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LaserDiscMan
6 hours ago
Super Mario 64 for the PS1
A very WIP port of https://www.github.com/n64decomp/sm64 for the PlayStation 1 - malucard/sm64-psx...
7 DAYS AGO
ROFKO
Show HN: VoxCSS – A DOM based voxel engine
7 HOURS AGO
QWERTYMINI
Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones
5 HOURS AGO
IAMNOTHERE
EFF Launches Age Verification Hub as Resource Against Misguided Laws
A DAY AGO
RAZZMATAKS
Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio
2 HOURS AGO
GEOX
The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth
4 HOURS AGO
SIMONW
Useful patterns for building HTML tools
__rito__
8 hours ago
Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
A vibe coding thought exercise on what it might look like for LLMs to scour human historical data at scale and in retrospect.
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kelseyfrog
7 hours ago
Terrain Diffusion: A Diffusion-Based Successor to Perlin Noise
For decades, procedural worlds have been built on procedural noise functions such as Perlin noise, which are fast and infinite, yet fundamentally limited in realism and large-scale coherence...
saigrandhi
8 hours ago
Is it a bubble?
In his latest memo, Howard Marks explores if there is a bubble in AI, identifying uncertainty, parallels to past bubbles, AI's vast potential, and emphasizing the importance of prudence....
surprisetalk
8 days ago
Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits
A friend recently asked how to get started watching Gundam, and as I tripped all over myself, equal parts excitement and not wanting to sound like a...
atan2
3 hours ago
When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)
There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are are a lot of near-universal principles. Things like "prefer composition to......
giuliomagnifico
6 days ago
Scientists create ultra fast memory using light
Novel ...
mfornasa
6 hours ago
The future of Terraform CDK
Define infrastructure resources using programming constructs and provision them using HashiCorp Terraform - hashicorp/terraform-cdk...
justincormack
2 days ago
How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distribu...
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates
goodway
9 hours ago
DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says
Nvidia’s Blackwell chips were smuggled into China through countries that permitted their sale, The Information reported, citing unnamed sources. More specifically, DeepSeek tapped chips tha...
cramsession
10 hours ago
Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon
A New Book Quietly Reveals That Israel Used Palantir In It's Terrorist Attack On Lebanon....
scolby33
2 days ago
Deprecations via warnings don't work for Python libraries
Last week urllib3 v2.6.0 was released which contained removals for several APIs that we've known were problematic since 2019 and have been deprecated since 2022. The deprecations were marked...
Bender
4 hours ago
After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses
NPR and PBS stations targeted by group involved in Carr’s news-distortion probes....
dr_dshiv
6 days ago
Map of all the buildings in the world
Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map....