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A look back: LANPAR, the first spreadsheet

https://technicallywewrite.com/2025/12/16/lanpar
28•rbanffy•8h ago

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N_Lens•3h ago
The article highlights that LANPAR could handle forward references (cells referencing other cells not yet calculated) through iterative evaluation loops. This seems mundane now, but was genuinely novel in 1970 and didn't reappear in spreadsheets until Lotus 1-2-3 in the 1980s.

The Fate of Flight 2069

https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2025/12/the-strange-fate-of-flight-2069
1•bryanrasmussen•10s ago•0 comments

Micron outlines grim outlook for DRAM supply in earnings call

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/micron-outlines-grim-outlook-for-dram-supply-in-f...
1•walterbell•1m ago•0 comments

Porting a HTML5 Parser to Swift and finding how hard it is to make Swift fast

https://ikyle.me/blog/2025/swift-justhtml-porting-html5-parser-to-swift
1•freerunnering•1m ago•0 comments

What Is an Elliptic Curve?

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/02/21/what-is-an-elliptic-curve/
1•tzury•4m ago•0 comments

Claude-Hooks

https://github.com/TheNoeTrevino/claude-hooks
1•handfuloflight•6m ago•0 comments

A Survey of Dynamic Array Structures

https://azmr.uk/dyn/
1•keyle•8m ago•0 comments

Security vulnerability found in Rust Linux kernel code

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=3e0ae02ba831da2b70790...
1•lelanthran•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Crovise – Generate CRO hypotheses from landing pages

https://crovise.netlify.app/
2•adamoufkir•11m ago•1 comments

The optimal public transit price is near zero [pdf]

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32185/w32185.pdf
1•jacobedawson•14m ago•1 comments

Alternatives to GitHub Actions for self-hosted runners

https://r0bbie.substack.com/p/alternatives-to-github-actions-for
2•r0bbie•19m ago•0 comments

Everything Is Dead and We Killed It

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/everything-is-dead-and-we-killed-it/
1•asplake•21m ago•0 comments

Google TPU for AI Inference

https://www.naddod.com/ai-insights/google-tpu-the-ai-chip-for-the-ai-inference-era
1•Asheyleychen•24m ago•0 comments

SF lawmakers vote to create reparations fund $5M per Black resident

https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/s/ZUv2nywQgw
2•donsupreme•24m ago•0 comments

FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends

1•mrsurge•25m ago•0 comments

Apple's 2026 and 2027 Roadmap: Foldable iPhone, iPhone 18 Pro, M5 Macs, and More

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/16/apple-product-roadmap-2026/
2•JoachimS•27m ago•0 comments

The Myth of Cloud Backups

https://medium.com/@justinwang001/why-on-prem-backup-still-makes-sense-5723504c2d7b
1•yvvy430•27m ago•1 comments

Why Venture Capital Misunderstands the Power Law

https://www.alphanome.ai/post/the-map-is-not-the-territory-why-venture-capital-misunderstands-the...
1•anshulbhide•27m ago•0 comments

The Phone Ban Saved High School

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/how-new-york-public-school-phone-ban-saved-high-school.html
1•barry-cotter•28m ago•0 comments

JWST Confirms a Runaway Supermassive Black Hole via Its Supersonic Bow Shock

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04166
1•gnabgib•29m ago•0 comments

Interactive Fluid Typography

https://electricmagicfactory.com/articles/interactive-fluid-typography/
1•todsacerdoti•34m ago•0 comments

Learn Egyptian Hieroglyphs

https://www.egyptianhieroglyphs.net/egyptian-hieroglyphs/lesson-1/
1•jameslk•36m ago•0 comments

Shallow Review of Technical AI Safety, 2025

https://shallowreview.ai/overview
1•sinak•39m ago•0 comments

Let a Thousand Societies Bloom

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/17/societies.html
1•fbrusch•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kling O1 – Creates AI videos and images from any input

https://www.klingo1.net
2•Zach_HE•46m ago•0 comments

AI Playground - free comparison and test lab for LLMs(GPT, Claude, Gemini, more)

1•mohiuddinansari•48m ago•0 comments

Fotos of a Black Hole

https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/james-webb-space-telescope-confirms-1st-runaway-super...
2•pixiemaster•51m ago•2 comments

Apple Announces Changes to iOS in Japan

https://www.apple.com/sn/newsroom/2025/12/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-in-japan/
3•tech234a•59m ago•1 comments

Incidence of Dementia Before Age 65 Among 9/11 Attack Responders (2024)

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2819907
3•rdgthree•1h ago•0 comments

Rerun: Physical Data Platform

https://rerun.io/
1•gk1•1h ago•0 comments

China Speed

https://dilemmaworks.com/on-china-speed
1•baxtr•1h ago•0 comments