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31. Typography on Pencils (2023)
It wouldn't be Pencil Day without a round up of our pencil typography photos. Check out our current stock of new & vintage pencils here.  Please do credit us if you use these images anywhere. Thank you.
32. Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Photoshop Versions on Linux
Following yesterday's release of Wine 11.1 for kicking off the new post-11.0 development cycle, Wine-Staging 11.1 is now available for this experimental/testing version of Wine that present is around 254 patches over the upstream Wine state.
33. We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable
That cheapo cable you bought online? Probably a counterfeit. We x-rayed a suspicious cable to show you exactly what that means, and why counterfeits work worse and wear out faster.
34. Putting Rocks on the Moon
35. Wall Street braced for a private credit meltdown. The risk of one is rising
Private credit is expected to grow from $3.4 trillion in 2025 to an estimated $4.9 trillion by 2029. Wall Street is starting to raise alarms about the risks.
36. Maze Algorithms (2017)
37. 'Rescued men still owe hotel bill three weeks later'
The mountain rescue team says it feels obliged to settle the debt on their behalf.
38. 'Amelia': the AI-generated British schoolgirl, a far-right social media star
The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos
39. Memory layout in Zig with formulas
I was recently encouraged to watch A Practical Guide to Applying Data Oriented Design (DoD) by Andrew Kelley, the creator of Zig1. Just 10 minutes into the talk, I was confronted with a skill I had never formally learned… the arithmetic behind memory layout of types. Zig is a modern, C-like programming language which offers a safer, more memory-explicit experience for systems programming, without sacrificing low-level control or C interoperability. Notably, Zig makes it straightforward to manage memory allocation by treating allocators as first-class values rather than hidden globals. Instead of relying on an implicit runtime or a process-wide allocator, you pass explicit allocator objects into the code that needs them. This makes ownership and lifetimes much clearer, encourages you to design APIs around who is responsible for allocating and freeing memory, and makes it easy to swap in custom allocation strategies (e.g., arenas, scratch, tracking, etc.). ↩
40. China Fertility Facts of the Day
41. Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public
A website controlled by the public via AI. Text to make changes. Watch live at sharedclaude.com
42. 150k lines of vibe coded Elixir: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
150,000 lines of production Elixir, written entirely by AI. Here's what worked and what didn't.
43. Understanding Rust Closures
Antoine Vandecrème personal site. Mostly about programming.
44. Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro
Achieving 7000 msg/s (~6.7MB/s) with just 27MB of memory on a free t3.micro EC2 in AWS
45. Agent orchestration for the timid
An exploration of AI agent orchestrators
46. Volvo EX60 Targets 400-Mile Range and Coffee-Stop Charging
Volvo really wants to dispel range anxiety and qualms about charging times.
47. Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
Destructive payload unleashed on 10-year anniversary of Russia's attack on Ukraine's grid.
48. nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days
NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Modules Version [root@A11-R42-I61-42-5504045 ~]# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/params ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 RmLogonRC: 1 ModifyDeviceFiles: 1 DeviceFileUID: 0 DeviceFileGID: 0 DeviceFileMode: 438 InitializeSystemM...
49. Doing Gigabit Ethernet over My British Phone Wires
Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter and misery I’ve mostly lived with powerline adapters over recent years. Some worked well, some did not (try few and…
50. I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog
How I embedded replies from Bluesky directly on my site.
51. The Temporal Consistency Challenge in Video Restoration
52. Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite
53. How I Estimate Work as a Staff Software Engineer
54. "People are going to stop and ask you, 'How can I help?' Let them."
Connie Sherburne lost her husband to a plane accident in 2020. A small bit of advice she got from an insurance company employee made a huge difference in her life for years after that.
55. I Like GitLab
I've been using GitLab for years for all my private projects. Some thoughts on why it stuck.
56. Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday
Another out of band update has been issued to Windows 11 users to address a major bug that caused Outlook, Dropbox, and more to become inoperable after January's disastrous Patch Tuesday updates.
57. High-bandwidth flash progress and future
The high-bandwidth flash market could be bigger than high-bandwidth memory in 12 years time according to the leading HBF evangelist, Professor Kim Jung-ho of the School of Electrical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
58. Draig, a Welsh Programming Language
Welsh localization of Raku
59. Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code
Figma to React Converter. Contribute to vibeflowing-inc/vibe_figma development by creating an account on GitHub.
60. Extracting verified C++ from the Rocq theorem prover at Bloomberg
A new extraction system from Rocq to modern, memory-safe, performant C++.