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Why all the sudden people are writing browsers with AI?
https://austinhenley.com/blog/morechallengingprojects.html
https://feedle.world/
https://github.com/hiwavebrowser/hiwave
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/23/fastrender/#a-single-engineer-plus-a-swarm-of-agents-in-january-2026
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/llm-predictions-for-2026/#3-years-someone-will-build-a-new-browser-using-mainly-ai-assisted-coding-and-it-won-t-even-be-a-surprise
Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II
https://6502.org/
https://archive.org/details/6502-assembly-language-programming
https://archive.org/details/6502_Assembly_Language_Programming_by_Lance_Leventhal
https://archive.org/details/A2_Hyde_6502_Asm_Lang/mode/1up
https://archive.org/details/Advanced_6502_Programming/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/Apple_Machine_Language_for_Beginners_Richard_Mansfield/page/n1/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/applerefjan78/page/n69/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/AssemblyLinesCompleteWagner
https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-machine-language-for-beginners
https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-machine-language-for-beginners/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/eor6502
https://archive.org/details/mos_microcomputers_programming_manual/page/n23/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/whatswhereinappl0000lueb
https://www.callapple.org/books-3/understanding-the-apple-iie/
http://cini.classiccmp.org/pdf/Apple/Apple%20II%20Reference%20Manual%20-%20Woz.pdf
https://www.commodore.net
https://ct6502.org/product/assembly-lines-the-complete-book/
https://github.com/chelsea6502/BeebEater
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/5011686-apple-machine-language
https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+2+game+programming+tutorial&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
https://mmphosis.netlify.app/hires/
https://nicole.express/2024/phasing-in-and-out-of-existence.html
http://retro.hansotten.nl/6502-sbc/kim-1-manuals-and-software/kim-1-simulator/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwjMLyBU4RU&list=PLyR4neQXqQo5nPdEiMbaEJxWiy_UuyNN4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnzuMJLZRdU&list=PLowKtXNTBypFbtuVMUVXNR0z1mu7dp7eH
What recent UX changes make no sense to you?
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-ui-less-attention-cause-uncertainty/
Who do you follow via RSS feed?
https://arnoldkling.substack.com/
https://brynet.ca/
http://www.chriswarbo.net/git/feed2maildir
https://chuck.is/yt-rss/
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/pfxteam/author/toub/feed/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i4eR_TNyy2YV17soWyJnbQeH2_rUbjpB/view?usp=sharing
https://feeds.carmo.io
https://feeds2.feedburner.com/Swissmiss
https://hnpwd.github.io
https://netflixtechblog.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772655#46775759
https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
https://rxjourneyserver.pythonanywhere.com/rss_feed/rss/
https://s.strco.de/f/feed-20260127.opml
https://scrollprize.org/
https://techtalksweekly.io
https://tylerhillery.com/blog/how-i-consume-the-internet/
https://www.unindented.org/follows/
https://www.writesoftwarewell.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaIXkImCAM
What's the Point Anymore?
https://civitai.com/images
https://emsh.cat/good-taste/
https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor
https://rutgerbregman.com/books/humankind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT-bIYFdq9I
European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting
https://bunny.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731976
https://www.statichost.eu/
DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_debugging
https://github.com/epasveer/seer
https://github.com/floooh/sokol-samples
https://github.com/manux81/qddd
https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/
https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/debugging-profiling/
https://pernos.co/
https://scrutinydebugger.com/
https://whitebox.systems/
https://x.com/rfleury/status/1987771794263363859?s=20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72y2EC5fkcE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9_bK_WjuYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-3gEsfEm0g
Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/NNnDkY9CJ36annsfytjQ
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665414
https://www.reddit.com/r/GMail/comments/1qln9zp/gmail_not_filtering_promotions/
https://x.com/MBanerjeePalmer/status/1962538753328664693
What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
https://docs.speechmatics.com/speech-to-text/languages#transcription-languages
https://github.com/andrewgph/local_voice
https://github.com/caseys/hear-say
https://github.com/cjpais/Handy
https://github.com/kyutai-labs/delayed-streams-modeling
https://github.com/nsbk/nemotron-january-2026
https://github.com/SaynaAI/sayna
https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertonic
https://handy.computer
https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/
https://kyutai.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46528045
https://www.npmjs.com/package/vosk-browser
https://research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/personaplex/
https://speechmatics.com
https://spokenly.app/
Notification Overload
https://thread-patrol.com
Tell HN: I cut Claude API costs from $70/month to pennies
https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/multimodal/batch-prediction-gemini
https://github.com/NehmeAILabs/llm-sanity-checks
https://maartengr.github.io/BERTopic/index.html
What's your wiring pattern for large addressable LED installs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=emmasuntech
Is there a good open-source alternative to Adobe Acrobat?
https://www.foxit.com/pdf-editor/
What usually happens after a VC asks for a demo?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlwwVuSUUfc
Qwen3-Max-Thinking Drops: 36T Tokens
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766741
What are the most significant man-made creations to date?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable
What software / applications can you now build thanks to AI
https://helpfuldjinn.com/
Have we confused efficiency with "100% utilization"?
https://fs.blog/slack/
May an agent accept a license to produce a build?
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatbot-misinformation-what-travellers-should-know
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Industries,_LLC_v._Blizzard_Entertainment,_Inc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog
https://www.goodwinlaw.com/en/insights/publications/2022/08/08_10-recent-court-decisions-shed-light
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117
What's your favorite self-hosted application?
https://nextcloud.com
Is Claude Down for You?
https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18866#issuecomment-3791639513
https://status.claude.com/
Why does the number of datasets on data.gov vary so much?
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=data.gov
Thinking about memory for AI coding agents
https://codeaholicguy.com/2026/01/24/i-use-ai-devkit-to-develop-ai-devkit-features/
https://github.com/hakoniwaa/Squirrel
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=versanovatech.com
https://philippdubach.com/posts/beyond-vector-search-why-llms-need-episodic-memory/
What are some good unintuitive statistics problems?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_paradox_(probability)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/judea-pearl/the-book-of-why/9781541698963/
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2140493/counterintuitive-examples-in-probability
Weekend Social: Top two programming languages and what they can borrow?
https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/X_Symbol.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637033
What's the best virtual Linux desktop experience on macOS for devs?
https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config
AI hallucinate. Do you ever double check the output?
https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/langchain/human-in-the-loop
https://www.ufried.com/blog/ironies_of_ai_1/