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31. The Science of the Perfect Second (2023)
The science of the perfect second
32. D Programming Language
D is a general-purpose programming language with static typing, systems-level access, and C-like syntax.
33. Three Cache Layers Between Select and Disk
34. So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink
Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.
35. Show HN: What is HN thinking? Real-time sentiment and concept analysis
Visualize and analyze Hacker News with vector embeddings
36. IRS online only allows ID.me biometric registration now
Find out how to register with Secure Access to use IRS self-help tax tools like Get transcript, Get an IP PIN, e-Services and View your account. 
37. Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans reset U.S. nutrition policy by restoring science, common sense, and real food as the foundation of national health.
38. The missing digit of Stela C
One bad thing about archeologists is that some of the successful ones get a big head. People used to think the Olmecs, who made these colossal stone heads, were contemporary with the Mayans. But in 1939, an archaeologist couple, Marion and Matthew Stirling, found the bottom half of an Olmec stone that had part of…
39. 1D Cellular Automata Playground
40. Fast Properties in V8 (2017)
This technical deep-dive explains how V8 handles JavaScript properties behind the scenes.
41. Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
42. How to Make a Living as an Artist
An essay by fnnch on making a living as an artist.
43. I Didn't Want AI to Be Good at This
Over the past few months, I’ve been begrudgingly coming around to something I didn’t expect to admit publicly: AI is getting legitimately useful at building ...
44. HeyWhatsThat
45. Selfish AI
46. AI inference costs dropped up to 10x on Nvidia's Blackwell
47. Ralph Giles Passed Away (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
48. Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)
The metric we killed is back, and AI made it worse
49. Amazon gets FCC approval to launch 4,500 Leo internet satellites
The new tranche would bring Amazon's planned constellation to roughly 7,700 satellites.
50. Using an Engineering Notebook
51. Supabase Is Down
Welcome to Supabase's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
52. HDRify: True HDR image viewer, and tool set in pure JavaScript
53. Alarm bells just rang at San Francisco's 2 buzziest tech companies
54. Reports of Telnet's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
We see no evidence that specific core network autonomous systems have blocked Telnet, contrary to previous reports. We specifically see continued non-spoofable Telnet traffic from networks on which GreyNoise saw 100% drop-off. We suspect initial results may have been measurement artifacts or specific threat actors explicitly avoiding GreyNoise infrastructure, though determining this root cause is impossible without internal data.
55. Pandoc in the Browser with WASM
Pandoc 3.9 was released yesterday. Release pandoc 3.9 · jgm/pandoc · GitHub This is the first release for which an official wasm version is available. This is possible thanks to the amazing work done by the compiler bui…
56. 65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
AI hype trains
57. Olympic judge who cost Chock/Bates gold has a history of questionable scores
There’s some serious funny business going on.
58. Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware
59. Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines
Can a neural network, microbes and blockchain save a thousand-year-old loom from extinction?
60. GLM5 Released on Z.ai Platform
Meet Z.ai, your free AI-powered assistant. Build websites, create slides, analyze data, and get instant answers. Fast, smart, and reliable, powered by GLM-5.