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31. Ask HN: How to measure how much data one can effectively process or understand?
32. Lindenmayer.jl: Defining recursive patterns in Julia
Documentation for Lindenmayer.
33. Pebble Production: February Update
February Pebble Production and Software Updates
34. Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to fix water system
Osaka's mayor says he is 'lost for words' and that he has 'nothing but appreciation' for the gesture.
35. Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99
Western music theory library in C. Contribute to thelowsunoverthemoon/mahler.c development by creating an account on GitHub.
36. Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants
The Carthaginian general famously used elephants during the Punic Wars. But until now, archaeologists had never found skeletal remains linking the animals to the conflict
37. MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes
MuMu Player Pro (NetEase) silently runs 17 system reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes on macOS - news.md
38. My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza
39. Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails
How AI summaries can be steered: bilingual prompts, hidden policies, and why multilingual LLM guardrails fail in human rights contexts.
40. Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
41. Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia
42. Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today
I just finished Oliver Sacks’ excellent Everything in Its Place. In it, he mentioned as an aside that the Ginkgo biloba tree is hundreds of millions of years old, and its phenotype has been practically frozen since then – a living fossil.
43. Debugging Kernel Oops (2024)
Introduction When writing or using software, it’s not uncommon to run into bad states. Sometimes things break and we’re met with a cryptic stack trace. In a web server, this may look like an HTTP 500 response along with a helpful error message hinting at where the issue may lie - if you were diligent about adding proper error handling, that is - in the best case. Other times you’ll be faced with a vague error message without much to go on.
44. Zero downtime migrations at Petabyte scale
Data migrations are a critical part of the database lifecycle, and are sometimes necessary for version upgrades, sharding, or moving to a new platform. In many cases, migrations are painful and error-prone. In this article, we walk through how migrations are performed at PlanetScale, and offer advice on how to improve the migration experience.
45. Show HN: An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app
An encrypted local cross-platform journaling app. Contribute to fjrevoredo/mini-diarium development by creating an account on GitHub.
46. Voith Schneider Propeller
47. I'm Sick of This AI Shit [video]
In this episode I dive into the new wave of AI music released on music streaming platforms, when are they going to do something about this? My Beato Club su...
48. Womens Sizing
The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women
49. Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban
Using Oban to seamlessly exchange durable jobs between Elixir and Python applications through a shared PostgreSQL database.
50. Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)
51. A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts
You're Welcome.
52. Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves
53. ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory
maximize your keybinding efficiency in emacs! Contribute to sstraust/shannonmax development by creating an account on GitHub.
54. Mark Zuckerberg Grilled on Usage Goals and Underage Users at California Trial
55. How to Choose Between Hindley-Milner and Bidirectional Typing
A false dichotomy that hides the real request
56. SE Radio 708: Jens Gustedt on C in 2026
57. Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging
An interactive data journalism piece exploring the rise of young-onset colorectal cancer, with population simulations, risk factors, and prevention information.
58. Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
Legal agreements, compliance certifications, and security information for Claude Code.
59. Show HN: Fostrom, an IoT Cloud Platform built for developers
Monitor and control fleets of devices with easy-to-integrate Device SDKs, Type-Safe Schemas, Programmable Actions, and more.
60. The Mongol Khans of Medieval France