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The Grug Brained Developer (2022)

https://grugbrain.dev/
348•smartmic•3h ago•102 comments

Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket

https://global.honda/en/topics/2025/c_2025-06-17ceng.html
737•LorenDB•8h ago•231 comments

Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers

https://kianbradley.com/2025/06/15/resurrecting-a-dead-tracker.html
311•k-ian•5h ago•98 comments

Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust

https://trifectatech.org/blog/bzip2-crate-switches-from-c-to-rust/
100•Bogdanp•3h ago•32 comments

Building Effective AI Agents

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents
205•Anon84•5h ago•41 comments

3D-printed device splits white noise into an acoustic rainbow without power

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-3d-device-white-noise-acoustic.html
23•rbanffy•2d ago•1 comments

AMD's CDNA 4 Architecture Announcement

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-cdna-4-architecture-announcement
92•rbanffy•5h ago•17 comments

LLMs pose an interesting problem for DSL designers

https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-lang-design-llms.html
81•gopiandcode•4h ago•67 comments

Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-model-family-expands/
250•meetpateltech•7h ago•156 comments

Time Series Forecasting with Graph Transformers

https://kumo.ai/research/time-series-forecasting/
61•turntable_pride•5h ago•21 comments

Foundry (YC F24) Hiring Early Engineer to Build Web Agent Infrastructure

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/foundry/jobs/azAgJbN-foundry-software-engineer-new-grad-to-mid-level
1•lakabimanil•2h ago

How to use Prometheus to efficiently detect anomalies at scale

https://grafana.com/blog/2024/10/03/how-to-use-prometheus-to-efficiently-detect-anomalies-at-scale/
10•ekiauhce•38m ago•0 comments

What Google Translate Can Tell Us About Vibecoding

https://ingrids.space/posts/what-google-translate-can-tell-us-about-vibecoding/
62•todsacerdoti•4h ago•24 comments

Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history
116•purpleko•8h ago•219 comments

Should we design for iffy internet?

https://bytes.zone/posts/should-we-design-for-iffy-internet/
153•surprisetalk•10h ago•140 comments

Now might be the best time to learn software development

https://substack.com/home/post/p-165655726
104•nathanfig•8h ago•61 comments

From SDR to 'Fake HDR': Mario Kart World on Switch 2

https://www.alexandermejia.com/from-sdr-to-fake-hdr-mario-kart-world-on-switch-2-undermines-modern-display-potential/
36•ibobev•4h ago•22 comments

Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices

https://apnews.com/article/iran-whatsapp-meta-israel-d9e6fe43280123c9963802e6f10ac8d1
153•rdrd•4h ago•158 comments

After millions of years, why are carnivorous plants still so small?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/articles/carnivorous-plants-have-been-trapping-animals-for-millions-of-years-so-why-have-they-never-grown-larger-180986708/
35•gmays•4d ago•15 comments

Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court

https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/brad-lander-arrest-ice-immigration-court/
218•sjsdaiuasgdia•6h ago•128 comments

Tetrachromatic Vision

https://www.bookofjoe.com/2025/05/my-entry-32.html
20•surprisetalk•3d ago•14 comments

Apple: Prepare your network for quantum-secure encryption in TLS

https://support.apple.com/en-my/122756
9•donutloop•2h ago•0 comments

A Rural Public Transit Odyssey

https://shagbark.substack.com/p/a-rural-public-transit-odyssey
15•herbertl•3d ago•4 comments

The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/hamburger-menu-icon-recognizability/
63•thm•9h ago•120 comments

AMD's Pre-Zen Interconnect: Testing Trinity's Northbridge

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-pre-zen-interconnect-testing
97•zdw•3d ago•18 comments

The magic of through running

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-magic-of-through-running
157•ortegaygasset•14h ago•101 comments

Fujifilm X half: Is it the perfect family camera?

https://arslan.io/2025/06/14/fujifilm-x-half-is-it-the-perfect-family-camera/
36•farslan•3d ago•60 comments

US Streetlights Are Turning Purple

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/streetlights-are-mysteriously-turning-purple-heres-why/
47•surprisetalk•4d ago•54 comments

Voyager: Real-Time Splatting City-Scale 3D Gaussians on Your Phone

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02774
41•PaulHoule•10h ago•14 comments

O3 Turns Pro

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/o3-turns-pro
145•jsnider3•8h ago•103 comments
Open in hackernews

Calculating Oil Storage Tank Occupancy with Help of Satellite Imagery

https://medium.com/planet-stories/a-beginners-guide-to-calculating-oil-storage-tank-occupancy-with-help-of-satellite-imagery-e8f387200178
28•marklit•2d ago

Comments

hkchad•4h ago
Saw this headline and thought, HA been doing this for YEARS, yea, need to add a (2017) to the headline...
exabrial•4h ago
ok so like the lid moves up and down on those? How does it seal? How does it keep from tipping sideways or jamming on the walls? fascinating
officeplant•2h ago
Floating roof tank> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_floating_roof_tank

TL:DR yes there is a seal along the roof edge and alignment poles/rods so things stay flat.

I do fire suppression builds for these tanks, so all of my equipment on the tank lid has to move up and down with it as it gets filled/emptied. So we end up with self coiling cables/hoses that have to collect themselves on the lid as it fills up. Linear heat detection wire goes all the way around the rim of the tank and also along the lid, which melts and signals the alarm/suppression system in the event of a fire. Companies with more money also have us install UV/IR based flame detection.

Same with these usually having a ladder that becomes more or less stairs depending on how full the tank is.

addaon•3h ago
Seeing people use a spreadsheet as an image measuring tool does sort of explain why there’s a group of people who seem to find so much more value in current AI than I do… if you’re using the wrong tool for the job already, a bad replacement for doing it right might still be an improvement from where you are, I suppose.
actionfromafar•3h ago
It’s very true on a deep level, too. LLMs etc will smear out technology into places it never occupied before
jduckles•3h ago
Did this with grain bins in the 2010s to estimate total on-farm storage capacity available in a few states.
whatshisface•1h ago
What did you do with that information?