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31. Vim 9.2 Released
32. Unicorn Jelly
Unicorn Jelly is a philosophical science fiction manga strip which tells a metaphoric and purposeful story with a definitive beginning and ending.
33. How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020)
34. Discord: A case study in performance optimization
The techniques used to support trillions of messages
35. You can't trust the internet anymore
I like things that are strange and a bit obscure. It’s a habit of mine, and a lot of this blog is to document things I haven’t heard of before, because I wan...
36. Star collapse into a black hole without a supernova
A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a slow-motion cosmic fade-out. The leftover debris continues to glow in infrared light, offering a long-lasting signal of the black hole’s birth. The finding reshapes our understanding of how some of the universe’s biggest stars meet their end.
37. Shades of Halftone
An interactive deep dive into building halftone shaders in GLSL, covering everything from classic dot patterns and CMYK color separation to Moiré interference, gooey effects, and animated displacement.
38. IBM Triples Entry Level Job Openings. Finds Limits to AI
Gen Z jobs aren’t dead yet: $240 billion tech giant IBM says it’s rewriting entry-level jobs—and tripling down on its hiring of young talent.
39. The Three Year Myth
40. Evolving Git for the Next Decade
41. Cuba's regime is in dire straits
42. Show HN: A reputation index from mitchellh's Vouch trust files
A static view of cross-repo reputation from VOUCHED.td files.
43. Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
44. Safe YOLO Mode: Running LLM agents in vms with Libvirt and Virsh
Give LLM agents shell access without risking your host system. A practical libvirt guide covering VM creation, snapshots for safe experimentation, and remote access options.
45. The Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso's Airspace
46. Retrieve and Rerank: Personalized search without leaving Postgres
Build a production-grade personalized search engine entirely within Postgres using BM25 retrieval and vector-based reranking, no external infrastructure required.
47. 4chan for Clankers
what your clawkers are really thinking
48. Gamma Function: Visualization for Complex Arguments
Automatically visualize and animate the gamma function with a complex argument.
49. The mathematics of compression in database systems
why compression is (almost) always worthwhile
50. 7zip.com Is Serving Malware
A convincing lookalike of the popular 7-Zip archiver site has been silently turning victims’ machines into residential proxy nodes.
51. Show HN: GitHub "Lines Viewed" extension to keep you sane reviewing long AI PRs
Shows how many lines you've viewed in a GitHub PR
52. Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
53. Monosketch
MonoSketch is a powerful ASCII sketching and diagramming app that lets you effortlessly transform your ideas into visually stunning designs.
54. Audiophiles Can't Distinguish Audio Sent Through Copper, Banana or Mud
Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?
55. SkyRL brings Tinker to your GPUs (2025)
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.
56. Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leaving iPhone
A countdown for Apple to fix the iOS keyboard or lose a customer. The clock is ticking.
57. WolfSSL Sucks Too, So Now What?
OpenSSL sucks. The BoringSSL and AWS-LC forks are Googled and Amazoned to death; they don't care about anyone but their own use cases. I can't remember ever having a good experience with software using GnuTLS. LibreSSL is incomplete... What happened now? Last year an article from Haproxy about how terribly …
58. CSS-Doodle
A web component for drawing patterns with CSS
59. GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
60. What color are your bits? (2004)