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NelsonMinar
9 hours 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......
3 DAYS AGO
LWRLESS
Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups
9 HOURS AGO
GMCABRITA
PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue
8 HOURS AGO
OLD_THRASHBARG
UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive
5 DAYS AGO
ATOMFINGER
Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language
4 DAYS AGO
ADHAMGHAZALI
Show HN: Remoroo – Trying to fix memory in long-running coding agents
3 DAYS AGO
AZHENLEY
The simple geometry behind any road
8 HOURS AGO
BRYANRASMUSSEN
Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026
5 DAYS AGO
Y1N0
A Dumb Introduction to Z3 (2025)
rbanffy
5 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.
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yusufusta
12 hours ago
Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
A real-world production migration from DigitalOcean to Hetzner dedicated, handling 248 GB of MySQL data across 30 databases, 34 Nginx sites, GitLab EE, Neo4j, and live mobile app traffic — w...
sohkamyung
2 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...
agambrahma
3 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...
RickJWagner
13 hours ago
Why Japan has such good railways
Japan's railways are the finest in the world. Other countries can copy its formula....
cdrnsf
6 hours ago
Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
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tchalla
3 hours ago
Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind
From before their babies are born, men undergo serious hormonal changes that can powerfully influence their behaviour – with consequences for their child's wellbeing....
gnabgib
6 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....
https://sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorized/a-college-instructor-turns-to-typewriters-to-curb-ai-written-work-and-teach-life-lessons/
hasheddan
2 days ago
Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors
In my recent post on the PSA Crypto API, I demonstrated the use of the API on two different MCUs: the nRF52840 and the ESP32-S3. In the case of the former, the ECDSA signature operation was ...
t-3
3 days ago
Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert
In the Arizona desert, scientists have uncovered a bizarre and almost unbelievable partnership between ants: tiny cone ants acting as “cleaners” for much larger harvester ants. Instead of at...
sph
19 hours ago
Amiga Graphics Archive
Launched in 1985 the Commodore Amiga boasted graphics capabilities that were unsurpassed for it's time. It featured an intricate collection of custom chips that enabled it to do things that,...
mmaaz
3 hours ago
Show HN: Sostactic – polynomial inequalities using sums-of-squares in Lean
Proving polynomial inequalities with sum-of-squares certificates - mmaaz-git/sostactic...
arjunchint
a day ago
Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab
Record a browser task once. Replay it as a callable tool. Zero token cost, 100% deterministic, auth propagated from the live webpage....
trocado
7 hours ago
Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war
Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers...
sylvainkalache
14 hours ago
The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood
When can a kid play outside alone? Two parents, one stranger, and the state collide....
meetpateltech
a day ago
Claude Design
Today, we’re launching Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more...