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Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 3

https://gautiersblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/writing-competitive-bzip2-encoder-in.html
35•etrez•23h ago

Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD

https://www.spectrallabs.ai/research/SGS-1
152•JumpCrisscross•6h ago•20 comments

iFixit iPhone Air teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/News/113171/iphone-air-teardown
146•zdw•7h ago•71 comments

Universities should be more than toll gates

https://www.waliddib.com/posts/universities-should-be-more-than-toll-gates/
44•wdib•3h ago•24 comments

Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 3

https://gautiersblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/writing-competitive-bzip2-encoder-in.html
35•etrez•23h ago•0 comments

$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer

https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/18/2-weact-display-fs-adds-a-0-96-inch-usb-information-displ...
290•smartmic•13h ago•131 comments

Ultrasonic Chef's Knife

https://seattleultrasonics.com/
602•hemloc_io•18h ago•474 comments

The bloat of edge-case first libraries

https://43081j.com/2025/09/bloat-of-edge-case-libraries
71•PaulHoule•8h ago•82 comments

AI was supposed to help juniors shine. why does it mostly make seniors stronger?

https://elma.dev/notes/ai-makes-seniors-stronger/
66•elmsec•9h ago•79 comments

Teardown of Apple 40W dynamic power adapter with 60W max

https://www.chargerlab.com/teardown-of-apple-40w-dynamic-power-adapter-with-60w-max-a3365/
150•givinguflac•2d ago•117 comments

Vibe coding cleanup as a service

https://donado.co/en/articles/2025-09-16-vibe-coding-cleanup-as-a-service/
102•sjdonado•4h ago•57 comments

Designing NotebookLM

https://jasonspielman.com/notebooklm
246•vinhnx•17h ago•83 comments

In defence of swap: common misconceptions (2018)

https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html
73•jitl•10h ago•54 comments

Lidar, optical distance and time of flight sensors

https://ams-osram.com/innovation/technology/depth-and-3d-sensing/lidar-optical-distance-and-time-...
25•mahirsaid•2d ago•5 comments

Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/thirty-years-later-simcity-2000-hasnt-changed-but-i-have/
61•doppp•3d ago•72 comments

Knitted Anatomy

https://www.knitted-anatomy.at/cardiovascular-system/
95•blikstiender•3d ago•5 comments

Learning Languages with the Help of Algorithms

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/09/17/learning-languages-with-the-help-of-algorithms/
35•ibobev•3d ago•16 comments

Hololuminescent Display

https://lookingglassfactory.com/hld-overview
29•geox•3d ago•6 comments

Mesda Craftsman Database

http://test0.dlibrary.org/en/nodes/4066-craftsman-database
5•1970-01-01•2d ago•0 comments

FLX1s phone is launched

https://furilabs.com/flx1s-is-launched/
263•slau•23h ago•178 comments

Scream cipher

https://sethmlarson.dev/scream-cipher
272•alexmolas•3d ago•95 comments

Were RNNs all we needed? A GPU programming perspective

https://dhruvmsheth.github.io/projects/gpu_pogramming_curnn/
72•omegablues•2d ago•21 comments

Ask HN: How were graphics card drivers programmed back in the 90s?

4•ferguess_k•2d ago•11 comments

Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years (2019)

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-44886585
122•Luc•4d ago•52 comments

MapSCII – World map in terminal

https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
185•_august•2d ago•20 comments

Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool

https://spectrum.ieee.org/iphone-17-pro-vapor-chamber
116•rbanffy•20h ago•246 comments

A revolution in English bell ringing

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/10/a-change-of-tune-veronique-greenwood-bell-ringing/
79•ascertain•14h ago•28 comments

Images over DNS

https://dgl.cx/2025/09/images-over-dns
183•dgl•22h ago•49 comments

PYREX vs. pyrex: What's the difference?

https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/products/life-sciences/resources/stories/in-the-field/pyrex-...
145•lisper•1d ago•111 comments

Slavery After Abolition: Revolt on the Amelia

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/slavery-after-abolition-revolt-amelia
39•samclemens•4d ago•7 comments

A brief history of threads and threading

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/09/20/a-brief-history-of-threads-and-threading/
72•emschwartz•13h ago•19 comments