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421. Exploring Large HTML Documents on the Web
Most HTML documents are relatively small, providing a starting point for other resources on the page to load. But why do some websites load several megabytes of HTML code? Usually it's not that there's a lot of content on the page, but rather that other types of resources are embedded within the do
422. Ask HN: Cloudflare WAF Alternatives?
423. How UI degrades over time
424. Dotfiles Management
Tracking config files
425. 10 years of writing a blog nobody reads
426. Blender facial animation tool. What else should it do?
LiveLinkFace ARKit Receiver is a Blender add-on that receives facial tracking data sent from the Live Link Face app on iPhone and automatically applies it to Shape Keys in Blender. - Home · shun126/livelinkface_arkit_receiver Wiki
427. 7 Deaths and hundreds of injuries are linked to faulty Abbott glucose monitors
About 3 million glucose monitoring sensors were potentially affected by a production error that caused incorrect low glucose readings.
428. Show HN: SerpApi MCP Server
SerpApi MCP Server for Google and other search engine results - serpapi/serpapi-mcp
429. Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome
A lesson in X11, networking, and design.
430. Proximity to coworkers increases long-run development, lowers short-term output
Revise and resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics
431. JavaScript Engines Zoo
432. Optimizations in C++ compilers: a practical journey
433. When Free Is Too Expensive
434. Wall Street races to protect itself from AI bubble
Wall Street lends billions to AI companies while using credit derivatives and sophisticated bonds to hedge against potential bubble risks.
435. High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
436. Schubfach: The smallest floating point double-to-string impleme
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437. The Penicillin Myth
Competing theories seek to explain inconsistencies surrounding Alexander Fleming’s famed discovery.
438. Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
If you want €:\, you can have it, sort of
439. The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
440. Anthropic: AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits
441. The Fat-Tailed Sheep on the First Fleet; Australia's First Sheep
The first sheep in Australia came from Cape Town. They were Cape Fat-Tailed or broad-tailed Sheep
442. Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
443. SpaceX in Talks for Share Sale That Would Boost Valuation to $800B
444. Advent of Sysadmin 2025
Linux Troubleshooting Interview DevOps SRE
445. GitHub to Codeberg: My Experience
In which I talk about the process involved in switching forges, and how well that went.
446. I cracked a $200 software protection with xcopy
reverse engineering a $200 commercial protection system, only to discover they protected the installer instead of the software. the crack is copying files.
447. Ultrablack wool textiles inspired by hierarchical avian structure
Wildlife often uses a combination of colors in their skin, scales, and feathers to both attract mates and avoid predators. Some animals express an extreme level of black color, called “ultrablack” with reflectance <0.5%. The various nano/microstructures that produce ultrablack have been studied and replicated synthetically. These synthetic ultrablack materials, however, use highly advanced and costly techniques, toxic substances, and lack the flexibility and biocompatibility that are often desired in real-world textile applications. Here we show that a conventional natural fabric can be transformed into an ultrablack one with a biocompatible dye and a surface modification to create nanofibrils. The ultrablack wool fabrics we report have an average total reflectance of 0.13% (λ = 400–700 nm) and represent the darkest fabrics currently reported. Unlike commercially available ultrablack fabrics, the ultrablack wool developed in this study remains breathable and conformable. Furthermore, it exhibits wide-angle ultrablack performance, maintaining a symmetric (angle-independent) optical response across a 120° angular span. Environmental and mechanical tests also prove the material’s resilience, showing the retention of its natural fabric characteristics alongside its ultrablack properties. To demonstrate the manufacturability in the textile industry, we present multiple parameter sets for plasma etching to achieve the ultrablack effect. Ultrablack materials have potential in a range of applications, but they can often be challenging and costly to prepare. Here, the authors report the development of an ultrablack wool by modification of the fabric, while maintaining its ultrablack property across a wide range of angles.
448. Langjam Gamejam: Build a programming language then make a game with it
A 7-day challenge to create a programming language and then use it to build a game.
449. Yawning Abyss of the Decimal Labyrinth
450. PocketMage Is an E Ink PDA for the Modern Era
Ashtf is bringing the PDA back for the modern era in the form of the E Ink display-equipped PocketMage.