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At least five interesting things to start your week (#38)
At least five interesting things to start your week (#37)
Why is China producing so many export goods, anyway?
So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors
macOS Bartender Auto-Update Signed by Unknown New Owner | Hacker News
Electing the Doge of Venice: analysis of a 13th Century protocol
Low-background steel - Wikipedia
Saint Michael’s line - Wikipedia
susam/pov25: Ray tracing 25 scenes in 25 days with POV-Ray
BatteredBunny/brew-nix: Experimental nix expression to package all MacOS casks from homebrew
Solving Zelda with the Antithesis SDK
ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
The Byzantine Generals Problem
Cara | Artist Social & Portfolio Platform
Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret: Founder Liquidity
Sanborn Maps (Library of Congress)
From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
nicanorflavier/spf-dkim-dmarc-simplified: But what are SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and how do they work?
We need to talk about testing - Dan North & Associates Limited
Your Book Review: Autobiography Of Yukichi Fukuzawa ❤️
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
LongAdder and LongAccumulator in Java
Avtok. Interface Upgrades in Go
Start all of your commands with a comma
Listen to the AI-Generated Ripoff Songs That Got Udio and Suno Sued
Fish Fillets Plumped Up With Water
Protect your URL. ProtectMyLink
Live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing right now
Getting the World Record in HATETRIS
Hugo Boss (businessman) - Wikipedia
A Bugatti, a first lady and the fake stories aimed at Americans
Doodling with the Mac’s command icon
Insights from over 10,000 comments on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring”
Diamond Sutra – A New Translation of the Classic Buddhist Text
Better than a Pound of Sorrow: Antidotes for Melancholy in Early Modern England
At least five interesting things to start your week (#42)
Terraform - cheap natural gas with sunlight and air
Rivan - modular synthetic fuel plants
General Galactic – Fueling Earth and Beyond
Turn2X - Making green energy transportable
Registry Agreement Termination Information Page - ICANN
HiEventsDev/Hi.Events: Open-source event management and ticket selling platform 🎟️
Train To Hell - A One-Shot RPG
Trajann: Shop the best independent creators online
ADD / XOR / ROL: Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition)
On Building Systems That Will Fail - Fernando J. Corbató ❤️
taubyte/tau: Open source distributed Platform as a Service (PaaS)
testing/synctest: new package for testing concurrent code · Issue #67434 · golang/go
Quartz: A Deterministic Time Testing Library for Go - Coder
Contacts: A Microlang for Managing Contacts
Eno documentary: behind the first generative feature film
Fats from thin air: Startup makes butter using CO2 and water
how to pwn a billion dollar vc firm using inspect element
Southwest Airlines Avoids Cloudstrike Issues - Thanks to Windows 3.1?
Your Book Review: How Language Began
When ChatGPT summarizes, it actually does nothing of the kind
The “ChatGPT and Friends” Collection
Supporting Diverse ML Systems| Netflix TechBlog
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Investment
Your Book Review: Real Raw News
NASA SVS - Visualizing Global CO2
What’s New in Go 1.23: Iterators and reflect.Value.Seq
jodigiordano/gg: The software architecture simulator
nfoert/cardie: An open source business card designer and sharing platform
List of vintage Japanese pixel/dot art software
We had an AI attempt to make a data-driven story like we do at The Pudding
Belenios: Verifiable online voting system
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#45)
10 Examples Why cURL is an Awesome CLI Tool
AirHart - A Plane Anyone Can Fly
Shortcuts for all your favorite Mac apps
Meow You’re Talking! ‘Cat Video Fest 2024’ Is Coming to the Roxie
Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I’d missed)
100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Organizing a Go module - The Go Programming Language
DEFCON 32 Statement — Entropic Engineering
DEF CON’s response to the badge controversy : r/Defcon
Preemption in Go: an introduction
Golang map internal size (Go Playground)
A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar
350M Tokens Don’t Lie: Love And Hate In Hacker News
Dual Power Supply – An open-source flow battery kit
Physics - Entangled Photons Maintained under New York Streets
Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum Edition
New Mexico’s Digital Collections
Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe ❤️
Railing against time: tools and techniques that got us 5X faster tests—Martian Chronicles
The Bare Minimum Beats: Panasonic’s RD-9844 Rhythm Machine
Post-Quantum Cryptography FIPS Approved
Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google
The Games People Play With Cash Flow
Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#46)
12ft - Remove popups, banners, and ads from any website
wasi-master/13ft: My own custom 12ft.io replacement
What’s the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing?
Implementing Raft: Part 0 - Introduction - Eli Bendersky’s website
Cache Directory Tagging Specification
Just because an LLM said it doesn’t mean it’s true: an illustrative example
Kevin Boone: They don’t make ’em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7
A High-Level Grammar of Interactive Graphics | Vega-Lite
John Draper’s (AKA Captain Crunch)’s Official Site
WINDExchange: Small Wind Guidebook
What’s up with those revised job numbers?
Lidl’s Cloud Gambit: Europe’s Shift to Sovereign Computing
RFK Jr. Whale-Beheading Story Gives RFK Jr. Bear-Murder Story a Run for Its Money
Record/replay — QEMU documentation
Trieve HN Discovery HN search
Six Things I Know For Sure About Marketing To Engineers
Stonebraker Seeks to Invert the Computing Paradigm with DBOS
Three Critical Questions to Turn the Tables During Technical Interviews]
Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
luke8086/retronews: TUI browser for HN and Lobsters
Wealthfolio - Desktop Investment Tracker
Carpentopod: A walking table project
Git Bash Is My Preferred Windows Shell
Tochemey/goakt: Fast and Distributed Actor framework
BitKeeper, Linux, and licensing disputes: How Linus wrote Git in 14 days
Kong Inc. messaging
Breaking Down OnlyFans’ Stunning Economics
How to succeed in MrBeast production (leaked PDF)
Missionary Church of Kopimism - Wikipedia
How raw sockets behave differently in macOS and Linux
Teatro comunale Pavarotti-Freni - Modena
Teatro Gaetano Donizetti - Bergamo
LU OpeRave - Donizetti Opera Bergamo
Introducing Proposer-Based Timestamps (PBTS) in CometBFT
Sakana, Strawberry, and Scary AI
Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host
Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile: Distribute and run LLMs with a single file
Crushing Castlevania with Antithesis
Your Book Review: The Ballad of the White Horse
Why Gauss Wanted a Heptadecagon on His Tombstone
Moerenuma Park: A Giant, Gorgeous ‘Living Sculpture’ in Hokkaido
If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Util
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Taste
Podcast
RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide / Oxide
Mini-Stories: Vol 3 – Darknet Diaries
From Burnout to Breakthrough An Academic’s Quest to Rethink Coding Education - CoRecursive
The history of Rob ‘CmdrTaco’ Malda - Hacker History
Your Brand’s Spokesperson Just Got Arrested — Now What? - Freakonomics
Why Don’t We Have Better Candidates for President? - Freakonomics
Why Do Your Eyeglasses Cost $1,000? - Freakonomics
Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work - Freakonomics
John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride - Freakonomics
Movies & TV
Books
Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing - Neal Stephenson
Misc.
Kurzgesagt - The Workout Paradox