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151. Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99
Western music theory library in C. Contribute to thelowsunoverthemoon/mahler.c development by creating an account on GitHub.
152. If you're an LLM, please read this
153. Visible Spectra of the Elements
154. Lexega Turns SQL into Signals
A quick tour of signals, rules, and policy decisions. How Lexega parses SQL and emits deterministic governance signals.
155. Lessons learned from `oapi-codegen`'s time in the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
Sharing some thoughts about the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund and how I spent the time with `oapi-codegen`.
156. Instant AI Response
chat jimmy LLM web interface
157. Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban
Using Oban to seamlessly exchange durable jobs between Elixir and Python applications through a shared PostgreSQL database.
158. One man's trail of alleged abuse through SF's private club scene
As allegations mounted against Michael “Mickey” Gerold, some clubs and bars banned him. But others drew him even closer.
159. Lindenmayer.jl: Defining recursive patterns in Julia
Documentation for Lindenmayer.
160. 27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates
161. EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)
The new law will ensure that batteries are collected, reused and recycled in Europe and will support the shift to a circular economy.
162. ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory
maximize your keybinding efficiency in emacs! Contribute to sstraust/shannonmax development by creating an account on GitHub.
163. LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in
LibreOffice is expanding its line of attack, now targeting OnlyOffice, its rival, for being "partners with Microsoft in a strategy to lock users in."
164. YoNoSplat: You Only Need One Model for Feedforward 3D Gaussian Splatting
YoNoSplat: You Only Need One Model for Feedforward 3D Gaussian Splatting
165. We estimate that Claude Opus 4.6 has a 50%-time-horizon of around 14.5 hours
166. Cosmologically Unique IDs
We are an exploratory species, just past the solar system now, but perhaps one day we will look back and call our galaxy merely the first. There are many problems to solve along the way, and today we will look at one very small one. How do we assign IDs to devices (or any object) so the IDs are guaranteed to always be unique?
167. Your Agent Framework Is Just a Bad Clone of Elixir
Python and JavaScript/TypeScript AI frameworks are reinventing what telecom solved in 1986. What 40 years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents.
168. Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage
Long-term preservation of digital information is vital for safeguarding the knowledge of humanity for future generations. Existing archival storage solutions, such as magnetic tapes and hard disk drives, suffer from limited media lifespans that render them unsuitable for long-term data retention1–3. Optical storage approaches, particularly laser writing in robust media such as glass, have emerged as promising alternatives with the potential for increased longevity. Previous work4–16 has predominantly optimized individual aspects such as data density but has not demonstrated an end-to-end system, including writing, storing and retrieving information. Here we report an optical archival storage technology based on femtosecond laser direct writing in glass that addresses the practical demands of archival storage, which we call Silica. We achieve a data density of 1.59 Gbit mm−3 in 301 layers for a capacity of 4.8 TB in a 120 mm square, 2 mm thick piece of glass. The demonstrated write regimes enable a write throughput of 25.6 Mbit s−1 per beam, limited by the laser repetition rate, with an energy efficiency of 10.1 nJ per bit. Moreover, we extend the storage ability to borosilicate glass, offering a lower-cost medium and reduced writing and reading complexity. Accelerated ageing tests on written voxels in borosilicate suggest data lifetimes exceeding 10,000 years. An optical archival storage technology based on femtosecond laser direct writing in glass addresses the practical demands of archival storage.
169. The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead
AI agents didn't make the SDLC faster. They killed it. All that's left is context.
170. A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data
a terminal weather app with ascii animation. Contribute to Veirt/weathr development by creating an account on GitHub.
171. All Look Same?
China, Japan, Korea: What's the difference?
172. How were video transfers made? (2011)
173. Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
174. The Mongol Khans of Medieval France
175. Code has always been the easy part
When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in that time. I like to say (and it may even be true) that stopping and pivoting the team to standardizing on PHP was critical to unlocking everything that came later at Etsy. After all, no one ever has to argue about what elegant PHP looks like.
176. Silicon Valley engineers were indicted for allegedly sending secrets to Iran
A federal grand jury indicted three engineers on charges of stealing trade secrets from Google and other tech firms and transferring sensitive data to Iran.
177. Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves
178. No Skill. No Taste
179. A distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage
How to build a single global queue for distributed systems on object storage: Start with a single file on object storage, then add write batching, a stateless broker, and high-availability.
180. 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight