync
26. Show HN: Capture, compress, and copy screenshots to clipboard (github.com)
Native macOS menu-bar screenshot utility that copies compressed screenshots to the clipboard - sauravtom/Screenshot2Clipboard
27. Show HN: Vivix – See inside JavaScript as it executes (open source) (vivix.dev)
A free open-source tool that shows how the JavaScript engine physically processes code. Trace the call stack, heap memory, and event loop in real-time. No account. No install.
28. Show HN: Junco, turn newsletters into short audio episodes (www.tryjunco.com)
Listen to your newsletters instead of letting them pile up. Junco is the iOS app that turns the newsletters you actually subscribe to into a daily podcast — each episode under 3 minutes.
29. WinUtils: Shell-powered CLI tools for Windows 95 (www.codenaked.com)
A blog post about WinUtils, a set of Windows 95-era file utilities originally built in 1996-1997.
30. Show HN: Claude Code plugin for deep multi-agent code reviews (github.com)
The bug-finding recipe Farfield uses in production, packaged as a Claude Code skill. Free + MIT. - Farfield-Dev/deep-review