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speckx
9 hours ago
Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
After a decade on Ubuntu 16.04, I migrated my blog to FreeBSD on Hetzner. Some notes on setting up a VPS with FreeBSD, Jails, Bastille, Caddy reverse proxies, and load testing and benchmarki...
11 HOURS AGO
ELFFJS
Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
8 HOURS AGO
ATOMICTHUMBS
Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O
4 HOURS AGO
SABATONFAN
The IBM-ification of Google?
18 HOURS AGO
SOFUMEL
We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot
2 DAYS AGO
BENBREEN
What Is Happening to Publishing?
3 DAYS AGO
MEYSAMAZAD
Thoughts on People and Blogs
3 DAYS AGO
RECTANG
Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars
speleo
12 hours ago
Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
See a recreation of the Project Hail Mary in-ship navigation computer with accurate star data from the GAIA DR3 mission.
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apwheele
3 days ago
Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
In 2024 I quit my FAANG job to become an independent researcher. To do this I needed GPUs, so I built “grumbl”, a 6x 6000 Ada GPU server. This blog describes the build, some of the issu…...
pseudolus
17 hours ago
Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored
Forgotten photos of the Trinity detonation show the immensity of the project...
gustrigos
12 hours ago
Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team
The runtime for all your team's agents. Sandboxed coding agents with your company's context, integrations, and guardrails — triggered from Slack, Linear, CLI, or the browser....
speckx
8 hours ago
Using Kagi Search with Low Vision
How I'm using Kagi Search with low vision to manage visual fatigue, plus my favorite Kagi accessibility features for low vision + CVI and Kagi low vision theme...
ohjeez
3 days ago
Tristan Davey's Punch Card Archive
A small archive of punch cards and ephemera from the 1930s through 1980s....
sandebert
17 hours ago
Flipper One – we need your help
With Flipper One, we're reimagining what a Linux cyberdeck can be — it's a huge project. We're opening up the development process and asking the community for help....
speckx
3 days ago
The Death of the Brick and Mortar Toy Store
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why more and more local stores are going defunct. A …...
https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/05/the-death-of-the-brick-and-mortar-toy-store/
root-parent
10 hours ago
Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police
Seattle Shield requests suspicious activity reports from companies, which are then circulated with members as part of surveillance apparatus...
jaredwiener
11 hours ago
News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism
McClatchy, Advance Local, Tribune Publishing and other major newspaper chains are restricting the nonprofit's archiving bots....
napolux
18 hours ago
Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations. If they wanted an AI essay, they would have asked ChatGPT themselves....
thisisjedr
8 hours ago
Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps
Open-source WYSIWYG .docx editor library with canonical OOXML, tracked changes, and real-time collaboration. - eigenpal/docx-editor...
speckx
11 hours ago
Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid
A dad who lost his sense of taste and smell for years after catching covid has had both senses restored - thanks to specially-developed chewing gum....
baruchel
3 days ago
What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?
At 25, Kurt Gödel proved there can never be a mathematical “theory of everything.” Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores the implications....
yakkomajuri
13 hours ago
We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API
Docker ships with an undocumented API for spawning isolated microVMs. Here's how to use it for more than just AI agents....