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31. Remove Black Color with Shaders
A while back, I coded the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) logo with a quick css-doodle implementation. There are certainly better ways to do it, but I chose to stack several black boxes and circles, because the background color was black, those black boxes ended up becoming
32. The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?
Unless the AI bubble pops soon, gaming is going to change... and it won't be the same ever again.
33. Programming Languages Used for Music
34. Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2)
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2512.14693: Universal Reasoning Model
35. Debian's Git Transition
36. The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
In 1990, Sony imported 20 examples of the biggest CRT ever made, the KV-45ED1, also known as the PVM-4300. It cost $40,000.
37. Uplane (YC F25) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (Full-Stack and AI)
Companies waste billions on bad ads, mismatched landing pages, and poor budget allocation. Uplane fixes this by replacing a patchwork of agencies, spreadsheets, and siloed tools with one self-improving system. It creates ads, builds matching landing pages, allocates budgets across different channels and more, all in real time.
38. How the RESISTORS put computing into 1960s counter-culture
In the 1960s, teenage hackers known as the RESISTORS used creativity and tech skills to access computers, well before PCs and the Internet were a thing.
39. FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign UAS and UAS Critical Components [pdf]
40. A centennial look back at Edward Gorey's macabre art and guarded life
41. Show HN: C-compiler to compile TCC for live-bootstrap
Investigation into replacing the MES compiler. Contribute to FransFaase/MES-replacement development by creating an account on GitHub.
42. The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice
Dozens of mysterious structures across the Northern Hemisphere – some nearly 5,000 years old – align precisely to frame the rising and setting Sun on midwinter's shortest day.
43. NPM Package with 56K Downloads Caught Stealing WhatsApp Messages
44. Micro QuickJS: a JavaScript engine for microcontroller
Public repository of the Micro QuickJS Javascript Engine - bellard/mquickjs
45. How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers
This article describes my nginx configuration and strategy on how to prevent web crawlers from putting down my instance while still serving most people with minimal amount of friction.
46. Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
47. Plugins case study: mdBook preprocessors
48. I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me
49. Ask HN: Can You Patent Prompts?
50. Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams across San Francisco after a PG&E outage hit 1/3 of the city.
51. More on whether useful quantum computing is "imminent"
These days, the most common question I get goes something like this: A decade ago, you told people that scalable quantum computing wasn't imminent. Now, though, you claim it plausibly is imminent. Why have you reversed yourself?? I appreciated the friend of mine who paraphrased this as follows: "A decade ago you said you were…
52. Wax Figure of Idris Elba Unlocks Face ID
Idris Elba was shocked that the wax figure of himself at Madame Tussauds London could unlock his smartphone's Face ID.
53. Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go
A systems programming language with memory safety and high-level ergonomics
54. In Pursuit of Clancy Sigal (2021)
An essay by Todd Gitlin: "For him, communism was insurgency and solidarity—a way of life and a morality, not an economic or political arrangement."
55. NASA's Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation
Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition
56. The Rise of SQL:the second programming language everyone needs to know
It’s become the second programming language everyone needs to know
57. Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom
The self-made tycoon was convicted this week of violating Hong Kong's "national security" law. But he could have escaped it.
58. Henge Finder
59. Build Android apps using Rust and iced
Example of building iced for android. Contribute to ibaryshnikov/android-iced-example development by creating an account on GitHub.
60. If You Don't Design Your Career, Someone Else Will
A client once responded to one of my questions by saying, "Oh Greg, I am too busy living to think about life!” His off-the-cuff comment named a trap al ...