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If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued

https://betterthanrandom.substack.com/p/if-you-are-useful-it-doesnt-mean
108•weltview•1h ago•54 comments

How to post when no one is reading

https://www.jeetmehta.com/posts/thrive-in-obscurity
197•j4mehta•6h ago•88 comments

The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-visual-world-of-samurai-jack
357•ani_obsessive•12h ago•61 comments

ReasoningGym: Reasoning Environments for RL with Verifiable Rewards

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24760
19•t55•1h ago•4 comments

The Princeton INTERCAL Compiler's source code

https://esoteric.codes/blog/published-for-the-first-time-the-original-intercal72-compiler-code
83•surprisetalk•8h ago•16 comments

Is "The Phoenician Scheme" Wes Anderson's Most Emotional Film?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/the-phoenician-scheme-movie-review
46•prismatic•6h ago•39 comments

Root shell on a credit card terminal

https://stefan-gloor.ch/yomani-hack
711•stgl•20h ago•204 comments

In POSIX, you can theoretically use inode zero

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/POSIXAllowsZeroInode
42•mfrw•2d ago•14 comments

Is It JavaScript?

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/is-it-javascript/
32•todsacerdoti•4h ago•32 comments

Show HN: System Prompt Learning – LLMs Learn Problem-Solving from Experience

14•codelion•3h ago•4 comments

LFSR CPU Running Forth

https://github.com/howerj/lfsr-vhdl
37•izabera•7h ago•2 comments

Hip: C++ Heterogeneous-Compute Interface for Portability

https://github.com/ROCm/hip
11•doener•2d ago•0 comments

I made a chair

https://milofultz.com/2025-05-27-i-made-a-chair.html
165•surprisetalk•2d ago•60 comments

A man who sailed round the world with a chicken (2019)

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/apr/21/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-globe-french-sailor-guirec-soudee-monique
25•NaOH•3d ago•13 comments

LibriVox

https://librivox.org/
168•bookofjoe•13h ago•43 comments

EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

https://easytier.cn/en/
13•wucke13•3d ago•1 comments

How can AI researchers save energy? By going backward

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-ai-researchers-save-energy-by-going-backward-20250530/
50•pseudolus•8h ago•31 comments

Cinematography of “Andor”

https://www.pushing-pixels.org/2025/05/20/cinematography-of-andor-interview-with-christophe-nuyens.html
384•rcarmo•1d ago•352 comments

HeidiSQL Available Also for Linux

https://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=44068
109•Daril•3d ago•21 comments

TPDE: A Fast Adaptable Compiler Back-End Framework

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22610
35•npalli•9h ago•11 comments

What works (and doesn't) selling formal methods

https://www.galois.com/articles/what-works-and-doesnt-selling-formal-methods
82•azhenley•3d ago•31 comments

The Zach Attack Scratch 'N Solve Puzzle Pack

https://coincidence.games/zach-attack/
28•GauntletWizard•3d ago•3 comments

Writing your own C++ standard library part 2

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/05/writing-your-own-c-standard-library.html
42•signa11•2d ago•29 comments

The Rise of Judgement over Technical Skill

https://notsocommonthoughts.com/blog/ai-and-judgement/
85•kohlhofer•13h ago•53 comments

Understanding Consistency in Databases: Beyond the Basics

https://medium.com/@lucas01/understanding-consistency-in-databases-beyond-the-basics-293013a50481
5•jgeraert•1h ago•2 comments

Computer science has one of the highest unemployment rates

https://www.newsweek.com/computer-science-popular-college-major-has-one-highest-unemployment-rates-2076514
5•zdgeier•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Moon Phase Algorithms for C, Lua, Awk, JavaScript, etc.

https://github.com/oliverkwebb/moonphase
38•oliverkwebb•11h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Yet another tmux cheat sheet

https://tmuxai.dev/tmux-cheat-sheet/
12•alvinunreal•4h ago•0 comments

Awesome-ArXiv: curated tools for discovering and working with ArXiv papers

https://github.com/artnitolog/awesome-arxiv
3•artnitolog•1h ago•0 comments

Progressive JSON

https://overreacted.io/progressive-json/
518•kacesensitive•1d ago•208 comments
Open in hackernews

CCD co-inventor George E. Smith dies at 95

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/science/george-e-smith-dead.html
152•NaOH•1d ago

Comments

NaOH•1d ago
Williard Boyle was the other co-inventor. His passing in 2011 was linked here but did not elicit any discussion.

Nobel Prize winner Willard Boyle, inventor of CCD, dies. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566440 - May 2011

nullhole•1d ago
Some years ago I tried to get a crater on the Moon (or alternatively Mars) named after Willard Boyle. His (and Smith's) contribution to the practice of astronomy should be unquestionable.

The naming wasn't possible at the time because there is already a crater on the Moon named Boyle (after the British natural philosopher and chemist Robert Boyle, 1627-1691), and duplicate names aren't allowed. Use of the first name ('Willard') wasn't suggested at the time.

It may be time to re-submit the request, but for the name "Boyle-Smith", if combined names are allowed.

[0] https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Page/Categories "The Moon : Craters: Scientists, engineers, and explorers, as well as other persons connected with astronomy, planetary, or space research who have made outstanding or fundamental contributions to their field. ... First names are used for small craters of special interest. "

thelittleone•1d ago
Wow... name collision avoidance is applied across the solar system.

Respect for taking the time to apply for his recognition.

closewith•20h ago
The British natural philosopher and chemist?
toomuchtodo•1d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E._Smith
dang•1d ago
Url changed from https://www.universitycube.net/news/ccd-co-inventor-george-e..., which points to this.
neonate•1d ago
https://archive.ph/U5yI7
neonate•1d ago
He was 79 when the photo in the article was taken? That's incredible.
rvnx•1d ago
Great looking for sure, probably genetics.
brcmthrowaway•18h ago
Or using red light therapy
selcuka•1d ago
He probably didn't, but he could have fine-tuned the CCD sensor of the camera.
kazinator•18h ago
Or clocked it down so that what's being shifted out is actually a sample from when he was 49.
formerly_proven•15h ago
Funnily enough the camera that he's holding has a CMOS sensor.
Luc•15h ago
Nah it's an EOS-1D, it has a CCD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EOS-1D

formerly_proven•14h ago
Says Mark II near his fingers.
hobs•15h ago
My dad is almost that old and looks younger and healthier than him for sure, it all depends on how you live your life and the genetics you are granted.
Findecanor•1d ago
I had attended his 1999 Nobel Prize Lecture on the invention of the CCD. The video is available.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2009/smith/lecture...