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anon373839
3 hours ago
AI companies are shredding rare books
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to...
2 HOURS AGO
CDEMER
We Tested Nonstick Cookware: Coatings Don't Need to Look Worn to Shed Particles
17 HOURS AGO
EECC
US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
4 DAYS AGO
LEE_ARS
I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated
19 HOURS AGO
XTERMINAL
Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg
9 HOURS AGO
WASSIMGR
Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend
28 MINUTES AGO
THM
Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
37 MINUTES AGO
JUMPCRISSCROSS
EU to make more money from fining US tech companies than taxing its own
21 HOURS AGO
SAAAAAAM
French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
3 HOURS AGO
TCHALLA
Work out daily? OK, but how socially fit are you? (2023)
5 HOURS AGO
EATITRAW
Why I Left Google DeepMind
nateb2022
9 hours ago
Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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baruchel
5 days ago
The Computer That Helped Win World War II
Colossus cracked Germany’s encrypted communications...
jonbaer
15 hours ago
PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works
An independent, non-commercial educational visualization of PostgreSQL internals. Not affiliated with Electronic Arts....
martz
6 hours ago
VLC for Unity now supported on Linux
VLC for Unity...
Ralfp
5 hours ago
Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)
Started by rafalp on Dec. 12, 2023 in the Roadmap category. 6 replies, last one from July 25, 2024....
klaussilveira
5 hours ago
Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines
Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines - libsm64/libsm64...
speckx
5 days ago
Magnolias Are So Old That They're Pollinated by Beetles, Not Bees
Why beetles? You'll need to read to beelieve it....
tomlockwood
4 hours ago
How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?
I think it’s important to be very Canny when someone makes a claim that supports a company’s large valuation....
https://lockwood.dev/ai/2026/07/27/how-is-the-bun-rewrite-in-rust-going.html
maxloh
16 hours ago
Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
TypeScript-to-Native Compiler. Contribute to vercel-labs/scriptc development by creating an account on GitHub....
twapi
4 hours ago
Google Chrome Arrives on ARM64 Linux, Widevine DRM Included
Google Chrome now has an official Arm64 Linux build, including for the Raspberry Pi, available via Google's Debian and RPM repos with Widevine DRM support....
pingou
6 hours ago
Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%
The company's shares soared by nearly 470% in its market debut, as the AI boom drives chip demand....
baud147258
an hour ago
The Glass Famine
Spies, war, industrial subterfuge and secret recipes. And it all really happened. Honestly, what more could you ask for?...
open_
15 hours ago
Fonts In Use – Find out where a font is used
saikatsg
3 days ago
Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4
The DX Core 4 is a unified framework for measuring developer productivity that encapsulates DORA, SPACE, and DevEx....
donw
6 hours ago
How Unix spell ran in 64 kB of RAM (2025)
How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it....
num42
8 hours ago
Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?(2017)
Author Summary Neuroscience is held back by the fact that it is hard to evaluate if a conclusion is correct; the complexity of the systems under study and their experimental inaccessability ...