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Part 1: A Deep Dive into Rust and C Memory Interoperability

https://notashes.me/blog/part-1-memory-management/
32•hyperbrainer•44m ago•17 comments

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives

https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/
383•rrampage•2h ago•174 comments

Century-Old Stone “Tsunami Stones” Dot Japan's Coastline (2015)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/century-old-warnings-against-tsunamis-dot-japans-coastline-180956448/
77•deegles•3h ago•17 comments

Open IP Camera Firmware

https://openipc.org/à
43•zakki•3d ago•18 comments

Scientists shine a laser through a human head

https://spectrum.ieee.org/optical-brain-imaging
48•sohkamyung•2h ago•19 comments

My Ideal Array Language

https://www.ashermancinelli.com/csblog/2025-7-20-Ideal-Array-Language.html
46•bobajeff•2h ago•12 comments

GHz spiking neuromorphic photonic chip with in-situ training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14272
85•juanviera23•4h ago•9 comments

Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

https://fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai-interviewers-job-seekers-unemployment-hiring-hr-teams/
206•robtherobber•7h ago•310 comments

Show HN: Tiny logic and number games I built for my kids

https://quizmathgenius.com/
5•min2bro•30m ago•2 comments

The Toyota Corolla of programming

https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-toyota-corolla-of-programming/
80•secstate•2h ago•61 comments

Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions

https://blog.pkh.me/p/44-perfecting-anti-aliasing-on-signed-distance-functions.html
64•ibobev•5h ago•16 comments

Do LLMs identify fonts?

https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/llm-font-identification/
29•alexmolas•4d ago•12 comments

Mozilla Firefox's extension store being flooded with malware

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/mozilla_add_on_phishing/
41•lknik•1h ago•12 comments

Genetic correlates of social stratification in Great Britain (2019) [pdf]

https://research.vu.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/127420931/Genetic_correlates_of_social_stratification_in_Great_Britain.pdf
41•djoldman•3h ago•33 comments

ScreenCoder: An intelligent UI-to-code generation system

https://github.com/leigest519/ScreenCoder
13•Dowwie•2h ago•5 comments

Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mastercard-deflects-blame-for-nsfw-games-being-taken-down-but-valve-says-payment-processors-specifically-cited-a-mastercard-rule-about-damaging-the-brand/
384•croes•6h ago•371 comments

Facts will not Save You - AI, History and Soviet Sci-Fi

https://hegemon.substack.com/p/facts-will-not-save-you
5•veqq•2d ago•1 comments

Modern Node.js Patterns

https://kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2025/
776•eustoria•20h ago•358 comments

New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-quantum-state-interface-exotic-materials.html
124•janandonly•3d ago•19 comments

How we built Bluey’s world

https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/how-we-built-bluey-s-world-cartoon-background-scenery-art-director-catriona-drummond-animation-090725
142•skrebbel•3d ago•79 comments

So you want to parse a PDF?

https://eliot-jones.com/2025/8/pdf-parsing-xref
347•UglyToad•17h ago•193 comments

Writing a good design document

https://grantslatton.com/how-to-design-document
474•kiyanwang•19h ago•123 comments

Every Visual Workflow Tool Is Just Excel for Developers Who Gave Up

https://medium.com/@mohamedalibenothmen1/every-visual-workflow-tool-is-just-excel-for-developers-who-gave-up-f7261090fbc8
11•dalibenothmen•26m ago•1 comments

Read your code

https://etsd.tech/posts/rtfc/
99•noeclement•2h ago•62 comments

Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors
386•itchyjunk•23h ago•126 comments

KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland

https://www.neowin.net/news/kde-plasma-prepares-crackdown-on-focus-stealing-window-behavior-under-wayland/
78•bundie•4h ago•36 comments

Objects should shut the fuck up

https://dustri.org/b/objects-should-shut-the-fuck-up.html
129•gm678•1h ago•91 comments

Why doctors hate their computers (2018)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers
102•mitchbob•15h ago•160 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/
197•Khaine•2d ago•65 comments

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

https://www.runconverge.com/careers
1•thomashlvt•22h ago
Open in hackernews

Century-Old Stone “Tsunami Stones” Dot Japan's Coastline (2015)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/century-old-warnings-against-tsunamis-dot-japans-coastline-180956448/
77•deegles•3h ago

Comments

atopal•1h ago
Reminds me of the hunger stones in Germany and neighboring countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_stone
Mistletoe•1h ago
I've always been fascinated by these because I love long term thinking. What current "tsunami stone" would you leave to future generations to prevent catastrophe?
thinkingtoilet•1h ago
I think the obvious answer in the modern world would not be a phsyical one, but some sort of measure of wealth inequality. At some point, if too few have too much it destroys a country from the inside out over the long run. It does far more damage than any tsunami ever could. I don't have a number or exact measure in mind, but that would be the warning I would leave to future generations.
NilMostChill•1h ago
Depends on how metaphorical and/or political you want to get.

Arguably books could be considered warning waystones, but that's a stretch in this context.

Physical monuments though, we have loads, lots of war memorials are/were intended as warning about the cost of war.

Auschwitz-Birkenau being left as as it is could be considered another.

If you want to get really close to similar intentions there are the long term nuclear waste warnings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin...

A bit more esoteric (and less warningy) and you get the signals we send in to space intentionally as a time-capsule/marker for potential alien contact.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF•47m ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/georgism/comments/102jg2f/everybody...
porphyra•1h ago
1896 is pretty recent actually I thought they were like thousands of years old
muyuu•26m ago
Oldest known stones date back to the early 1400s but there must have been older stones. Already those stones are mostly unreadable because of erosion and they are dated by secondary sources.
mytailorisrich•6m ago
You can put warnings everytime there is a tsunami, which is "often" in Japan, but the issue is that a massive one like the 2011 earthquake and tsunami is a once in a millenium event so would indeed need to rely on very old warnings:

"The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake occurred in exactly the same area as the 869 earthquake, fulfilling the earlier prediction and causing major flooding in the Sendai area. [1]

Modern society is not good at this sort of very long term consideration and planning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/869_J%C5%8Dgan_earthquake

anonu•1h ago
Reminds me of the forest inscriptions in the mountains of Lebanon which date from the time of the Roman Emperor Hadrian (~100 AD): Lebanese cedar wood was prized for shipbuilding and forests were decimated due to heavy logging. Nice to see that nature conservancy was alive and well, even 2000 years ago.
josefritzishere•1h ago
This is a deeper dive on the stones and their locations. Please note that 317 stone tablets were built after the 2 tsunamis, 125 (40%) of them were washed away or destroyed by the 2011 tsunami. https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/cartography-power/incomp...
MarkusQ•43m ago
That suggests a possibly better strategy (though very long term): pepper the portion of the landscape believed to be safe with "it is safe to build here" monoliths, each as stable as a typical building, and over time only the ones that speak truly will remain.

Would work for volcanoes and earthquakes as well.

penneyd•20m ago
They just do the same thing with regular homes :)
willidiots•59m ago
The Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake of 1700 was dated using Japanese tsunami records: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996Natur.379..246S/abstra...
teleforce•52m ago
Fun facts, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was built beyond the warning limit of the tsunami stones.

If those people that setup the tsunami stones are still alive during the incident they will have a kahuna of "I told you" moment.

bumbledraven•36m ago
Do you have a citation for this? The most Gemini could say is: "While research has not identified a specific tsunami stone located at the Fukushima Daiichi site that was directly violated, the spirit of these ancient warnings was undeniably ignored." (https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%...)
mytailorisrich•24m ago
I don't know if there are "Tsunami stones" in the area but the nuclear power plant is built at sea level [1] so would most probably be below them.

The issue is the height of the seawalls that was not sufficient (and perhaps where historical warnings, if any, were ignored):

"The subsequent destructive tsunami with waves of up to 14 metres (46 ft) that over-topped the station, which had seawalls" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Powe...

xrayarx•5m ago
FTA cites this article in the NYT, archive link:

https://archive.is/20161221102801/http://www.nytimes.com/201...