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skadamat
8 hours ago
A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece (2023)
A deep look at how the Dark Sky weather app used simple but highly effective charts to report and contextualize the weather....
4 DAYS AGO
SPECKX
Creating Embroidered Charts with R and ImageMagick
4 HOURS AGO
AMARSAHINOVIC
AI is a business model stress test
A DAY AGO
ZDW
How Markdown took over the world
8 DAYS AGO
EXVI
Alien: Braun Aromaster KF 20 Coffee Makers (2012)
6 DAYS AGO
ZDW
How will the miracle happen today?
A DAY AGO
AKSHAYKA
My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it
A DAY AGO
SDAN
Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
alphabetatango
4 hours ago
Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines
Self Charging Drones. Founded in 2025 by Hayden Gosch, Avi Gotskind, Ronan Nopp, and Warren Weissbluth, Voltair has 5 employees based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Voltair is hiring for 7 roles in engineering, marketing, and operations.
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DyslexicAtheist
7 hours ago
UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence
ANALYSIS: Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation...
Old_Thrashbarg
3 hours ago
UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring PMs, SWEs to automate construction compliance
We’re looking for talented and motivated people who can help us build easy-to-use compliance and product research tools. Learn about our culture and explore open positions....
MaxLeiter
3 days ago
How we made v0 an effective coding agent
v0’s composite AI pipeline boosts reliability by fixing errors in real time. Learn how dynamic system prompts, LLM Suspense, and autofixers work together to deliver stable, working web app g...
rendx
an hour ago
Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI
Bichon – A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI - rustmailer/bichon...
noelwelsh
3 days ago
Httpz – Zero-Allocation HTTP/1.1 Parser for OxCaml
Zero heap allocation HTTP server using OxCaml. v experimental! - avsm/httpz...
jxmorris12
2 days ago
GPU memory snapshots: sub-second startup (2025)
Using GPU snapshots to enable sub-second container startup times....
akg130522
2 hours ago
Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats
In northern Germany, researchers have filmed brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) leaping from cave ledges to catch bats mid-flight — the first evidence that...
https://scienceclock.com/rats-caught-on-camera-hunting-flying-bats-for-the-first-time/
colinprince
9 hours ago
Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15
Attached: 1 image I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladie...
adityaathalye
11 hours ago
Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text...
nabla9
4 hours ago
Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11
When it comes to performance, it’s hard to find users who are completely satisfied with Windows 11. Many believe it’s filled with unnecessary features that are difficult to disable....
dang
a day ago
Sigmund Freud's Begonia
How the gift of a plant helped Emma Freud finally get to know her great-grandfather...
fla
16 hours ago
Oh My Zsh adds bloat
Why you might not need Oh My Zsh for your Zsh configuration....
scottjg
a day ago
RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?
It turns out, you can attach an external GPU to a Raspberry Pi 5. So my natural first question is, can I game on it? Let’s try it out and compare it with some similar computers. For the show...