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sts153
2 hours ago
XLIDE: VBA without excel
Excel VBA integration for VS Code - Tree View / Full Direct VBA Read+Write / LiveShare Compatible / Direct Agentic AI Integrations - WilliamSmithEdward/xlide_vscode...
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ZDW
A few interesting modern pixel fonts
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FCHISHTIE
Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale
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NAOH
A history of obituaries in American newspapers
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IAN-GILLIS
Sage Care (YC S24) Is Hiring Software Engineers
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AGHUANG
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
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IBOBEV
C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”
4 DAYS AGO
SUSAM
The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)
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CRESCIT_EUNDO
The Ballad of TIGIT
jhevans
44 minutes ago
Why AI Agents Cannot Change Software Systems
LLMs can generate code, but they cannot modify or maintain systems because system‑level work requires causal reasoning, not pattern‑matching.
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josefchen
6 hours ago
All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes
We present Epicure, a family of three sibling skip-gram ingredient embeddings retrained from scratch on a multilingual recipe corpus. We aggregate 4.14M recipes from 11 sources spanning seve...
arps18
9 hours ago
Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
A deep dive into Claude Code for daily users. Covers the .claude directory, CLAUDE.md the way Boris writes it, CLAUDE.local.md, Skills with real examples, custom subagents, plugins, underuse...
f311a
5 hours ago
Go: Support for Generic Methods
Proposal: Generic Methods for Go A change of view. Background For clarity, in the following we use the term concrete method (or just method when the context is clear) to describe a non-inter...
tosh
4 days ago
Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given "Predictable" Data
Great minds discuss flops per watt....
tjek
15 hours ago
Cloudflare Flagship
Ship features safely with Flagship, Cloudflare's feature flag service for controlling feature visibility without redeploying code....
teleforce
2 days ago
What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable
If you are not familiar with Direct Attach Copper (DAC) cables, then you should be. We have a quick guide explaining the basics...
napolux
38 minutes ago
Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas
The new regional law aims to curb the uncontrolled expansion of data centres, encouraging the reuse of disused industrial areas and ensuring control over the environmental and energy impact....
https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/lombardy-introduces-increased-charges-of-up-to-200-per-cent-for-data-centre-construction-in-green-and-agricultural-areas-AI6Jp4ID
dustin1114
5 days ago
I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline
How a software developer bypassed proprietary publishing silos using LibreOffice, Standard Ebooks, and LaTeX to build a sustainable, Git-tracked book production pipeline....
samuell
6 days ago
Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop
A deterministic genomics engine with a compact memory footprint. Run whole-genome workloads in as little as 100 MB RAM. Built in Rust. - logannye/rosalind...
croottree
13 hours ago
Tunecat: Simple Internet Radio
Simple and dumb internet radio thingy....
itronitron
4 days ago
The Steinwinter Supercargo
A homage retro-modern concept that never quite took off....
signa11
2 days ago
Using AI to write better code more slowly
A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it...
ca98am79
6 days ago
Are we self-sovereign PKI yet?
Every end-to-end encrypted messenger ships a fingerprint UI. Almost nobody opens it. A note on what's actually missing....
speckx
5 days ago
Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews
Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews This lengthy Phantasy Star IV interview was compiled from several shorter pre-release magazine interviews conducted in 1993. It covers the usual ...