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121. A Review of M Disc Archival Capability. With long term testing results
An extensive test and review of M Disk archival durability.
122. OpenAI should build Slack
a quiet day lets us answer a Sam Altman question: what should he build next?
123. Kimi Claw
Deploy OpenClaw in seconds via Kimi. Build a 24/7 AI assistant with long-term memory and personality that proactively executes scheduled tasks. Experience the power of Kimi Claw now.
124. Interference Pattern Formed in a Finger Gap Is Not Single Slit Diffraction
Simple way of making an interference pattern with fingers The phenomenon of forming an interference pattern by using light that passed through a double slit is a basic item learnt in a high school physics course. It is a good example that light possesses a property of waves. The double slit exp
125. Internet Increasingly Becoming Unarchivable
126. DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023)
DjVu is a vastly superior file format for books, mathematical papers and just about anything else you can think of to original PDF (current year PDF adopted some of its innovations, but they're only used to break into your ipotato afaik). PDF is mostly postscript with a bunch of weird metadata and layers. This is…
127. Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court
Data analysis provider Palantir wants to obtain a counterstatement in court – and triggers a wave of solidarity for a small Swiss magazine.
128. Turning Our Back on Clean Energy
Why does MAGA hate the planet?
129. Building SQLite with a small swarm
130. How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?
As exciting as full-body MRIs seem, many in medicine are skeptical. But there are useful cases.
131. One Server. Small Business
More than a decade ago, I built a small Rails app to run my curated newsletters. Today it serves over 100,000 subscribers, sends hundreds of thousands of emails each month, and still runs on a single $30 server. In this post, I walk through how I deploy, secure, back up, and monitor it — and why I still prefer owning the stack over using a managed platform.
132. Anthropic got an 11% user boost from its OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Anthropic's Super Bowl ad campaign, which took a swipe at the ChatGPT maker's decision to bring ads to the platform.
133. Continuous batching from first principles (2025)
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
134. Sony Jumbotron Image Control System (1998) [pdf]
135. Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019
Peter Thiel — The Jmail Encyclopedia. Sourced from 2,429 emails across 1,345 threads in the Jmail archive.
136. Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube
137. Btrfs disk errors to fall asleep to
138. A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment
A practical guide to night sky observing organized by equipment, conditions, and experience.
139. I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform
140. How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020)
141. Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music
During my first trip to Eastern Europe, I found an "Orpheus"  electric guitar leaning against a wall in the basement of a music shop in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.  Half of its parts were missing and dust was gathering on its sparkly-orange plywood body. I bought it for the equivalent of $20 and carried it around in two pieces…
142. How DSQL makes sure sequences scale
Sequences are one of those Postgres features that you don’t think much about. You can ask for the next number in the sequence, and you get it. That works pretty well when you have one machine asking for the next number, but what about 10,000?
143. Descent, Ported to the Web
144. My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza
145. Plan 9 Desktop Guide
146. Ask HN: Why is YouTube's recommendation system so bad?
147. Obituary for Robert Duvall
From his steely self-effacing consigliere in The Godfather to his surf-crazed Wagner enthusiast in Apocalypse Now, just to see him on screen made me smile
148. WolfSSL Sucks Too, So Now What?
OpenSSL sucks. The BoringSSL and AWS-LC forks are Googled and Amazoned to death; they don't care about anyone but their own use cases. I can't remember ever having a good experience with software using GnuTLS. LibreSSL is incomplete... FOREWARD This post is about the experience of taking a leap of …
149. The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming
150. Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging in Older Adults
Shingles vaccination not only can prevent painful illness but also correlates with lower inflammation & slower biological aging in Americans age 70+.