| 241. | Memory layout in Zig with formulas | (raymondtana.github.io) |
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I was recently encouraged to watch A Practical Guide to Applying Data Oriented Design (DoD) by Andrew Kelley, the creator of Zig1. Just 10 minutes into the talk, I was confronted with a skill I had never formally learned… the arithmetic behind memory layout of types. Zig is a modern, C-like programming language which offers a safer, more memory-explicit experience for systems programming, without sacrificing low-level control or C interoperability. Notably, Zig makes it straightforward to manage memory allocation by treating allocators as first-class values rather than hidden globals. Instead of relying on an implicit runtime or a process-wide allocator, you pass explicit allocator objects into the code that needs them. This makes ownership and lifetimes much clearer, encourages you to design APIs around who is responsible for allocating and freeing memory, and makes it easy to swap in custom allocation strategies (e.g., arenas, scratch, tracking, etc.). ↩ | |
| 5 points by raymondtana 4 days ago | 1 comments |
| 242. | Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint | (github.com) |
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Webbased image editor, modeled after the legendary Deluxe Paint with a focus on retro Amiga file formats: read and write Amiga icon files and IFF ILBM images - steffest/DPaint-js | |
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| 243. | Ups retires its fleet of MD-11 cargo aircraft | (pbs.org) |
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The Nov. 4 Louisville crash killed the plane’s three-person crew and 12 others on the ground just outside the Muhammad Ali International Airport. The plane's left engine had fallen off the wing, and the plane was able to climb only about 30 feet before crashing. | |
| 4 points by canucker2016 21 hours ago | 2 comments |
| 244. | Hands-On with Two Apple Network Server Prototype ROMs | (oldvcr.blogspot.com) |
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| 245. | Doing Gigabit Ethernet over My British Phone Wires | (thehftguy.com) |
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Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter and misery I’ve mostly lived with powerline adapters over recent years. Some worked well, some did not (try few and… | |
| 10 points by user5994461 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 246. | You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers | (sigh.dev) |
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Vibecoding, Vibeporting? | |
| 6 points by STRiDEX 2 days ago | 0 comments |
| 247. | Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you? | () |
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| 248. | Amazon accidentally sends email confirming layoffs | (bbc.com) |
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The technology giant confirmed the redundancies hours after it told staff in an email sent in error. | |
| 9 points by sixhobbits 19 hours ago | 3 comments |
| 249. | We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable | (eclypsium.com) |
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That cheapo cable you bought online? Probably a counterfeit. We x-rayed a suspicious cable to show you exactly what that means, and why counterfeits work worse and wear out faster. | |
| 7 points by aa_is_op 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 250. | Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms | (twitter.com) |
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| 251. | The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world | (bbc.com) |
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Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change. | |
| 4 points by choult 3 days ago | 0 comments |
| 252. | Health Insurers in Shock After Medicare Holds Line on 2027 Payments | (wsj.com) |
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| 253. | Show HN: A small programming language where everything is a value | (github.com) |
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A simple interpreted programming language where everything is pass-by-value - Jcparkyn/herd | |
| 3 points by jcparkyn 3 days ago | 0 comments |
| 254. | The behavioral cost of personalized pricing | (digitalseams.com) |
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| 255. | Opentrees.org (2024) | (opentrees.org) |
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| 256. | Amazon to pay $309M to U.S. shoppers in settlement over returns | (reuters.com) |
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| 257. | iPhone 5s Gets New Software Update 13 Years After Launch | (macrumors.com) |
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Alongside iOS 26.2.1, Apple today released an updated version of iOS 12 for devices that are still running that operating system update, eight years after the software was first released. iOS 12.5.8 is available for the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 6, meaning Apple is continuing to support these devices for 13 and 12 years after launch, respectively. The iPhone 5s came out in September 2013, while the iPhone 6 launched in September 2014. | |
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| 258. | Commodore 64 Helps Revive the BBS Days | (hackaday.com) |
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| 259. | How I Estimate Work as a Staff Software Engineer | (seangoedecke.com) |
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| 260. | Google is ending full-web search for niche search engines | (programmablesearchengine.googleblog.com) |
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| 261. | BU-808: How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries (2023) | (batteryuniversity.com) |
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Manufacturers take a conservative approach and specify the life of Li-ion in most consumer products as being between 300 and 500 discharge/charge cycles.… | |
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| 262. | Tech sector is at lowest share of US employment since early 2021 | (twitter.com) |
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| 7 points by OGEnthusiast 1 day ago | 1 comments |
| 263. | 80386 Multiplication and Division | (nand2mario.github.io) |
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| 264. | Emissary, a fast open-source Java messaging library | (github.com) |
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Emissary is simple, yet 🗲FAST🗲 messaging library for decoupling messages (requests and events) and message handlers 🚀 - joel-jeremy/emissary | |
| 3 points by jeyjeyemem 6 days ago | 1 comments |
| 265. | Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public | (sharedclaude.com) |
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A website controlled by the public via AI. Text to make changes. Watch live at sharedclaude.com | |
| 3 points by reasonableklout 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 266. | The future of software engineering is SRE | (swizec.com) |
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When code gets cheap operational excellence wins. Anyone can build a greenfield demo, but it takes engineering to run a service. | |
| 3 points by Swizec 3 days ago | 0 comments |
| 267. | Anthropic Economic Index economic primitives | (anthropic.com) |
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This report introduces new metrics of AI usage to provide a rich portrait of interactions with Claude in November 2025, just prior to the release of Opus 4.5. | |
| 4 points by malshe 6 days ago | 0 comments |
| 268. | Speak in code, delete the chats: The tactics Venezuelans are using out of fear | (cnn.com) |
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Venezuelans are circumventing the government’s expanded crackdown on dissent by speaking in code, not mentioning political leaders, constantly deleting content from their phones and refusing to express opinions in WhatsApp groups. | |
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| 269. | The Lost Art of XML | (marcosmagueta.com) |
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| 270. | Proof of Corn | (proofofcorn.com) |
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Can AI grow corn? A case study in vibe coding and autonomous orchestration. | |
| 23 points by rocauc 5 days ago | 8 comments |