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gavinray
14 hours ago
Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony
I spent ages 14-16 in a maximum-security juvenile prison, became a felon at 19, lost almost everything to addiction, and later rebuilt my life through software, open source, and a few people...
14 HOURS AGO
HOWTOTESTFE
How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown
A DAY AGO
DEVENJARVIS
Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it
20 HOURS AGO
POISONFOUNTAIN
LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
2 DAYS AGO
ZDW
Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack
16 HOURS AGO
PABLO24602
Proliferate (YC S25) is hiring to building open source Codex
A DAY AGO
MRBUDDYCASINO
I design with Claude more than Figma now
19 HOURS AGO
DAESORIN
Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025)
15 HOURS AGO
MAXLOH
Office-open-xml-viewer: Office XML document viewer that renders to HTML Canvas
3 DAYS AGO
KELVINIDAN
A visual introduction to kernel functions
882542F3884314B
6 hours ago
1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse
Today, I loaded the 1,000th data breach into Have I Been Pwned. Reflecting on that milestone number, I pondered how to mark the occasion in writing, and what immediately came to mind was a very simple question: why is it still needed? Especially considering the emergence of privacy regulations
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prestoj
3 days ago
Playing with Vision Embeddings
Poking at the geometry of an image model's feature space....
markusheimerl
3 days ago
Tiny hackable CUDA language model implementation
A generative pretrained transformer implementation - markusheimerl/gpt...
bkazez
3 days ago
Show HN: I Derived a Pancake
The science of perfect pancakes: leavening chemistry, acid-base stoichiometry, whey protein structure, and an interactive calculator that computes optimal ratios from your available ingredie...
nicwilson
5 hours ago
Richard Scolyer Has Died
The melanoma doctor's brain cancer treatment experiment has sparked hope for a breakthrough....
yogthos
7 hours ago
DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision
DeepSeek V4 Pro wins this head-to-head by being more exact where it matters: following instructions, matching schemas, and solving edge cases cleanly. GPT-5.5 Pro is still strong, but it gav...
herbertl
15 hours ago
Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)
I will never be a great snowboarder. For various genetic and non-genetic reasons, my knees are barely capable of surviving a three-hour hike, let alone the landing after a 1080. In fact, I’l...
DevarshRanpara
8 hours ago
The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python
A perceptron explained from scratch in Python, with interactive demos. Learn weights, bias, the decision boundary, epochs, learning rate, and why we normalize data....
https://ranpara.net/posts/perceptron-explained-from-scratch/
soheilpro
4 days ago
A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm
We've seen this before....
tosh
3 days ago
What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)
There is a folder at the root of Linux and Unix operating systems called /lost+found/ What is it for? Under what circumstances would I interact with it? How would I interact with it?...
elpocko
16 hours ago
Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948
1948 was an interesting time for computing. For decades, businesses had used punch card equipment that added and sorted electromechanically.......
pkaeding
a day ago
An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight
A daytime copper theft has knocked 100,000-watt WDGG(FM) in Ashland, Ky., off the air. Kindred Communications' Mike Kirtner details the near-fatal incident....
mikhael
7 hours ago
7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes part of southern Philippines. Tsunami possible
An offshore magnitude 7.8 earthquake rocked the southern Philippines Monday, killing at least 19 people, injuring more than 200 others mostly in damaged buildings and sending a 1-meter (3-fo...
predkambrij
20 hours ago
Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
Preflight Checklist I have searched existing requests and this feature hasn't been requested yet This is a single feature request (not multiple features) Problem Statement Preflight note. Th...
flexagoon
6 days ago
Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup
Backrest is a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup. - garethgeorge/backrest...
jusonchan81
4 days ago
Back end is full of hidden workflows
What starts as request handling gradually becomes retries, queues, callbacks, and coordination spread across the stack. Here is why that happens, and what changes when the workflow becomes e...