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You Said No MCP

https://earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp/
438•yarapavan•7h ago•240 comments

The AI Race Just Got Awkward

https://insufferable.dev/posts/the-ai-race-just-got-awkward/
263•allisdust•1h ago•225 comments

A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal
48•rbanffy•2h ago•13 comments

SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

https://alphapixeldev.com/sdf-vs-msdf-vs-slug-vs-rive-gpu-text-rendering/
65•ibobev•3h ago•31 comments

Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.71603
16•croes•1h ago•5 comments

I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records

https://blog.faav.net/how-i-couldve-accessed-17-trillion-microsoft-records
98•luispa•1d ago•47 comments

Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A)

https://github.com/mogrinz/AMT630A
21•mogrinz•1d ago•4 comments

Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot

https://projecthub.arduino.cc/syntheticaidata/jbr-001-a-desktop-companion-robot-powered-by-arduin...
99•gvuksic•1d ago•22 comments

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf
811•bryan0•18h ago•338 comments

SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987

https://sdf.org/
11•kmstout•2h ago•1 comments

Solving Factorio Quality

https://exyr.org/2026/solving-factorio-quality/
210•laurenth•1d ago•77 comments

Mathematical Origami

https://mathigon.org/origami
71•signa11•1d ago•15 comments

Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course

https://thisismypersonalblog.com/posts/2026-09-25-getting-out-of-the-way/
31•systemerror•2d ago•7 comments

Dots: Always-on agents

https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/
714•alvis•23h ago•595 comments

What TLA+ can and can't check

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/what-tla-can-and-cant-check/
9•b-man•3h ago•1 comments

Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260928-a-virtual-power-plant-hidden-in-vermont-homes-is-keep...
321•devonnull•22h ago•245 comments

NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/nasa-asked-several-former-sr-71a-staffers-he...
274•ilamont•1d ago•301 comments

America.gov

https://america.gov/
721•plesiv•1d ago•642 comments

U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

https://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2026/09/26/u-s-postal-inspectors-shut-down-website-selling...
261•ilamont•21h ago•155 comments

Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

https://space.bl2.net/
342•wanick•21h ago•92 comments

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
324•evakhoury•2d ago•48 comments

Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2026/
278•HieronymusBosch•1d ago•88 comments

Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2026/09/29/floppy-emu-hardware-failure-analysis-results/
40•zdw•17h ago•9 comments

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
563•rbanffy•1d ago•308 comments

Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet

https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2026-08-23-wgpu-facet/
77•luu•1d ago•6 comments

RSS Feeds for Last.fm

https://lfm.xiffy.nl/
111•Baljhin•14h ago•36 comments

Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/classifier-history-and-jev
182•Anon84•1d ago•9 comments

Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality

https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc
67•seam_carver•2d ago•19 comments

September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy

https://tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-09-21/september-2026-the-world-today/
455•marjancek•9h ago•335 comments

GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/
1032•crorella•23h ago•909 comments
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A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal
44•rbanffy•2h ago

Comments

rbanffy•49m ago
I have the highest regard for these terse, but information-dense displays that enable humans to quickly grasp all information they need to do their jobs, and nothing more. This is also something avionics provide - a modern cockpit displays are a work of art in layering needed information for what is happening at the time, both the dense PFD and the much specific that communicate aircraft status.
nxobject•13m ago
I know it's impossible, but I've always loved to get a hands-on demo... I'd love to learn the UI patterns involved, for example. I can always make my Emacs faster to interact with, dammit!
hangrybear666•43m ago
Zitron must get on this ASAP it will make his day
Flex247A•30m ago
Any idea on what technologies/toolkits are used to build Bloomberg terminal?
apaprocki•27m ago
Nowadays the desktop software is built around Chromium. Lots of C++ and one of the largest JS codebases in the world.
nxobject•19m ago
> largest JS codebases in the world.

I'd love to know how they make frontends as responsive as possible. To the engineering blog!

apaprocki•15m ago
Here’s a great talk to get you up to speed! https://youtu.be/y1MCLZm8yAY
mandevil•29m ago
The modern Terminal is based on a private fork of Chromium to give it the look and feel of a VT100 terminal, and integrate their private networking and security technologies. The BBT predates HTTP, and backwards compatibility is hugely important to the company- they have a museum where a second-generation Terminal from ~1985 shows the current news, because they are so dedicated to backwards compatibility that they still can support the 1985 hardware.
apaprocki•22m ago
This isn’t really true. The old terminal monitors are essentially dumb CRTs and the the museum pieces are just displaying the output from a regular PC running the modern app converted to an appropriate signal + BNC connectors so you see something and not just a black screen.

The old terminal hardware communicated over dedicated serial lines and worked in conjunction with many other “server-side” pieces of software that no longer exist, so it would be impossible to make one function as it did back in the day.

gitghxst•29m ago
shit I really loved this, was searching for the history of bloomberg these days. thanks for sharing
nxobject•16m ago
The article has an image of terminal keyboard used by a legendary trader... the key-caps are immaculate; the letters haven't faded at all. Amazing. I wonder if they were double-shot...