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Sparse File LRU Cache

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/01/sparse-file-lru-cache.html
12•paladin314159•5h ago

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avmich•5m ago
We can talk about even more general idea of saving file space: compression. Ever heard about it used across the whole filesystems?

Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
549•cbeuw•12h ago•346 comments

List animals until failure

https://rose.systems/animalist/
79•l1n•5h ago•50 comments

Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-use-bioelectricity-to-coordinate-and-make-group-decisions-20...
29•marojejian•6h ago•7 comments

In praise of –dry-run

https://henrikwarne.com/2026/01/31/in-praise-of-dry-run/
110•ingve•9h ago•67 comments

pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/DataDog/pg_tracing
23•tanelpoder•3d ago•1 comments

Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025

https://wikiedu.org/blog/2026/01/29/generative-ai-and-wikipedia-editing-what-we-learned-in-2025/
115•ColinWright•9h ago•51 comments

Opentrees.org (2024)

https://opentrees.org/#pos=1/-37.8/145
45•surprisetalk•4d ago•4 comments

Sparse File LRU Cache

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/01/sparse-file-lru-cache.html
12•paladin314159•5h ago•1 comments

Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples

https://lab174.com/blog/202601-nonograms/
8•merelysounds•3d ago•2 comments

Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/smallpox-eradication-champion-william-foege-dies-at-89/
179•CrossVR•3d ago•38 comments

Outsourcing thinking

https://erikjohannes.no/posts/20260130-outsourcing-thinking/index.html
113•todsacerdoti•9h ago•93 comments

Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.

https://github.com/zupat/related_post_gen
77•behnamoh•9h ago•34 comments

When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive?

https://webkit.org/blog/17758/when-will-css-grid-lanes-arrive-how-long-until-we-can-use-it/
14•feross•7h ago•1 comments

Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21473
68•matt_d•10h ago•14 comments

Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine

https://crl.io/ds-game-engine/
121•Antibabelic•11h ago•30 comments

Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

https://www.moltbook.com/
174•schlichtm•3d ago•818 comments

Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images

https://github.com/rtvkiz/minimal
83•ritvikarya98•10h ago•25 comments

Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media

https://yle.fi/a/74-20207494
560•Teever•13h ago•411 comments

Apple-1 Computer Prototype Board #0 sold for $2.75M

https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/350902407346003-apple-1-computer-prototype-board-0-...
44•qingcharles•3h ago•21 comments

Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/inside-nvidias-10-year-effort-to-make-the-shield-tv-the-m...
127•qmr•15h ago•104 comments

The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login-logout_1305_mickens.pdf
105•tosh•10h ago•20 comments

Wikipedia: Sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox
68•zaptrem•1d ago•19 comments

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/ZunnO6k-ai-agent-engineer
1•OBrien_1107•9h ago

Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]

https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf
154•pieterr•14h ago•113 comments

Ferrari vs. Markets

https://ferrari-imports.enigmatechnologies.dev/
49•merinid•2d ago•26 comments

Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland

https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell
55•doener•10h ago•21 comments

Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

https://nmn.sh/blog/2023-10-02-swift-is-the-more-convenient-rust
256•behnamoh•8h ago•239 comments

CPython Internals Explained

https://github.com/zpoint/CPython-Internals
184•yufiz•4d ago•43 comments

EV-1 for Lease (1996)

https://www.loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=96-P13-00047#feature4
10•1970-01-01•2d ago•1 comments

Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2026-January/118080.html
150•csmantle•19h ago•83 comments