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2025-05-25 22:25:05

Show HN: Zli – A Batteries-Included CLI Framework for Zig
Link: https://github.com/xcaeser/zli
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44089054

2025-05-25 21:40:06

Programming on 34 Keys (2022)
Link: https://oppi.li/posts/programming_on_34_keys/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087373

2025-05-21 01:15:06

The Value Isn't in the Code
Link: https://jonayre.uk/blog/2022/10/30/the-real-value-isnt-in-the-code/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44046955

2025-05-21 00:50:06

My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022)
Link: https://www.lfe.pt/latex/fonts/typography/2022/11/21/latex-fonts-part1.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011686

2025-05-21 00:10:06

Show HN: Text to 3D simulation on a map (does history pretty well)
Link: https://mused.com/map/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44040419

2025-05-18 08:45:06

Project Verona: Fearless Concurrency for Python
Link: https://microsoft.github.io/verona/pyrona.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43993707
#python

2025-05-14 19:10:06

Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/uber-to-introduce-fixed-route-shuttles-in-major-us-cities-other-ways-to-save/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985861

2025-05-11 15:10:07

In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more
Link: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/03/in-2025-venture-capital-cant-pretend-everything-is-fine-any-more/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43953884

2025-05-11 14:45:07

Crowd Sourcing Broken QR Codes
Link: https://www.humanqr.com/news/qr-code-not-scanning-well-try-to-help/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43914321

2025-05-11 14:00:07

When Suno covers my song (very useful) – a study with variations
Link: http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1350
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43926713

2025-05-09 23:50:06

Reverse Engineering "DNA Sequences" in the Lost World: Jurassic Park Video Game
Link: https://32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-microscope-the-lost-world
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43917278

2025-05-09 23:35:06

Google Doc Templates for Startups
Link: https://www.templatesbypaul.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43940500
#google

2025-05-08 06:30:07

Bootstrapping Lisp in a Boot Sector
Link: https://github.com/jart/sectorlisp
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43892773
#lisp

2025-05-06 21:20:06

Is Planet Nine Alone in the Outer System?
Link: https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/05/06/is-planet-nine-alone-in-the-outer-system/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43907586

2025-05-06 21:00:06

TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs
Link: https://micahflee.com/despite-misleading-marketing-israeli-company-telemessage-used-by-trump-officials-can-access-plaintext-chat-logs/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909220

2025-05-06 20:10:06

MTerrain: Optimized terrain system and editor for Godot
Link: https://github.com/mohsenph69/Godot-MTerrain-plugin
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43904865

2025-05-04 20:15:08

I'd rather read the prompt
Link: https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888803

2025-05-04 19:30:09

Lilith and Modula-2
Link: https://astrobe.com/Modula2/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43886271

2025-04-29 17:30:06

O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data
Link: https://sampatt.com/blog/2025-04-28-can-o3-beat-a-geoguessr-master
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43835044

2025-04-28 12:55:06

I built a hardware processor that runs Python
Link: https://www.runpyxl.com/gpio
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820228
#python

2025-04-28 12:40:06

To 'Reclaim Future-Making', Amazon Workers Published Collection of SciFi Stories
Link: https://afteramazon.world/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43816697
#amazon

2025-04-28 12:00:06

Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820043

2025-04-28 11:20:06

Full power outage in Spain and Portugal
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819791

2025-04-27 10:10:07

How to program a text adventure in C
Link: https://helderman.github.io/htpataic/htpataic01.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43809638

2025-04-27 09:50:06

Show HN: Remote-Controlled IKEA Deathstar Lamp
Link: https://gitlab.com/sephalon/deathstar_lamp
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43809841

2025-04-27 09:20:06

The Passing of Ucbvax (1994)
Link: http://ucbvax.berkeley.edu/passing-of-ucbvax.txt
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43806630

2025-04-27 08:15:06

HTTP Feeds: a minimal specification for polling events over HTTP
Link: https://www.http-feeds.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43805358
#http

2025-04-26 03:35:07

Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing
Link: https://newatlas.com/computers/smartphone-listening-conversations-ads-facebook/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799802

2025-04-26 03:20:05

Parallel ./configure
Link: https://tavianator.com/2025/configure.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799396

2025-04-25 01:00:07

Google Maps Doesn't Know How Street Addresses Work
Link: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/google-maps-doesnt-know-how-street-addresses-work/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43788832
#google

2025-04-25 00:40:06

Show HN: Infat – Declaritive application assocation manager for macOS
Link: https://github.com/philocalyst/infat
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43785350

2025-04-25 00:30:07

Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf, Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals
Link: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/04/24/scientists-develop-artificial-leaf-that-uses-sunlight-to-produce-valuable-chemicals/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43788053

2025-04-23 23:45:07

Yagri: You are gonna read it
Link: https://www.scottantipa.com/yagri
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43776967

2025-04-23 23:35:07

First Successful Lightning Triggering and Guiding Using a Drone
Link: https://group.ntt/en/newsrelease/2025/04/18/250418a.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775766

2025-04-23 23:25:06

Spring 83: a draft protocol intended to suggest new ways of relating online
Link: https://github.com/robinsloan/spring-83
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774938

2025-04-23 23:15:07

Sustain your creative drive in the face of technological change
Link: https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/multi-disciplinary-artist-jack-rusher-on-the-need-to-sustain-your-creative-drive-in-the-face-of-technological-change/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43759204

2025-04-23 23:10:06

C++26: more constexpr in the core language
Link: https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/04/23/cpp26-constexpr-language-changes
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775670

2025-04-21 09:40:07

Pope francis has died
Link: https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-francis-has-died-vatican-says-video-statement-2025-04-21/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43749405

2025-04-21 08:25:07

Pope Francis dies aged 88
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/crknlnzlrzdt
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43749449

2025-04-19 12:45:06

Peru's ancient irrigation systems turned deserts into farms because of culture
Link: https://theconversation.com/perus-ancient-irrigation-systems-succeeded-in-turning-deserts-into-farms-because-of-the-culture-without-it-the-systems-failed-251199
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43712536

2025-04-19 11:25:06

The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023)
Link: https://blog.samizdata.co/p/how-a-british-sitcom-swept-through-the-balkans
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734795

2025-04-19 10:35:06

Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check
Link: https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/14/hydrogen-vs-battery-buses-a-european-transit-reality-check/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43703998

2025-04-17 15:50:06

Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet
Link: https://www.reuters.com/science/scientists-find-strongest-evidence-yet-life-an-alien-planet-2025-04-16/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716293

2025-04-17 15:20:06

Google Is a Monopolist in Online Advertising Tech, Judge Says
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/technology/google-ad-tech-antitrust-ruling.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43717705
#google

2025-04-14 23:15:06

SSD1306 display drivers and font rendering
Link: https://subalpinecircuits.com/ssd1306-and-font-rendering/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683497

2025-04-14 22:45:08

How Janet's PEG module works
Link: https://bakpakin.com/writing/how-janets-peg-works.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43649781

2025-04-13 20:05:07

Don't sell space in your homelab (2023)
Link: https://grumpy.systems/2023/please-dont-sell-space-in-your-homelab/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674267

2025-04-13 18:35:06

Compute's Gazette Magazine Returns After 35 Yrs, Will Focus on Retro Computing
Link: https://www.computesgazette.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43671861

2025-04-13 18:25:07

Why Fennel?
Link: https://fennel-lang.org/rationale
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43673551

2025-04-12 05:05:06

Key principles on in-game virtual currencies in the EU
Link: https://tiendil.org/en/posts/eu-key-principles-on-in-game-virtual-currencies
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43658420

2025-04-12 04:05:06

AI Coding and the Peanut Butter and Jelly Problem
Link: https://iamcharliegraham.substack.com/p/ai-coding-and-the-peanut-butter-and
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43658794

2025-04-10 08:15:06

ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system
Link: https://azmirror.com/2025/04/08/ice-director-envisions-amazon-like-mass-deportation-system-prime-but-with-human-beings/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43641402
#amazon

2025-04-10 08:15:06

Hunt for Red October 1990
Link: http://www.modelshipsinthecinema.com/2016/12/hunt-for-red-october-1990.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43641469

2025-04-10 07:40:06

France's new high-speed train has Americans asking: Why can't we have that?
Link: https://grist.org/looking-forward/frances-new-high-speed-train-design-has-americans-asking-why-cant-we-have-that/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43641300
#france

2025-04-10 06:10:07

No Pay, No Work; Early Career Lessons
Link: https://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-3-no-pay-no-work/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639871

2025-04-08 06:55:07

Deleting multiplayer from the Unreal engine can save memory
Link: https://larstofus.com/2025/04/05/how-deleting-multiplayer-from-the-engine-can-save-memory/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43600363

2025-04-08 06:10:06

A Supermarket Bag and a Truckload of FOMO
Link: https://blog.julik.nl/2025/03/a-little-adventure-in-modern-frontend
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615986

2025-04-08 05:25:08

Fuck Run Club, Join Sit Club
Link: https://rawandferal.substack.com/p/fck-run-club-join-sit-club
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617190

2025-04-06 10:35:06

Open Source Coalition Announces 'Model-Signing' to Strengthen ML Supply Chain
Link: https://pypi.org/project/model-signing/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43596543

2025-04-06 08:40:06

Lessons from open source in the Mexican government
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1013776/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43579104

2025-04-04 07:35:07

New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00945-z
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538853

2025-04-04 05:45:06

Microsoft reports several bootloader vulnerabilities
Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/31/analyzing-open-source-bootloaders-finding-vulnerabilities-faster-with-ai/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538073
#microsoft

2025-03-31 20:10:06

Kagi for Kids
Link: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/family-plan.html#kidslogin
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538338

2025-03-31 20:00:06

Symmetry between up and down quarks is more broken than expected
Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-03-symmetry-quarks-broken.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43514246

2025-03-31 19:55:06

Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers
Link: https://aumont.fr/posts/FreeBSD-Home-Server/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43534533

2025-03-31 19:35:06

Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed
Link: https://9to5google.com/2025/03/31/honey-extension-users-dropped-chrome-march-2025/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538113
#chrome

2025-03-31 19:35:06

Debugging Lotus 1-2-3 by fax
Link: https://blog.jgc.org/2025/03/debugging-lotus-1-2-3-by-fax.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43536105

2025-03-31 18:50:08

The Average College Student Is Illiterate
Link: https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-average-college-student-is-illiterate
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43537808

2025-03-31 18:50:08

France fines Apple €150M for "excessive" pop-ups that let users reject tracking
Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/france-fines-apple-e150m-for-excessive-pop-ups-that-let-users-reject-tracking/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43537593
#apple #france

2025-03-31 18:45:10

C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness (2023)
Link: https://research.swtch.com/ub
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43509524

2025-03-29 22:05:07

Apple's AI isn't a letdown. AI is the letdown
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/tech/apple-ai-artificial-intelligence/index.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518576
#apple

2025-03-29 21:45:08

The Candid Naivety of Geeks
Link: https://ploum.net/2025-03-28-geeks-naivety.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518087

2025-03-29 21:00:07

Typed Japanese
Link: https://github.com/typedgrammar/typed-japanese
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43515426

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 18:20:07

Show HN: Cursor IDE now remembers your coding prefs using MCP
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43506068

2025-03-28 17:05:06

How Kerala got rich
Link: https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-kerala-go-from-poor-to-prosperous-among-indias-states
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43507286

2025-03-28 17:05:06

The Biology of a Large Language Model
Link: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/biology.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43505748

2025-03-27 01:00:06

Building a Linux Container Runtime from Scratch
Link: https://edera.dev/stories/styrolite
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43486997
#linux

2025-03-27 00:40:08

Writing a tiny undo/redo stack in JavaScript
Link: https://blog.julik.nl/2025/03/a-tiny-undo-stack
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43458738
#javascript

2025-03-26 23:45:06

Writing Programs with Ncurses
Link: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-intro.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43452789

2025-01-05 19:40:06

Triangulation of a polyline with thickness (a.k.a. line strip)
Link: https://jvernay.fr/en/blog/polyline-triangulation/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42589054

2024-11-18 11:55:06

Show HN: Nova JavaScript Engine
Link: https://github.com/trynova/nova
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42168166
#javascript

2024-11-13 00:25:07

Five Unusual Raku Features
Link: https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/five-unusual-raku-features/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42120090

2024-11-11 19:55:08

All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs
Link: https://jero.zone/posts/reverse-engineering-apis
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057903

2024-11-10 08:00:06

Shaderblocks: Block-based image editing
Link: https://thejenkinscomic.net/shaderblocks/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42039296

2024-11-07 19:10:07

Show HN: BemiDB – Postgres read replica optimized for analytics
Link: https://github.com/BemiHQ/BemiDB
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42078067
#postgres

2024-11-07 19:10:06

QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image
Link: https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/products/qnx-everywhere
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42079460

2024-11-07 18:55:06

Mushroom Color Atlas
Link: https://www.mushroomcoloratlas.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42078581

2024-11-05 14:40:07

Seeing Like a Programmer: Resiliency, Limits, and Moral Hazards
Link: https://v5.chriskrycho.com/elsewhere/seeing-like-a-programmer/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42015703

2024-11-02 11:05:06

The trailing dot in domain names matter
Link: https://lacot.org/blog/2024/10/29/the-trailing-dot-in-domain-names-a-detail-that-is-often-poorly-managed.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41982974

2024-11-02 10:55:06

How to Train Yourself to Go to Sleep Earlier
Link: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-hygiene/how-to-go-to-sleep-earlier
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016904

2024-11-01 04:50:06

Antibody Drug Conjugates: A frontier in cancer treatment
Link: https://www.sagelyhealth.com/blog-posts/cancers-magic-bullet-antibody-drug-conjugates
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42009196

2024-10-31 04:25:06

A comparison of Rust's borrow checker to the one in C#
Link: https://em-tg.github.io/csborrow/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41963259
#rust

2024-10-31 04:25:06

Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/10/black-plastic-spatula-flame-retardants/680452/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41996156

2024-10-31 00:10:06

Hi Google, please stop pooping the bed: a desperate plea from the indie web
Link: https://build.shepherd.com/p/hi-google-please-stop-the-bed-a-desperate
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42000651
#google

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

2024-10-28 22:25:06

Why so few Matt Levines?
Link: https://gwern.net/matt-levine
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975993

2024-10-27 21:20:07

Pollen: A publishing system written in Racket
Link: https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41963491

2024-10-26 19:05:07

Should JavaScript be split into two languages?
Link: https://devclass.com/2024/10/22/should-javascript-be-split-into-two-languages-new-google-driven-proposal-divides-opinion/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41955353
#javascript

2024-10-25 17:45:05

A deep dive into Linux's new mseal syscall
Link: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/10/25/a-deep-dive-into-linuxs-new-mseal-syscall/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41945894
#linux