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shayonj
an hour ago
Every fast write moves work somewhere else
A database write can stop after memory, a local SSD, an object PUT, or a replicated WAL. Each choice changes latency, durability, and who owns the work left for later....
2 HOURS AGO
THORONDOR
Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone
8 DAYS AGO
HANDFULOFLIGHT
Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue
2 HOURS AGO
JADER201
Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
8 DAYS AGO
BENBREEN
Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony
3 HOURS AGO
DOSINGA
Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future
16 HOURS AGO
FROZENSEVEN
TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics
18 HOURS AGO
TCHALLA
Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
36 MINUTES AGO
F-SERIF
FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US
2 HOURS AGO
BRAJESHWAR
A Tale of Dynamic Programming
8 DAYS AGO
ROBINPDEV
Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband
14 HOURS AGO
MINIMAXIR
Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection
A DAY AGO
GROOMLAKE
Fastmail offers EU data region
8 DAYS AGO
ROBINPDEV
Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband
5 DAYS AGO
SURPRISETALK
Protopia
14 HOURS AGO
MINIMAXIR
Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection
Rochus
4 hours ago
Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5
Modified version of the original from http://www.projectoberon.com/ for use with the Oberon IDE - rochus-keller/OberonSystem
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eighttrigrams
2 hours ago
Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing
Line-level provenance for text under agentic editing — who wrote this line, us or them? — derived from version history, not from markup in the file. - eighttrigrams/us-vs-them...
seg6
18 hours ago
My server is a phone now
rooting a CMF Phone 1 to run my personal infrastructure at home....
evo_9
2 hours ago
Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader....
dcastm
6 days ago
Honey, I shrunk the embeddings: Matryoshka vs. PCA
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akyuu
2 hours ago
Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
A new report shows Windows 11's built-in Weather app can consume more than 1 GB of RAM. By comparison, Apple's native Weather app on macOS uses roughly five times less memory under similar c...
calmhive
2 hours ago
I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won
I staged a manifesto about owning my AI harness. Then I canceled Claude Max and moved into Codex Desktop because the integrated system gave me more of my attention back....
Kiboneu
3 hours ago
John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)
From John C. Lilly’s “The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography” 1978 In the isolation tank with Ketamine, John received a new message as follows: What is the …...
https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
jggonz
17 hours ago
Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
A Macintosh System 1-style graphical OS for the Intel 8086/8088. Real-mode assembly, boots from floppy, runs in 256KB. Free to download....
michaefe
5 days ago
The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The Port of Long Beach in Southern California is the second-busiest container seaport in the United States, a major ga...
ijustlovemath
3 hours ago
A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample
A function $latex {f(t) \in L^2({\bf R})}&fg=000000$ of one variable can be translated in space by a spatial shift $latex {x}&fg=000000$ to obtain a new function $latex \displaystyle \pi(x,…...
adletbalzhanov
18 hours ago
We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled
How we used SKIP LOCKED, composite primary keys, and connection visibility to hit our scale targets....
ibobev
5 days ago
Stylized GGX Shading
A practical guide to stylized GGX shading: mixing sharp toon specular highlights with soft PBR gradients....
MarcoDewey
21 hours ago
Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse
Interactive map of the August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse. Precise timings, path of totality, weather odds and viewing tips for any location....
alvis
28 minutes ago
Banksy works cost public almost £150k
FOI requests reveal Banksy artworks have cost taxpayers almost £150,000, with costs still rising....
ashurandi
7 hours ago
CSS: The bomb inside your inbox
Gareth Heyes - gareth.heyes@portswigger.net - @garethheyes It's quite common for webmail clients to render untrusted CSS in a trusted UI. They attempt to make this safe using CSS sanitizatio...