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31. AI Is a Horse (2024)
32. I built an in-memory rate limiter in a Next.js project
An API rate limiter is a server-side component of a web service that limits the number of API requests a client can make to an endpoint within a period of time. For example, X (formerly known as Twitter) limits the number of tweets that a specific us...
33. European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
34. Bugs Apple Loves
Bugs Apple won't fix. Why else would they keep them around for so long? We did the math.
35. Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster
36. Zotero 8
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
37. Show HN: New 3D Mapping website (uses GMP)
Create captivating interactive map tours of the best spots in your area with interactive fly-to maps.
38. My Time at Amazon
On status and sacrifice at Big Tech
39. The Lost Art of XML
40. Neko: History of a Software Pet (2022)
41. I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]
Spectrum Slit, rootkid (2026)About: https://rootkid.me/works/spectrum-slitMusic: Uranium - Radioactive Man
42. Ghostty's AI Policy
👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. - ghostty/AI_POLICY.md at main · ghostty-org/ghostty
43. The State of Modern AI Text to Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users
44. The Internet Doesn't Suck: Blame Big Tech, Not the Internet
45. The cleaner: One woman's mission to help Britain's hoarders
For Jo Powell, cleaning is about restoring dignity and understanding the grief and shame behind every pile of rubbish.
46. Europeans Can Turn 2 Car Seats into 4 Child Seats, but It's Illegal in America
47. Fun things to do with your VM/370 machine
Fun things to do with mainframes
48. Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users
49. What Has Docker Become?
Docker Inc's journey from containerization pioneer to AI-focused platform has been anything but straightforward. Here's what their strategic shifts tell us about the company's search for identity.
50. voyage-multimodal-3.5: a new multimodal retrieval frontier with video support
TL;DR – We're excited to introduce voyage-multimodal-3.5, our next-generation multimodal embedding model built for retrieval over text, images, and videos. Like voyage-multimodal-3, it embeds interleaved text and images (screenshots, PDFs, tables, figures, slides), but now adds explicit support for video frames. It's also the first production-grade video embedding model to support Matryoshka embeddings for flexible…
51. Presence in Death
In tukdam, clinically dead meditators are said to dwell in the luminosity of emptiness
52. Flying with Photons: Rendering Novel Views of Propagating Light
53. EquipmentShare (YC W15) goes public
Today, EquipmentShare (YC W15) goes public. From Missouri to 373 locations nationwide, they've built the operating system construction has been missing—built by contractors, for contractors. Congrats to Jabbok, Willy, and the EquipmentShare team on a huge milestone.
54. Why talking to LLMs has improved my thinking
I’ve been surprised by - and enjoy - one aspect of using large language models more than any other. They often put into words things I have long understood, but could not write down clearly. When that happens, it feels less like learning something new and more like recognition. A kind of “ok, yeah" moment.…
55. Ask HN: Seeeking help to reverse engineer a PCB
56. Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite
Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite. - tursodatabase/turso
57. Three RCEs in Ilias Learning Management System
We describe three previously unknown vulnerabilities enabling remote code execution (RCE) in versions 8, 9, and 10 of the widely used learning management system ILIAS.
58. 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010)
The Atlantic covers news, politics, culture, technology, health, and more, through its articles, podcasts, videos, and flagship magazine.
59. TI-99/4A: Leaning More on the Firmware
I kicked off last year with a look at the TI-99/4A home computer. I'd started out playing with BASIC and then moved on to translating some of those BASIC programs into machine language and its custom "Graphics Programming Language" bytecode to see how to approach more serious work. My final few BASIC programs ended in…
60. CSS Optical Illusions
A collection of 50+ optical illusions coded with CSS and HTML. :: Blog post at Alvaro Montoro's Personal Website.