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Designing a Passively Safe API

https://www.danealbaugh.com/articles/passively-safe-apis

12•dalbaugh•4d ago

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compressedgas•2d ago

> In APIs, passively safe means failures (crashes, timeouts, retries, partial outages) can't produce duplicate work, surprise side effects, or unrecoverable state.

I thought that was what 'idempotent' meant.

dalbaugh•2d ago

It's mostly semantics. Passive safety is the "why" while idempotency is the "how".

Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

https://antirender.com/

1116•iambateman•12h ago•256 comments

Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024)

https://archaeologyworlds.com/5500-year-old-sumerian-star-map-recorded/

10•griffzhowl•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones

https://simedw.com/2026/01/31/ear-pronunication-via-ctc/

206•simedw•7h ago•74 comments

Show HN: Phage Explorer

https://phage-explorer.org/

47•eigenvalue•3h ago•3 comments

A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/sicilian-man-leonardo-sciascia-rise-mafia-struggle...

28•Thevet•3d ago•9 comments

Ashcan Comic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcan_comic

24•benbreen•1d ago•5 comments

Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

https://peerweb.lol/

244•dtj1123•11h ago•86 comments

Moltbook

https://www.moltbook.com/

1440•teej•1d ago•681 comments

An anecdote about backward compatibility

https://blog.plover.com/2026/01/26/#wrterm

17•speckx•4d ago•1 comments

HTTP Cats

https://http.cat/

337•surprisetalk•18h ago•59 comments

Disrupting the largest residential proxy network

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-net...

156•cdrnsf•2d ago•133 comments

Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023)

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/foundational-anxieties-modern-mathematics-and-the-political-i...

26•OgsyedIE•4h ago•6 comments

Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010)

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/04/stonebraker-on-cap-theorem-and-databases/

59•onurkanbkrc•8h ago•27 comments

Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2.5/blob/master/tech_report.pdf

290•vinhnx•15h ago•110 comments

The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-100-billion-megadeal-between-openai-and-nvidia-is-on-ice-aa3025e3

284•pixelesque•8h ago•196 comments

The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSPk_0N4Jc

316•UltraSane•4d ago•44 comments

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/27/surely-it-has-to-be-soon/

275•Wilsoniumite•22h ago•407 comments

My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Edition)

https://jaisenmathai.com/articles/my-ridiculously-robust-photo-management-system-immich-edition/

3•jmathai•2d ago•0 comments

Declassifying JUMPSEAT: an American pioneer in space

https://www.nro.gov/news-media-featured-stories/news-media-archive/News-Article/Article/4392223/d...

35•mkmk•2d ago•13 comments

P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/p-vs-np-and-the-difficulty-of-computation-a-ruliologi...

67•tzury•11h ago•31 comments

Designing a Passively Safe API

https://www.danealbaugh.com/articles/passively-safe-apis

12•dalbaugh•4d ago•2 comments

International Collection of Tongue Twisters (2018)

https://tongue-twister.net

15•NaOH•4d ago•5 comments

I trapped an AI model inside an art installation (2025) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fNYj0EXxMs

84•handfuloflight•10h ago•27 comments

Code is cheap. Show me the talk

https://nadh.in/blog/code-is-cheap/

210•ghostfoxgod•20h ago•192 comments

Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musks-starlink-updates-privacy-policy-230853500.html

35•malchow•2h ago•11 comments

YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other Browsers

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/01/28/youtube-background-play-samsung-internet-brave/

7•croes•40m ago•0 comments

Roots is a game server daemon that manages Docker containers for game servers

https://github.com/SproutPanel/roots

31•Kerrick•4d ago•6 comments

Coding Is When We're Least Productive

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/coding-is-when-were-least-productive/

11•vinhnx•6h ago•1 comments

Self Driving Car Insurance

https://www.lemonade.com/car/explained/self-driving-car-insurance/

127•KellyCriterion•16h ago•278 comments

How to explain Generative AI in the classroom

https://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=5847

51•thinkingaboutit•1d ago•17 comments