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rbanffy
11 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....
42 MINUTES AGO
OMER_K
The RAM shortage could last years
13 HOURS AGO
CDRNSF
Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
3 DAYS AGO
RIYANEEL
Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC
17 HOURS AGO
DRASIM
Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data
4 DAYS AGO
T-3
Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert
15 HOURS AGO
OLD_THRASHBARG
UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive
10 HOURS AGO
HOWRUDE
Air Is Full of DNA
3 DAYS AGO
AZHENLEY
The simple geometry behind any road
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
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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 ...
RickJWagner
20 hours ago
Why Japan has such good railways
Japan's railways are the finest in the world. Other countries can copy its formula....
nobody9999
an hour 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...
mfiguiere
2 days ago
What are skiplists good for?
An exotic data structure and a whole lot of JOINs....
NelsonMinar
16 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......
dado3212
4 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......
gnabgib
13 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/
agambrahma
9 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...
Lwrless
4 days ago
Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups
The 2026 edition of our penguins relationship chart is finally here! It's fun, adorable, and as complicated as always!...
PaulHoule
3 days ago
Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On
We need better tools for uncovering phantom binary dependencies. Not having these tools makes our global tech infrastructure less secure, and puts a strain on the Open Source maintainers we ...
sohkamyung
8 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...
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 ...
gmcabrita
15 hours ago
PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue
PgQue – Zero-bloat Postgres queue. One SQL file to install, pg_cron to tick. - NikolayS/pgque...
bryanrasmussen
15 hours ago
Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026
AI investment is skyrocketing while AI’s impact on jobs and public perception remains mixed...