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31. Play chess via Slack DMs or SMS using an ASCII board
Chess via DM. Pure ASCII, no third-party app connections. - dvelton/dm-chess
32. Raising money fucked me up
33. If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design
If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design
34. No knives, only cook knives
Changing perceptions of value and a rude encounter with Ichabod Crane and Xavier Cugat at the flea market --by Josh Donald
35. Xous Operating System
Xous is a microkernel operating system designed for medium embedded systems with clear separation of processes. Nearly everything is implemented in userspace, where message passing forms the basic communications primitive.
36. Iran report says 16,500 dead in 'genocide under digital darkness'
Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests
37. Purdue blocks admission of many Chinese grad students in unwritten policy
38. MIT's Computer Systems Security (2024)
39. (Open) Widevine support added to the OpenBSD Chromium port
40. An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm
In a deadly cold period known as the Little Ice Age, clever Elizabethan designs kept a magnificent stately home unusually warm – with lessons for how we can heat our own homes better.
41. The recurring dream of replacing developers
Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the pattern repeats. Business leaders gro...
42. Building a better Bugbot
How we used a custom AI-driven metric to systematically improve Bugbot.
43. Below the Surface: Archeological Finds from the Amsterdam Noord/Zuid Metro Line
44. Five Practical Lessons for Serving Models with Triton Inference Server
Notes on building products, applied machine learning, and life in Berlin.
45. How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
46. We Put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
AI autonomously manages a theme park in the classic game RollerCoaster Tycoon, placing rides, fixing infrastructure, and generating CFO reports, all via command line.
47. M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer)
48. Why Object of Arrays beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance issue
49. Too Many Walts and not enough Roys
I just got through reading "Building a Company: Roy O. Disney and the Creation of an Entertainment Empire" by Bob Thomas. Reading nonfiction usually takes me a
50. The Harvesting of Lettuce
Reflections from my recent trip to Yuma, Arizona
51. IRISC: An ARMv7 assembly interpreter and computer architecture simulator
52. How to Debug Your Life
53. Why Twenty Years of DevOps Has Failed to Do It
Charity Majors writes about DevOps' twenty year battle to achieve one thing: a single feedback loop connecting devs with prod.
54. Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems
Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.
55. U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site
Anna’s Archive is having a rough month. Following mysterious .org and .se domain suspensions, it is now facing a permanent injunction.
56. The Dilbert Afterlife
Sixty-eight years of highly defective people
57. Why There's No Single Best Way to Store Information
The math of data structures helps us understand how different storage systems come with different trade-offs between resources such as time and memory.
58. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
59. Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills
The bottleneck has shifted from implementation to specification.
60. ClickHouse Acquires Langfuse
Our goal continues to be building the best LLM engineering platform