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31. The Lost Machine Automats and Self-Service Cafeterias of NYC (2023)
Revisit the lost automats and cafeterias of New York City, self service restaurants that offered New Yorkers a place to socialize and eat!
32. Why Is Ice Slippery? A New Hypothesis Slides into the Chat
A newly proposed explanation for the slipperiness of ice has revived a centuries-long debate.
33. A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos
34. GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst
GitHub Actions has a package manager that ignores decades of supply chain security best practices: no lockfile, no integrity verification, no transitive pinning
35. Why frozen test fixtures are a problem on large projects and how to avoid them
Tests grow to thousands All make their claim on fixtures Frozen by demands
36. Periodic Spaces
One of my favorite SDF techniques is domain repetition:
37. OSHW: Small tablet based on RK3568 and AMOLED screen
基于RK3568和AMOLED屏幕做的小平板
38. No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me
39. Bad Dye Job
40. Nova Programming Language
41. JetBrains Cancels Fleet
TL;DR Fleet started as our attempt to explore a new generation of JetBrains IDEs, developed in parallel with those based on the IntelliJ Platform. Over time, we learned that having two general-purpose
42. Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store - foundationdb/flow at main · apple/foundationdb
43. Morphisms All the Way Down: API Design as Arrow-First Thinking
Stop designing services. Start designing contracts. Part 2 of applying category theory to Solutions Architecture—where we learn that the arrows, not the boxes, are the architecture.
44. We collected 10k hours of neuro-language data in our basement
45. Latency Profiling in Python: From Code Bottlenecks to Observability
Learn how to pinpoint where time disappears in Python systems, from CPU and I/O bottlenecks to Prometheus metrics and continuous profilers. Explore the tools that turn raw measurements into observability dashboards revealing real performance patterns.
46. GitHub no longer uses Toasts
GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.
47. Doctors' estimates of the feasibility of preserving the dying for future revival
medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences
48. Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth social media ban
49. The web runs on tolerance
50. 8086 Microcode Explorer
51. Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing
Create a stream processor that reads data from Kafka in less than 5 minutes.
52. Scientific and Technical Amateur Radio
53. Using Floating Point Numbers as Hash Keys (2017)
Strings and integers are the most common keys for hash tables, but in principle every type can be used as a hash key, provided we define a suitable comparison operator and hash function. Most languages that support hash tables also provide hash functions for all built-in types, including floating point numbers. In this series of articles…
54. Emacs Is My New Window Manager
55. Everything that is wrong in museums starts with wall labels
56. Spectrum ISP SSL/TLS Interception Bug
A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace.
57. Alignment Is Capability
Alignment is not a constraint on capable AI systems. Alignment is what capability is at sufficient depth. OpenAI and Anthropic have been running this experiment for two years.
58. What happened to Gopher? The Internet we lost [video]
This episode uncovers the forgotten internet that nearly became our default way of browsing. Born out of a frustrated campus IT meeting at the University of ...
59. Google Confirms Android Attacks-No Fix for Most Samsung Users
Your phone is at risk until you get this update — bad news for millions of Galaxy owners.
60. Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
Fix flickering & crashes with our definitive Wayland NVIDIA guide for Arch Linux. This tutorial solves common Hyprland, suspend, and multi-monitor issues