THE HACKER NEWS

razin
6 hours ago
Mechanical Watch (2022)
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works....
3 DAYS AGO
NATE
An interview with an Apple emoji designer
2 HOURS AGO
SPECKX
After AI Takes Everything
8 HOURS AGO
_TK_
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers
8 HOURS AGO
DARKTOTO
Making espresso with ultrasound
3 DAYS AGO
MOOREDS
The history of butterfly swimming
8 HOURS AGO
APULKIT6
Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org
3 DAYS AGO
CIDER9986
Color Photos of Stalin-Era Soviet Union Taken by a US Diplomat
4 HOURS AGO
DEFROST
'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today
3 HOURS AGO
SPECKX
I Fired Google
43 MINUTES AGO
GMAYS
Earth's underground fungal network would span 10% of the Milky Way
5 DAYS AGO
HMOKIGUESS
Cohere's First Model for Developers
30 MINUTES AGO
WINSLETT
British Colombia, Time Zones, and Postgres
2 HOURS AGO
HANDELAAR
CJEU: Social networks are the 'publishers' of algorithmically-altered feeds
43 MINUTES AGO
GMAYS
Earth's underground fungal network would span 10% of the Milky Way
A DAY AGO
TINYWIND
TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)
5 DAYS AGO
HMOKIGUESS
Cohere's First Model for Developers
5 HOURS AGO
FRB
SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO
30 MINUTES AGO
WINSLETT
British Colombia, Time Zones, and Postgres
A DAY AGO
LKANWOQWP
How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data
jfb
3 hours ago
Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months
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parksb
3 hours ago
But yak shaving is fun
KO | EN This blog doesn’t use a static site generator or framework like Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. I tried a few of them at first, but they gave me too little freedom to customize, so I decide...
mrshu
30 minutes ago
TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
Minimal container images often ship without curl, wget, or any HTTP client at all. Bash can still make an HTTP/1.1 request on its own through the /dev/tcp pseudo-device, without installing a...
neilfrndes
an hour ago
Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
It’s not magic if it’s science....
palashawas
an hour ago
Making ast.walk 220x Faster
Why ast.walk when you can ast.sprint?...
rdmuser
7 hours ago
Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2
Here are three true statements about the game of Slay the Spire 2 (in single player): If you pick Neow's Bones in the Underdocks, the random curse is ~54% likely to be Debt.* It is impos...
apitman
12 hours ago
I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer
I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am....
EDM115
2 hours ago
SubQ 1.1 Small
Subquadratic is a frontier AI research and infrastructure company building a new class of LLMs....
https://subq.ai/subq-1-1-small-technical-report
0x000xca0xfe
3 days ago
Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields
How to make infinite design variations using Perlin noise fields, a simple generative algorithm....
sohkamyung
19 hours ago
Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
OverviewA long while back I had an idea to hack a WiFi smart light bulb to do something more useful to me. Actually, I had a few different ideas of things to do with them. One of these ideas...
laxmena
an hour ago
GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz
56,000+ tokens/sec at just 80 MHz. 🤯 I burned a full Transformer with KV cache into a custom chip. Designed gate by gate as a 100% digital integrated circuit. Prototyped on a FPGA. (No GP...
lwhsiao
21 hours ago
A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
A fake recruiter, a crypto repo, and a remote code execution payload hidden in a test file....
tosh
10 hours ago
Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it
I mean, technically I didn't do it....
speckx
3 hours ago
Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
Google Chrome’s move to Manifest V3 for extensions is closing its final loophole and, with it, bringing the end of......
speckx
21 hours ago
I Love the Computer
An exploration of how I became a massive geek....
chadfowler
a day ago
Iroh 1.0
Iroh 1.0 is out. Now is the time to build....