Dead Stars Don't Radiate

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/dead-stars-dont-radiate-and-shrink/

33•thechao•32m ago•7 comments

Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64

https://30fps.net/pages/palette-lighting-tricks-n64/

130•ibobev•3h ago•21 comments

How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS

https://webkit.org/blog/16929/contrast-color/

32•Kerrick•2h ago•9 comments

Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool

https://new.knife.day/blog/knife-steel-comparisons/all

18•p-s-v•1h ago•1 comments

Push Ifs Up and Fors Down

https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html

225•goranmoomin•8h ago•98 comments

If nothing is curated, how do we find things

https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/if-nothing-is-curated-how-do-we-find-things/

35•nivethan•2h ago•27 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/

20•zdw•2d ago•0 comments

JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management

https://v8.dev/features/explicit-resource-management

238•olalonde•13h ago•156 comments

"We would be less confidential than Google" Proton threatens to quit Switzerland

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-would-be-less-confidential-than-google-proton-threatens-to-quit-switzerland-over-new-surveillance-law

116•taubek•3h ago•42 comments

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

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/portugal-to-singapore-train/

27•PaulHoule•1h ago•3 comments

Steepest Descent Density Control for Compact 3D Gaussian Splatting

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05587

20•PaulHoule•4h ago•0 comments

OBNC – Oberon-07 Compiler

https://miasap.se/obnc/

43•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•13 comments

Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful

https://aruarian.dance/blog/japan-ic-cards/

224•aecsocket•2d ago•177 comments

Insurance for AI: Easier Said Than Done

https://loeber.substack.com/p/24-insurance-for-ai-easier-said-than

16•sebg•3d ago•11 comments

A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1017720/7155ecb9602e9ef2/

132•pabs3•16h ago•142 comments

Catalog of Novel Operating Systems

https://github.com/prathyvsh/os-catalog

113•prathyvsh•11h ago•37 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

5•giuliomagnifico•3d ago•0 comments

Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

https://phl.upr.edu/wow/outreach

167•visviva•16h ago•26 comments

Open Problems in Computational geometry

https://topp.openproblem.net/

59•nill0•8h ago•9 comments

Implementing a RISC-V Hypervisor

https://seiya.me/blog/riscv-hypervisor

82•ingve•10h ago•4 comments

Laser-Induced Graphene from Commercial Inks and Dyes

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202412167

27•PaulHoule•2d ago•3 comments

Getting AI to write good SQL

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/techniques-for-improving-text-to-sql

449•richards•21h ago•307 comments

New high-quality hash measures 71GB/s on M4

https://github.com/Nicoshev/rapidhash

119•nicoshev11•3d ago•43 comments

Chapter 2: Serializability Theory (1987 Concurrency Control Book)

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/05/chapter-2-serializability-theory.html

18•matt_d•2d ago•0 comments

XTool – Cross-platform Xcode replacement

https://github.com/xtool-org/xtool

171•TheWiggles•16h ago•48 comments

How Cory Arcangel Recovered Late Artist Michel Majerus's Digital Legacy

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-cory-arcangel-recovered-a-late-artists-digital-legacy

9•bookofjoe•2d ago•4 comments

Popcorn: Run Elixir in WASM

https://popcorn.swmansion.com/

108•clessg•2d ago•20 comments

MCP: An in-depth introduction

https://www.speakeasy.com/mcp/mcp-tutorial

167•ritzaco•4d ago•68 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/

119•homarp•5h ago•88 comments

Rustls Server-Side Performance

https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-server-perf/

161•jaas•4d ago•51 comments