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richardboegli
14 hours ago
This Month in Ladybird – April 2026
Inline PDF viewer powered by pdf.js, GTK4 frontend, browsing history, speculative HTML parsing, off-thread JS compilation, async DNS, CSS anchor positioning, and more....
2 HOURS AGO
BRING-SHRUBBERY
Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web
14 HOURS AGO
SHAD42
The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox
A DAY AGO
BSTRHINO
A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games
4 DAYS AGO
HERBERTL
The USB Situation
2 DAYS AGO
INDIGODADDY
DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier
4 DAYS AGO
NATEB2022
Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL
4 HOURS AGO
PIZZA
Learning Pseudorandom Numbers with Transformers
17 HOURS AGO
GEOX
California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
8 HOURS AGO
ROHANADWANKAR
Open source does not imply open community
A DAY AGO
ANKITG12
Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)
3 DAYS AGO
REIKONOMUSHA
Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET
A DAY AGO
ANKITG12
Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)
18 HOURS AGO
KNUTHISGOD
Modern C++ Programming: Busato
unignorant
11 hours ago
A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
What it takes to run 2 million lines of Haskell in production at a fintech company serving 300,000 businesses.
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hhs
3 days ago
Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study
Studying brain scan data from individuals — not group averages — reveals key brain-function differences in children who struggle with goal-oriented tasks, a Stanford Medicine study found....
brendanmc6
4 hours ago
Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
The toolkit for spec-driven development. Write feature specs, not prompts. Ship better software with AI agents that understand your requirements....
jovial_cavalier
2 days ago
Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
Hello Windows Insiders I’ve now spent the past two months in this expanded role leading the Windows Insider Program. Two themes hav...
deut-erium
3 days ago
Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK
Dusk's privacy layer protects ~$60M of DUSK and hinges on one proof check. dusk-plonk's verifier never validated four of the prover's polynomial commitments, enough to mint DUSK from nothing...
RubyGuy
17 hours ago
Do_not_track
A proposed standard environment variable for opting out of telemetry, analytics, and tracking in CLI and TUI applications....
andsoitis
14 hours ago
Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)
Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract...
dabinat
17 hours ago
Dav2d
dav2d is the fastest AV2 decoder on all platforms :) Targeted to be small, portable and very fast; similar to dav1d, but for AV2....
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d
bjhess
5 days ago
Sourcefeed – a pop-up RSS service
Pop-up RSS publishing....
moosia
a day ago
How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
Latest Geekbench performance figures for macOS VMs, and testing of how few cores and how little memory is really needed: could you run a macOS VM usefully on a MacBook Neo?...
bazlightyear
7 hours ago
Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
By Rohana Rezel I’m running the ongoing AI Coding Contest where I pit major language models against each other in real-time programming tasks with objective scoring. Day 12 was the Word Gem ...
ankitg12
4 hours ago
Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16
The official home of the Python Programming Language...
prismatic
3 days ago
Little magazines are back
A warm welcome to ‘Portico,’ a literary quarterly edited by Micah Mattix....
1659447091
10 hours ago
A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout
Sahand tells the BBC World Service he sends satellite internet terminals into Iran to help show "the real picture"....
fagnerbrack
a day ago
Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
Conversational large language models are fine-tuned for both instruction-following and safety, resulting in models that obey benign requests but refuse harmful ones. While this refusal behav...
steveharing1
a day ago
Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine
🎨 Local-first, open-source alternative to Anthropic's Claude Design. ⚡ 19 Skills · ✨ 71 brand-grade Design Systems 🖼 Generate web · desktop · mobile prototypes · slides · images · vide...