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gavinray
2 hours ago
Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony
I spent ages 14-16 in a maximum-security juvenile prison, became a felon at 19, lost almost everything to addiction, and later rebuilt my life through software, open source, and a few people...
5 DAYS AGO
FLEXAGOON
Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup
6 HOURS AGO
DAESORIN
Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025)
2 DAYS AGO
KELVINIDAN
A visual introduction to kernel functions
20 HOURS AGO
DAVIDBARKER
Public Domain Image Archive
6 HOURS AGO
TOSH
sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3
3 DAYS AGO
KKM
Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4×
17 HOURS AGO
BABUSKOV
Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months
7 HOURS AGO
POISONFOUNTAIN
LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
18 HOURS AGO
ZEECH
How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time
2 DAYS AGO
NEXTOS
Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction
2 DAYS AGO
OLD_SOUND
Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math
10 HOURS AGO
YORWBA
Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models
2 DAYS AGO
NEXTOS
Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction
4 DAYS AGO
GMAYS
Biohub releases a world model of protein biology
2 DAYS AGO
OLD_SOUND
Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math
4 HOURS AGO
BRAJESHWAR
The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games
howToTestFE
an hour ago
How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown
breakdown of the architecture behind Linear's speed: local-first sync, MobX observables, instant first loads, and a keyboard-first design.
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tosh
3 days ago
What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)
There is a folder at the root of Linux and Unix operating systems called /lost+found/ What is it for? Under what circumstances would I interact with it? How would I interact with it?...
surprisetalk
3 days ago
You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone
Alexander Graham Bell is widely credited with inventing the telephone, in 1876. It’s not entirely undisputed: Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci, and Johann Philipp Reis each also have a decent cla...
pablo24602
3 hours ago
Proliferate (YC S25) is hiring to building open source Codex
About Proliferate Proliferate is building the operating system for modern engineering. We are building the company in person in SoMa, San Francisco. We care a lot about intensity, craft, a...
maxloh
3 hours ago
Silurus/ooxml: Pixel-faithful Office documents, rendered in the browser
Contribute to yukiyokotani/office-open-xml-viewer development by creating an account on GitHub....
zdw
a day ago
Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack
I generally avoid messing with Li-ion battery packs, but these are both Ni-mh and expensive....
herbertl
2 hours ago
Making Peace with Your Unlived Dreams
I will never be a great snowboarder. For various genetic and non-genetic reasons, my knees are barely capable of surviving a three-hour hike, let alone the landing after a 1080. In fact, I’l...
elpocko
3 hours ago
Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948
1948 was an interesting time for computing. For decades, businesses had used punch card equipment that added and sorted electromechanically.......
https://www.righto.com/2026/06/ibm-604-thyraton-tube-module.html
predkambrij
7 hours ago
Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
Preflight Checklist I have searched existing requests and this feature hasn't been requested yet This is a single feature request (not multiple features) Problem Statement Preflight note. Th...
theanonymousone
2 hours ago
The complete IPv4 address space, mapped
Look up any IPv4 address. Find owner, ASN, country, city, PTR records, and CIDR. Search reverse DNS hostnames. Free, no signup....
ankitg12
3 days ago
There's no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes
A brief history of ANSI escape codes, how they work under the hood, and why this decades-old standard still makes your terminal colorful today....
7777777phil
29 minutes ago
Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?
Well, better at men's soccer. And can a World Cup at home finally be the breakthrough?...
le_chuck
13 hours ago
Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers
A self-hostable Wasm sandbox for JavaScript workers....
mmastrac
2 days ago
Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust
Technical articles and release notes about Symbolica, symbolic computation, numerical methods, and high-performance computer algebra....
Anon84
19 hours ago
Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering
LLM-based Multi-Agent (LLM-MA) systems are increasingly applied to automate complex software engineering tasks such as requirements engineering, code generation, and testing. However, their ...
jandeboevrie
3 days ago
How Long Does It Take for a QQuickItem to Become Visible?
Learn how to measure when a QQuickItem actually appears on screen in Qt Quick. This article shows a C++ technique to detect late-rendered components, quantify perceived frame drops, and anal...