21 Jan 26
via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46690402
Architecture-as-a-code and toolchain for your architecture diagrams
- Mike Carney leading with Thucydides’ quote on “strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must”
- Thucydides does not offer the line, “The strong do what they can,” as a neutral analysis of how international affairs operate. He offers it as an expression of the reckless arrogance that brought about the destruction of the Athenian Empire.
- great challenge of “international rules-based order”, and the lie it is in reality
A PTY proxy that tames Claude Code
20 Jan 26
read later, powered by the apocalypse maybe ?
One of the questions of the 2026 acx prediction contest is whether Nvidia’s stock price will close below $100 on any day in 2026. At the time of writing, it trades at $184 and a bit, so going down to $100 would be a near halving of the stock value of the highest valued company in the world.
It’s an interesting question, and it’s worth spending some time on it.
Elise Schuenke comics about Sage, an exhausted hard working autistic, home from a long day of work, masking and social effort. Decompressing and pulling back from the effort to perform, we get to see a 5 pager comic of their partners reactions. A wonderful comic that highlights and gives a moment for a powerfully intimate moment that’s easy to misunderstand.
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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The Hanseatic League was a most unusual phenomena in the late Middle Ages. Ostensibly an association of traders, but so much more