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gnabgib
12 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....
3 DAYS AGO
LWRLESS
Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups
3 DAYS AGO
SPECKX
Game Devs Explain the Tricks Involved with Letting You Pause a Game
3 DAYS AGO
RIYANEEL
Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC
2 DAYS AGO
HASHEDDAN
Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors
14 HOURS AGO
OLD_THRASHBARG
UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive
5 HOURS AGO
CIDER9986
Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025
3 DAYS AGO
AZHENLEY
The simple geometry behind any road
14 HOURS AGO
BRYANRASMUSSEN
Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026
rbanffy
10 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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NelsonMinar
14 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......
agambrahma
8 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...
yusufusta
17 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...
mfiguiere
2 days ago
What Are Skiplists Good For?
An exotic data structure and a whole lot of JOINs....
RickJWagner
18 hours ago
Why Japan has such good railways
Japan's railways are the finest in the world. Other countries can copy its formula....
dado3212
3 days ago
Metatextual Literacy
Okay, I want to bitch about a small thing that bugs me a little. To begin, let's do a close reading of Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid[^1] that it realist......
tyleo
3 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 ...
https://jackpritz.com/blog/updating-gun-rocket-through-10-years-of-unity-engine
sohkamyung
7 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...
drasim
15 hours 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...
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...
gmcabrita
14 hours ago
PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue
PgQue – Zero-bloat Postgres queue. One SQL file to install, pg_cron to tick. - NikolayS/pgque...
howrude
9 hours ago
Air Is Full of DNA
Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify humans....
meetpateltech
2 days 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...
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....
thunderbong
5 hours ago
Bluetooth tracker hidden in postcard and mailed to warship exposed its location
A postcard spy...