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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,955 posts.
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Another Day Has Come
If you agree that Apple itself was It’s hard to imagine a more orderly, confidence-inspiring, exciting-but-not-at-all-surprising, this-feels-right way to do this.
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Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher
Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher. We are a Swedish company building products that help people get online, used by millions of people worldwide.
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Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month
I read this post “Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases [from C++ to Rust]. Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.” and it got me curious, how difficult is it really?
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I analysed 20 years of my chats
Importing 1.2 million messages from Telegram, VK, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter into a structured Obsidian vault with local LLM inference - to measure how my friendships work with decay curves, vocabulary shifts, directional sentiment, and conflict rates.
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Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked
Here are 21 reasons I delayed getting my EMT licensed, sorted loosely by ridiculousness.
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What is malloc doing, anyway?
malloc has a very nice and simple interface: you ask for a certain amount of memory, and you’re given a void pointer to your block of contiguous bytes that’s been magicked into existence. Once you’re done with it, you call free with the same pointer and the memory disappears into the ether.
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Rust’s Standard Library on the GPU
GPU code can now use Rust's standard library. We share the implementation approach and what this unlocks for GPU programming.
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The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed
The 90's was a decade of considerable improvement in the world of video-game consoles [1] . Each new model brought advanced processing power and better graphics without compromise.
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CERN to host a new phase of Open Research Europe
In an important step for open science, CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE) , an initiative supported by the European Commission and a new funding consortium of European national funding agencies and research organisations. Aligned with the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access (2022)…
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The room the economy can't see
(This post is written mostly by Claude, you can tell that it isn’t in the same voice as my other work, but it has notes of it. All the personal anecdotes are still from my life, and it’s interesting that this is one of my most popular posts of all time. Go figure. Also Interesting: […]
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Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)
Started by rafalp on Dec. 12, 2023 in the Roadmap category. 6 replies, last one from July 25, 2024.
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The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME
I was playing with the nono agent sandboxing tool and it greeted me with a warning: PATH entries the sandbox can write to: ~/.local/bin/ which looked suspicious.
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Acme Weather
Over the years it went through numerous iterations — including more than one major redesign — as we worked our way through the process of learning what makes a great weather app. Eventually, in time, it was acquired by Apple, where the forecast and some core features were incorporated into Apple Weather.
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Childhood Computing
I recently stumbled upon a nice blog post titled Childhood Computing . It made me think about my own childhood computing experience. I am much older than the author of the aforementioned post, but like them, I too love computers. I have for most of my life.
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Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent
Prime Agent is our open-source, self-improving coding harness built around two abstractions: the Recursive Language Model (RLM) and the Continual Harness. With Opus 5, it achieves 95.5% on ARC-AGI-3, surpassing the reported human expert baseline.
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Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?
vfmaddrnd231pd is a unique instruction from the FMA instruction set. Most instructions in that set have mnemonics like vfmadd231pd, but here rnd means something very specific. The Intel Software Development Manual documents it as: VFMADDRND231PD – Fused Multiply-Add of Packed Double-Precision Floating-Point Values…
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Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts
Four features of strong age-limit policies for countries ready to follow Australia’s brave lead
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FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels highlights open source, European digital sovereignty, BSD, Linux, community innovation, and free software.
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Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher
Ryanair are Europe’s most profitable airline and they are masters of this noble form.
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Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors
Vendor attribution study of 19,450 European company websites. Cloudflare is the largest internet-facing infrastructure vendor in every one of seven EU markets.
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MAUI Is Coming to Linux
Announcing the first release of Avalonia MAUI
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Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency.
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Type-safe HTML templating in Zig
I’ve done a lot of web development over the years. I started around the year 2000, just after PHP 3.0 was released and started taking over the web world. I’ve used all kinds of approaches for generating HTML: raw PHP, string concatenation in Python, Smarty templates in PHP, Template Toolkit in Perl, and Jinja/Django…
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More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions
More than 60 percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions, with more than 20 percent in an extreme drought. Andrew Ellis, a climatologist at Virginia Tech said the current conditions are among the worst in decades because the combination of intensity and aerial coverage is rare. He explained why…
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Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM
My micro site, zero.btxx.org , is being served to the public internet from a Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 running Alpine Linux.
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Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? Methodology and Results
Now that we’ve covered the contenders for this test, I will cover how this test will be performed and go through the results. It was a long time for me, but for you, it’ll just be a few…
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Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image
You have an image but you want a colour