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Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975
(archive.org)
187 points
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by
DamnInteresting
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last Friday at 2:07 PM
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42 comments
SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)
(www.usenix.org)
89 points
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Eridanus2
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today at 8:45 AM
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40 comments
Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game
(kotaku.com)
209 points
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by
speckx
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last Thursday at 2:05 PM
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128 comments
The seven programming ur-languages (2022)
(madhadron.com)
72 points
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by
helloplanets
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today at 7:38 AM
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29 comments
Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders
(eng.basement.studio)
23 points
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by
ragojose
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last Thursday at 5:32 PM
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1 comment
The EU digital ID wallet can't deliver the privacy properties it claims
(github.com)
4 points
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by
gasull
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today at 1:08 PM
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0 comments
What are skiplists good for?
(antithesis.com)
156 points
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by
mfiguiere
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last Friday at 1:57 PM
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30 comments
NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
(www.nist.gov)
349 points
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by
rbanffy
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yesterday at 8:54 PM
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150 comments
College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
(sentinelcolorado.com)
334 points
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by
gnabgib
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yesterday at 7:00 PM
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329 comments
Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
(tokens.billchambers.me)
558 points
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by
anabranch
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yesterday at 4:05 PM
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538 comments
The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
(www.righto.com)
366 points
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by
NelsonMinar
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yesterday at 4:26 PM
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96 comments
Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
(self)
87 points
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by
modelcroissant
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today at 9:17 AM
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43 comments
Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
(simonwillison.net)
56 points
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by
pretext
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today at 10:36 AM
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33 comments
Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)
(teamchong.github.io)
8 points
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teamchong
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today at 11:17 AM
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6 comments
Why Japan has such good railways
(worksinprogress.co)
450 points
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by
RickJWagner
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yesterday at 12:29 PM
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426 comments
The world in which IPv6 was a good design
(apenwarr.ca)
103 points
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by
signa11
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today at 2:50 AM
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31 comments
Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine
(jackpritz.com)
94 points
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by
tyleo
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last Thursday at 12:00 PM
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41 comments
Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language
(nanopass.org)
3 points
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by
NordStreamYacht
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last Wednesday at 11:38 AM
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0 comments
It's cool to care (2025)
(alexwlchan.net)
33 points
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surprisetalk
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last Wednesday at 2:20 PM
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15 comments
Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On
(vlad.website)
38 points
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by
PaulHoule
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last Thursday at 7:05 PM
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2 comments
State of Kdenlive
(kdenlive.org)
425 points
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by
f_r_d
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yesterday at 11:42 AM
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130 comments
Turning Point USA Is Expanding Its Reach to K-12 Schools
(www.edweek.org)
10 points
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by
geox
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today at 1:18 PM
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1 comment
Binary GCD
(en.algorithmica.org)
14 points
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by
tosh
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today at 8:33 AM
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0 comments
Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
(www.lbc.co.uk)
10 points
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by
aa_is_op
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today at 1:13 PM
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1 comment
Modern Common Lisp with FSet
(fset.common-lisp.dev)
171 points
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by
larve
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last Wednesday at 2:38 PM
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21 comments
Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
(isayeter.com)
816 points
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by
yusufusta
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yesterday at 1:29 PM
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409 comments
Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702
(www.eff.org)
113 points
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by
nobody9999
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today at 7:05 AM
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22 comments
Optimizing Ruby Path Methods
(byroot.github.io)
114 points
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by
weaksauce
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yesterday at 8:42 PM
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40 comments
Metatextual Literacy
(www.jenn.site)
45 points
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by
dado3212
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last Wednesday at 7:18 PM
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4 comments
Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower
(www.smithsonianmag.com)
36 points
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bookofjoe
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last Thursday at 3:08 PM
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17 comments
Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups
(www.sumida-aquarium.com)
227 points
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by
Lwrless
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last Wednesday at 7:56 PM
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14 comments
Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC
(github.com)
61 points
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by
riyaneel
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last Thursday at 5:13 PM
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25 comments
Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon
(abacusnoir.com)
96 points
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by
agambrahma
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yesterday at 10:46 PM
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37 comments
Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
(samhenri.gold)
340 points
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by
cdrnsf
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yesterday at 7:19 PM
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215 comments
Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data
(github.com)
128 points
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drasim
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yesterday at 3:24 PM
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47 comments
Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert
(www.sciencedaily.com)
114 points
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by
t-3
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last Wednesday at 7:46 PM
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41 comments
Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013)
(jakevdp.github.io)
104 points
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by
peter_d_sherman
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last Wednesday at 2:29 AM
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11 comments
NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
(science.nasa.gov)
202 points
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by
sohkamyung
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yesterday at 11:47 PM
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87 comments
Fuzix OS
(www.fuzix.org)
105 points
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by
DeathArrow
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yesterday at 3:24 PM
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28 comments
80386 Memory Pipeline
(nand2mario.github.io)
110 points
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by
wicket
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last Tuesday at 4:00 PM
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16 comments
My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo
(blog.marcoinacio.com)
52 points
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by
random_
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yesterday at 9:50 PM
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40 comments
It's OK to compare floating-points for equality
(lisyarus.github.io)
204 points
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by
coinfused
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last Tuesday at 4:00 PM
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127 comments
UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive
(up.codes)
1 points
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by
Old_Thrashbarg
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yesterday at 5:01 PM
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0 comments
SI Units for Request Rate (2024)
(entropicthoughts.com)
75 points
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by
fanf2
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last Thursday at 8:42 AM
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58 comments
PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue
(github.com)
130 points
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by
gmcabrita
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yesterday at 4:50 PM
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33 comments
Towards trust in Emacs
(eshelyaron.com)
185 points
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by
eshelyaron
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last Wednesday at 1:49 PM
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31 comments
Claude Design
(www.anthropic.com)
1203 points
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by
meetpateltech
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last Friday at 3:04 PM
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746 comments
Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors
(danielmangum.com)
53 points
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by
hasheddan
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last Friday at 10:32 AM
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6 comments
I dug into the Postgres sources to write my own WAL receiver
(medium.com)
46 points
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by
alzhi7
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yesterday at 3:47 AM
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9 comments
Michael Rabin has died
(en.wikipedia.org)
406 points
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by
tkhattra
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last Wednesday at 6:07 PM
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83 comments