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The "Windows XP Box" (2003)
I needed a small Windows XP machine and a Mini-ITX board was the obvious choice. So I decided to build my "Windows XP Box" in a Windows XP box. The external dimensions of the box are a tiny 243mm x 200mm x 48mm.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,957 posts.
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WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter
A Game Boy emulator runs faster than a native interpreter by dynamically recompiling SM83 to WebAssembly, effectively making JIT possible on iOS.
3033
Fable Took My Job
Fable is cool yo, it takes jobs yo, - Dario "steve" Altman
3034
We won't "just hang out"
On human connection after the Singularity.
3035
Where did all the starships go?
In this Weekly Chart, we look for sci-fi books and their changing titles.
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Maladaptive Frugality
I recently decided to, finally, have my iPhone fixed, only to realize a few hours later that my AppleCare could have covered it. I was in a low mood until my partner suggested that I was robbing myself of a good decision. The iPhone needed fixing, and procrastinating on it wasn’t useful. Deciding to do […]
3037
Just Use Go
Hey, dipshit. You know what compiles in two seconds, deploys as a single binary, and doesn't shit itself when a transitive dependency gets yanked from npm at 3am? Go. The same way HTML has been sitting there since the dawn of the goddamn internet waiting for you to stop overcomplicating the frontend, Go has been…
3038
Let's compile Quake like it's 1997
The first batches of Quake executables, quake.exe and vquake.exe were programmed on HP 712-60 running NeXT and cross-compiled with DJGPP running on a DEC Alpha server 2100A. In June of 1996, having shipped their title but concerned with NeXT stagnation, id Software switched their development stack.
3039
Light Mode InFFFFFFlation
Back in the day, light mode wasn’t called “light mode”. It was just the way that computers were, we didn’t really think about turning everything light or dark. Sure, some applications were often dark (photo editors, IDEs, terminals) but everything else was light, and that was fine. What we didn’t notice is that light…
3040
Direct Win32 API, weird-shaped windows, and why they mostly disappeared
The nice thing about Win32 is that it does not try to talk you out of any of this. It just gives you the messages, the handles, the drawing APIs, and enough rope to ...
3041
Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations
Ask Claude to explain a concept or analyze your data, and it can respond with interactive charts, diagrams, and visualizations — rendered inline as part of the conversation.
3042
Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers
In software programming, the product between two integers is often computed to a fixed number of bits with overflow. Consider 8-bit integers. If you multiply 127 by 127, you get back the number 1 as an 8-bit unsigned integer, with an overflow. The actual full product is 16129. To represent 16129, you typically use 16…
3043
The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
How close to zero can you get on a 100% EU infrastructure stack? A bootstrapper-friendly setup for under €10 a month.
3044
Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source
Cal.com just closed their source code, arguing AI has made open source too dangerous. After 13 years of building Discourse in public, we're staying open. Here's why.
3045
The Q, K, V Matrices
At the core of the attention mechanism in LLMs are three matrices: Query, Key, and Value. These matrices are how transformers actually pay attention to different parts of the input. In this write-up, we will go through the construction of these matrices from the ground up.
3046
Every single board computer I tested in 2025
I benchmarked 15 SBCs released in 2025 across every price point. Here's what stood out, what disappointed, and what the year looked like for single board computers.
3047
How my e-reader lost its stripes
I’ve been a lifelong reader, which has proved a fragile habit in our era of endless trivial distraction. While books and e-ink readers solve the problem of competition for attention, they can’t compete with a phone for convenience. That tiny device in my pocket has made reading both easier and more vulnerable to…
3048
BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time
+++ BMW Group bringing Physical AI to Europe +++ Pilot project at BMW Group Plant Leipzig +++ New “Center of Competence for Physical AI in Production” accelerates global integration of AI and robotics in production +++ First pilot deployment of humanoid robots successfully completed at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, USA…
3049
Fable and the end of the free lunch
Fable’s price ended the free lunch of ever-cheaper frontier models. Now we have to think about which model gets which work.
3050
How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood
The economics behind where movies are filmed, why Hollywood left Los Angeles, and whether audiences can tell the difference.
3051
sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library
Over the past year, I’ve been working on fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library. It is not a simple wrapper on top of libc; it doesn’t depend on libc except when required to by the platform. To my knowledge, there is nothing like it.
3052
Union types in C# 15
C# 15 introduces union types — declare a closed set of case types with implicit conversions and exhaustive pattern matching. Try unions in preview today and see the broader exhaustiveness roadmap.
3053
It's not empowering to hand off the details
I think behind a lot of the enthusiasm around AI is a dream of being able to manifest things into reality without having to get into the details.
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GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper
A real quarter of UK SME books, 59 transactions, 68 minutes, $2.73 of tokens — and a VAT return within 7 pence of the human-prepared one.
3056
The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life
Learning from the automation dreams of the first Machine Age
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Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entry, PreCheck Get Revoked
ICE is using a smartphone app called “Mobile Fortify” to scan faces and capture contactless fingerprints, instantly pulling back names and biographical data — and court filings say the same encounters are being followed by revocations of Global Entry and TSA PreCheck. That turns “trusted traveler” into chilling of…
3059
P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names
How Wirewiki's domain-name autocomplete renders suggestions next frame for 99% of keystrokes.
3060
Knuth reward check
Twenty years ago I got a reward check from Donald Knuth.