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Pixar's True Story

https://computerhistory.org/blog/pixars-true-story/
26•kristianp•4h ago

Comments

IndySun•1h ago
I couldn't find the word 'Lasseter' in that post.
davvid•1h ago
Nor Catmull, unfortunately. FWIW, the article is centered around the financing and IPO side of the story.
andrehacker•2m ago
After being a MeToo subject, his contributions have been scrubbed (or at least are heavily downplayed) from Disney's (Pixar's) material about Pixar's origins.

2025: The Year in LLMs

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/
348•simonw•6h ago•183 comments

I canceled my book deal

https://austinhenley.com/blog/canceledbookdeal.html
419•azhenley•12h ago•252 comments

Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring

https://bustermq.sh/
66•jbaptiste•6h ago•11 comments

Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy

https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP289684
104•Luc•8h ago•100 comments

Flow5 released to open source

https://flow5.tech/docs/releasenotes.html
32•picture•2h ago•1 comments

Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-31/warren-buffett-steps-down-as-berkshire-hathaway...
508•ValentineC•8h ago•353 comments

Pixar's True Story

https://computerhistory.org/blog/pixars-true-story/
26•kristianp•4h ago•3 comments

Demystifying DVDs

https://hiddenpalace.org/News/One_Bad_Ass_Hedgehog_-_Shadow_the_Hedgehog#Demystifying_DVDs
147•boltzmann-brain•3d ago•13 comments

Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups

https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/12/31/web-browsers-have-stopped-blocking-pop-ups/
127•coldpie•13h ago•96 comments

Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke

https://www.monash.edu/pharm/about/news/news-listing/latest/scientists-unlock-brains-natural-clea...
139•PaulHoule•8h ago•29 comments

Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/26/how-reality-crushed-ynsect-the-french-startup-that-had-raised-o...
95•fcpguru•5d ago•90 comments

My role as a founder-CTO: year 8

https://miguelcarranza.es/cto-year-8
120•ridruejo•5d ago•102 comments

All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv7434
68•QueensGambit•10h ago•12 comments

Tell HN: Happy New Year

292•schappim•17h ago•159 comments

Observed Agent Sandbox Bypasses

https://voratiq.com/blog/yolo-in-the-sandbox/
42•m-hodges•3d ago•29 comments

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923)

https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60979/pg60979-images.html
12•thomassmith65•4d ago•6 comments

GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) Is Hiring Tech Leads

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gogograndparent/jobs/w2jGKM7-gogograndparent-yc-s16-is-hiri...
1•davidchl•5h ago

So I started cloning the Wii U gamepad [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbcKuDEBw8
20•ingve•4d ago•2 comments

PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-12-31-pypi-2025-in-review/
62•miketheman•11h ago•18 comments

On privacy and control

https://toidiu.com/blog/2025-12-25-privacy-and-control/
159•todsacerdoti•12h ago•89 comments

The compiler is your best friend

https://blog.daniel-beskin.com/2025-12-22-the-compiler-is-your-best-friend-stop-lying-to-it
153•based2•14h ago•105 comments

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]

https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~elec399/201409/Akin%27s%20Laws%20of%20Spacecraft%20Design.pdf
280•tosh•20h ago•87 comments

Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.

https://exopriors.com/scry
327•Xyra•22h ago•116 comments

Build Software. Build Users

https://dima.day/blog/build-software-build-users/
8•dinerville•3d ago•0 comments

Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system

https://mod.gov.il/en/press-releases/press-room/israel-mod-and-rafael-deliver-first-operational-h...
117•fork-bomber•16h ago•209 comments

When square pixels aren't square

https://alexwlchan.net/2025/square-pixels/
121•PaulHoule•16h ago•57 comments

Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris

https://kywch.github.io/blog/2025/12/curriculum-learning-2048-tetris/
124•a1k0n•14h ago•30 comments

The Delete Act

https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/about-drop-and-the-delete-act/
147•weaksauce•6h ago•65 comments

The most famous transcendental numbers

https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/trans.html
149•vismit2000•18h ago•98 comments

Microtonal Spiral Piano

https://shih1.github.io/spiral/
92•phoenix_ashes•5d ago•13 comments