Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O

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295•cempaka•3h ago•86 comments

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https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/05/clion-is-now-free-for-non-commercial-use/

282•AlexeyBrin•3h ago•153 comments

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https://dynomight.net/blood/

148•debesyla•6h ago•45 comments

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72•mygnu•4h ago•70 comments

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229•vquemener•9h ago•183 comments

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42•pclmulqdq•3d ago•9 comments

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19•nickoates•3d ago•1 comments

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1041•felixrieseberg•1d ago•252 comments

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12•simplesort•3h ago•7 comments

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3•zt•3d ago•0 comments

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481•mike210•19h ago•234 comments

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74•geox•1d ago•58 comments

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600•swyx•1d ago•522 comments

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376•willbryk•23h ago•124 comments

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https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/05/07/migrating-a-javascript-project-from-prettier-and-eslint-to-biomejs.html

39•unripe_syntax•5h ago•25 comments

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https://github.com/VictorTaelin/WebMonkeys

96•surprisetalk•2d ago•13 comments

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1•kilianjustus•8h ago

Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++

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510•LorenDB•21h ago•477 comments

docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable

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102•alexmolas•1d ago•62 comments

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https://www.variance.co/post/alignment-is-not-free-how-a-model-silenced-our-confidence-signals

92•karinemellata•16h ago•36 comments

Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch

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47•mobilio•3h ago•25 comments

VVVVVV Source Code

https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV

362•radeeyate•16h ago•66 comments

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https://github.com/dse/old-timey-mono-font

164•dsevil•3d ago•23 comments

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-pro-io-improved-coding-performance/

657•meetpateltech•1d ago•627 comments

Bloat is still software's biggest vulnerability (2024)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/lean-software-development

213•kristianp•16h ago•149 comments

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161•mfiguiere•1d ago•279 comments

ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model

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96•wertyk•19h ago•41 comments

Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O

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Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools

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Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++

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Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview

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DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo

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Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O

Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable)

Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC

CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

So Much Blood

My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer

Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

Perfect Random Floating-Point Numbers

Polycompiler: Merge Python and JavaScript code into one file that runs in both

Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

Using tests as a debugging tool for logic errors

Know Your Enemy: How Three Years at McKinsey Shaped My Second Startup

Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools

Cuttlefish 'talk' with their arms, study reveals

OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B

Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

Migrating a JavaScript Project from Prettier and ESLint to BiomeJS

WebMonkeys: parallel GPU programming in JavaScript

Jargonic Sets New SOTA for Japanese ASR

Tabular (YC S24) Is Hiring

Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++

docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable

Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals

Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch

VVVVVV Source Code

Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview

Bloat is still software's biggest vulnerability (2024)

DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo

ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model