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We built another object storage

https://fractalbits.com/blog/why-we-built-another-object-storage/
60•fractalbits•2h ago•11 comments

Java FFM zero-copy transport using io_uring

https://www.mvp.express/
26•mands•5d ago•6 comments

How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs

https://quant.engineering/exchange-order-book-distributed-logs.html
50•rundef•5d ago•17 comments

macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-26_2-release-notes#RDMA-over-...
467•guiand•18h ago•237 comments

AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/12/09/nuclear-power-ai
35•geox•2h ago•26 comments

Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs/
435•fleahunter•1d ago•363 comments

Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder, and so can you

https://petapixel.com/2025/12/06/this-photographer-built-an-awesome-medium-format-rangefinder-and...
78•shinryuu•6d ago•10 comments

Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
873•parisidau•10h ago•450 comments

GNU Unifont

https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
288•remywang•18h ago•68 comments

A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251205-how-the-handheld-digital-camera-was-born
42•selvan•5d ago•18 comments

Beautiful Abelian Sandpiles

https://eavan.blog/posts/beautiful-sandpiles.html
84•eavan0•3d ago•16 comments

Rats Play DOOM

https://ratsplaydoom.com/
335•ano-ther•18h ago•123 comments

Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig

https://github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32
167•trj•17h ago•11 comments

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/
481•simonw•15h ago•272 comments

Computer Animator and Amiga fanatic Dick Van Dyke turns 100

110•ggm•6h ago•23 comments

Will West Coast Jazz Get Some Respect?

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/will-west-coast-jazz-finally-get
10•paulpauper•6d ago•2 comments

Formula One Handovers and Handovers From Surgery to Intensive Care (2008) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/technology/2008-sower.pdf
82•bookofjoe•6d ago•33 comments

Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards

https://victorpoughon.github.io/bidicalc/
179•fouronnes3•1d ago•85 comments

Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud

https://0l.de/blog/2025/11/xiaomi-humidifier/
126•stv0g•1d ago•51 comments

Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/12/08/dandelion/
57•ColinWright•4d ago•1 comments

Go is portable, until it isn't

https://simpleobservability.com/blog/go-portable-until-isnt
120•khazit•6d ago•101 comments

Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-nati...
169•andsoitis•1d ago•217 comments

Poor Johnny still won't encrypt

https://bfswa.substack.com/p/poor-johnny-still-wont-encrypt
52•zdw•10h ago•66 comments

YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/13/youtubes-ceo-is-latest-tech-boss-limiting-his-kids-social-media-u...
86•pseudolus•3h ago•67 comments

Slax: Live Pocket Linux

https://www.slax.org/
41•Ulf950•5d ago•5 comments

50 years of proof assistants

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/12/05/History_of_Proof_Assistants.html
107•baruchel•15h ago•17 comments

Gild Just One Lily

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/gild-just-one-lily/
29•serialx•5d ago•5 comments

Capsudo: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities

https://ariadne.space/2025/12/12/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities.html
75•fanf2•17h ago•44 comments

Google removes Sci-Hub domains from U.S. search results due to dated court order

https://torrentfreak.com/google-removes-sci-hub-domains-from-u-s-search-results-due-to-dated-cour...
193•t-3•11h ago•35 comments

String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof

https://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212/
167•ArmageddonIt•22h ago•154 comments
Open in hackernews

The Ecstatic Swoon

https://aeon.co/essays/what-stendhal-says-about-the-purpose-and-promise-of-art
8•prismatic•7mo ago

Comments

bsenftner•7mo ago
The endless manipulation of art as a vehicle to tell people how their mind works through completely unrelated metaphors.
Xmd5a•7mo ago
>completely unrelated metaphors

An oxymoron.

    De toute façon                                         Anyway
    Les guides c'est encombrant                            Guidebooks are cumbersome
    Les romans trop longs                                  Novels are too long
    J'prends la fuite                                      I make a run for it
    Je ne suivrais pas le sens                             I won’t follow the direction
    De la visite                                           Of the tour
    [...]
    
    À chaque tour de rue je suis éblouie                   At every street corner, I’m dazzled
    J'ai pris le train de nuit je n'ai pas beaucoup dormi  I took the night train, didn’t sleep much
    Les sens en éveil                                      My senses are heightened
    Mes sens se réveillent                                 My senses awaken
    Accélèrent et s'amplifient                             They speed up and intensify
    [...]
    
    Et j'ai la tête qui tourne                             And my head is spinning
    La beauté m'entoure                                    Beauty surrounds me
    Puis soudain elle m’envahit                            Then suddenly it overwhelms me
    Florence en Italie                                     Florence, Italy
    Et j'ai la tête qui tourne                             And my head is spinning
    La beauté m'entoure                                    Beauty surrounds me
    Ne m'aidez pas si je m’évanouis                        Don’t help me if I faint
    Florence en Italie                                     Florence in Italy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BIpHulB1X8

Edit: the parallels abound. From the article:

    And I walked in constant fear of falling to the ground.
    Without a local guide or a moment’s hesitation, Beyle made his way to the Basilica di Santa Croce.
    My soul, affected by the very notion of being in Florence