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ingve
5 hours ago
Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games
Music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games. Contribute to MartinGalway/C64_music development by creating an account on GitHub....
7 HOURS AGO
NAJMUZZAMAN
Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)
14 HOURS AGO
ALASH3AL
Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do
15 HOURS AGO
SIGNOR_BOSCO
Education must go beyond the mere production of words
14 HOURS AGO
SHANKYSINGH
Cosmology with Geometry Nodes
2 DAYS AGO
IMPACT_SY
DeepSeek v4
2 HOURS AGO
FREREUBU
Social media is no longer social
20 HOURS AGO
NAOH
The Classic American Diner
A DAY AGO
GSLIN
Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations
calcifer
10 hours ago
New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
For years, the best way to get 10 gigabit networking on laptops was to buy an expensive, large, and hot 10 GbE Thunderbolt adapter. With new RTL8159-based 10G USB 3.2 adapters coming onto the market, the bulky adapters might be a thing of the past. Just look at the size of the thing in comparison to my Thunderbolt adapters: 2.5G and even 5G USB adapters have been out for a while, but sometimes you need more bandwidth.
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keepamovin
4 hours ago
Only One Side Will Be the True Successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x
Do you remember the vaporware software known as Windows 1.0? Well, it has truly evolved now, and it wants to become the true successor to MS-DOS! Will it make it? Or will its rival, OS/2, st...
fanf2
an hour ago
Jumping into cold water can stop your heart
Why Jumping Into Cold Water Can Stop Your Heart...
pigeons
15 hours ago
Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom
This repository contains the code and submission detail for the QDay prize challenge by https://www.projecteleven.com/ - yuvadm/quantumslop...
mariuz
5 hours ago
A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp
Contribute to nakagami/grdpwasm development by creating an account on GitHub....
rbanffy
14 hours ago
Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay
A blog about software craft and quality...
arkadiuss
3 days ago
A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU
We trained an MLP that predicts 58 body shape parameters from 8 questionnaire inputs. The trick: a differentiable physics loss. Mass accuracy: 0.3 kg mean vs 3.9 kg for Ridge. No GPU at infe...
jwworth
2 days ago
Commenting and Approving Pull Requests
After reviewing a lot of pull requests, I’ve settled on a simple default: if my comments are all nitpicks, suggestions, questions, or non-blocking issues, I leave them and approve the PR at ...
https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/on-commenting-and-approving-pull-requests/
colinprince
4 days ago
The mail sent to a video game publisher
An old Activision idea from the 1980s has led to some incredible things in the 2020s for Panic, the publisher of Despelote, Arco and Time Flies: “The range of things we received was wild."...
jamie-simon
21 hours ago
There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
In this paper, we make the case that a scientific theory of deep learning is emerging. By this we mean a theory which characterizes important properties and statistics of the training proces...
mailyk
3 days ago
PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology
Photonic PCR is a technology that can be used to do an entire PCR in about six minutes. But there are several reasons why it's unlikely to catch on....
maguay
2 days ago
Email could have been X.400 times better
X.400 said what must be possible. SMTP said what must be done....
andsoitis
11 hours ago
Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port
A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support. - magiblot/tvision...
nreece
14 hours ago
Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes....
ivewonyoung
30 minutes ago
UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes
The United Kingdom is set to bar anyone born after 2008 from ever buying cigarettes as part of a push to make future generations completely smoke-free....
samclemens
3 days ago
Larry McMurtry's Tall Tales
By questioning the myth of the cowboy, he offered a different kind of legend, one more suited to this country and its contradictions....