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241. The Myth of the ThinkPad
Lenovo does not care about you.IBM did not care about you.Thinkpads do not exist for your benefit. There are a lot of videos and blogs seeking to answer the question “why are ThinkPads so popular” These discussions usually come down to three things Price - A used thinkpad from 5-10 years ago will out-perform a…
242. A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel
The University of Minnesota has been banned from contributing to the Linux kernel after a body of research drew ire from the developer community. Lessons were learned — though not entirely the lessons the researchers intended.
243. A 40-Line Fix Eliminated a 400x Performance Gap
A deep dive into an OpenJDK commit that replaced slow /proc file parsing with a single syscall, revealing obscure Linux kernel internals and a 20-year-old optimization opportunity.
244. Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization
245. Stop using natural language interfaces
Natural language is a wonderful interface, but just because we suddenly can doesn't mean we always should.
246. Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s
Furiosa RNGD Server is an enterprise-ready turnkey appliance designed to bring world-class performance to any on-prem or private cloud deployment.
247. 1000 Blank White Cards
248. Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check
249. Every GitHub Object Has Two IDs
How I reverse-engineered GitHub node IDs to avoid a database migration and discovered their dual ID system along the way.
250. How to Debug Your Life
251. Remails: A European Mail Transfer Agent
Increasingly more organizations are reviewing their dependencies on foreign software and IT services from countries like the US. One broad necessity for many organizations is sending automated ema ...
252. Project SkyWatch (a.k.a. Wescam at Home)
253. Show HN: E80: an 8-bit CPU in structural VHDL
A simple CPU in VHDL for educational purposes. Contribute to Stokpan/E80 development by creating an account on GitHub.
254. Local-only Marstek Venus e-battery integration with Home Assistant
A personal code notes blog
255. The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly
The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly - soegaard/webracket
256. ChromaDB Explorer
A beautiful, native desktop application for exploring and managing your ChromaDB vector databases. Browse collections, search semantically, and manage your embeddings with ease.
257. Ask HN: One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website
258. LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet
259. A Year of 3D Printing
If you'd asked me a few years back if I thought I'd buy a 3D printer, I would have said no. My experience of 3D printers back when I was in college was that they were very slow, expensive, frequently failed mid-print, and needed constant calibration...
260. The Influentists: AI hype without proof
Why we are losing technical rigor to social hype
261. The Unbearable Frustration of Figuring Out APIs
or: Writing a Translation Command Line Tool in Swift.
262. I built Vector. Now I'm answering the question your observability vendor won't
After a decade in observability, I kept bumping into one question no vendor would answer: how much of your data is waste?
263. Why Every Country Should Set 16 as the Minimum Age for Social Media Accounts
Four features of strong age-limit policies for countries ready to follow Australia’s brave lead
264. I Love You, Redis, but I'm Leaving You for SolidQueue
Rails 8 eliminates Redis from the default stack. Learn how SolidQueue, SolidCache, and SolidCable replace Redis for job processing, caching, and real-time updates—powered entirely by PostgreSQL. Explore the true cost of Redis, how SolidQueue works, when it scales, and how to migrate from Sidekiq to a simpler, Redis-free Rails architecture.
265. AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them
266. Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones [video]
Is fast charging actually killing the battery? What's the best way to charge your phone? Will battery degradation make your phone lag or slow down? At what p...
267. Show HN: A 10KiB kernel for cloud apps
BareMetal for the private/public cloud. Contribute to ReturnInfinity/BareMetal-Cloud development by creating an account on GitHub.
268. Programming, Evolved: Lessons and Observations
dotfiles. Contribute to kulesh/dotfiles development by creating an account on GitHub.
269. No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams
Sharing a reluctant, "node & postgres" approach to engineering management for early-stage startups
270. OBS Studio 32.1.0 Beta 1 available
OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - Release OBS Studio 32.1.0 Beta 1 · obsproject/obs-studio