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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...
3 DAYS AGO
PAULHOULE
Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On
A DAY AGO
YUSUFUSTA
Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
4 DAYS AGO
DADO3212
Metatextual Literacy
4 DAYS AGO
LWRLESS
Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups
19 HOURS AGO
CDRNSF
Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
4 DAYS AGO
T-3
Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert
21 HOURS AGO
OLD_THRASHBARG
UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive
2 DAYS AGO
MEETPATELTECH
Claude Design
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...
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mfiguiere
2 days ago
What are skiplists good for?
An exotic data structure and a whole lot of JOINs....
gnabgib
19 hours ago
College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
"What's the point of me reading it if it's already correct anyway, and you didn't write it yourself? Could you produce it without your computer?" said Phelps....
RickJWagner
a day ago
Why Japan has such good railways
Japan's railways are the finest in the world. Other countries can copy its formula....
aa_is_op
an hour ago
Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
Police lured the man to a meeting and arrested him after accessing a private WhatsApp group with colleagues...
rbanffy
17 hours ago
NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
NIST scientists and collaborators have pioneered a way to make integrated circuits for light by depositing complex patterns of specialized materials onto silicon wafers....
NelsonMinar
a day ago
The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
Before GPS, how did aircraft navigate? One important technique was celestial navigation: navigating from the positions of the stars, planets......
ragojose
3 days ago
Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders
A powerful toolkit to create, stack, and animate shaders....
https://eng.basement.studio/tools/shader-lab
surprisetalk
4 days ago
It's cool to care (2025)
Caring deeply – about art, my friends, and shared experiences – has brought me so much joy. ...
nobody9999
7 hours ago
Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702
In a dramatic middle-of-the-night stand off, a bipartisan set of lawmakers pushing for true reform and privacy protections for Americans bought us some more time to fight! They are holding o...
agambrahma
15 hours ago
Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon
A WebAssembly module's linear memory can be shared directly with the Apple Silicon GPU: no copies, no serialization, no intermediate buffers. Here's how the zero-copy chain works, what we me...
riyaneel
3 days ago
Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC
Tachyon, Inter-Process Communication primitive. Contribute to riyaneel/Tachyon development by creating an account on GitHub....
drasim
a day ago
Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data
MDV — a Markdown superset for documents, dashboards, and slides with embedded data and visualizations. HTML + PDF export, live preview, VS Code extension. - drasimwagan/mdv...
sohkamyung
14 hours ago
NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the...
gmcabrita
21 hours ago
PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue
PgQue – Zero-bloat Postgres queue. One SQL file to install, pg_cron to tick. - NikolayS/pgque...