🤖 Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
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🌍 Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
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📈 Show HN: I built a down detector for DownDetector
A playful meta-project demonstrating full service uptime—no outages across major regions and healthy latency metrics.
DownDetector’s own monitoring dashboard reports that its test nodes in London, Auckland, and New York are operating normally, each returning HTTP 200 responses with latencies between 426 and 733 ms.
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🏛️ Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board
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📱 Your smartphone, their rules: How app stores enable censorship
A sharp critique of platform monopolies that highlights how concentrated control over app ecosystems threatens digital rights and user agency.
An ACLU report contends that Apple and Google’s dominance over mobile app distribution allows corporate and government censorship. It describes instances of app removals at government request and criticizes Android’s upcoming verified-developer system as further restricting user freedom. The article calls for decentralized, open alternatives to protect autonomy and privacy.
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🐪 What Killed Perl?
A reflective, well-researched look at how sociocultural shifts—not technical flaws—shaped Perl’s waning influence in modern programming.
The essay argues that Perl didn’t die but faded from the spotlight as its cultural and educational relevance declined. Drawing on CPAN usage data, it notes that while veteran developers continue to rely on it, few newcomers enter the community. The author attributes this to ecosystem changes and shifting developer backgrounds rather than to technical shortcomings.
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🦀 We should rename .unwrap() to .or_panic()
An insightful entry in Rust’s ongoing style debates—highlighting how small naming choices affect readability and developer intent clarity.
Mara’s post examines idiomatic Rust error handling, arguing that `unwrap` communicates intent better than alternatives like `or_panic`, since it explicitly signals that a missing value is an unexpected, fatal condition.
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💻 Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: Comparing BSDs and Linux
A practical, data-driven comparison that underscores FreeBSD’s strength in secure, lightweight hosting environments.
This benchmark study evaluates FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux running nginx on an Intel N150 mini PC. It finds nearly identical HTTP performance across all systems, with FreeBSD and Linux showing measurable advantages in TLS efficiency and resource usage.
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📘 What Makes the Intro to Crafting Interpreters so Good?
A thoughtful take on pedagogical style, reminding technical authors that human-centered communication can make complex topics truly engaging.
The piece analyzes why the opening chapter of Bob Nystrom’s ‘Crafting Interpreters’ captivates readers—balancing warmth, clarity, and purpose to make compiler design approachable. By contrasting it with the formal ‘Dragon Book’, the author highlights how tone and empathy can transform technical education.
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