fp.

The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code

https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things

313•milkglass•3h ago•157 comments

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/

225•chiefalchemist•9h ago•122 comments

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-pr...

368•pr337h4m•15h ago•232 comments

Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz]

https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@sophie/116467789133733136

14•robin_reala•2h ago•4 comments

GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2026q2/000504.html

67•zdkaster•6h ago•19 comments

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html

315•gwerbret•11h ago•58 comments

Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

265•_-x-_•8h ago•112 comments

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019)

https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/

21•subset•2h ago•3 comments

I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards

https://www.npmjs.com/package/ooko

6•okovooo•2d ago•1 comments

Mahjong: A Visual Guide

https://themahjong.guide/

91•iamwil•2d ago•23 comments

Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist(Health Intelligence)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/terra-api/jobs/DY7BCZU-applied-ai-strategist-market-intelli...

1•kyriakosel•2h ago

Quirks of Human Anatomy

https://www.sdbonline.org/sites/fly/lewheldquirk/figlegq6.htm

28•gurjeet•1d ago•12 comments

The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/shall-we-play-a-game

32•jger15•2d ago•2 comments

APL is more French than English

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis78.htm

14•tosh•2h ago•5 comments

Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

https://petapixel.com/2026/04/22/flickr-the-first-and-last-great-photo-platform/

168•Nrbelex•3d ago•82 comments

OpenAI Privacy Filter

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/

208•tanelpoder•3d ago•39 comments

The Free Universal Construction Kit

https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/

314•robinhouston•4d ago•65 comments

EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/04/17/eu-age-control-the-trojan-horse-for-digital-ids/

170•gasull•5h ago•76 comments

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you...

269•speckx•17h ago•163 comments

The Joy of Folding Bikes

https://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes

174•pavel_lishin•3d ago•106 comments

America's Geothermal Breakthrough

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Americas-Geothermal-Breakthrough-Could-...

110•sleepyguy•13h ago•128 comments

Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/vaxfp.html

105•signa11•2d ago•4 comments

Rediscovering the Handcart

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2026/04/rediscovering-the-handcart/

23•jgrodziski•3d ago•3 comments

Optimizing Datalog for the GPU

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3669940.3707274

53•tosh•2d ago•3 comments

Hokusai and Tesselations

https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/

107•srean•16h ago•14 comments

Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

https://blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/

149•thehappyfellow•16h ago•58 comments

The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024)

https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_carts/

53•offbyone42•8h ago•10 comments

Reviving BrowserID in 2026

https://wakamoleguy.com/p/reviving-browserid-in-2026

23•wakamoleguy•6h ago•6 comments

AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/16/badgeware-onlyoffice-nextcloud-affero-gpl/

68•pabs3•4h ago•11 comments

The Knight Programming Language

https://github.com/knight-lang/knight-lang/tree/master

4•tosh•2h ago•0 comments

Open in hackernews

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019)

https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/

21•subset•2h ago

Comments

9dev•1h ago

For a short moment I got excited he may have started again… this post needs a [2019] :-(

saagarjha•1h ago

Fixed

rurban•51m ago

tcc also supports a binary float extension. https://github.com/TinyCC/tinycc/blob/9b8765d8baaeb2a16112d6...

long double la0 = 0B.110101100P12L;