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Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99

https://github.com/rxi/sj.h
139•simonpure•2h ago•53 comments

DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list

https://slugcat.systems/post/25-09-21-dxgi-debugging-microsoft-put-me-on-a-list/
116•todsacerdoti•4h ago•25 comments

Google/timesketch: Collaborative forensic timeline analysis

https://github.com/google/timesketch
49•apachepig•2h ago•3 comments

The link between trauma, drug use, and our search to feel better

https://lithub.com/the-link-between-trauma-drug-use-and-our-search-to-feel-better/
53•PaulHoule•2h ago•28 comments

I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

https://www.pixelpusher.club/p/i-forced-myself-to-spend-a-week-in
92•wallflower•5h ago•28 comments

The University of Oxford has fallen out of the top three universities in the UK

https://hotminute.co.uk/2025/09/19/oxford-loses-top-3-university-ranking-for-the-first-time/
153•ilamont•3h ago•223 comments

LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain

https://reclaimthenet.org/laligas-anti-piracy-crackdown-triggers-widespread-internet-disruptions
168•akyuu•3h ago•55 comments

The Beginner's Textbook for Homomorphic Encryption

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05136
42•Qision•4h ago•6 comments

Disk Utility still can't check and repair APFS volumes and containers (2021)

https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/19/disk-utility-still-cant-check-and-repair-apfs-volumes-and-con...
80•rahimnathwani•5h ago•34 comments

A coin flip by any other name (2023)

https://cgad.ski/blog/a-coin-flip-by-any-other-name.html
27•lawrenceyan•2d ago•1 comments

How Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series (2022)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-isaac-newton-discovered-the-binomial-power-series-20220831/
17•FromTheArchives•3d ago•4 comments

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

https://www.spectrallabs.ai/research/SGS-1
282•JumpCrisscross•15h ago•40 comments

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

https://elma.dev/notes/ai-makes-seniors-stronger/
294•elmsec•18h ago•323 comments

Show HN: Freeing GPUs stuck by runaway jobs

https://github.com/kagehq/gpu-kill
9•lexokoh•3h ago•0 comments

iFixit iPhone Air teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/News/113171/iphone-air-teardown
302•zdw•16h ago•162 comments

40k-Year-Old Symbols in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language

https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/40000-year-old-symbols-found-in-caves-worldwide-may-be-the-ea...
8•mdp2021•3d ago•3 comments

New thermoelectric cooling breakthrough nearly doubles efficiency

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250919085242.htm
78•westurner•4h ago•43 comments

Liberté, égalité, Radioactivité

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/liberte-egalite-radioactivite/
40•paulpauper•2h ago•2 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...
363•smartmic•22h ago•157 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
84•etrez•1d ago•7 comments

How to stop functional programming (2016)

https://brianmckenna.org/blog/howtostopfp
75•thunderbong•4h ago•57 comments

President Trump Signs Technology Prosperity Deal with United Kingdom

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-signs-technology-prosperity-deal-with...
31•donutloop•2h ago•24 comments

Extrachromosomal DNA–Driven Oncogene Evolution in Glioblastoma

https://aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscovery/article/doi/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-1555/764257/Extrachr...
10•PaulHoule•5h ago•0 comments

Review: Project Xanadu – The Internet That Might Have Been

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-project-xanadu-the-internet
37•paulpauper•3h ago•19 comments

Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/21/meta-expose-author-sarah-wynn-williams-faces-b...
383•mindracer•7h ago•270 comments

UUIDv7 in Postgres 18. With time extraction

https://www.thenile.dev/blog/uuidv7
67•sierikov•4h ago•41 comments

Hi No Youjin

https://aethermug.com/posts/hi-no-youjin
24•mrcgnc•3d ago•3 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/
210•givinguflac•3d ago•178 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/
163•doppp•3d ago•190 comments

The bloat of edge-case first libraries

https://43081j.com/2025/09/bloat-of-edge-case-libraries
117•PaulHoule•17h ago•129 comments
Open in hackernews

President Trump Signs Technology Prosperity Deal with United Kingdom

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-signs-technology-prosperity-deal-with-united-kingdom/
31•donutloop•2h ago

Comments

area51org•1h ago
Anyone care to boil this down?
jfengel•50m ago
It's a bunch of individual investments by large tech firms, going both ways. It wouldn't ordinarily require a government intervention, but both governments are in need of a win right now. (Brexit has limited the UK's access to Europe, and the US needs to show that the tariffs give it leverage.)

These are all fine, and some things might even actually happen. (Deals like these tend to diminish as you get closer to money actually changing hands.) International cooperation is good. It's just a little weird that it had to happen between two countries who have been explicitly rejecting international cooperation.

rcpt•1h ago
These press releases aren't great sources of news. Anyone got a different link?
1659447091•1h ago
"US firms pledge £150bn investment in UK as tech deal signed" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2nllgl3q7o

Had posted this a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45285763

It's all related afaict

bluecalm•1h ago
It's not stated in the article but what US gets in return? I guess some promises of political/tax policy stability. I am curious if there is anything official though.
KaiserPro•59m ago
I think the idea is that we(the UK) will buy small nuclear reactors from the US, and we'll develop ceramic uranium fuel system.
moomin•12m ago
This is wild if so. They’re basically saying the UK gets what it needs (investment) in return for something the Kabour Right has always wanted (Nuclear). This is an insanely good deal from Starmer’s perspective.
amacbride•1h ago
Just the headline itself makes me think of the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” and we all know how that turned out.
kkkqkqkqkqlqlql•1h ago
Thought the exact same. Not even knowing the history of Japan, just from like one frame in the Bill Wurtz video where that name shows up.
snickerbockers•53m ago
Okay but we also know how it started, which was not as a bilateral trade agreement. I don't think imperial japan has eternally tarnished the concept of 'prosperity' in the same way that hitler forever tarnished that style of mustache.
seydor•1h ago
I wonder if they come up with the names or they use ChatGPT
alephnerd•1h ago
Good to see some Biden-era initiatives are still sneaking through the cracks! Of course, a lot of this is 100% due to the alignment of a large portion of SV-turned-policymakers in both admins across the pond over the past 5 years.
KaiserPro•1h ago
The problem with policy announcements from the current Whitehouse is that it requires us to believe that they are making policy and that it'll be enacted lawfully.

I'm british, so this should be unvarnished good news. but I just can't imagine this will survive any time past the first bad fox news headline.

alephnerd•48m ago
Not everything in the White House is going through Stephen Miller.

This announcement itself has Vance, Sankar, and Kupor's fingerprints all over it.

For tech policy this admin is a basically A16Z and Founders Fund people, but the last admin leaned Sequoia Capital.

This is why you see a lot of crypto (A16Z) this admin and GreenTech (Sequoia) the last admin.

SilverElfin•30m ago
I think the crypto thing is even simpler - it’s self interest. It helps get votes on the right due to distrust in the federal reserve, it helps secure future political funds from a16z and others, and it literally makes Trump and his family rich from the meme coins.
KaiserPro•22m ago
> Not everything in the White House is going through Stephen Miller.

No, but its not based on real law either. Its just whatever the leadership thinks it can get away with.

If you can please the head of the court, then you can do what you want. if you fall out of favour, so do your plans.

hereme888•55m ago
Good. The West would likely benefit from strong international partnerships for advancing AI, nuclear, and quantum tech.

Especially the part about helping the UK become Russia-independent for energy.

mensetmanusman•40m ago
Nothing binding, just talking about goals:

-The U.K. commits to buying over $80 billion from U.S. tech & defense companies over the next five years. -The U.K. firm GSK (a pharmaceutical company) announced a ~$30 billion investment in AI R&D and infrastructure in the U.S.

-There will be regulatory cooperation to speed up approvals/licensing in nuclear energy.

724324hsG•28m ago
It appears that the UK and the EU will buy weapons from the US for the Ukraine war (which the US, according to Trump, provoked) while the US is busy getting Venezuela and Greenland.

Once accomplished the US will have complete energy dominance over the UK and the EU.

SilverElfin•39m ago
Surprising given the disagreement with Starmer on Israel and the UK’s recognition of Palestine. On the one hand, the UK’s conditions for the recognition may never be met. On the other hand, it still looks like Starmer may be rewarding the actions of October 7 and distancing themselves from the US.
1659447091•27m ago
> On the one hand, the UK’s conditions for the recognition may never be met.

They just recognized it "UK formally recognises Palestinian state"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce800enrglzo

Related post here got flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45322919

PSA, See flagged post in the "active" tab https://news.ycombinator.com/active

SilverElfin•21m ago
Yes that recognition requires multiple conditions. It isn’t just a plain recognition. I believe the other 10 or so countries who announced the same thing are using the same conditions. But it’s hard to find a confirmation.
ycombigators•30m ago
Lol.

As a Brit, I trust Trump as far as I can throw him, and he's very fat, so that's not very far.

umrashrf•7m ago
Easier said than done