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Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server

https://blog.habets.se/2025/04/io-uring-ktls-and-rust-for-zero-syscall-https-server.html
47•guntars•2h ago•9 comments

Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021)

https://www.begaydocrime.com/
122•mystraline•4h ago•19 comments

DeepSeek-v3.1

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250821
394•wertyk•10h ago•96 comments

Uv format: Code Formatting Comes to uv (experimentally)

https://pydevtools.com/blog/uv-format-code-formatting-comes-to-uv-experimentally/
204•tanelpoder•9h ago•128 comments

Everything Is Correlated

https://gwern.net/everything
18•gmays•3h ago•1 comments

From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]

https://www.fertrevino.com/docs/gpt5_medhelm.pdf
84•fertrevino•7h ago•56 comments

Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/python-abc/
162•agluszak•10h ago•61 comments

Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers

https://github.com/cvilsmeier/go-sqlite-bench
51•cvilsmeier•3d ago•9 comments

1981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R: The Most Luxurious Trinitron [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHG_I-9a7FY
41•ksec•18h ago•34 comments

An interactive guide to SVG paths

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/interactive-guide-to-paths/
257•joshwcomeau•3d ago•26 comments

Elegant mathematics bending the future of design

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/elegant-mathematics-bending-the-future-of-design/
83•robinhouston•3d ago•4 comments

How Not to Buy a SSD

https://andrei.xyz/post/how-not-to-buy-a-ssd/
23•speckx•3d ago•8 comments

Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/weaponizing-image-scaling-against-production-ai-systems/
344•tatersolid•17h ago•93 comments

AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/8289
582•freetonik•11h ago•329 comments

How does the US use water?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-does-the-us-use-water
136•juliangamble•17h ago•127 comments

Building AI products in the probabilistic era

https://giansegato.com/essays/probabilistic-era
114•sdan•11h ago•61 comments

Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00191
206•brandonb•15h ago•43 comments

How well does the money laundering control system work?

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735665
220•PaulHoule•16h ago•225 comments

AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/
1236•JustExAWS•17h ago•499 comments

Skill issues – Dialectical Behavior Therapy and its discontents (2024)

https://www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/
41•zt•2d ago•14 comments

Show HN: Splice – CAD for Cable Harnesses and Electrical Assemblies

https://splice-cad.com
62•djsdjs•8h ago•7 comments

My other email client is a daemon

https://feyor.sh/blog/my-other-email-client-is-a-mail-daemon/
113•aebtebeten•20h ago•17 comments

Miles from the ocean, there's diving beneath the streets of Budapest

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/travel/budapest-diving-molnar-janos-cave
115•thm•3d ago•25 comments

Text.ai (YC X25) Is Hiring Founding Full-Stack Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/text-ai/jobs/OJBr0v2-founding-full-stack-engineer
1•RushiSushi•8h ago

Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

https://mavericksforever.com/
317•Wowfunhappy•3d ago•135 comments

Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit

https://emersion.fr/blog/2025/using-podman-compose-and-buildkit/
258•LaSombra•18h ago•92 comments

Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/21/google-scores-six-year-meta-cloud-deal-worth-over-10-billion.html
77•herpderperator•5h ago•18 comments

Philosophical Thoughts on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (2024)

https://kindxiaoming.github.io/blog/2024/kolmogorov-arnold-networks/
35•jxmorris12•3d ago•4 comments

Privately-Owned Rail Cars

https://www.amtrak.com/privately-owned-rail-cars
129•jasoncartwright•17h ago•171 comments

The AI Job Title Decoder Ring

https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/08/21/a-guide-to-ai-titles.html
60•dbreunig•10h ago•55 comments
Open in hackernews

The attr() function in CSS now supports types

https://www.amitmerchant.com/attr-function-types-css/
8•speckx•3d ago

Comments

pier25•3h ago
How is attr() better than using a css variable?
Inviz•3h ago
hmm... where to start?

  - Variables cascade and cause restyle of whole sub-tree.
  - Attributes often are already on the html element, e.g. title, aria, data attributes, so dont need inline styles
  - Not mixing data with presentation
Just to name a few
bawolff•2h ago
They do different things, they aren't really in competition with each other.
taejavu•2h ago
attr() lets you read values from your html in css. CSS variables do not.
pier25•2h ago
You can set css variables in the style attribute.
derkades•5m ago
Not if you use a strict Content Security Policy without unsafe-inline
scragz•2h ago
first they came for my javascript, then my python... now css?! these type-heads need to chill.
notpushkin•2h ago
Eh, CSS is inherently typed. My only concern is, why specify types in attr() and not just infer them (like the rest of CSS does)?
eyelidlessness•24m ago
Because HTML attributes are inherently stringly typed. Where CSS can propagate types, it’s because the CSS parser and object model are involved. For that to work with attr() would almost certainly involve extending that machinery into all aspects of the HTML spec, and then all that machinery too. Which is probably impractical for more reasons than I can think of, but I can think of several.
degamad•10m ago
But in any context in which the attr() function is used, the type information is inherent, right?

    min-width: attr(foo) /* implicitly requires type to be length */
    color: attr(bar)     /* implicitly requires type to be color */
Unless you wanted to use a shorthand property like border, but restrict the attribute to only one part of it?

    border: 1px attr(bdrcolor type(<color>)) /* needs explicit type to prevent specifying border-style  */
But that would be easier and cleaner to specify separately?

    border-width: 1px 
    border-color: attr(bdrcolor)  /* implicitly requires type to be color */
In what scenarios does adding the explicit type information help, rather than having the parser infer the type of the attr() based on the context of the call?
keepamovin•1h ago
This is cool. But I like how the FFX bug tracking this (and general attr work that morphed into this through spec) is 17 years old: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435426

Browser bugs are so cute. Just sitting there for decades, comments accreted over time. Tasks spinning for eternity. These are truly the cicadas of bugs.

andriamanitra•1h ago
Unfortunately it's not widely available yet. [1] If it was supported by all majors browsers it would be nice for that one project I have that still generates a .html bar chart using style="height: ${height}px;".

[1] https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_types_attr_type-or-unit