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Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android

https://holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/11/linux-on-android-with-ar-glasses/
234•mikenew•3d ago•90 comments

Mystical

https://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.html
100•mmphosis•4h ago•9 comments

Directory of MCP Servers

https://github.com/chatmcp/mcpso
44•saikatsg•3h ago•8 comments

Dead Stars Don't Radiate

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/dead-stars-dont-radiate-and-shrink/
133•thechao•4h ago•60 comments

How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS

https://webkit.org/blog/16929/contrast-color/
116•Kerrick•6h ago•38 comments

Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64

https://30fps.net/pages/palette-lighting-tricks-n64/
169•ibobev•8h ago•28 comments

LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09662
59•flornt•2h ago•45 comments

Espanso – Cross-Platform Text Expander Written in Rust

https://github.com/espanso/espanso
32•kartikarti•3d ago•10 comments

Push Ifs Up and Fors Down

https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html
322•goranmoomin•12h ago•127 comments

Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool

https://new.knife.day/blog/knife-steel-comparisons/all
80•p-s-v•5h ago•63 comments

Starship Troopers Revolutionize Warfighting

https://perfectingequilibrium.substack.com/p/starship-troopers-revolutionize-warfighting
19•Michelangelo11•3h ago•20 comments

Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12034
13•pona-a•2h ago•0 comments

O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call

https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g/
131•kragniz•9h ago•20 comments

How I fixed the infamous Basilisk II Windows "Black Screen" bug in 2013

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/05/how-i-fixed-the-infamous-basilisk-ii-windows-black-screen-bug-in-2013/
49•zdw•2d ago•2 comments

Moment of heart's formation captured in images for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/13/heart-cells-mouse-embryo-science-research
59•giuliomagnifico•4d ago•6 comments

Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python

https://engineering.fb.com/2025/05/15/developer-tools/introducing-pyrefly-a-new-type-checker-and-ide-experience-for-python/
131•homarp•9h ago•100 comments

A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza

https://github.com/anthay/ELIZA
22•m1guelpf•5h ago•4 comments

Xata: Postgres at scale, with copy-on-write branching and anonymization

https://xata.io/blog/xata-postgres-with-data-branching-and-pii-anonymization
15•mebcitto•3h ago•1 comments

Unspoken Currency of Office Politics: Leverage and Sanction Between Coworkers

https://graphthinking.blogspot.com/2025/05/leverage-and-sanction-between-coworkers.html
4•physicsgraph•1h ago•0 comments

NASA Observes First Visible-Light Auroras at Mars

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-observes-first-visible-light-auroras-at-mars/
24•pseudolus•3d ago•3 comments

Remembering IBM Researcher Dick Garwin

https://research.ibm.com/blog/richard-garwin-obituary
3•rbanffy•3d ago•1 comments

A library of words: Discovering Roget's Thesaurus (2023)

https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/a-library-of-words
11•NaOH•2d ago•2 comments

If nothing is curated, how do we find things

https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/if-nothing-is-curated-how-do-we-find-things/
115•nivethan•6h ago•80 comments

Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application you open (2020)

https://robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wacom-drawing-tablets-track-name-of-every-application-you-open/
65•dvrp•2h ago•30 comments

JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management

https://v8.dev/features/explicit-resource-management
277•olalonde•17h ago•176 comments

Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful

https://aruarian.dance/blog/japan-ic-cards/
269•aecsocket•2d ago•207 comments

A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1017720/7155ecb9602e9ef2/
160•pabs3•20h ago•175 comments

OBNC – Oberon-07 Compiler

https://miasap.se/obnc/
60•AlexeyBrin•10h ago•16 comments

Google Chrome data leakage bug confirmed as actively exploited

https://www.scworld.com/news/google-chrome-bug-that-could-leak-sensitive-info-actively-exploited
3•Bender•5m ago•0 comments

The longest train journey is epic – but nobody's ever taken it

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/portugal-to-singapore-train/
82•PaulHoule•5h ago•30 comments
Open in hackernews

How I fixed the infamous Basilisk II Windows "Black Screen" bug in 2013

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/05/how-i-fixed-the-infamous-basilisk-ii-windows-black-screen-bug-in-2013/
49•zdw•2d ago

Comments

cardanome•3h ago
I remember running Basilisk 2 on a PlayStation Portable.

Not sure what the point was but I was happy I could.

MBCook•2h ago
Allocations moving around sounds a lot like the Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) that was added to Vista as part of the large increase in security hardening MS went through during development.

Great article. I’d love to know why the memory was allocated that way initially.