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Zip Files All the Way Down (2010)

https://research.swtch.com/zip
22•aebtebeten•1w ago

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adzm•1h ago
Finally! I've been looking for where I got this r.zip quine from. It's been a fun little zip to test things with.
cachius•56m ago
Nice post. Similar to the zserge one about grayscale image recognition in its depth. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771151

I remember %|% being a .bat cmd.exe fork bomb. Could one consider fork bombs as next level quines?

kmoser•11m ago
I wonder how this would fare as a zip bomb against rogue LLM scrapers?

Mr Tiff

https://inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
70•speckx•1h ago•4 comments

Patching 68K Software – SimpleText

https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/patching-68k-software-simpletext.4793/
26•mmoogle•1h ago•1 comments

This Day in 1988, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Internet within 24 hours

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/on-this-day-in-1988-the-morris-worm-sli...
276•canucker2016•9h ago•136 comments

Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access

https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/pg_lake
260•plaur782•8h ago•78 comments

Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It

https://cognition.ai/blog/codemaps
182•janpio•6h ago•57 comments

Whole Earth Index

https://wholeearth.info/
120•bookofjoe•1w ago•21 comments

Apple uses 3D Gaussian splatting for Personas and 3D conversions of photos

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/apple-talks-to-me-about-vision-pro-personas-where-is-our-virt...
9•dmarcos•5d ago•0 comments

By the Power of Grayscale

https://zserge.com/posts/grayskull/
93•surprisetalk•4d ago•19 comments

Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator

https://terra.layoutit.com
267•rofko•10h ago•75 comments

Singing bus horns in West Sumatra

https://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/kalason
42•Kaibeezy•1w ago•2 comments

I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars

https://rameerez.com/send-this-article-to-your-friend-who-still-thinks-the-cloud-is-a-good-idea/
93•sebnun•3h ago•97 comments

Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/dhs_wants_to_collect_biometric_data/
45•SanjayMehta•54m ago•17 comments

BlackRock's Larry Fink: "Tokenization", Digital IDs, & Social Credit

https://thewinepress.substack.com/p/tokenization-blackrocks-larry-fink
19•sbuttgereit•2h ago•5 comments

Launch HN: Plexe (YC X25) – Build production-grade ML models from prompts

https://www.plexe.ai/
62•vaibhavdubey97•7h ago•23 comments

Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code

https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1901.09056
38•liminal•1h ago•22 comments

Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future?

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/10/28/string-literals.html
17•Bogdanp•1w ago•1 comments

What is a manifold?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-a-manifold-20251103/
327•isaacfrond•14h ago•117 comments

NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware

https://github.com/codykociemba/NoLongerEvil-Thermostat
299•mukti•7h ago•95 comments

Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux

https://github.com/pythops/bluetui
4•birdculture•1h ago•0 comments

Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results

https://torrentfreak.com/google-removed-749-million-annas-archive-urls-from-its-search-results/
46•gslin•1h ago•15 comments

Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/highlight/2025/11/04/singapore-to-cane-scammers-as-bil...
22•raybb•4h ago•8 comments

Zip Files All the Way Down (2010)

https://research.swtch.com/zip
22•aebtebeten•1w ago•3 comments

Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

544•stillatit•18h ago•468 comments

Optimizing Datalog for the GPU

https://danglingpointers.substack.com/p/optimizing-datalog-for-the-gpu
98•blakepelton•9h ago•19 comments

Bloom filters are good for search that does not scale

https://notpeerreviewed.com/blog/bloom-filters/
168•birdculture•15h ago•34 comments

How devtools map minified JS code back to your TypeScript source code

https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2025/11/04/javascript-source-maps-internals
66•manojvivek•9h ago•13 comments

Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent

https://100x.bot/a/chaining-ffmpeg-with-browser-agent
89•shardullavekar•11h ago•50 comments

Customize Nano Text Editor

https://shafi.ddns.net/blog/customize-nano-text-editor
134•shafiemoji•1w ago•48 comments

Reverse-engineered CUPS driver for Phomemo receipt/label printers

https://github.com/vivier/phomemo-tools
99•Curiositry•1w ago•27 comments

Precompiled headers and why Squid won't be using them (2023)

https://squidproxy.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/precompiled-headers-and-why-squid-wont-be-using-them/
6•mooreds•3h ago•1 comments