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Give Django your time and money, not your tokens

https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/03/16/give-django-your-time-and-money/
87•dcreager•1d ago•14 comments

Kagi Small Web

https://kagi.com/smallweb/
473•trueduke•6h ago•126 comments

Why Node.js needs a virtual file system

https://blog.platformatic.dev/why-nodejs-needs-a-virtual-file-system
51•voctor•1h ago•22 comments

OpenSUSE Kalpa

https://kalpadesktop.org/
45•ogogmad•2h ago•20 comments

FFmpeg 8.1

https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.1
81•gyan•1h ago•5 comments

Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/
62•mariuz•4d ago•9 comments

Enabling Efficient Sparse Computations Using Linear Algebra Aware Compilers

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/3013883
35•matt_d•4d ago•4 comments

Font Smuggler – copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs

https://brianmoore.com/fontsmuggler/
84•lanewinfield•3d ago•42 comments

Building a Shell

https://healeycodes.com/building-a-shell
108•ingve•6h ago•21 comments

Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering

https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral
658•Poudlardo•18h ago•159 comments

Perlsky Is a Perl 5 Implementation of an at Protocol Personal Data Server

https://tangled.org/alice.mosphere.at/perlsky
21•mooreds•4d ago•1 comments

The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer

https://blog.voxagon.se/2026/03/13/teardown-multiplayer.html
173•lairv•3d ago•42 comments

Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it Open Source

https://matijacniacki.com/blog/openviktor
94•zggf•7h ago•36 comments

Gummy Geometry

https://newkrok.github.io/nape-js/examples.html?open=soft-body&mode=3d&outline=0
46•memalign•3d ago•7 comments

Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language

https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=LinkedIn+speak
1119•smitec•11h ago•261 comments

Diels-grabsch2: Self Hashing C Program (2019)

https://www.ioccc.org/2019/diels-grabsch2/
7•icwtyjj•4d ago•1 comments

A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1376114/
86•wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB•2h ago•53 comments

Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/microsofts-unhackable-xbox-one-has-been-h...
13•crtasm•38m ago•0 comments

The American Healthcare Conundrum

https://github.com/rexrodeo/american-healthcare-conundrum
439•rexroad•22h ago•461 comments

Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/02/data-infrastructure/investing-in-infrastructure-metas-renew...
476•hahahacorn•21h ago•218 comments

Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v8AsTHfAG0
206•Anon84•4d ago•54 comments

The “small web” is bigger than you might think

https://kevinboone.me/small_web_is_big.html
492•speckx•22h ago•202 comments

Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-ryugu-asteroid-samples-dna-rna.html
73•bookofjoe•3h ago•51 comments

Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20260316
405•greyface-•12h ago•245 comments

How long does it take to get last liquid drops from kitchen containers?

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-03-04/kitchen-fluid-dynamics
27•hhs•4d ago•12 comments

US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-sec-preparing-eliminate-quarterly-reporting-requireme...
666•djoldman•15h ago•385 comments

Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line

https://plantbasednews.org/news/alternative-protein/beyond-meat-not-the-moment-rebrand/
179•rmason•18h ago•431 comments

Pyodide: a Python distribution based on WebAssembly

https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide
141•tosh•3d ago•38 comments

Why I love FreeBSD

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/03/16/why-i-love-freebsd/
483•enz•1d ago•242 comments

My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/my-journey-to-a-reliable-and-enjoyable-locally-hosted-voice...
402•Vaslo•1d ago•127 comments
Open in hackernews

Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/
60•mariuz•4d ago

Comments

jszymborski•1h ago
Would need "(2018)" in the title.
chasil•1h ago
It is interesting that IBM dominated this generation of consoles, and was vanquished in the next.

The high failure rates of the Xbox 360 did not help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems

vondur•1h ago
I thought the design flaws of the Xbox 360 cooling system had more to do with Microsoft than any inherent design flaw by IBM. I assumed that switching to x86 processors let Microsoft leverage their native developer tools from Windows which helped developers.
chasil•1h ago
The main issue was revealed to be solder.

"Microsoft did not reveal the cause of the issues publicly until 2021, when a 6-part documentary on the history of Xbox was released. The Red Ring issue was caused by the cracking of solder joints inside the GPU flip chip package, connecting the GPU to the substrate interposer, as a result of thermal stress from heating up and cooling back down when the system is power cycled."

thenthenthen•39m ago
Sounds like the 2012(?) Macbook Pro after the switch to leadless solder (?). I had to cook my motherboard 3 times in the oven to revive it.
chasil•30m ago
Funny!

I've heard that flash memory can also be revived with heat, either long duration or high intensity.

https://www.extremetech.com/science/142096-self-healing-self...

timw4mail•29m ago
And there was the same problem with early PS3s, on Nvidia's GPU package...it was a fairly widespread problem at the time.
rwmj•12m ago
And Apple iBook G3s too. There's a whole thing with owners reflowing the GPU: https://www.instructables.com/Fixing-the-infamous-iBook-scre...
hbn•10m ago
I don't have any solid numbers on me, but I believe early 360s failing wasn't just widespread; it was straight up most of them dying within the first couple years. It's honestly insane they more or less got away with that. And I guess also speaks to how much Microsoft was killing it in that era that people were willing to go through multiple console RMAs (which I heard was a terrible, slow, and unreliable process) to play 360 games. How far they've fallen.