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151. ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
152. Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
Anthropic's original performance take-home, now open for you to try! - anthropics/original_performance_takehome
153. I'm addicted to being useful
154. Where I find free game assets (compiled my go-to sources)
A comprehensive guide to the best sources for free 2D art, 3D models, textures, music, and sound effects for your game projects.
155. Interfaces and Traits in C
Implemented with structs and function pointers.
156. Flux 2 Klein pure C inference
Flux 2 image generation model pure C inference. Contribute to antirez/flux2.c development by creating an account on GitHub.
157. Show HN: Company hiring trends and insights from job postings
158. Designing AI-resistant technical evaluations
What we learned from three iterations of a performance engineering take-home that Claude keeps beating.
159. Rust's Standard Library on the GPU
GPU code can now use Rust's standard library. We share the implementation approach and what this unlocks for GPU programming.
160. The Microstructure of Wealth Transfer in Prediction Markets
Slot machines on the Las Vegas Strip return about 93 cents on the dollar. This is widely considered some of the worst odds in gambling. Yet on Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated prediction market, traders have wagered vast sums on longshot contracts with historical returns as low as 43 cents on the dollar. Thousands of participants are voluntarily accepting expected values far lower than a casino slot machine to bet on their convictions.
161. Libbbf: Bound Book Format, A high-performance container for comics and manga
Bound Book Format: A high-performance, DirectStorage-native container format for comics and manga - ef1500/libbbf
162. Caliper: Right-size your CI runners
Caliper is a CLI tool that benchmarks your build commands across different CPU/RAM configurations to help you find optimal CI runner sizes.
163. Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard
Discover and install skills for AI agents.
164. Level S4 solar radiation event
165. TPM on Embedded Systems: Pitfalls and Caveats to Watch Out For
This Blog Post Outlines Common Pitfalls and Caveats when Integrating a TPM
166. Ask HN: I'm sure more than just Microsoft is down rn
167. Magnetic Remote Control of Biology
Great news! @mariaingaramo.bsky.social 's company (Nonfiction Labs) made a remote-controlled antibody. Its binding turns on and off with a magnet. This is a HUGE step towards our dream of magnetically controlled drugs. Imagine a cancer drug that ONLY attacks the tumor, not the rest of your body.
168. OpenAI API Logs: Unpatched data exfiltration
OpenAI’s API log viewer is vulnerable to a data exfiltration attack, exposing apps and agents that use OpenAI APIs, even if developers (and Agent Builder users) leverage all available defenses. The vulnerability was disclosed to OpenAI, but was closed with the status 'Not applicable' after 4 follow-ups.
169. I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
I set all of Vim's configuration options, and I still feel far from mastery. But I did learn that it used to be called Vi IMitation...
170. Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
When it comes to database optimization, developers often reach for the same old tools: rewrite the query slightly differently, slap an index on a column, denormalize, analyze, vacuum, cluster, repeat. Conventional techniques are effective, but sometimes being creative can really pay off!
171. Linux from Scratch
172. Scaling long-running autonomous coding
173. Electricity use of AI coding agents
174. Vibecoding #2
I feel like I got substantial value out of Claude today, and want to document it. I am at the tail end of AI adoption, so I don't expect to say anything particularly useful or novel. However, I am constantly complaining about the lack of boring AI posts, so it's only proper if I write one.
175. Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results
176. The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)
When the U.S. made the transition to the metric system voluntary in the 1970s, that effectively hamstrung the country’s move to metric. While most other manufacturers in the world only have to deal with the centimeter side of the ruler, U.S. metal fabricators have to use both sides.
177. Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
178. Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
179. The challenges of soft delete
180. Stevey's Birthday Blog