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Starting game development in JavaScript with no experience

https://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/how-to-start-making-games-in-javascript
15•JSLegendDev•55m ago•1 comments

X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls

https://www.popsci.com/technology/tibetan-prayer-scroll-scans/
52•Hooke•2d ago•3 comments

Lab-grown salmon hits the menu

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lab-grown-salmon-hits-the-menu-at-an-oregon-restaurant-as-the-fda-greenlights-the-cell-cultured-product-180986769/
71•bookmtn•3h ago•99 comments

Obsidian Bases

https://help.obsidian.md/bases
325•twapi•4h ago•101 comments

Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/freediving/how-croatian-freediver-held-breath-for-29-minutes/
98•toomanyrichies•2h ago•28 comments

A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU

https://github.com/tiny-tpu-v2/tiny-tpu
84•admp•5h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/tree/main/apps/whispering
269•braden-w•9h ago•73 comments

Precision mapping tracks woody plant spread across Great Plains grasslands

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-precision-tracks-woody-great-plains.html
8•PaulHoule•3d ago•0 comments

XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images

https://www.binarly.io/blog/persistent-risk-xz-utils-backdoor-still-lurking-in-docker-images
55•torgoguys•2h ago•16 comments

Left to Right Programming

https://graic.net/p/left-to-right-programming
205•graic•9h ago•175 comments

Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/arts/counter-strike-half-life-minh-le.html
219•asnyder•11h ago•194 comments

Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPnX_f2V_c
99•maxraven•7h ago•58 comments

Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels

https://scrollguard.app/
479•adrianhacar•2d ago•191 comments

An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower

https://jotunheimr.idlerpg.net/users/jotun/lawnmower/
45•rickcarlino•2d ago•7 comments

OpenMower – An Open Source Lawn Mower

https://github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower
10•rickcarlino•1h ago•3 comments

Spice Data (YC S19) Is Hiring a Product Associate (New Grad)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spice-data/jobs/RJz1peY-product-associate-new-grad
1•richard_pepper•4h ago

A general Fortran code for solutions of problems in space mechanics [pdf]

https://jonathanadams.pro/blog-articles/Nasa-Fortran-Code-1963.pdf
18•keepamovin•2h ago•4 comments

The Rising Returns to R&D: Ideas Are Not Getting Harder to Find

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5242171
61•surprisetalk•4d ago•12 comments

FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons
310•flykespice•12h ago•91 comments

What could have been

https://coppolaemilio.com/entries/what-could-have-been/
110•coppolaemilio•3h ago•90 comments

Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

https://annas-archive.org/blog/an-update-from-the-team.html
801•jerheinze•9h ago•378 comments

Show HN: I built a toy TPU that can do inference and training on the XOR problem

https://www.tinytpu.com
55•evxxan•6h ago•11 comments

Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1542140
29•lsferreira42•4h ago•7 comments

Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)

https://nadia.xyz/shameless
124•wdaher•3h ago•46 comments

Show HN: Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers

https://www.fractionaljobs.io
164•tbird24•5h ago•78 comments

Structured (Synchronous) Concurrency

https://fsantanna.github.io/sc.html
20•jbkcc•4h ago•1 comments

GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/generative_ai_zero_return_95_percent/
181•rntn•6h ago•86 comments

T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal–judges disagree

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/t-mobile-claimed-selling-location-data-without-consent-is-legal-judges-disagree/
250•Bender•6h ago•62 comments

The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman (2016)

https://5wgraphicsblog.com/2016/10/24/the-cutaway-illustrations-of-fred-freeman/
75•Michelangelo11•2d ago•7 comments

Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection

https://www.realitydefender.com/platform/api
68•bpcrd•11h ago•32 comments
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What learning react won't teach you: Image Formats

https://idiallo.com/blog/react-and-image-format
11•foxfired•3d ago

Comments

jagthebeetle•1h ago
A bit of a nit, but the 17kb PNG actually looks slightly blurry, or "artifact-ed" on my MacBook screen. Happily though, the author included a section on SVG at the bottom, which was my knee-jerk reaction for the appropriate format for lettering at that scale.
wmf•1h ago
It seems weird to blame React for this.
zahlman•1h ago
Do front-end devs really not know this sort of thing in 2025? I haven't done serious web development since the jQuery days and it's still second nature to me. (Granted, WebP barely existed at that point.) Honestly, when I was growing up this sort of thing was something ordinary users would know about.