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ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC

https://www.home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc
318•miiiiiike•4h ago•184 comments

In the Network of the Conclav: How we "guessed" the Pope using network science

https://www.unibocconi.it/en/news/network-conclave
54•taubek•1h ago•32 comments

Launch HN: Nao Labs (YC X25) – Cursor for Data

61•ClaireGz•2h ago•27 comments

Past, present, and future of Sorbet type syntax

https://blog.jez.io/history-of-sorbet-syntax/
71•PaulHoule•3h ago•26 comments

Inventing the Adventure Game (1984)

http://www.warrenrobinett.com/inventing_adventure/
11•CaesarA•48m ago•0 comments

Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production

https://nrkno.github.io/sofie-core/
195•rjmunro•6h ago•27 comments

21 GB/s CSV Parsing Using SIMD on AMD 9950X

https://nietras.com/2025/05/09/sep-0-10-0/
183•zigzag312•5h ago•79 comments

New Tool: lsds – List All Linux Block Devices and Settings in One Place

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/lsds-list-linux-block-devices-and-their-config/
18•mfiguiere•1h ago•0 comments

Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal

https://www.itter.sh/
122•rrr_oh_man•5h ago•37 comments

Show HN: A backend agnostic Ruby framework for building reactive desktop apps

https://codeberg.org/skinnyjames/hokusai
41•zero-st4rs•3h ago•17 comments

Rollstack (YC W23) Is Hiring TypeScript Engineers (Remote US/CA)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rollstack-2/jobs/QPqpb1n-software-engineer-typescript-us-canada
1•yjallouli•2h ago

Show HN: Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs

https://aberdeenjs.org/
142•vanviegen•6h ago•79 comments

Show HN: Oliphaunt – A native Mastodon client for macOS

https://testflight.apple.com/join/Epq1P3Cw
39•anosidium•3h ago•13 comments

Show HN: BlenderQ – A TUI for managing multiple Blender renders

https://github.com/KyleTryon/BlenderQ
32•TechSquidTV•3h ago•3 comments

LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego

https://avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/
511•nkko•14h ago•132 comments

Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor

https://www.hyvector.com
204•jansan•8h ago•44 comments

Cell Mates: Extracting Useful Information from Tables for LLMs

https://www.gojiberries.io/cell-mates-extracting-useful-information-from-tables-for-llms/
13•goji_berries•2d ago•1 comments

CryptPad: An Alternative to the Google Suite

https://cryptpad.org/
102•ColinWright•7h ago•30 comments

Show HN: Hydra (YC W22) – Serverless Analytics on Postgres

https://www.hydra.so/
29•coatue•4h ago•13 comments

Reverse Engineering "DNA Sequences" in the Lost World: Jurassic Park Video Game

https://32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-microscope-the-lost-world
4•bbayles•2d ago•0 comments

The Anarchitecture Group

https://www.spatialagency.net/database/the.anarchitecture.group
19•jruohonen•2h ago•2 comments

Data manipulations alleged in study that paved way for Microsoft's quantum chip

https://www.science.org/content/article/data-manipulations-alleged-study-paved-way-microsoft-s-quantum-chip
157•EvgeniyZh•8h ago•113 comments

The birth of AI poker? Letters from the 1984 WSOP

https://www.poker.org/latest-news/the-birth-of-ai-poker-letters-from-the-1984-wsop-a4v2W4N4X3EP/
32•indigodaddy•4d ago•5 comments

NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-faces-radical-shake-officials-abolish-its-37-divisions
325•magicalist•7h ago•422 comments

Implementing a Struct of Arrays

https://brevzin.github.io/c++/2025/05/02/soa/
97•mpweiher•8h ago•34 comments

Show HN: Agents.erl (AI Agents in Erlang)

https://github.com/arthurcolle/agents.erl
23•arthurcolle•2d ago•13 comments

Former Supreme Court justice David Souter has died

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g-s1-65326/justice-david-souter-dies
71•danso•4h ago•30 comments

A Taxonomy for Rendering Engines

https://c0de517e.com/021_taxonomy.htm
35•ibobev•3d ago•12 comments

The CL1: the first code deployable biological computer

https://corticallabs.com/cl1.html
27•sprawl_•2d ago•12 comments

Hollow Core Fiber (HCF)

https://www.holightoptic.com/what-is-hollow-core-fiber-hcf%ef%bc%9f/
43•giuliomagnifico•6h ago•20 comments
Open in hackernews

Malaya's Timeless Design

https://www.linyangchen.com/Philately
58•cenazoic•3d ago

Comments

kubb•8h ago
Incredible how deep people can go into something so mundane as a post stamp.

The other day I was discussing with a friend what would happen if there wasn't any need to work at jobs anymore, and whether people would be able to find fulfilment in their lives.

I think there would be so many new areas of knowledge being explored that we can't even imagine it. In my opinion, people don't find meaning, they create it, and they have an endless capacity for it.

V__•5h ago
There is a reason why a lot of science in the past happened to be done by clergymen or pastors. They had a lot of time on their hand and a secure income. I am certain science, art and the community in general would profit immensely if the modern workload would be reduced.

I think covid was a good example of this. So many people took up a new hobby or tried something new.

khy•4h ago
I get the sense that a lot of science in the 19th century was done by the idle rich.
teachrdan•3h ago
Charles Darwin was independently wealthy and largely funded his own research into evolution.
vessenes•5h ago
Postage stamps are a surprisingly deep topic, overlapping with money, collectibility and bank notes. I’m not a postage stamp enthusiast myself, but it’s one of those “the universe is surprisingly detailed” type topics.

Your optimism on humans is appreciated, although arguably not backed up by history: it seems to me like most places times and economic systems turn out a similar percentage of knowledge explorers: ask yourself what percentage of the landed gentry in the UK did this, for instance, and what percent just leisured away. I propose with no data the numbers are largely invariant; what a society or economic systems does change is the ability of the x% to make progress and impact/implement.

kubb•1h ago
I feel like 98% were fox hunting, gambling and whatnot, but the 2% gave us William Wilberforce, Charles Darwin and Lord Byron. If the number of idlers increases so will the number of productive ones.
KaiserPro•6h ago
Firstly, this is an awesome website. I was looking for some high resolution stamp images a few weeks ago, these would have been perfect.

However the thing that really caught my interest is the font they are using. Yes its designed to look old, nothing new. But what is new is that the letters are not all at a fixed level, they move up and down minutely. Is that a product of the font, or something that is done in the rendering?

cenazoic•6h ago
The font is IM Fell English:

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IM+Fell+English

ayushrodrigues•3h ago
timeless is a great word to describe this. almost impossible to tell what era these are from
weiliddat•2h ago
Glad to see a bit of Malaysian/Singaporean history in the form of post stamps featured on HN.

Personal anecdote: my dad grew up during the post-colonial Malaysian era, and attended some colonial schools that were still ran by the British Anglican missionaries. I guess that's what instilled some stamp collection habits, which he did try to impart to me. I recall waiting in line for first day covers in my early school years, or going to tiny local post stamp trading events. For some stamps that were still affixed to letters, we'd carefully try to dissolve it with water, dry them, and store them in collection books lined with plastic/paper. Ah the simple tangible hobbies of the pre-Internet era...