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151. America vs. Singapore: You Can't Save Your Way Out of Economic Shocks
Saving regret has less to do with procrastination than we thought, and more to do with whether your country absorbs economic shocks or lets them hit your savings
152. Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today
I just finished Oliver Sacks’ excellent Everything in Its Place. In it, he mentioned as an aside that the Ginkgo biloba tree is hundreds of millions of years old, and its phenotype has been practically frozen since then – a living fossil.
153. Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]
154. 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.
155. Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban
Using Oban to seamlessly exchange durable jobs between Elixir and Python applications through a shared PostgreSQL database.
156. 27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates
157. Choose Your Fictions Well (2010)
158. DHS suspends TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is suspending the TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs as a partial government shutdown continues.
159. Apple researchers develop on-device AI agent that interacts with apps for you
Despite having just 3 billion parameters, Ferret-UI Lite matches or surpasses the benchmark performance of models up to 24 times larger.
160. Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects
Loon is a modern LISP with invisible types, algebraic effects, and ownership without annotations.
161. Lindenmayer.jl: Defining recursive patterns in Julia
Documentation for Lindenmayer.
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. Visible Spectra of the Elements
164. Typed Assembly Language
165. Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?
166. 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`.
167. 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?
168. 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.
169. WebMCP App for Composing Music
170. All Look Same?
China, Japan, Korea: What's the difference?
171. Lexega Turns SQL into Signals
A quick tour of signals, rules, and policy decisions. How Lexega parses SQL and emits deterministic governance signals.
172. Ask HN: If the "AI bubble" pops, will it really be that dramatic?
173. Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU
174. 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
175. 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.
176. The Mongol Khans of Medieval France
177. Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
178. Halt and Catch Fire: TV's Best Drama You've Probably Never Heard Of (2021)
179. The importance of limiting syndication feed requests in some way
180. Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves