| 31. | From Azure Functions to FreeBSD | (jmmv.dev) |
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Putting FreeBSD’s “power to serve” motto to the test. On Thanksgiving morning, I woke up to one of my web services being unavailable. All HTTP requests failed with a “503 Service unavailable” error. I logged into the console, saw a simplistic “Runtime version: Error” message, and was not able to diagnose the problem. I did not spend a lot of time trying to figure the issue out and I didn’t even want to contact the support black hole. Because… there was something else hidden behind an innocent little yellow warning at the top of the dashboard: Migrate your app to Flex Consumption as Linux Consumption will reach EOL on September 30 2028 and will no longer be supported. I had known for a few weeks now, while trying to set up a new app, that all of my Azure Functions apps were on death row. The free plan I was using was going to be decommissioned and the alternatives I tried didn’t seem to support custom handlers written in Rust. I still had three years to deal with this, but hitting a showstopper error pushed me to take action. All of my web services are now hosted by the FreeBSD server in my garage with just a few tweaks to their codebase. This is their migration story. | |
| 5 points by todsacerdoti 5 days ago | 0 comments |
| 32. | Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards | (victorpoughon.github.io) |
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A speadsheet where formulas also update backwards | |
| 12 points by fouronnes3 2 days ago | 1 comments |
| 33. | OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI | (simonwillison.net) |
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| 34. | Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig | (github.com) |
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Minimalist, dependency-free virtual machine sandbox for microcontrollers and other resource-constrained devices. Single C file, no dynamic memory allocations, asynchronous design, pure C99 - ringtailsoftware/uvm32 | |
| 8 points by trj 23 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 35. | How Exchanges Turn Order Books into Distributed Logs | (quant.engineering) |
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Every modern exchange is a distributed database in disguise. This article reveals how trading engines transform chaotic streams of buy and sell orders into a perfectly ordered, replayable log, ensuring fairness, determinism, and market data reliability. | |
| 3 points by rundef 5 days ago | 0 comments |
| 36. | Indexing 100M vectors in 20 minutes on PostgreSQL with 12GB RAM | (blog.vectorchord.ai) |
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1. Introduction In the past few months, we’ve heard consistent feedback from users and partners: while our goal of providing a scalable, high-performance alternative to pgvector is well-received, index build time and memory usage remain major concern... | |
| 5 points by gaocegege 5 days ago | 0 comments |
| 37. | How to Watch the Radiant Geminid Meteor Shower Tonight | (smithsonianmag.com) |
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A waning crescent moon should make for a fairly dark sky, allowing viewers to see up to 150 shooting stars per hour | |
| 5 points by cjbarber 3 hours ago | 2 comments |
| 38. | What is a build system, anyway? | (jyn.dev) |
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Some definitions and an overview of the world of build systems | |
| 10 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | 0 comments |
| 39. | Ferrari's Formula 1 Handovers: Handovers from Surgery to Intensive Care 2008;pdf | (gwern.net) |
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| 4 points by bookofjoe 7 days ago | 0 comments |
| 40. | Hacking Google Chrome Source Code: Make Puppeteer work over Redis PubSub | (deadf00d.com) |
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Replacing DevTools' HTTP Handler With Redis Pub/Sub | |
| 3 points by deadf00d 5 hours ago | 1 comments |
| 41. | Go is portable, until it isn't | (simpleobservability.com) |
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An exploration of Go's portability limits when integrating with system-specific C libraries like libsystemd and dealing with glibc vs. musl systems. | |
| 3 points by khazit 6 days ago | 5 comments |
| 42. | Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion | (johndcook.com) |
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What is the Dandelion network protocol? What is the analogy with a dandelion plant? | |
| 4 points by ColinWright 5 days ago | 0 comments |
| 43. | Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud | (0l.de) |
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Thoughts, stories and ideas about of a code poet, bit juggler & logic wizard. | |
| 3 points by stv0g 1 day ago | 1 comments |
| 44. | We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments | (programmingsimplicity.substack.com) |
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| 21 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 6 comments |
| 45. | Windows 3.1 in the Browser | (pcjs.org) |
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PCjs offers a variety of online machine emulators written in JavaScript. Run DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications in a web browser on your desktop computer, iPhone, or iPad. An assortment of microcomputers, minicomputers, terminals, programmable calculators, and arcade machines are also available, along with an archive of historical software and documentation. | |
| 6 points by memalign 12 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 46. | 30 Years of <Br> Tags | (artmann.co) |
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I'm a software engineer and product builder. I write about software development, product management, and personal growth. | |
| 4 points by FragrantRiver 7 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 47. | Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence | (whitehouse.gov) |
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. | |
| 10 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 21 comments |
| 48. | How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking | (arstechnica.com) |
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Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options. | |
| 10 points by fleahunter 1 day ago | 0 comments |
| 49. | macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt | (developer.apple.com) |
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Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes. | |
| 30 points by guiand 1 day ago | 3 comments |
| 50. | Poor Johnny still won't encrypt | (bfswa.substack.com) |
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The state of email encryption | |
| 5 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 51. | 50 years of proof assistants | (lawrencecpaulson.github.io) |
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| 52. | Slax: Live Pocket Linux | (slax.org) |
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Slax is a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system. | |
| 3 points by Ulf950 5 days ago | 0 comments |
| 53. | String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof | (quantamagazine.org) |
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Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major problem in algebraic geometry. Other mathematicians had their doubts. Now he says he has a proof. | |
| 12 points by ArmageddonIt 1 day ago | 0 comments |
| 54. | Enabling small language models to solve complex reasoning tasks | (news.mit.edu) |
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MIT CSAIL's “DisCIPL” uses an LLM to steer smaller language models to collaborate on complex reasoning tasks. These less-powerful systems are collectively more accurate than leading LLMs, almost as precise as top reasoning models, and more efficient than both. | |
| 3 points by LiveTheDream 1 hour ago | 0 comments |
| 55. | Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help | (hey.paris) |
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Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and I have no recourse. Can you help? Email paris AT paris.id.au (and read on for the details). ❤️ Here’s how Apple “Permanently” locked my Apple ID. I am writing this as a desperate measure. | |
| 15 points by parisidau 16 hours ago | 2 comments |
| 56. | Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight | (karpathy.bearblog.dev) |
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A vibe coding thought exercise on what it might look like for LLMs to scour human historical data at scale and in retrospect. | |
| 4 points by __rito__ 3 days ago | 1 comments |
| 57. | SSE sucks for transporting LLM tokens | (zknill.io) |
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developer blog | |
| 7 points by zknill 4 days ago | 2 comments |
| 58. | Google Removes Sci-Hub Domains from U.S. Search Results Due to Dated Court Order | (torrentfreak.com) |
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Google has removed dozens of Sci-Hub domain names from its search results in the U.S., marking the country's first pirate domain removals. | |
| 4 points by t-3 18 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 59. | Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal | (bsky.app) |
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Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose. | |
| 4 points by tguvot 4 hours ago | 4 comments |
| 60. | Capsudo: Rethinking Sudo with Object Capabilities | (ariadne.space) |
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| 9 points by fanf2 23 hours ago | 0 comments |