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31. Postgres extension complements pgvector for performance and scale
Postgres extension for vector search (DiskANN), complements pgvector for performance and scale. Postgres OSS licensed. - timescale/pgvectorscale
32. Psilocybin triggers activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks
33. Everything as Code: How We Manage Our Company in One Monorepo
Frontend, backend, marketing website, documentation, blog content, investor site, Chrome extension, Google Docs add-on,cloud functions, demo repos—all in one repository. Here's why and how we do it.
34. Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years
New science could enable humans to regrow teeth within five years. Discover the promising trials set to redefine dental restoration.
35. S&P500 Priced in Gold
36. HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
37. Concurrent Hash Table Designs
A tour of common concurrent hash map designs—global locks, sharding/lock striping, Java's ConcurrentHashMap, and Cliff Click's NonBlockingHashMap (NBHM)—through the lens of contention and performance.
38. Coase's Penguin, Or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm [pdf]
39. Braid Math Article
This month's topics: Quipus and quantum computing Geometry, a human language? Quipus and quantum computing Frank Wilczek's column in the the Wall Street Journal (April 14, 2022) had the title "A Quantum Leap, With Strings Attached; The Inca system of quipu—tying a series of knots to record information—is providing a surprising model to modern physics…
40. GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What it means for you
Hey everyone, GOG Team here.
41. Gestational diabetes rose every year in the US since 2016
Gestational diabetes rose every single year in the U.S. from 2016 through 2024, according to a new Northwestern Medicine analysis of more than 12 million U.S. births. The condition, which raises health risks for both mother and baby, shot up 36% over the nine-year period (from 58 to 79 cases per 1,000 births) and increased across every racial and ethnic group.
42. Show HN: I remade my website in the Sith Lord Theme and I hope it's fun
Cookie Engineer's Ideas and Projects
43. UNIX Fourth Edition
44. What an unprocessed photo looks like
45. Show HN: RAMBnB.xyz P2P marketplace for RAM rentals
46. Go Away Python
Lorentz Kinde's personal website. Cloud Engineer sharing insights, projects, and experiments in coding.
47. Stranger Things Creator Says Turn Off "Garbage" Settings
48. A History of My Homelab
Recently, I migrated the services I host to an enterprise server (a Dell R740) running from my home. This is the latest significant step in my homelab, where I can both experiment and host production services. This is a good excuse to make a technical retrospective of how it all started and evolved into what it is today.
49. U.S. cybersecurity experts plead guilty for ransomware attacks
These cybersecurity experts were hired to prevent the exact attacks they perpetrated.
50. Be aware when opening "take home challenges" from untrusted recruiters
51. Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform
I fancied getting an eink screen to use for future projects. I bought a wee one with a raspberry pi "hat" attached. However, I realised later that I could maybe just re-purpose an old Amazon Kindle ebook reader. I've messed with Kindles before, ages ago: I ported an Infocom interpreter and a Manga reader to…
52. I used Claude to revive an NPM package with 760K downloads/wk last updated 2019
Extract NPM package licenses. Enhanced and updated fork of a fork of the original (but abandoned) license-checker. - greenstevester/license-checker-evergreen
53. Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming
Curated list of project ideas for programmers who aren't sure what to build. We chose 73 projects that teach a lot and are fun to build.
54. Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and "debanked"
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on his work and daily life.
55. Netflix: Open Content
56. Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024)
57. Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
58. MongoDB Server Security Update, December 2025
The following is an update on the security vulnerability identified in December 2025.
59. Graph Algorithms in Rayon
60. Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts
Discusses the problem of Gmail takeouts as a single giant file and provides detailed background on the gmail-mbox-codec app that allows efficient incremental backups of said file.