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151. Hexagonal Grids
Amit's guide to math, algorithms, and code for hexagonal grids
152. Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone
📸 gotta find 'em all; spatial reasoning benchmark for LLMs - kxzk/snapbench
153. Any application that can be written in a system language, eventually will be
Atwood's Law predicted JavaScript's dominance through accessibility. A new corollary is emerging: system languages will win through operational efficiency and AI-assisted development.
154. Why my Rust benchmarks were wrong, or how to use std:hint:black_box? (2022)
In a previous blog post, I described some benchmarks I wrote for a program written in Rust.While presenting the results, I mentioned a strange behavior: thin...
155. The Rise and Recent Decline of Tesla's Share of the U.S. Electric Vehicle Market
156. A History of Haggis
157. Bassoontracker, Tracking in the Browser
158. Qwen3-Max-Thinking
Qwen Chat offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
159. Sweden weighs Franco-British nuclear weapons cooperation
"I say that when we joined NATO, we are fully involved in all discussions, including those in Europe revolving around nuclear weapons," Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said.
160. AI code and software craft
161. Super Monkey Ball ported to a website
162. Avoiding duplicate objects in Django querysets
When filtering Django querysets across relationships, you can easily end up with duplicate objects in your results. This is a common gotcha that happens with both one-to-many (1:N) and many-to-many (N:N) relationships. Let’s explore why this happens and the best way to avoid it. The Problem When you filter a queryset by traversing a relationship, Django performs a SQL JOIN. If a parent object has multiple related objects that match your filter, the parent object appears multiple times in the result set.
163. "IG is a drug": Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial
A loss could cost social media companies billions and force changes on platforms.
164. First, Make Me Care
Writing advice: some nonfiction fails because it opens with background instead of a hook—readers leave before reaching the good material. Find the single anomaly or question that makes your topic interesting, lead with that, and let the background follow once you’ve earned attention.
165. There is an AI code review bubble
Today everybody's doing AI code review. Here's how Greptile's viewpoint is differentiated - independence, autonomy, and feedback loops.
166. Apple Signs Deal for Brandon Sanderson's 'Cosmere' Universe Movies and TV Shows
Apple has signed a deal with popular fantasy author Brandon Sanderson for film and TV rights to Sanderson's "Cosmere" universe, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Sanderson has a large body of work, but some of his most popular fantasy books could be adapted first. Mistborn could be turned into a movie series, while The Stormlight Archive is being considered for television.
167. It is now 85 seconds to midnight
It is 85 seconds to midnight.
168. Why Los Angeles Stopped Repaving Its Streets
Federal disability rules have turned routine maintenance into a legal liability.
169. Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
On Apple M3, a Linux KDE plasma desktop under Fedora Asahi Remix is now WORKING! Super excited to share this update and happy to answer any questions! Co-credits to noopwafel and Shiz. :)
170. MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format
The MapLibre Organization is an umbrella for open-source mapping libraries.
171. Designing programming languages beyond AI comprehension
172. When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next. After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
173. New York Times games are hard: A computational perspective
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.10846: Man, these New York Times games are hard! A computational perspective
174. He Leaked the Secrets of an Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.
175. Major US city (LA) takes bold decision to ban single-use printer cartridges
Los Angeles ban exposes the hidden environmental and financial cost of home printing
176. TSMC Risk
177. Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries
Exclusive: German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month
178. Handling Long Branches
179. snapshot.debian.org
180. The Enchiridion by Epictetus