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Low-Level Optimization with Zig

https://alloc.dev/2025/06/07/zig_optimization
115•Retro_Dev•4h ago•30 comments

The FAIR Package Manager: Decentralized WordPress infrastructure

https://joost.blog/path-forward-for-wordpress/
114•twapi•7h ago•24 comments

Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/technology/20250605-259501/
290•anigbrowl•14h ago•156 comments

The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502
917•booleanbetrayal•2d ago•576 comments

Gander (YC F24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers and Interns

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gander/jobs/vwkK1FC-founding-engineer
1•arjanguglani•8m ago

Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation

https://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/
298•cratermoon•13h ago•117 comments

How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/06/05/how-we-decreased-gitlab-repo-backup-times-from-48-hours-to-41-minutes/
441•immortaljoe•20h ago•185 comments

Why are smokestacks so tall?

https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/6/3/why-are-smokestacks-so-tall
91•azeemba•11h ago•22 comments

A year of funded FreeBSD development

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-06-06-A-year-of-funded-FreeBSD.html
287•cperciva•16h ago•83 comments

Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise

https://blog.pkh.me/p/42-sharing-everything-i-could-understand-about-gradient-noise.html
79•ux•21h ago•3 comments

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf]

https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf
217•amrrs•17h ago•112 comments

Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo

https://veitner.bearblog.dev/highly-efficient-matrix-transpose-in-mojo/
109•timmyd•16h ago•36 comments

Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-african-gold
104•mooreds•13h ago•53 comments

Getting Past Procrastination

https://spectrum.ieee.org/getting-past-procastination
132•WaitWaitWha•9h ago•57 comments

Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer

https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/06/06/sandia-turns-on-brain-like-storage-free-supercomputer/
180•rbanffy•20h ago•67 comments

I Read All of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits

https://www.maxemitchell.com/writings/i-read-all-of-cloudflares-claude-generated-commits/
139•maxemitchell•13h ago•102 comments

Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client

https://www.tensorzero.com/blog/reverse-engineering-cursors-llm-client/
29•paulwarren•9h ago•3 comments

NASA delays next flight of Boeing's alternative to SpaceX Dragon

https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/758199
32•bookmtn•8h ago•26 comments

A masochist's guide to web development

https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2025-06-06-webdev/
224•sebtron•22h ago•30 comments

Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator

https://www.godmodeai.cloud/ai-sprite-generator
94•lyogavin•16h ago•71 comments

Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games

https://odyc.dev
217•achtaitaipai•22h ago•49 comments

Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp

https://storytotell.org/smalltalk-haskell-and-lisp
89•todsacerdoti•15h ago•38 comments

Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks

https://sutro.sh/blog/workhorse-llms-why-open-source-models-win-for-batch-tasks
73•cmogni1•17h ago•20 comments

Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Wendelstein-7-X-sets-new-fusion-record-10422955.html
154•doener•4d ago•31 comments

Too Many Open Files

https://mattrighetti.com/2025/06/04/too-many-files-open
128•furkansahin•20h ago•99 comments

Curate your shell history

https://esham.io/2025/05/shell-history
125•todsacerdoti•22h ago•69 comments

What you need to know about EMP weapons

https://www.aardvark.co.nz/daily/2025/0606.shtml
139•flyingkiwi44•1d ago•163 comments

Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed

https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns/meta-shut-down-your-invasive-ai-discover-feed-now/
493•speckx•20h ago•212 comments

Series C and scale

https://www.cursor.com/en/blog/series-c
79•fidotron•18h ago•56 comments

Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest

https://boostsecurity.io/blog/weaponizing-dependabot-pwn-request-at-its-finest
99•chha•1d ago•47 comments
Open in hackernews

A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/alex-chinneck-a-week-at-the-knees/
23•surprisetalk•17h ago

Comments

readthenotes1•15h ago
More money than sense.

In the UK is it more money than pense? (a play on pensive)

recursive•14h ago
Personally, I think it's OK, and maybe even good, if sometimes humans do things for aesthetic purposes instead of paperclip optimization.
impossiblefork•15h ago
While fun I always feel that grass and trees are basically always nicer than this kind of thing.

It feels like a human imposition on nature, that we decide that we are to have this brick thing here, instead of whatever grew there.

Maybe if it were a tunnel it would be okay.

pimlottc•14h ago
It is a tunnel, you can walk through it.

> However ‘A week at the knees’ is technically more sophisticated in every way. It also offers a more immersive experiences for audiences, who can walk directly beneath and behind the sculpture, enjoying it from multiple angles.

https://fadmagazine.com/2025/05/20/a-week-at-the-knees-alex-...

impossiblefork•14h ago
Yes, but what I meant by a tunnel is that a tunnel doesn't take away surface space whereas this does.
pimlottc•7h ago
I’m not sure what you mean, like an underground tunnel?
impossiblefork•2h ago
Yes.
recursive•14h ago
How about houses? I live in one. Maybe you do too. Are those an imposition?

If they are, surely they're a bigger one.

impossiblefork•13h ago
To some degree, yes. But we also need them. They aren't just decoration or something to satisfy our desire to build.
recursive•13h ago
What about an art museum whose purpose is to provide a place to show and view art? What about a concert venue?
appreciatorBus•14h ago
I'm inclined to agree, esp since this is in a park. That said, the article suggests it's part of festival and is just a temporary exhibit, so I don't think any trees were sacrificed for the sake of overly precious architectural fantasies.
Zardoz89•12h ago
You are missing the trees for the forest.
Reason077•12h ago
This is an urban square in the middle of London, not a nature park. There hasn't been a natural landscape here for thousands of years.
mhandley•11h ago
It's only there for a month.
egypturnash•10h ago
I wanna play this skateboarding game. :)
hn_throwaway_99•6h ago
The windows on this were extremely impressive to me. That is, I feel like this would have been way easier if all the windows were just on flat sections, but one set of windows have about their bottom third on the bottom curve, meaning he had to fabricate curved window frames and curved window panes, which seems really difficult to me. He could have easily "cheated" and put those windows just a tad higher so they were fully on the vertical back wall. Making them with that curve just shows a crazy attention to detail and really added to the illusion of the brick sculpture feeling like a flexible rug.