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Modern Node.js Patterns

https://kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2025/
408•eustoria•8h ago•184 comments

Writing a good design document

https://grantslatton.com/how-to-design-document
203•kiyanwang•7h ago•50 comments

Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors
296•itchyjunk•11h ago•96 comments

So you want to parse a PDF?

https://eliot-jones.com/2025/8/pdf-parsing-xref
102•UglyToad•5h ago•52 comments

Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding

https://solmaz.io/typed-languages-are-better-suited-for-vibecoding
88•hosolmaz•3h ago•76 comments

If you're remote, ramble

https://stephango.com/ramblings
713•lawgimenez•17h ago•375 comments

Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation

https://acoup.blog/2025/08/01/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-iiia-family-formation/
82•Khaine•1d ago•0 comments

Why doctors hate their computers (2018)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers
17•mitchbob•3h ago•14 comments

Efficiently Generating a Number in a Range (2018)

https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/bounded-rands.html
7•csense•1d ago•0 comments

Welcome to url.town, population 465

https://url.town/
113•plaguna•1d ago•23 comments

Names are not type safety (2020)

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/11/01/names-are-not-type-safety/
28•azhenley•4h ago•22 comments

Learnable Programming (2012)

https://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
16•kunzhi•4h ago•6 comments

Human speech may have a universal transmission rate (2019)

https://www.science.org/content/article/human-speech-may-have-universal-transmission-rate-39-bits-second
18•Bluestein•5h ago•16 comments

How Python grew from a language to a community

https://thenewstack.io/how-python-grew-from-a-language-to-a-community/
6•lumpa•11h ago•0 comments

"If you can rack it, you can run UniFi OS" Ubiquiti self-hosted UniFi OS release

https://deluisio.com/networking/unifi/2025/08/03/everything-you-need-to-know-about-unifi-os-server-before-you-waste-time-testing-it/
40•codydeluisio•6h ago•3 comments

A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth (2022)

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/09/29/a-study-of-lights-at-night-suggests-dictators-lie-about-economic-growth
100•mooreds•4h ago•36 comments

Shrinking freshwater availability increasing land contribution to sea level rise

https://news.asu.edu/20250725-environment-and-sustainability-new-global-study-shows-freshwater-disappearing-alarming
126•ornel•7h ago•47 comments

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzx0zm68vo
191•dxs•3d ago•52 comments

Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth

https://www.ft.com/content/cfb77a53-fef8-4382-b102-c217e0aa4b25
44•hhs•2h ago•26 comments

This Old SGI: notes and memoirs on the Silicon Graphics 4D series (1996)

https://archive.irixnet.org/thisoldsgi/
71•exvi•12h ago•4 comments

Tokens are getting more expensive

https://ethanding.substack.com/p/ai-subscriptions-get-short-squeezed
238•admp•16h ago•171 comments

Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest

https://www.ioccc.org/2024/index.html
316•mdl_principle•23h ago•92 comments

Show HN: Schematra – Sinatra-inspired minimal web framework for Chicken Scheme

https://github.com/rolandoam/schematra
22•funkaster•2d ago•1 comments

System-Wide Safety Project

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/armd/aosp/sws/
10•pieterk•1d ago•0 comments

Converge (YC S23) well-capitalized New York startup seeks product developers

https://www.runconverge.com/careers
1•thomashlvt•10h ago

How to make almost anything (2019)

https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.19/CBA/people/dsculley/index.html
157•teleforce•16h ago•23 comments

UN report finds UN reports are not widely read

https://www.reuters.com/world/un-report-finds-united-nations-reports-are-not-widely-read-2025-08-01/
260•anjneymidha•10h ago•105 comments

The Ski Rental Problem

https://lesves.github.io/articles/ski-rental/
64•skywalqer•4d ago•72 comments

How to grow almost anything

https://howtogrowalmostanything.notion.site/htgaa25
61•car•4h ago•13 comments

CloudGazing

https://cloudgazing.online/
18•speckx•2d ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

How to grow almost anything

https://howtogrowalmostanything.notion.site/htgaa25
61•car•4h ago

Comments

mensetmanusman•3h ago
A spiritual successor to: https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MAS.863/
faresahmed•3h ago
Off topic, but Notion is a perfect example of how badly you can abuse web standards. This webpage, which is a document with some markup and links (the very thing the web was made for) takes ~600MB RAM, about 10 seconds load, and lags terribly. Just unusable.
brcmthrowaway•3h ago
What if you used the app?
amelius•3h ago
Also, my screen is 20 inches wide, yet the website uses only 25% of that width.
Marciplan•2h ago
hate Notion but also it took 2s to load on iOS safari
packetlost•2h ago
Notion has really great ideas though, it's just so poorly implemented that it really hurts my desire to use it for anything unless forced to.
AngryData•2h ago
Wow it is horrible. I clicked on the link to load it, tabbed back to this comment page and read this comment, went back to the page to see how it was doing and got 99% blank page, scrolled for a solid 10 seconds and just as I was about to come back and say the page is broken for me it popped up a proper scroll bar for a window about 1/3 of my browser size. Scrolled through about 5-6 pages worth of that which still looked broken, then the window finally resized and images started popping in, but it still took another 7 seconds or so for those to load an actual image instead of just a placeholder icon while everything shifted around like mad.
Aurornis•2h ago
Notion sites aren’t my favorite and this website has some annoying quirks (like scrolling to the top after fully loading)

But if this is what it takes for someone to generously share so much information with us for free then I really don’t care if I have to wait a couple extra seconds for a page load or if a tab takes up 600MB of RAM. I know this thinking makes the web purists angry, but the majority of people who visit these sites to learn aren’t going to be impeded or even bothered. Even on my older iPhone on non-5G cellular it loads in a couple of seconds.

kogasa240p•2h ago
Site doesn't even work on Pale Moon, and judging from your comment that's probably a good thing.
the__alchemist•3h ago
Warning to anyone who goes down this rabbit hole: If you set up a home lab, don't tell people who you're not close with. There's a very good chance they'll assume you're (if they're a normie) making coronavirus or meth, and (If they're a biologist or chemist) assume you're not disposing of reagents and cultures properly. I wish this wasn't the case, but as a society, we're not ready to talk about bio outside of institutions and universities.

Also, the costs are deceptive, even with used or Chinese parts: I estimate $10k USD for a usable molecular bio lab, including equipment and reagents.

Aurornis•2h ago
> There's a very good chance they'll assume you're (if they're a normie) making coronavirus or meth, and (If they're a biologist or chemist) assume you're not disposing of reagents and cultures properly.

I don’t have a full bio lab but I do have a lot of various lab equipment and do things at home that aren’t typical hobbyist projects. I haven’t found this to be a problem at all.

I also don’t mentally segregate the world into “normies”, which honestly helps a lot. In my experience people who develop a chip on their shoulder about their geek hobbies and start describing other people as “normies” bring a lot of these problems upon themselves. It helps a lot to just talk to people like peers and also know when people just aren’t interested in talking about your certain hobbies.

the__alchemist•59m ago
Great points. I've heard the term used in different context, and don't consider it a pejorative.
jonstewart•2h ago
Oh, I thought there’d be some tips for my rhubarb.