Stories by -J

AI Researcher: Replacing scientists with AI is evil

My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025

The devious art of lying by telling the truth (2017)

Do you keep an emotion or mood journal? Why do you do it, and has it helped you?

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support for Google Services

Oscar Mayer Opens Annual Application for Wienermobile Drivers

Show HN: Crystal V10 – Grepping 65GB of compressed logs in 0.8s vs. 8 minutes

Earliest fire-making dating back 400k years unearthed in Suffolk, England

Swiss Population Cap Proposal Gets Almost 50% Backing in Poll

Thinking About Growth

The fix for messy AI agent ecosystems might be here and it's open source

Dark mode now available on Simon Willison's blog

China government-approved AI hw suppliers: Cambricon and Huawei in, Nvidia out

FastEmbed-Rs – Generate Vector Embeddings and Rerank Docs Locally

San Francisco woman gives birth in a Waymo self-driving taxi

Privacy-first budgeting tool – all data stays in localStorage, works offline

Do 8051/8031 assembly like its 1984

Galea – the most sophisticated biosensing headset