Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale

https://derwiki.medium.com/do-things-that-dont-scale-and-then-don-t-scale-9fd2cd7e2156

181•derwiki•3h ago•83 comments

Toothpaste made from hair provides natural root to repair teeth

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/toothpaste-made-from-hair-provides-natural-root-to-repair-teeth

245•sohkamyung•8h ago•131 comments

Office on HP-UX and Unix

https://www.openpa.net/hp-ux_office.html

30•naves•2h ago•13 comments

Tversky Neural Networks

https://gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-neural-networks

42•che_shr_cat•3h ago•5 comments

The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)

https://raft.github.io/

27•nromiun•3d ago•3 comments

One person was able to claim 20M IPs, or 9% of all IPv4 hosts

https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/thread/MMCCEQKA4UPGGWFWEBWLYKHTYCAOQIZS/#MMCCEQKA4UPGGWFWEBWLYKHTYCAOQIZS

91•speckx•2h ago•35 comments

Good system design

https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-system-design/

641•dondraper36•13h ago•297 comments

Show HN: Lue – Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech

https://github.com/superstarryeyes/lue

31•superstarryeyes•2h ago•8 comments

Pfeilstorch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch

137•gyomu•11h ago•41 comments

James Baldwin's Apotheosis

https://hudsonreview.com/2025/08/james-baldwins-apotheosis/

12•apollinaire•2d ago•1 comments

Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way

https://pudding.cool/2025/08/onions/

127•surprisetalk•6h ago•58 comments

PuTTY has a new website

https://putty.software/

430•GalaxySnail•17h ago•217 comments

Dyna – Logic Programming for Machine Learning

https://dyna.org/

3•matteodelabre•55m ago•0 comments

Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 2

https://gautiersblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/writing-bzip2-encoder-in-ada-from.html

71•ajdude•3d ago•4 comments

Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

https://voidfox.com/blog/payment_processor_fun_2025_making_your_own_msp/

201•progval•5h ago•139 comments

A single lock of hair could rewrite what we know about Inca record-keeping

https://www.science.org/content/article/single-lock-hair-could-rewrite-what-we-know-about-inca-record-keeping

25•warrenm•2d ago•2 comments

Traps to Developers

https://qouteall.fun/qouteall-blog/2025/Traps%20to%20Developers

144•qouteall•10h ago•55 comments

Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software

https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/03/10/rust-2025-intro/

54•wseqyrku•3h ago•18 comments

The future of large files in Git is Git

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2025/08/15/git-lfs/

504•thcipriani•1d ago•238 comments

AI is different

https://www.antirez.com/news/155

460•grep_it•3d ago•739 comments

Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Study Canceled for 330K Members

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-library-operator-arrested-study-canceled-for-330k-members-250814/

30•speckx•1h ago•9 comments

Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring Design Engineers in AMER and EMEA

https://www.ashbyhq.com/careers?utm_source=hn&ashby_jid=579e9d03-0724-482b-a42a-8e5e80d73405

1•abhikp•8h ago

I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer

https://drobinin.com/posts/how-i-accidentally-became-puregyms-unofficial-apple-wallet-developer/

575•valzevul•1d ago•152 comments

Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account

https://edka.io

407•camil•1d ago•119 comments

Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library

https://www.openculture.com/2025/08/2178-occult-books-now-digitized-put-online.html

473•Anon84•1d ago•189 comments

Dokploy is the sweet spot between PaaS and EC2

https://nikodunk.com/2025-06-10-diy-serverless-(coreos-+-dokploy)

71•nikodunk•3d ago•38 comments

How randomness improves algorithms (2023)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-randomness-improves-algorithms-20230403/

44•kehiy•2d ago•19 comments

The electric fence stopped working years ago

https://soonly.com/electric-fences/

320•stroz•1d ago•135 comments

ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes

https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2024-083658

327•bookofjoe•1d ago•429 comments

OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/is-OpenBSD-10x-faster-than-Linux

215•Bogdanp•1d ago•157 comments