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Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

https://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/bijou64/
32•justinweiss•48m ago

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RedShift1•7m ago
This seems quite convoluted just to avoid the "0 can be represented in more than one way" problem.
nine_k•4m ago
It allows finding out the length (and allocating memory) after reading the first byte.

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

https://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/bijou64/
33•justinweiss•48m ago•4 comments

I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline/
235•PinkG•1h ago•140 comments

Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025)

https://dutchreview.com/culture/tulip-mania-netherlands/
91•dotcoma•4h ago•78 comments

Expertise in the Age of AI

https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/ai_and_expertise/
39•brilee•2h ago•32 comments

High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building

https://commonedge.org/high-density-living-2000-years-ago-inside-the-roman-apartment-building/
48•surprisetalk•3h ago•10 comments

The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System Is a Waste of Time

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/the-uk-governments-low-value-purchase-system-is-a-waste-of-time/
99•ColinWright•3h ago•56 comments

Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test

https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/2060164928472854821
385•enraged_camel•14h ago•385 comments

Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request

https://blog.kog.ai/real-time-llm-inference-on-standard-gpus-3-000-tokens-s-per-request/
119•NicoConstant•6h ago•60 comments

Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

41•ColinWright•3h ago•39 comments

Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care

https://www.404media.co/headway-therapy-facial-scan-biometric-data-identity-verification/
36•pavel_lishin•1h ago•9 comments

Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You

https://buildingbetter.tech/p/i-read-the-claude-code-source-code
275•ankitg12•13h ago•53 comments

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/its-hard-to-justify-framework-12/
30•watermelon0•56m ago•23 comments

Orchestrating AI code review at scale

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-code-review/
81•pramodbiligiri•3d ago•33 comments

Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cedana/jobs/d1vYocG-forward-deployed-engineer-ai-hpc
1•neelm•3h ago

Claude Opus 4.8

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8
1670•craigmart•23h ago•1298 comments

Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

https://mybricklog.com/blog/bricks-minifigs-corporate-stole-old-mans-200000-lego-collection
1199•philips•20h ago•528 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/
131•goranmoomin•12h ago•47 comments

Local Git Remotes

https://cblgh.org/posts/local-git-remotes/
54•surprisetalk•3h ago•40 comments

OpenAI Announces Rosalind Biodefense

https://openai.com/index/strengthening-societal-resilience-with-rosalind-biodefense/
14•JustSkyfall•46m ago•4 comments

An Obsessive Focus on UX: Pilot's Pressure-Regulating Kire-Na Highlighter

https://www.core77.com/posts/143832/An-Obsessive-Focus-on-UX-Pilots-Pressure-Regulating-Kire-Na-H...
36•surprisetalk•3d ago•10 comments

Even (very) noisy LLM evaluators are useful for improving AI agents

https://www.tensorzero.com/blog/even-very-noisy-llm-evaluators-are-useful-for-improving-ai-agents/
13•GabrielBianconi•2d ago•1 comments

Wterm – Terminal Emulator for the Web

https://wterm.dev/
31•m3h•7h ago•5 comments

Is AI causing a repeat of Front end's Lost Decade?

https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2026-05-23-is-AI-causing-a-repeat-of-frontends-lost-decade/
160•xyzal•4h ago•160 comments

Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion

https://github.com/robinostlund/homeassistant-volkswagencarnet/issues/967
314•Kwastie•10h ago•158 comments

The Secret Garden of Rock-Paper-Scissors

https://theshamblog.com/the-secret-garden-of-rock-paper-scissors/
6•scottshambaugh•1h ago•0 comments

We should be more tired than the model

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/05/28/we-should-be-more-tired-than-the-model/
76•tosh•3h ago•75 comments

Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching

https://www.mpi.nl/news/italians-and-dutch-share-same-gestural-instinct-teaching
100•vi_sextus_vi•13h ago•45 comments

Ten Basic Clouds

https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/clouds/ten-basic-clouds
174•nopg•4d ago•45 comments

Show HN: Context-aware Japanese furigana using Sudachi and ModernBERT

https://www.ezfurigana.com/
12•epitrochoid413•3h ago•7 comments

GTA 6 Developers Unionize

https://rockstarintel.com/gta-6-developers-announce-rockstar-games-union/
9•AndrewKemendo•18m ago•2 comments