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Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting

https://slicker.me/rust/ownership_and_borrowing_vs_reference_counting.html
15•vinhnx•2d ago

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jonathanstrange•1h ago
Thanks but I'll just use a modern language with garbage collector instead and save my time for actual problems instead of self-inflicted pain.
zigzag312•42m ago
Reference counting is a form of garbage collection.

Flipdiscs

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263•skogstokig•3d ago•48 comments

I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
805•ca98am79•13h ago•416 comments

Bob Odenkirk would like to remind you that life is a meaningless farce

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/magazine/bob-odenkirk-interview.html
34•wslh•21h ago•12 comments

It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)

https://robbowen.digital/wrote-about/abandoned-side-projects/
73•hisamafahri•1h ago•29 comments

AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it

https://www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/
496•koshyjohn•13h ago•359 comments

Self-updating screenshots

https://interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots
296•bjhess•1d ago•45 comments

TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough

https://arkaung.github.io/interactive-turboquant/
155•kweezar•8h ago•34 comments

The Prompt API

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/prompt-api
122•gslin•7h ago•74 comments

Three constraints before I build anything

https://jordanlord.co.uk/blog/3-constraints/
213•nervous_north•1d ago•36 comments

Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting

https://slicker.me/rust/ownership_and_borrowing_vs_reference_counting.html
16•vinhnx•2d ago•2 comments

Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet

https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-mystery-shadowbrokers-reference-reveals-high-precision-so...
257•dd23•13h ago•54 comments

A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design

https://pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu/epet302/
28•o4c•1d ago•2 comments

Electrostatics and High Voltage Links

http://amasci.com/static/electrostatic1.html
6•ludicrousdispla•3d ago•1 comments

When the cheap one is the cool one

https://arun.is/blog/cheap-cool/
121•ddrmaxgt37•1d ago•63 comments

Box to save memory in Rust

https://dystroy.org/blog/box-to-save-memory/
134•emschwartz•3d ago•35 comments

SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities

https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/
304•kmdupree•19h ago•168 comments

FreeBSD Device Drivers Book

https://github.com/ebrandi/FDD-book
85•myth_drannon•11h ago•16 comments

Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race

https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/crm1m7e0zwzo
385•berkeleyjunk•13h ago•265 comments

Mystery Cpuid Bit

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mystery-cpuid-bit/
15•userbinator•2d ago•2 comments

The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination

https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-mushroom-that-make-people-have-the-exact-same-hallucinat...
38•thunderbong•2h ago•16 comments

Quirks of Human Anatomy

https://www.sdbonline.org/sites/fly/lewheldquirk/figlegq6.htm
136•gurjeet•2d ago•75 comments

Chernobyl wildlife forty years on

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260424-chernobyl-wildlife-forty-years-on
110•reconnecting•14h ago•43 comments

Revocation of X.509 Certificates

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/24/revocation-of-x-509-certificates/
40•jandeboevrie•1d ago•10 comments

Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/butterflies-are-in-dramatic-decline-across-north-am...
212•1659447091•12h ago•64 comments

Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/how-magic-the-gathering-took-me-from-n2-to-japanese-fluency
134•pwim•3d ago•60 comments

EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code

https://github.com/evanklem/evanflow
68•evanklem2004•8h ago•30 comments

An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below

https://twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248
685•jeremyccrane•17h ago•830 comments

Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core

https://tingouw.com/blog/embedded/esp32/run_rust_on_app_core
74•MrBuddyCasino•3d ago•12 comments

Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics

https://thermodynamicsbook.com/
143•2DcAf•18h ago•38 comments

The Visible Zorker: Zork 1

https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork1/
131•PLenz•17h ago•28 comments