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I tried Gleam for Advent of Code

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/
114•tymscar•2h ago•65 comments

SSE sucks for transporting LLM tokens

https://zknill.io/posts/sse-sucks-for-transporting-llm-tokens/
21•zknill•4d ago•23 comments

Cryptids

https://wiki.bbchallenge.org/wiki/Cryptids
57•frozenseven•1w ago•5 comments

Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/12/12/analysis-finds-anytime-electricity-from-solar-available-as...
60•Matrixik•2h ago•48 comments

Useful patterns for building HTML tools

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/
147•simonw•2d ago•48 comments

macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-26_2-release-notes#RDMA-over-...
508•guiand•22h ago•263 comments

Dick Van Dyke turns 100

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/13/dick-van-dyke-centenarian-100-mary-poppins-chitty-ch...
11•thunderbong•40m ago•1 comments

Java FFM zero-copy transport using io_uring

https://www.mvp.express/
80•mands•6d ago•30 comments

Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder

https://petapixel.com/2025/12/06/this-photographer-built-an-awesome-medium-format-rangefinder-and...
127•shinryuu•6d ago•31 comments

EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring

https://www.easypost.com/careers
1•jstreebin•2h ago

Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

66•lemonlime227•4h ago•64 comments

What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?

https://louplummer.lol/nice-stranger/
174•speckx•2d ago•119 comments

How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs

https://quant.engineering/exchange-order-book-distributed-logs.html
103•rundef•5d ago•52 comments

Go Proposal: Secret Mode

https://antonz.org/accepted/runtime-secret/
90•enz•3d ago•25 comments

Show HN: I audited 500 K8s pods. Java wastes ~48% RAM, Go ~18%

https://github.com/WozzHQ/wozz
15•wozzio•4h ago•11 comments

Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03974-w
69•bikenaga•3d ago•17 comments

GNU Unifont

https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
305•remywang•22h ago•70 comments

A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)

https://woodrush.github.io/blog/posts/2022-01-12-lisp-in-life.html
67•pabs3•16h ago•2 comments

Using Python for Scripting

https://hypirion.com/musings/use-python-for-scripting
48•birdculture•5d ago•42 comments

A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251205-how-the-handheld-digital-camera-was-born
63•selvan•5d ago•31 comments

Dynamic Pong Wars

https://markodenic.tech/dynamic-pong-wars/
20•rendall•1w ago•2 comments

Z8086: Rebuilding the 8086 from Original Microcode

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2025/z8086/
24•nand2mario•4h ago•4 comments

Rats Play DOOM

https://ratsplaydoom.com/
372•ano-ther•23h ago•140 comments

Show HN: LinkedQL – Live Queries over Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB

https://github.com/linked-db/linked-ql
18•phrasecode•5d ago•7 comments

Will West Coast Jazz Get Some Respect?

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/will-west-coast-jazz-finally-get
42•paulpauper•6d ago•22 comments

Indexing 100M vectors in 20 minutes on PostgreSQL with 12GB RAM

https://blog.vectorchord.ai/how-we-made-100m-vector-indexing-in-20-minutes-possible-on-postgresql
66•gaocegege•5d ago•11 comments

A Giant Ball Will Help This Man Survive a Year on an Iceberg

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/how-giant-ball-will-help-man...
6•areoform•4h ago•1 comments

Computer Animator and Amiga fanatic Dick Van Dyke turns 100

190•ggm•11h ago•49 comments

Beautiful Abelian Sandpiles

https://eavan.blog/posts/beautiful-sandpiles.html
115•eavan0•3d ago•19 comments

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/
517•simonw•20h ago•302 comments
Open in hackernews

Dynamic Pong Wars

https://markodenic.tech/dynamic-pong-wars/
20•rendall•1w ago

Comments

mock-possum•1h ago
Haha mine bounced around a bit until they managed to get stuck on eachother right in the middle

It’d be fun to see a line graph mapping the change in score over time - I wonder what the wave function would simplify to? Would it be a sine wave? Or more of a saw, as one side snowballs ahead, then the other inevitably ramps up to recover?

It’d also be cool to save the board state on each step, to find what the board looked like when each side was farthest ahead of the other, and when they were equal - and to play back the entire profession at super speed. Would it look like slime mold pulsing, expanding and contracting? Would there be swirls of white cutting into black and vice versa?

pohl•1h ago
Very cool. It eventually got stuck for me, too, towards the bottom. Stuck detection would be a next step.

Then you could plot the change in score for the current war, and overlay other plots that different wars took.