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Optimizing typography of insect labels using free fonts and free software (2012) [pdf]

https://www.akentsoc.org/doc/Bowser_ML_2012.pdf
27•exvi•3d ago

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atoav•7h ago
If someone is searching for a similar font today I highly recommend looking into the B612 high legibility font: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/B612
upstandingdude•7h ago
hmm for being a document about typography its quite an eye sore...

Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Affecting Usability

https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/july-august-2025/stop-hiding-my-controls-hidden-interface-controls-are-affecting-usability
200•cxr•3h ago•91 comments

Local-first software (2019)

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/
609•gasull•12h ago•201 comments

Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/cgi-bin-performance/
35•mustache_kimono•2h ago•16 comments

Cod Have Been Shrinking for Decades, Scientists Say They've Solved Mystery

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-cod-have-been-shrinking-dramatically-for-decades-now-scientists-say-theyve-solved-the-mystery-180986920/
134•littlexsparkee•8h ago•43 comments

Fast Code Is Easy. Measuring It Is Hard

https://www.architect.co/posts/how-fast-is-it-really
8•auc•3d ago•1 comments

How to Network as an Introvert

https://aginfer.bearblog.dev/how-to-network-as-an-introvert/
73•agcat•5h ago•30 comments

What a Hacker Stole from Me

https://mynoise.net/blog.php
58•wonger_•4h ago•17 comments

Operators, Not Users and Programmers

https://jyn.dev/operators-not-users-and-programmers/
47•todsacerdoti•4h ago•15 comments

Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming

https://viksit.substack.com/p/optimizing-tool-selection-for-llm
61•viksit•6h ago•13 comments

Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Economic Rights?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14283
70•lexandstuff•5h ago•55 comments

Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched

https://www.eumetsat.int/europes-first-geostationary-sounder-satellite-launched
167•diggan•12h ago•37 comments

macOS Icon History

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/macos-icon-history
148•ksec•11h ago•63 comments

ClojureScript from First Principles – David Nolen [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An-ImWVppNQ
20•puredanger•3d ago•1 comments

It's Illegal to Live in an RV on Your Property in These US States

https://www.jalopnik.com/1899469/rv-living-on-property-illegal-states/
9•rntn•56m ago•3 comments

Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots

https://xata.io/blog/behind-the-scenes-speeding-up-pgstream-snapshots-for-postgresql
93•tudorg•10h ago•20 comments

X-Clacks-Overhead

https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about
209•weinzierl•3d ago•46 comments

Atomic "Bomb" Ring from KiX (1947)

https://toytales.ca/atomic-bomb-ring-from-kix-1947/
59•gscott•3d ago•14 comments

The Right Way to Embed an LLM in a Group Chat

https://blog.tripjam.app/the-right-way-to-embed-an-llm-in-a-group-chat/
12•kenforthewin•4h ago•12 comments

Yet Another Zip Trick

https://hackarcana.com/article/yet-another-zip-trick
22•todsacerdoti•3d ago•9 comments

A Canadian's AI hoax duped the media and propelled a 'band' to success

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ai-band-hoax-velvet-sundown-1.7575874
5•empressplay•1h ago•6 comments

Volunteer finds Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents

https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/07/03/baptist-anti-slavery-scroll/
5•ohjeez•51m ago•0 comments

Haskell, Reverse Polish Notation, and Parsing

https://mattwills.bearblog.dev/haskell-postfix/
45•mw_1•3d ago•8 comments

The Calculator-on-a-Chip (2015)

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/the_calculator-on-a-chip.html
25•Bogdanp•10h ago•4 comments

WinUAE 6 Amiga Emulator

https://www.winuae.net/
45•doener•5h ago•5 comments

Ask HN: Advice for Starting a Hacker Space?

9•pkdpic•2h ago•4 comments

The Hell of Tetra Master

https://xvw.lol/en/articles/tetra-master.html
10•zdw•3d ago•1 comments

What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate

https://blog.alexoglou.com/posts/database-decisions/
47•konsalexee•15h ago•73 comments

Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/07/05/seine-reopens-to-paris-swimmers-after-century-long-ban_6743058_7.html
121•divbzero•9h ago•70 comments

Parametric shape optimization with differentiable FEM simulation

https://docs.pasteurlabs.ai/projects/tesseract-jax/latest/examples/fem-shapeopt/demo.html
13•dionhaefner•2d ago•2 comments

Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems (2019)

https://www.gecode.org/
64•gjvc•18h ago•13 comments