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LaborBerlin: State-of-the-Art 16mm Projector

https://www.filmlabs.org/wiki/en/meetings_projects/spectral/laborberlin16mmprojector/start
96•audionerd•3h ago•10 comments

P-Hacking in Startups

https://briefer.cloud/blog/posts/p-hacking/
24•thaisstein•3d ago•4 comments

Denmark's Archaeology Experiment Is Paying Off in Gold and Knowledge

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/denmark-let-amateurs-dig-for-treasure-and-it-paid-off/
80•sohkamyung•3d ago•37 comments

Airpass – easily overcome WiFi time limits

https://airpass.tiagoalves.me/
211•herbertl•3d ago•161 comments

AllTracker: Efficient Dense Point Tracking at High Resolution

https://alltracker.github.io/
53•lnyan•6h ago•7 comments

Compact Representations for Arrays in Lua [pdf]

https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/sblp/article/view/30252/30059
41•tkhattra•3d ago•8 comments

ARIA, the UK's Bet to Build Scientific Revolutions

https://www.asimov.press/p/aria
48•almost-exactly•7h ago•36 comments

Compiler for the B Programming Language

https://github.com/tsoding/b
12•ycuser2•3d ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes

203•throwarayes•7h ago•126 comments

Scaling our observability platform by embracing wide events and replacing OTel

https://clickhouse.com/blog/scaling-observability-beyond-100pb-wide-events-replacing-otel
169•valyala•14h ago•74 comments

Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA

https://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/
680•the-anarchist•20h ago•399 comments

Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/microsoft-edit-text-editor-ubuntu
223•jandeboevrie•3d ago•225 comments

The Nyanja new PC-Engine/TurboGrafx 16-bit console game in development

https://sarupro.itch.io/thenyanja
37•retro_guy•2d ago•0 comments

AI is ushering in a 'tiny team' era

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-20/ai-is-ushering-in-the-tiny-team-era-in-silicon-valley
79•kjhughes•5h ago•72 comments

Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app

https://delta.chat/en/
229•Bluestein•17h ago•120 comments

Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

https://fly.io/blog/phoenix-new-the-remote-ai-runtime/
535•wut42•1d ago•240 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring a founding AI engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/weave-3/jobs/SqFnIFE-founding-ai-engineer
1•adchurch•6h ago

Balatro for the Nintendo E-Reader

https://mattgreer.dev/blog/balatro-for-the-nintendo-ereader/
83•arantius•6h ago•18 comments

Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/06/17/unexpected-security-footguns-in-gos-parsers/
157•ingve•3d ago•89 comments

Axolotls May Hold the Key to Regrowing Limbs

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/axolotls-may-hold-the-key-to-regrowing-limbs-and-scientists-are-unraveling-their-secrets-to-help-humans-do-the-same-180986781/
25•noleary•2d ago•14 comments

Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on shorelines

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp9274
239•miles•1d ago•155 comments

'Gwada negative': French scientists find new blood type in woman

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/science/article/2025/06/21/gwada-negative-french-scientists-find-new-blood-type-in-woman_6742577_10.html
128•spidersouris•16h ago•57 comments

Show HN: To-Userscript: Chrome Extension to Userscript Converter

https://github.com/Explosion-Scratch/to-userscript
19•explosion-s•4h ago•1 comments

Show HN: MMOndrian

https://mmondrian.com/
41•neural_thing•13h ago•21 comments

uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS

https://testflight.apple.com/join/JjTcThrV
147•Squarex•15h ago•30 comments

Life as Slime

https://www.asimov.press/p/slime
47•surprisetalk•4d ago•29 comments

The Brute Squad

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-brute-squad
23•tosh•3d ago•15 comments

Augmented Vertex Block Descent (AVBD)

https://graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/projects/avbd/
78•bobajeff•19h ago•6 comments

Captain Cook's missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/captain-cook-missing-ship-found-hms-endeavour-b2771322.html
151•rmason•4d ago•51 comments

Researchers using the same data and hypothesis arrive at different conclusions (2022)

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2203150119
25•like_any_other•3h ago•5 comments
Open in hackernews

Compact Representations for Arrays in Lua [pdf]

https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/sblp/article/view/30252/30059
41•tkhattra•3d ago

Comments

kzrdude•3h ago
It was published in September 2024, so it's relatively recent.
Jyaif•2h ago
Jesus christ, 40% waste in arrays that can be solved by using `__attribute__((packed))`.

Irresponsible of them of not advertising this as an option in luaconf.h

sfpotter•2h ago
Here's the rest of that paragraph for you:

"However, this attribute is a gcc extension not present in ISO C. Moreover, even in gcc it is not guaranteed to work [3]. As portability is a hallmark of Lua, this almost magical solution is a no-go."

Jyaif•2h ago
It works in gcc and LLVM, on both arm and x86, so I'd say conservatively that 90% of their users are covered.
kragen•43m ago
You have no idea what 90% of their users are using. A lot of them aren't using LLVM or GCC. I'm pretty sure Roblox and WoW, for example, aren't normally compiled with LLVM or GCC. Whether those two games account for 99% of Lua's users or 0.001% depends on how you count, but no matter how you count, you have no idea.
canyp•36m ago
I really enjoyed the punchline at the end of that comment and how it authoritatively proves the opening statement. This is what the Internet was made for, folks; this is it right here.
mananaysiempre•40m ago
Embedders of Lua are not equidistributed across platforms with the general population of programmers or with user-exposed general-purpose computers. Not even close. One of the selling points of Lua is how easy it is to run on a toaster or potato, so disproportionately many ports of Lua are in fact running on toasters and potatoes.
ufo•1h ago
This optimization might land in the next Lua release. More specifically, the "Reflected Arrays" version (Figure 6).

https://github.com/lua/lua/blob/f71156744851701b5d5fabdda506...