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milkglass
6 hours ago
The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical....
3 HOURS AGO
IRLDEXTER
Show HN: A free ESG stock screener that publishes its losses and methodology
17 HOURS AGO
SLEEPYGUY
America's Geothermal Breakthrough
5 HOURS AGO
TOSH
The Knight Programming Language
18 MINUTES AGO
PSEUDOLUS
A populist wave is rising to end the 'captive' repair economy
3 DAYS AGO
NAOH
The Long Reply
A DAY AGO
CALCIFER
New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
pr337h4m
19 hours ago
Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses
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iamwil
2 days ago
Mahjong: A Visual Guide
Learn mahjong in five minutes. A visual guide for total beginners — tiles, winning hands, wall mechanics, and turn actions....
jger15
3 days ago
The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement
Historian Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement....
Nrbelex
4 days ago
Flickr: The first and last great photo platform
Flickr was among the first online communities designed to address that dilemma, and it remains one of the best....
t-3
4 days ago
Cheating at Tetris
Ffreuer Bristow works out which pieces can force someone to lose...
robinhouston
4 days ago
The Free Universal Construction Kit
Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. Announcing the Free Universal Construction Kit: a set of adapters for complete interoperability betw...
kyriakosel
5 hours ago
Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist(Health Intelligence)
What this role actually is This is not “market research.” No 60‑page decks. No generic “digital health is big” observations. This is a continuous loop: market → signal → implication → deci...
yak32
3 days ago
Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame
How I turned a photogrammetric 3D Gaussian Splat scene into a playable browser FPS - with collision, pre-baked lighting, navmesh-driven NPCs and behavior-tree AI, all in PlayCanvas....
https://blog.playcanvas.com/turning-a-gaussian-splat-into-a-videogame/
gasull
9 hours ago
EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
A technical look at the EU age verification reference app — the gap between marketed and shipped cryptography, relay attacks the protocol can't stop, and why the 'privacy-preserving' system ...
thehappyfellow
19 hours ago
Simulacrum of Knowledge Work
How do you know the output is good without redoing the work yourself? You've received a report, a market analysis for the new product you're planning to l......
jgrodziski
3 days ago
Rediscovering the Handcart
A pleasure to drive, Low-tech Magazine’s handcart demonstrates the advantages of slow, human-powered transportation....
zdw
4 days ago
What async promised and what it delivered
The async/await saga is a story where each chapter solves the previous chapter's worst problem while introducing new structural costs. The sequential syntax that made async code readable als...
pabs3
7 hours ago
AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice
This article discusses a current-headlines situation regarding Affero General Public License, version 3, Section 3, paragraph 4 (AGPLv3§7¶4.). I begin however with an explanation of the prob...