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The case of the 500-mile email (2002)

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

5•Timothee•47m ago

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Timothee•30m ago

I mentioned this story to coworkers who hadn't heard of it at dinner last night and figured I'd post it again. (surely, it's been posted many times over the years)

Always a fun read.

ChrisArchitect•26m ago

A classic.

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Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44466030

Ghostty is now non-profit

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit

411•vrnvu•2h ago•79 comments

Everyone in Seattle hates AI

https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html

216•mips_avatar•1h ago•199 comments

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files

https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/12/02/filevine-api-100k

297•bearsyankees•3h ago•83 comments

Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm

https://www.theverge.com/report/820656/valve-interview-arm-gaming-steamos-pierre-loup-griffais

160•evolve2k•1d ago•240 comments

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?&p=222136#p222136

206•nooks•3h ago•67 comments

RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/security/advisories/GHSA-9qr9-h5gf-34mp

250•rayhaanj•5h ago•75 comments

Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-are-lie-groups-20251203/

41•ibobev•2h ago•12 comments

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business

https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-con...

98•simlevesque•3h ago•21 comments

Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

51•rushingcreek•3h ago•41 comments

Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?

https://alexene.dev/2025/12/03/Why-do-my-headphones-buzz-when-i-run-my-game.html

99•pacificat0r•5h ago•88 comments

Prompt Injection via Poetry

https://www.wired.com/story/poems-can-trick-ai-into-helping-you-make-a-nuclear-weapon/

35•bumbailiff•3h ago•23 comments

How to Synthesize a House Loop

https://loopmaster.xyz/tutorials/how-to-synthesize-a-house-loop

120•stagas•6d ago•39 comments

MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/27742d469462e1561c776f88ca7a1f26816d69e2

322•hajtom•5h ago•184 comments

Rocketable (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer to automate software companies

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rocketable/jobs/CArgzmX-founding-engineer-automation-platform

1•alanwells•4h ago

R packages for data science

https://tidyverse.org/

27•cl3misch•1w ago•6 comments

Apple Desktop Bus Protocol (2021)

https://www.lopaciuk.eu/2021/03/26/apple-adb-protocol.html

33•dcminter•3d ago•7 comments

You can't fool the optimizer

https://xania.org/202512/03-more-adding-integers

213•HeliumHydride•8h ago•120 comments

Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust

https://sinelaw.github.io/fresh/

55•_sinelaw_•6h ago•36 comments

“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34524

745•mhb•7h ago•461 comments

Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public

https://www.ft.com/content/3254fa30-5bdb-4c30-8560-7cd7ebbefc5f

216•GeorgeWoff25•11h ago•180 comments

GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles

https://yunfan.zone/gswt_webpage/

70•klaussilveira•6h ago•21 comments

Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?

https://martinalderson.com/posts/are-we-really-repeating-the-telecoms-crash-with-ai-datacenters/

130•davedx•9h ago•90 comments

Formally verifying Advent of Code using Dijkstra's program construction

https://haripm.com/blog/aoc-day-3-without-thinking/

10•seafoamteal•2h ago•0 comments

A Look at Rust from 2012

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/a-look-at-rust-from-2012/

140•todsacerdoti•1w ago•52 comments

Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/helldivers-2-install-size-slashed-from-154gb-t...

339•doener•7h ago•216 comments

Shrinking While Linking

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-11-27-shrinking-static-libs/

16•ingve•3d ago•6 comments

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/

883•Brajeshwar•13h ago•505 comments

Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)

https://medium.com/atari-club/interview-with-rollercoaster-tycoons-creator-chris-sawyer-684a0efb0f13

265•areoform•16h ago•48 comments

The writing is on the wall for handwriting recognition

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-writing-is-on-the-wall-for-handwriting-recognition/

177•speckx•1w ago•98 comments

Super fast aggregations in PostgreSQL 19

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/super-fast-aggregations-in-postgresql-19/

215•jnord•1w ago•26 comments