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Comparing floating-point numbers (2012)
Show HN: Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer
Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017)
A leap year check in three instructions
Dolphin whistle decoders win $100k interspecies communication prize
ML-Enhanced Code Completion Improves Developer Productivity (2022)
Stack Overflow is almost dead
Old and Small Technology
Stop using REST for state synchronization (2024)
A Tale of a Trailing Dot (2022)
Tek – A music making program for 24-bit Unicode terminals
Refactoring Clojure
The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use
The Scalar Select Anti-Pattern
Radiance Contrasts at Possible Lunar Water Ice Exposures Seen by ShadowCam
The current state of TLA⁺ development
October the First Is Too Late
Improving Naval Ship Acquisition
Dr. Dobb's Journal interviews Jef Raskin (1986)
Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment
“The Mind in the Wheel” lays out a new foundation for the science of mind
Windsurf SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models
ChatGPT could never get a PhD in geography
Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of Magna Carta. It's an original
I don't like NumPy
Rust 1.0, ten years later
Ports that are blocked by browsers (2023)
High Available Mosquitto MQTT on Kubernetes
Demystifying Ruby: It's all about threads (2024)
NASA's Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause
ARB Assembly Shader Programming (2023)
Show HN: Undetectag, track stolen items with AirTag
Researchers establish fundamental limit on how light bosonic dark matter can be
Fetii (YC S22) Is Hiring
Model Organisms Are Not Static
Onfim's world: Child artists in history
Walmart is preparing to welcome its next customer: the AI shopping agent
The Fastest Way yet to Color Graphs
I've never been so conflicted about a technology
Gateway Books: The lessons of a defunct canon
Launch HN: Tinfoil (YC X25): Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AI
The Internet's Favorite Sex Researcher
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Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom
An Update on Fresh
They Were Identical 'Twinnies' Who Charmed Orwell, Camus and More
Wavelet Trees: An Introduction (2011)
California sent residents' personal health data to LinkedIn
A Rust API Inspired by Python, Powered by Serde
Microsoft Lays Off TypeScript Compiler Veteran Ron Buckton
My 2025 high-end Linux PC
How we made billing backendless
Show HN: Min.js style compression of tech docs for LLM context
My Engineering Craft Regressed
A Tiny Boltzmann Machine
Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room
Forget IPs: using cryptography to verify bot and agent traffic
Pathfinding
Lua for Elixir
Show HN: Real-Time Gaussian Splatting
CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, begins rolling out today
Show HN: Kudos.wiki – Discover the best movies on Wikipedia
The untold story of how Shopify killed DEI
Experts say Silicon Valley prioritizes products over safety, AI research
CFPB Kills Rule to Shield Americans from Data Brokers
Clearly Incorrect
They Paid $3,500 for Apple's Vision Pro. A Year Later, It Still Hurts
Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026
Moving Forth: a series on writing Forth kernels
PermitFlow (YC W22) Is Hiring Senior/Staff Engineers in NYC
In the US, a rotating detonation rocket engine takes flight
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Tesla has yet to start testing its robotaxi without driver weeks before launch
How Qatar Bought America
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UK becomes fastest-growing G7 economy
Fast machines, slow machines (2023)
XAI's Grok suddenly can't stop bringing up "white genocide" in South Africa
The 'invisible crew' who have 35 seconds to prevent a Eurovision blunder
GM's new turbo engine rewrites the rules of torque control-and locks out tuners
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Lightweight open source reCaptcha alternative
Doom song on the Oldest Digital Computer in America [video]
EU ruling: tracking-based advertising [...] across Europe has no legal basis
EA Pushes Full Return to Office, Effectively Ends Remote Hiring
Tiptap (YC S23) Is Hiring
Critical Warning for External Purchases in Apple App Store
Working on complex systems: What I learned working at Google
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Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice
Self-hostable webhook tester in go
Internet Artifacts
AI is like hyperprocessed foods for learning
Human
Why agency and cognition are fundamentally not computational
LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation
Python lib generates its code on-the-fly based on usage
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