Daily Read · 2026-03-23

8 articles · 5.0/10 avg · 0 highlights (≥7.5)

1. Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments · 5.0/10 · simonwillison

Here's a mildly dystopian prompt I've been experimenting with recently: "Profile this user", accompanied by a copy of their last 1,000 comments on Hac

2. Using Git with coding agents · 5.0/10 · simonwillison

Agentic Engineering Patterns > Git is a key tool for working with coding agents. Keeping code in version control lets us record how that code changes

3. Turbo Pascal 3.02A, deconstructed · 5.0/10 · simonwillison

Turbo Pascal 3.02A, deconstructed In Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than James Hague lists things (from 2011) that are larger in size than Borlan

4. Mux — Video API for Developers · 5.0/10 · daringfireball

My thanks to Mux for sponsoring last week at DF. Video isn’t just something to watch; it’s a boatload of context and data. Mux makes it easy to ship a

5. ‘Good, I’m Glad He’s Dead.’ · 5.0/10 · daringfireball

The sitting president of the United States, on his blog: Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! Pr

6. Half a Gigabyte of Ads · 5.0/10 · daringfireball

Stuart Breckenridge, examining a web page at PC Gamer: Third, this is a whopping 37MB webpage on initial load. But that’s not the worst part. In the f

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7. Reuters: ‘Amazon Plans Smartphone Comeback More Than a Decade After Fire Phone Flop’ · 5.0/10 · daringfireball

Greg Bensinger, reporting for Reuters: The latest effort, known internally as “Transformer,” is being developed within its devices and services unit,

8. Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts! · 5.0/10 · shkspr.mobi

I called a large company the other day. Did I know the information I wanted could be found on their website? And was I aware that I could manage my ac

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