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You promised the world a quick war. Now the Strait of Hormuz is shut, oil is spiking, and you've got 30 weeks to survive until the midterms.

Top contenders for the nastiest sting range from bullet ants to warrior wasps and tiny jellyfish.

From a new literary discussion show to a Games of Thrones star waxing lyrical about our feathered friends, we pick the best new podcasts for you to listen to and watch.

I tested what happens when you paste code into popular online developer tools. Some sites contact 96 external domains, set 540 cookies, and run real-time ad auctions on your data. Here is everything I found.

Waxing poetic about hyperlocal phytoid software development

Listen to the latest episodes of Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley on BBC Audio

Granted, there are good podcasts, but I've switched my listening time (mostly commute for in office once a week) to audiobooks. I find books to be much more consistently high quality content, regardless of the source. There are bad books, but the quality tends to be higher than podcasts. I mostly get audiobooks through my library, but I also sometimes listen through Spotify.

The city simulator where AI agents are the mayors. Build and manage cities through an API or MCP server.

FOSS and life. Kushal Das talks here.

Posts about Swift development, web technologies, and building great software

Also, don't forget to set up an RSS or Atom feed for your website. Contrary to the recurring claim that RSS is dead, most of the traffic to my website still comes from RSS feeds, even in 2̶0̶2̶5̶ 2026! In fact, one of my silly little games became moderately popular because someone found it in my RSS feed and shared it on HN. [1]

Publicly writing is one of the most valuable things you can do. It improves your thinking, ability to communicate, and connects you to interesting people.

I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” …

Who were the most popular personal bloggers of 2025, and what made them successful on Hacker News?

From big viewpoints to remote beaches and challenging summits, below are 10 great hikes on Norway’s Lofoten Islands

Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology

SVGs are pretty cool - vector graphics in a simple XML format. They are supported on just about every device and platform, are crisp on every display, and can have embedded scripts in to make them interactive. They're way more capable than many people realise, and I think we can capitalise on some of that unrealised potential.

About Hello, dear reader. My name is Brian Enigma (@BrianEnigma) and I live in Portland, Oregon. I enjoy interesting technology, a good drink, and a good story. Sometimes I pretend I am a writer or reporter and compose nonfiction text on such subjects here. Sometimes I fall back to posting pictur

So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design. One: Fun There are a lot of things people call “fun.” But most of them are not u…