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2025-05-15 00:00:07

Migrating to Postgres
Link: https://engineering.usemotion.com/migrating-to-postgres-3c93dff9c65d
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43989497
#postgres

2025-05-07 18:35:08

Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust
Link: https://github.com/astral-sh/ty
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43918484
#python #rust

2025-04-28 14:20:05

Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and LLMs replacing human programmers
Link: https://ratfactor.com/cards/naur-vs-llms
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43818169

2025-04-27 14:15:06

ZFS: Apple's New Filesystem that wasn't (2016)
Link: https://ahl.dtrace.org/2016/06/15/apple_and_zfs/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43810566
#apple

2025-04-23 21:00:07

More Everything Forever
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/books/review/more-everything-forever-adam-becker.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43773746

2025-04-23 08:05:06

Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet
Link: https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250422-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43769482

2025-04-19 11:05:06

Sponges, drill bits and wires: Surgeons mistakenly left objects inside thousands
Link: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/hospitals-surgical-objects-patients/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43710996

2025-04-17 02:10:06

Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank
Link: https://www.latimes.com/00000196-230a-d4c4-abd7-fb5a95770000-123
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677862

2025-04-15 11:05:05

Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)
Link: https://unixdigest.com/articles/important-open-source-projects-should-not-use-github.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43688417
#github

2025-04-14 20:25:07

The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world
Link: https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-cartographer-karen-wynn-fonstad-mapped-tolkien-fantasy-world-oshkosh
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43656267

2025-04-13 22:55:06

A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips
Link: http://www.righto.com/2025/04/commodore-pet-repair.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43673862

2025-04-13 17:40:07

Making SNES ROMs using C#
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/s/fhm4TUNhlX
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43673011

2025-04-12 22:30:06

Zod v4 Beta
Link: https://v4.zod.dev/v4
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43667925

2025-04-12 10:40:05

The Bitter Prediction
Link: https://4zm.org/2025/04/05/bitter-prediction.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43662686

2025-04-11 08:45:06

Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro
Link: https://missile-command-game.centminmod.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43608377

2025-04-10 16:50:06

Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese?
Link: https://www.cheeseprofessor.com/blog/cheese-wheel-tapping
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644970

2025-04-09 16:25:07

How University Students Use Claude
Link: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-education-report-how-university-students-use-claude
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43633383

2025-04-09 13:20:08

Tesla Solar Sales Declined for 4 Qtrs. Then Tesla Stopped Publishing the Numbers
Link: https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/07/tesla-solar-sales-declined-for-4-straight-quarters-then-tesla-stopped-publishing-the-numbers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631402

2025-04-08 19:50:07

Sweetener saccharin shows surprise power against antibiotic resistance
Link: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/articles/Sweetener-saccharin-shows-surprise-power-against-antibiotic-resistance
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593651

2025-04-08 05:40:07

Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs
Link: https://idiallo.com/blog/companies-dont-fix-bugs
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615346

2025-04-07 15:40:06

The Mathematics of Crochet
Link: https://hellohartblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/the-mathematics-of-crochet/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43585649

2025-04-05 21:15:06

Database Protocols Are Underwhelming
Link: https://byroot.github.io/performance/2025/03/21/database-protocols.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593547

2025-04-05 17:45:06

Is Python Code Sensitive to CPU Caching? (2024)
Link: https://lukasatkinson.de/2024/python-cpu-caching/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555110
#python

2025-04-05 17:40:07

Jumping Spiders
Link: https://digital.tnconservationist.org/publication/?i=663361&article_id=3697028&view=articleBrowser
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549469

2025-04-04 21:15:06

Google announces Sec-Gemini v1 a new experimental cybersecurity model
Link: https://security.googleblog.com/2025/04/google-launches-sec-gemini-v1-new.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586786
#google

2025-04-04 12:45:06

Trump's Trade War Escalates as China Retaliates with 34% Tariffs
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/business/china-trump-tariffs-retaliation.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43580906
#china

2025-04-04 11:05:07

Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity
Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/i-no-longer-hack-paypals-doge-staffers-hacker-past-raises-red-flags/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43579925
#youtube

2025-04-01 20:50:06

Show HN: Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing
Link: https://github.com/williamw520/toposort
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549618

2025-03-29 20:15:09

Paged Out #6 is out
Link: https://pagedout.institute/?page=blog.php#entry-2025-03-29
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43517375

2025-03-28 06:35:06

Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/pilots-signal-leak.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43501821

2025-03-26 17:10:06

Collapse OS
Link: http://collapseos.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43482705

2025-03-11 17:15:08

NIST Selects HQC as Fifth Algorithm for Post-Quantum Encryption
Link: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/03/nist-selects-hqc-fifth-algorithm-post-quantum-encryption
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332944

2025-03-06 20:10:07

Atlassian announces end of support for Opsgenie
Link: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/evolution-of-it-operations
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43283178

2025-03-01 23:35:06

Show HN: I made a website where you can create your own "Life in Weeks" timeline
Link: https://lifeweeks.app/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43183635

2025-02-23 05:55:06

How Many School Shootings? All Incidents from 1966-Present
Link: https://k12ssdb.org/all-shootings
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43146627

2025-02-22 22:40:07

Utah Bill Aims to Make Officers Disclose AI-Written Police Reports
Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/utah-bill-aims-make-officers-disclose-ai-written-police-reports
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43142518

2025-02-18 17:35:06

Svelte 5 is not JavaScript
Link: https://hodlbod.npub.pro/post/1739830562159/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43091596
#javascript

2025-02-16 14:25:06

Rust Is Eating JavaScript
Link: https://leerob.com/n/rust
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43067585
#rust #javascript

2025-02-12 19:35:06

Show HN: Mapping the Unix Magic Poster – An Interactive Annotation Project
Link: https://drio.github.io/unixmagic/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43019136

2025-01-25 02:35:07

Caltrain's Electric Fleet More Efficient Than Expected
Link: https://www.caltrain.com/news/caltrains-electric-fleet-more-efficient-expected
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42818692

2025-01-01 08:10:06

Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth
Link: https://www.ft.com/content/7c3dafa8-ffb9-4ca8-b677-ab3cc2afbdcb
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42548077
#nvidia

2024-12-31 18:50:07

The GTA III port for the Dreamcast has been released
Link: https://gitlab.com/skmp/dca3-game
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42559909

2024-12-31 00:10:07

Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition
Link: https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.final.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42554218
#linux

2024-12-30 11:05:06

VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data
Link: https://twitter.com/alex_avoigt/status/1873315392082334150
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42547864

2024-12-30 01:55:06

Little Snitch: Network Monitor and Application Firewall for macOS
Link: https://www.obdev.at/en/products/littlesnitch/index.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42545009

2024-12-27 20:05:07

They have not been trained for this – CCC supports train hackers
Link: https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2024/das-ist-vollig-entgleist
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42524568

2024-12-25 04:10:06

Merry Christmas Everyone
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42506577

2024-12-23 09:10:07

WSDA, USDA announce eradication of northern giant hornet from the United States
Link: https://agr.wa.gov/about-wsda/news-and-media-relations/news-releases?article=41658
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42491979

2024-12-23 03:10:08

Fighting spam with Haskell at Meta (2015)
Link: https://engineering.fb.com/2015/06/26/security/fighting-spam-with-haskell/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42487775
#haskell

2024-12-23 03:10:07

In praise of the hundred page idea
Link: https://tracydurnell.com/2024/12/17/in-praise-of-the-hundred-page-idea/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42457539

2024-11-23 12:45:06

Highest-Resolution Images Ever Captured of the Sun's Entire Surface
Link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/check-out-the-highest-resolution-images-ever-captured-of-the-suns-entire-surface-180985518/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42220155

2024-11-22 19:50:07

The Deceptively Asymmetric Unit Sphere
Link: https://www.tangramvision.com/blog/the-deceptively-asymmetric-unit-sphere
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42214880

2024-11-21 20:25:06

The FORTH code for Chipwits is released in the game's 40th anniversary
Link: https://chipwits.com/2024/11/16/chipwits-40th-birthday-original-forth-code-open-sourced/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42207304

2024-11-21 19:30:06

Cryptographic Calculator
Link: https://zka.lc/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42181803

2024-11-21 19:30:06

OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now
Link: https://dynomight.net/more-chess/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42206817

2024-11-18 21:25:05

AMD Now Has More Compute on the Top500 Than Nvidia
Link: https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/18/amd-now-has-more-compute-on-the-top500-than-nvidia/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42175624
#nvidia

2024-11-18 21:20:06

Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence
Link: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/roots-of-bird-intelligence
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42173184

2024-11-18 03:10:07

Show HN: The App I Built to Help Manage My Diabetes, Powered by GPT-4o-Mini
Link: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/islet-diabetes/id6453168642
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42168491

2024-11-17 18:10:06

Huawei developing SSD-tape hybrid amid US tech restrictions
Link: https://blocksandfiles.com/2024/11/08/huawei-developing-meds-to-combat-disk-ship-stop-sickness/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42164272

2024-11-16 19:50:07

I tried every top email marketing tool
Link: https://www.sitebuilderreport.com/email-marketing-tools/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42146689

2024-11-16 08:25:07

Caltrain's electrification project is paying off
Link: https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/caltrain-electrification-project-paying-off-19917422.php
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42154355

2024-11-15 19:40:07

Biological Miracle – Wood Frog
Link: https://www.nps.gov/gaar/learn/nature/wood-frog-page-2.htm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42149433

2024-11-13 05:35:06

Docker Compose Isn't Enough
Link: https://blog.tealok.tech/post/docker-compose-isnt-enough/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42122690

2024-11-09 16:55:08

Since the '60s, Ford has stored cars underground in a Kansas City cave
Link: https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/since-the-60s-ford-has-stored-cars-underground-in-a-kansas-city-cave/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42078469

2024-11-09 16:55:07

HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer
Link: https://ourworldindata.org/hpv-vaccination-world-can-eliminate-cervical-cancer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42045373

2024-11-09 16:55:07

Ticketmaster’s attempt to game arbitration services fails
Link: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2024/10/ticketmasters-gaming-of-arbitration-services-fails-heckman-v-live-nation.htm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42047027

2024-11-02 06:10:06

The almost-lost art of rosin potatoes
Link: https://thecookscook.com/features/the-almost-lost-art-of-rosin-potatoes/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991352

2024-11-02 06:10:06

Ethernet at NANOG 92
Link: https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2024-10/ethernet.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42005597

2024-10-30 17:10:06

The Secret Father of Modern Computing (2023)
Link: https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-secret-father-of-modern-computing
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41993773

2024-10-30 16:40:06

Cheap Solar Panels Are Changing the World
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/10/solar-power-energy-revolution-global-south/680351/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41996425

2024-10-29 23:50:06

Wasmer 5.0
Link: https://wasmer.io/posts/introducing-wasmer-v5
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41990326

2024-10-22 20:50:06

SEC Charges Four Companies with Misleading Cyber Disclosures
Link: https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024-174
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41916246

2024-10-22 20:10:06

Show HN: Steiner – An open-source reasoning model inspired by OpenAI o1
Link: https://medium.com/@peakji/a-small-step-towards-reproducing-openai-o1-b9a756a00855
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41915735

2024-10-22 19:55:06

Numerical Precision Affects Mathematical Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13857
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41878961

2024-10-22 19:40:07

The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41917016
#google

2024-10-22 05:00:07

Learning to Learn
Link: https://kevin.the.li/posts/learning-to-learn/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41909827

2024-10-21 03:30:05

If you're curious why every username is a domain, it's because users are sites
Link: https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3l6xwi52zti2y
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41899334

2024-10-20 00:00:07

555 Timer Circuits
Link: https://www.555-timer-circuits.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41872314

2024-10-19 23:50:06

Autism's Four Core Subtypes
Link: https://www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/untangling-biological-threads-from-autisms-phenotypic-patchwork-reveals-four-core-subtypes/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41889990

2024-10-10 02:05:07

Tcl the Misunderstood (Antirez)
Link: http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41791875

2024-10-10 01:05:06

How Waffle House helps Southerners and FEMA judge a storm's severity
Link: https://apnews.com/article/waffle-house-index-hurricane-milton-e0547ca1fb11ddcadab50035a0da7819
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41791693

2024-10-09 03:00:07

Practices of Reliable Software Design
Link: https://entropicthoughts.com/practices-of-reliable-software-design
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41781777

2024-10-08 00:45:06

Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review
Link: https://bbbhltz.codeberg.page/blog/2024/09/puppylinux/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41769707
#linux

2024-10-08 00:35:06

Gunter's Space Page
Link: https://space.skyrocket.de/index.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41769932

2024-10-06 03:35:07

We're excited about our new roundabout
Link: https://wsdotblog.blogspot.com/2024/10/in-case-you-cant-tell-were-really.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41754084

2024-10-03 07:25:06

Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store
Link: https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2024/9/6/why-my-apps-will-soon-be-gone-from-google-play/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41727933
#google

2024-10-02 06:20:06

NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't
Link: https://sidhion.com/blog/posts/nixos_server_issues/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41717050

2024-09-30 07:15:06

Go and my realization about what I'll call the 'Promises' pattern
Link: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoAndPromisesPattern
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41644451

2024-09-29 13:30:07

Web Components Are Okay
Link: https://nolanlawson.com/2024/09/28/web-components-are-okay/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41686722

2024-09-24 10:15:07

Maker Pipe – Structural Pipe Fittings for DIY Builders
Link: https://makerpipe.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41633155

2024-09-15 11:20:07

Where are programming languages created? A zoomable map
Link: https://pldb.io/blog/whereInnovation.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41527167

2024-09-15 09:25:07

Show HN: Bullshit Remover
Link: https://www.bullshitremover.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41545335

2024-09-12 08:50:06

Iron Gall Ink
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_gall_ink
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41484357

2024-09-11 15:25:06

Binsider – A TUI for analyzing Linux binaries
Link: https://binsider.dev/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41509742
#linux

2024-09-11 15:25:06

AppleWatchAmmeter
Link: https://github.com/jp3141/AppleWatchAmmeter
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41508752

2024-09-11 14:05:10

The CIA-in-Chile Scandal at 50
Link: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile/2024-09-09/cia-chile-scandal-50
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41511050

2024-09-09 11:00:06

Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41486565

2024-09-08 10:25:06

Minimal Web
Link: https://mnmlist.com/w/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41478363

2024-09-07 21:55:06

Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide
Link: https://subtledigressions.substack.com/p/hallelujah-leonard-cohen-and-a-pulitzer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41475618

2024-09-06 21:45:07

Inertia.js – Build React, Vue, or Svelte apps with server-side routing
Link: https://inertiajs.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41465900
#react