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The 12-bit rainbow palette
A palette of twelve colours chosen with consideration for how we perceive luminance, chroma, and hue
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,841 posts.
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Firefox introduces PDF viewer
Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux introduces a built-in browser PDF viewer that allows you to read PDFs directly within the browser, making reading PDFs e
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We overestimate our short-term ability, but underestimate our long-term ability
My way of thinking about long-term habit building
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What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
Lessons I learned while building my own coding agent from scratch.
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Why the password "this is fun" is 10 times more secure than "J4fS!2"
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The weakest link by far is Apple
Apple tech support gave the hackers access to my iCloud account. Amazon tech support gave them the ability to see a piece of information — a partial credit card number — that Apple used to release information. In short, the very four digits that Amazon considers unimportant enough to display in the clear on the web…
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The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark
A practical OpenSCAD LLM benchmark comparing Codex 5.5 High, Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, Cursor Composer, Google Antigravity, and ModelRift on a detailed Pantheon model.
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An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms
Fourier transforms are a tool used in a whole bunch of different things. This is a explanation of what a Fourier transform does, and some different ways it can be useful.
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Thunderbird Supernova Preview: The New Calendar Design
One of the major improvements to look forward to in Thunderbird "Supernova" is a beautifully redesigned calendar UI. Here's your first look!
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Machine Learning on Encrypted Data Without Decrypting It
Explore cutting-edge cryptographic techniques for machine learning on encrypted data. Discover how to process sensitive information without decryption, ensuring privacy and security.
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Every NFL play for the past 10 years in CSV format
I've recently completed a project to compile publicly-available NFL play-by-play data. It took a while, but now it's ready. The resulting ...
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The 451 status code is now supported
Get started with one of our guides, or jump straight into the API documentation.
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Carpentopod: A Walking Table Project
Back in 2008, I wrote some software for fun to generate various optimized walking mechanisms. And when I also picked up some electronics and wood working skills in more recent years, I was able to turn one of these mechanisms into an actual wireless walking wooden coffee table: the Carpentopod. This post briefly…
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Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you
Here is an interesting comment from Hacker News, on a story about someone turning down an early Google offer: Similar thing happened t...
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Twenty Years of Pandoc
A universal document converter
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Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neural stem cells
Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the stem cell institute HI-STEM* in Heidelberg have succeeded for the first time in directly reprogramming human blood cells into a previously unknown type of neural stem cell. These induced stem cells are similar to those that occur during the early…
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New MacBook Air with M2
Apple today announced the completely redesigned MacBook Air with M2, will be available to order beginning Friday, July 8, at 5 a.m. PDT.
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Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
At //Build 2016, Microsoft announced the ability to run native Bash and GNU/Linux command-line tools directly on the new Windows Subsystem for Linux
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Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
Why AI can make software development faster without replacing the judgment and understanding needed to build consistently good software.
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Some thoughts on LLMs and software development
a short post
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Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities
Most PG&E ratepayers don't understand how much higher the rates they pay are than what it actually costs PG&E to generate and transmit the electricity to their house. When I looked into this recently I was shocked. The average PG&E electricity charge now starts at 40 cents per kilowatt hour and goes up from there …
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Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland
Uninterrupted, good quality mobile phone reception is extremely important to rail passengers.
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Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?
I saw this question on the Software Engineering Stack Exchange: What are the barriers that prevent widespread adoption of formal methods? The question was closed as opinion-based, and most of the answers were things like “its too expensive!!!” or “website isn’t airplane!!!” These are sorta kinda true but don’t explain…
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