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XzetaU8
8 hours ago
Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf's lab used organoids to make fundamental discoveries about human brain development....
21 HOURS AGO
MICHALPLEBAN
Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs
20 HOURS AGO
JMSFLKNR
Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC
4 DAYS AGO
AYI
How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
20 HOURS AGO
SAWYERJHOOD
The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions
5 DAYS AGO
SIGNA11
Inside Rust's std and parking_lot mutexes – who wins?
A DAY AGO
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Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub
4 DAYS AGO
SUMIT_ENTR42
Show HN: Datamorph – A clean JSON ⇄ CSV converter with auto-detect
A DAY AGO
RADEEYATE
The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
Larrikin
20 hours ago
Pebble Watch software is now open source
Pebble Watch Software Is Now 100% Open Source + Tick Talk #4 - PT2 Demos!
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amichail
19 hours ago
Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data
SSDs aren't ideal for long-term data storage...
lebovic
19 hours ago
Claude Advanced Tool Use
Claude can now discover, learn, and execute tools dynamically to enable agents that take action in the real world. Here’s how....
hackernj
an hour ago
Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s
Study suggests brain development has four pivotal ‘turning points’ at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83...
davikr
3 hours ago
Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)
As one of the co-creators of Crash Bandicoot, I have been (slowly) writing a long series of posts on the making of everyone’s favorite orange marsupial. You can find them all below, so enjoy...
mbleigh
6 days ago
Broccoli Man, Remastered
A breakdown of how I used modern AI tools (Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana) to create a new version of a Google cultural classic....
waerhert
4 days ago
Nearby peer discovery without GPS using environmental fingerprints
I propose a peer discovery technique to detect nearby devices by comparing similarity in their observed environments, such as WiFi or Bluetooth networks. Using locality-sensitive hashing and...
todsacerdoti
8 hours ago
Most Stable Raspberry Pi? Better NTP with Thermal Management
I’ve written before about building microsecond-accurate NTP servers with Raspberry Pi and GPS PPS, and more recently about revisiting the setup in 2025. Both posts focused on the hardware se...
https://austinsnerdythings.com/2025/11/24/worlds-most-stable-raspberry-pi-81-better-ntp-with-thermal-management/
adocomplete
20 hours ago
Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems....
srameshc
20 hours ago
Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts
Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use neurotechnology....
theresistor
18 hours ago
AI has a deep understanding of how this code works
DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB. What's ...
TangerineDream
4 days ago
Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster
Learn about the architectural innovations we used to build a 130,000-node Kubernetes cluster, and the trends driving demand for these environments....
speckx
19 hours ago
PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
You can spend $50 more to get an entire PS5 Pro....
adityaathalye
3 days ago
The history of Indian science fiction
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya....
zdw
6 days ago
The only GM EV1 ever publicly sold
The first General Motors EV1 to be sold to the public has an incredible story. We spoke to the original owner and the new owner to learn it....