Hey buddy,

Man, Sunday on Hacker News had some wild stuff. Lemme quickly tell you about a few things that caught my eye:

Linux Gamers Hitting 3% on Steam!

First off, remember how we always talked about Linux gaming? Well, it's finally crossing the 3% mark on Steam! That's actually a pretty big deal. People in the comments were saying how much progress has been made in just a few years. One dude said he switched to Ubuntu and hasn't looked back, just kept his Windows partition "just in case." Another guy mentioned how much of a mess it used to be with older NVIDIA cards and Wayland, but things are way better now. It sounds like Proton and Steam Deck really changed the game.

Check it out: Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark

How to Throw Killer Parties

Okay, this one was just fun. Someone posted "Facts about throwing good parties." The article had some interesting tips, like don't have too many seats because people will just sit down and kill the vibe. But the comments were even better! One person said they once swiped a ton of girls on Tinder and invited them all, telling them to bring whoever – apparently, it was one of the most absurdly over-the-top parties they'd ever thrown. Another guy throws a 200+ person Halloween party every year and agreed with most points, adding that if you need money, you gotta ask people individually mid-party, not just have a box. Hilarious stuff.

Read the tips (and comments!): Facts about throwing good parties

My Buddy's Using Claude for Code

Then there was this article about someone using every feature of Claude Code. It's basically a deep dive into how they use AI for programming. People in the comments were debating if Claude's "you're absolutely right!" sycophancy is a bug or just a signal you're too involved. Someone else mentioned that no single tool has changed how they code more than these AI assistants in 15 years of coding. Makes you wonder how much it's helping people really.

Here's the link: How I use every Claude Code feature

URLs as State Containers?

This was a bit more techy, but super relevant for web stuff. The idea is that URLs should hold all your app's state. Like, if you bookmark a page, it should bring you back to the exact same spot with all the menus and filters just as you left them. Super useful for debugging too, just ask the user for the URL and boom, you can reproduce the bug. One commenter even made a whole React library just to make this easier. Someone else brought up storing the entire state in the URL's hash component to bypass length limits, which is kinda clever.

Dive into it: URLs are state containers

Cybercrime Laws Weaponized Against Journalists

On a more serious note, there was a piece about how anti-cybercrime laws are being used to shut down journalism in places like Nigeria, Pakistan, and Jordan. It's a pretty heavy topic, highlighting how legal tools meant for good can be twisted. Comments were talking about the importance of intent in these laws and how decentralizing platforms might be the only way to resist censorship. Scary stuff, man.

Here's the article: Anti-cybercrime laws are being weaponized to repress journalism

New Open-Source AI Model Challenging OpenAI

And speaking of AI, there's a new open-source model called Tongyi DeepResearch, a 30B MoE model that's apparently giving OpenAI's DeepResearch a run for its money. It's cool to see more powerful open-source alternatives popping up. People were asking about HuggingFace spaces to try it out and debating if small, purpose-specific models might be more robust. Someone even brought up how China is bringing a lot of human and hardware resources to AI, which is an interesting angle.

Check out the details: Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch

Paris Had Moving Sidewalks in 1900!

Finally, a cool historical tidbit: Paris had a moving sidewalk back in 1900, and Thomas Edison even filmed it! How wild is that? People were talking about how it wasn't particularly dangerous but reliability was the real killer. Someone in the comments said they feel driving is the biggest waste of time and would take a smaller house just to minimize travel, comparing it to relaxing European trains. Pretty strong feelings about transport!

See the old tech: Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)

Anyway, that's the quick rundown. Talk soon!