Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)

dang a day ago

A lot of people don't know what this Section 174 is about, so here's a brief explainer. Normally, when you have expenses, you deduct them off your revenue to find your taxable profit. If you have $1 million in sales, and $900k in costs, you have $100k in profit, and the…

mediaman a day ago

Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube

DavideNL 5 days ago

Bill Atkinson has died

romanhn 3 days ago

The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

booleanbetrayal a week ago

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats

ColinWright 6 days ago

The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles

swyx 3 days ago

FFmpeg merges WebRTC support

Sean-Der 6 days ago

Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc

thm a day ago

There's a different thread if you want to wax about Fluid Glass etc [1], but there's some really interesting new improvements here for Apple Developers in Xcode 26. The new foundation frameworks around generative language model stuff looks very swift-y and nice for…

gdubs a day ago

Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI

meetpateltech 23 hours ago

I made some GGUFs for those interested in running them at https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Magistral-Small-2506-GGUF ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Magistral-Small-2506-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL or ./llama.cpp/llama-cli -hf unsloth/Magistral…

danielhanchen 23 hours ago

Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS

gok a day ago

Video about it here: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/346/ Looks like each container gets its own lightweight Linux VM. Can take it for a spin by downloading the container tool from here…

commandersaki a day ago

IRS Direct File on GitHub

nickthegreek 6 days ago

Apple introduces a universal design across platforms

meetpateltech a day ago

Oh no. It looks like every button and menu is now a translucent layer, so that any noise from the background shows through and muddles the text. This seems like an accessibility nightmare. Translucent layers generally make software unusable for me. In the video, I saw several…

dimal a day ago

A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network

doener 6 days ago

Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

sapphicsnail a day ago

If illegal immigration is such a problem, why not fine businesses 5x salary for using the labor, for as long as it was used? There are a lot of systems in place to verify working status at this point. It eliminates any incentive to hire this cheaper labor willing to work for…

Larrikin a day ago

Merlin Bird ID

twitchard a week ago

Why I wrote the BEAM book

lawik a week ago

Cursor 1.0

ecz 6 days ago

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored

chmaynard a week ago

Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user

brutecat a day ago

How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

nayak 4 days ago