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ingve
3 days ago
VisiCalc Reconstructed
Building a minimal VisiCalc clone from scratch in C to understand how spreadsheets work....
6 HOURS AGO
RASKREBS
Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost
3 DAYS AGO
MAGUAY
Too Much Color
4 DAYS AGO
VOCTOR
Building a Reader for the Smallest Hard Drive
A DAY AGO
ROHAN_JOSHI
Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB
3 DAYS AGO
GREEDO
How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel
20 HOURS AGO
MODINFO
Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
A DAY AGO
OD0
Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust
A DAY AGO
HOPECHONG
Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster
20 HOURS AGO
NIGELGUTZMANN
Clockwise acquired by Salesforce
nxobject
33 minutes ago
Oregon School Cell Phone Ban: 'Engaged Students, Joyful Teachers'
There was plenty of uncertainty and debate about the effectiveness of a cell phone ban decreed by executive order last summer. But at least in Estacada, the policy has earned […]
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felineflock
3 hours ago
HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn't good support
HP rescinds European support call strategy due to "feedback."...
y1n0
4 days ago
Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg
In this blog we explore how FFmpeg uses Vulkan Compute to seamlessly accelerate encoding and decoding of even professional-grade video on consumer GPUs — unlocking GPU compute parallelism at...
surprisetalk
4 days ago
Just Put It on a Map
An underrated strategy for urbanist persuasion, powered by open source tools...
matt_d
3 days ago
Flash-KMeans: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact K-Means
$k$-means has historically been positioned primarily as an offline processing primitive, typically used for dataset organization or embedding preprocessing rather than as a first-class compo...
siegers
2 hours ago
Java is fast, code might not be
Fixing common Java anti-patterns took an app from 1,198ms to 239ms. Eight patterns that compile fine and pass code review but silently drain CPU and balloon heap, with benchmarks and code fi...
0xedb
a day ago
Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
The "advanced flow" will be available before verification enforcement begins later this year....
michaefe
3 days ago
The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On the northern edge of Los Angeles, fresh water spills down two stark concrete chutes perched on the foothills of the...
https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/3/17/the-los-angeles-aqueduct-is-wild
robotnikman
16 hours ago
Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011)
Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83+ Calculators. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets....
mp3il
2 hours ago
Chuck Norris has died
Chuck Norris, the martial arts champion who became an iconic action star and led the hit series "Walker, Texas Ranger," died March 19 at 86....
coinfused
3 hours ago
I'm OK being left behind, thanks
Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, eas...
jasonjmcghee
16 hours ago
Push events into a running session with channels
Use channels to push messages, alerts, and webhooks into your Claude Code session from an MCP server. Forward CI results, chat messages, and monitoring events so Claude can react while you'r...
mosura
a day ago
4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
The fine includes £450,000 for lack of age checks to prevent children from seeing pornography....
ibraheemdev
a day ago
Astral to Join OpenAI
Astral has entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team....
imartin2k
2 hours ago
Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
Let us know if you see more....
FormerLabFred
4 hours ago
Show HN: FPGA soft-core of the Saab Viggen's 1963 airborne computer
A soft-core FPGA replica of the Saab CK37 — the world's first IC-based airborne computer, rebuilt from the original 1963 FMV maintenance manual and running a PID navigation loop in the o...