| 31. | UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment | (rockpapershotgun.com) |
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Discord have belatedly confirmed that they're working with Persona, an identity detection firm backed by a fund directed by Palantir chairman Peter Thiel. | |
| 5 points by righthand 8 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 32. | planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary | (github.com) |
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Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun. - GitHub - nineties/planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun. | |
| 4 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 33. | Rise of the Triforce | (dolphin-emu.org) |
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During the rapid technological advancements of the early 1990s, the video game industry was on the cusp of a massive addition - another dimension. With console shenanigans like the Super FX chip giving players a taste of 3D, hype was at an all-time high. But the games released for home consoles were nothing compared to what arcade developers were capable of doing. By employing gigantic budgets and cutting-edge hardware, the arcade gave players a chance to see the future, today. But the future eventually arrived with the launch of the 5th generation of consoles. All of a sudden, the revolutionary 3D hardware features that were once exclusive to arcades were now available in home consoles. Without next-generation hype pushing players into the arcade, powerful but expensive arcade machines were no longer sustainable to develop. The industry adjusted by moving toward more cost effective solutions, with many turning to the inexpensive, already proven 3D-capable hardware available in 5th gen home consoles. Rather than turning around the decline of the arcade, the cheaper hardware may have helped accelerate it. There were fewer unique experiences to pull players into the arcade, and previous hit exclusives were now seeing high quality home console ports that allowed them to be enjoyed without munching quarters. When the 6th generation arrived with the Dreamcast and the PlayStation 2, many arcade stalwarts waved the white flag and started to shift their arcade divisions to home console projects, with mixed success. Sega was among those hit hardest by this era. They produced some of the greatest arcade thrills of the 1990s and enjoyed massive success in the home console market with the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. But a string of mistakes and miscalculations combined with the slumping arcade industry sent them to the brink of bankruptcy. By 2002, the Dreamcast had been soundly defeated by the launch of the PlayStation 2, and Sega began porting some of their hits to their former rivals' hardware just to stay afloat. The home market was lost, but the languishing arcade scene presented Sega with an opportunity. They still had legendary arcade development teams, and if Sega could leverage them to produce a wave of arcade hits, they would be in a position to dominate a new era of arcades when most others were changing gears. There was just one problem: Sega didn't have the resources that they once did. If they were going to do this, they needed some help. And so they did something that would have been considered unthinkable just five years prior. Sega teamed up with Nintendo to develop a GameCube-based arcade platform. Bolstering their ranks was Namco, another coin-op stalwart with tons of arcade veterans. Three companies, one mission: Triforce. | |
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| 34. | Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code | (christopherkrapu.com) |
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Parsing a statistics textbook with Deepseek OCR on Modal | |
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| 35. | MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings | (github.com) |
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Developing a standard for localizable message strings - unicode-org/message-format-wg | |
| 5 points by todsacerdoti 12 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 36. | The Sideprocalypse | (johan.hal.se) |
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| 37. | Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing | (github.com) |
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Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing. Contribute to preservim/vim-pencil development by creating an account on GitHub. | |
| 3 points by gurjeet 3 days ago | 0 comments |
| 38. | Robert Duvall Dead at 95 | (newsweek.com) |
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Duvall starred in nearly 100 films during his career, which spanned over seven decades. | |
| 8 points by glimshe 4 hours ago | 1 comments |
| 39. | Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it | (theregister.com) |
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| 40. | OpenClaw, OpenAI and the Future | (steipete.me) |
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I'm joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent. | |
| 84 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 30 comments |
| 41. | picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code | (github.com) |
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A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code. Contribute to antirez/picol development by creating an account on GitHub. | |
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| 42. | "token anxiety"; or, a slot machine by any other name | (jkap.io) |
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You're absolutely right! | |
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| 43. | STM32G431 Analogue TV Transmitter | (slyka.net) |
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| 44. | I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? | (mastodon.world) |
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Attached: 4 images Q: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? What do you think the LLM output was? Please; review the output. #ai #LLM #ai | |
| 28 points by novemp 16 hours ago | 2 comments |
| 45. | Show HN: Nerve: Stitches all your data sources into one mega-API | (playground.get-nerve.com) |
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| 46. | Richard Carrington's first portrait has been found | (cnn.com) |
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Richard Carrington’s name has long been connected with the most intense solar storm ever recorded, but his face was unknown until a lost portrait surfaced. | |
| 3 points by YeGoblynQueenne 3 days ago | 0 comments |
| 47. | How Not to Answer the Salary Question | (adatosystems.com) |
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| 48. | A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts | (tempus-word.de) |
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You're Welcome. | |
| 4 points by muzzy19 4 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 49. | Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52 | (dexerto.com) |
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Shutaro Ida, the longtime Castlevania and Bloodstained developer, has died at the age of 52 after battling cancer. | |
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| 50. | 1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai | (heritagedaily.com) |
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A newly identified Christian world chronicle dating to the early 8th century is shedding fresh light on the political and religious upheavals that marked the transition from late antiquity to the rise of Islam. | |
| 5 points by telotortium 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 51. | Hilbert Map of IPv6 address space | (observablehq.com) |
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Inspired by xkcd's version. Data provided by IANA. Address space represented along a Hilbert Curve, using the hilbert-chart D3 component. See also the IPv4 version or the AS numbers version. Data Dependencies | |
| 5 points by miyuru 7 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 52. | JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals | (sgom.es) |
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I’m Sérgio, and I work with Web frontend code. Sometimes I write about it here. | |
| 6 points by luu 22 hours ago | 1 comments |
| 53. | Hard problems in social media archiving | (alexwlchan.net) |
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Preserving social media is easier said than done. What makes it so difficult for institutions to back up the Internet? | |
| 3 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 54. | Should Drug Companies Be Advertising to Consumers? | (nytimes.com) |
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| 55. | AI optimism is a class privilege | (joshcollinsworth.com) |
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I think I have an idea why we're so extremely divided on AI: it's because we have an intuitive sense of who it stands to benefit, and who stands to pay the costs. I think whether you see reason for optimism has a lot to do with which group you see yourself in. | |
| 7 points by ragall 5 hours ago | 1 comments |
| 56. | Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 | (modern-css.com) |
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A collection of modern CSS code snippets. Every old CSS hack next to its clean, native replacement, side by side. | |
| 4 points by eustoria 1 day ago | 0 comments |
| 57. | Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve | (blog.exe.dev) |
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Cache reads are quadratic and dominate your long agentic conversations. | |
| 3 points by luu 3 days ago | 0 comments |
| 58. | Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents? | (arxiv.org) |
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Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.11988: Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents? | |
| 4 points by mustaphah 11 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 59. | Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business | (economist.com) |
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| 60. | Dozens of Australians diagnosed with rare tattoo-related vision loss | (abc.net.au) |
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Eye doctors have documented 40 cases of a rare tattoo-related eye inflammation that is hard to treat and can lead to vision loss. | |
| 4 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 1 comments |