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crescit_eundo
6 hours ago
The Bromine Chokepoint
The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, now in an unstable ceasefire, has exposed a structural failure in the global semiconductor memory supply chain, and it is...
5 HOURS AGO
JRUOHONEN
Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
2 DAYS AGO
MFIGUIERE
What are skiplists good for?
2 DAYS AGO
ABRAX3141
Eliza a Play by Tom Holloway
4 HOURS AGO
RBANFFY
Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure
2 HOURS AGO
TYPE0
Reminder: Enable ZRAM on your Linux system to optimize RAM usage
4 DAYS AGO
SURPRISETALK
It's cool to care (2025)
11 HOURS AGO
AA_IS_OP
Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
9 HOURS AGO
THEAHURA
Notes from the SF peptide scene
A DAY AGO
GNABGIB
College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
A DAY AGO
RBANFFY
NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
colesantiago
10 hours ago
Vercel April 2026 security incident
Cloud development platform Vercel has disclosed a security incident after threat actors claimed to have breached its systems and are attempting to sell stolen data.
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linsys
2 days ago
Show HN: How context engineering works, a runnable reference
Contribute to outcomeops/context-engineering development by creating an account on GitHub....
Akcium
6 hours ago
Six Levels of Dark Mode
From HTML-only to JS-infused, and all the CSS in between....
pizza_man
5 hours ago
I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language
Chip8 Emulator. Contribute to navid-m/chip8emu development by creating an account on GitHub....
doener
an hour ago
2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email
Interactive map showing where Swiss municipalities host their official email. DNS analysis of all ~2,100 municipalities, color-coded by provider....
lukasec
4 days ago
Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents
For our agent-native signup we built a reverse-CAPTCHA that keeps humans out and lets agents in....
DamnInteresting
2 days ago
Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975
Foreground p.20 RECYCLING USED ICs [theme Hardware] [author Mikkelsen] p.62 DECIPHERING MYSTERY KEYBOARDS [theme Hardware] [author Heltners] p.72 LIFE......
vinhnx
16 hours ago
A Brief History of Fish Sauce
A brief history of fish sauce, from Ancient Asian recipes, Roman times, and through to today's many (delicious) uses....
https://www.legalnomads.com/fish-sauce/
eigenhombre
an hour ago
Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore
Amazon is ending support for Kindles released before 2013, which means your old e-reader won’t be able to download new books....
Bawoosette
a day ago
Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife
Reconstructing a Dead USB Protocol: A Handheld's Secrets Unlocked by a Hot Knife -- A multi-disciplinary journey to reviving a forgotten USB interface - coremaze/ME2-Writeup...
birdculture
3 hours ago
C++26: Reflection, Memory Safety, Contracts, and a New Async Model
The C++26 standard draft is now complete, reports Herb Sutter, long-time C++ expert and former chair of the ISO C++ standards committee. The finalized draft introduces reflection, enhances m...
ragojose
3 days ago
Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders
A powerful toolkit to create, stack, and animate shaders....
speckx
3 days ago
Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game
Developers provide some insight into how they all make games stop and start when you press a button...
tyleo
4 days ago
Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine
Join me as I update a project through 10 years of Unity editors. Along the way I will talk about my process, Unity tips and tricks, and the tech changes of Unity Engine - several of which I ...
MiguelX413
3 hours ago
Louisiana Advances One of the Country's 'Cruelest' Anti-Homeless Bills
One homeless advocacy group said the bill, which would require homeless people to perform unpaid labor to pay for involuntary treatment, "evokes debtor’s prisons, convict leasing, and the ug...
lelanthran
4 days ago
I learned Unity the wrong way
I spent 3 years building Unity games by copying tutorials and stitching forum scripts together. Then an interviewer asked me what Queue<T> was. I could not answer....