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Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++

https://solidean.com/blog/2026/building-your-own-u128/
31•PaulHoule•6h ago

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reactordev•1h ago
Tangential. A long time ago at a company far far away, this is how we did UUIDs that made up a TenantId and a UserId, using this exact same logic, minus the arithmetic. Great stuff.

(We wanted something UUID like but deterministic that we could easily decompose and do RBAC with, this was prior to the invention of JWT’s, OAuth, and scopes, worked at the time).

PaulHoule•1h ago
Makes me think of the bad old days where the platform gave you 8-bit ints and you built everything else yourself... or AVR-8.
azhenley•52m ago
> we use 256-bit integers in our hot paths and go up to 564 bits for certain edge cases.

Why 564 bits? That’s 70.5 bytes.

Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
179•mysterydip•59m ago•56 comments

Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle
265•zdw•5h ago•76 comments

Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf]

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA157917.pdf
19•kioku•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation

https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw
195•jimminyx•4h ago•57 comments

Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93v21q5xdvo
32•breve•4h ago•11 comments

Apple I Advertisement (1976)

http://apple1.chez.com/Apple1project/Gallery/Gallery.htm
182•janandonly•9h ago•119 comments

Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

https://xikipedia.org
28•rebane2001•2h ago•17 comments

My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math

https://journal.rafaelcosta.me/my-thousand-dollar-iphone-cant-do-math/
160•rafaelcosta•6h ago•80 comments

Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
275•doener•13h ago•51 comments

Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018)

https://samuelhewitt.com/blog/2018-06-05-time-machine-style-backups-with-rsync
29•accrual•2h ago•12 comments

Founding is a snowball

https://blog.bawolf.com/p/founding-is-a-snowball
39•bryantwolf•3d ago•15 comments

Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems

https://cedardb.com/blog/string_compression/
87•jandrewrogers•2d ago•17 comments

Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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559•firefoxd•7h ago•247 comments

Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++

https://solidean.com/blog/2026/building-your-own-u128/
31•PaulHoule•6h ago•3 comments

MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience

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178•mikece•3d ago•56 comments

Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/149366/MIT-LCS-TR-458.pdf?sequence=6
57•zem•2d ago•33 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

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6•brudgers•3h ago•2 comments

In the Lab – Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2020/02/22/In-The-Lab-Magnet-Wire-Soldering.html
6•hasheddan•2d ago•2 comments

Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt

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215•kohlschuetter•5d ago•113 comments

Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clearspace/jobs/GOWiDwp-research-engineer-at-clearspace
1•anteloper•8h ago

Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking

https://netbird.io/
648•l1am0•17h ago•247 comments

A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words

https://forkingmad.blog/wordle-crisis/
53•cyanbane•9h ago•68 comments

Troublemaker: The fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford

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8•against•4d ago•1 comments

Amiga Unix (Amix)

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113•donatj•16h ago•41 comments

MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260121034130.htm
79•amichail•5h ago•26 comments

FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/
188•yannick2k•16h ago•107 comments

Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work

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47•gmays•8h ago•20 comments

Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code

63•CzaxTanmay•2d ago•14 comments

Ian's Shoelace Site

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34•righthand•8h ago•2 comments

VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code

https://www.visualjj.com/
156•demail•4d ago•67 comments