573
478
Bored of It
https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2025/087/a1/bored/
1 year ago
567
136
The blissful Zen of a good side project
https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/the-blissful-zen-of-a-good-side-project
486
205
Gumroad’s source is available
https://github.com/antiwork/gumroad
460
192
Nvidia adds native Python support to CUDA
https://thenewstack.io/nvidia-finally-adds-native-python-support-to-cuda/
449
53
Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms
https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~shais/UnderstandingMachineLearning/copy.html
441
147
An interactive-speed Linux computer made of only 3 8-pin chips
https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=36.%208pinLinux
415
708
Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
https://www.kapwing.com/blog/what-its-like-to-interview-a-software-engineer-preparing-with-ai/
361
254
We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing
https://www.theverge.com/tech/640119/camera-raw-spec-format-explained-adobe-dng-canon-nikon-sony-fujifilm
328
95
Lessons from open source in the Mexican government
https://lwn.net/Articles/1013776/
327
193
The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/el-salvador-prisons-warning-americans-trump-1235309721/
286
115
The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition
https://www.filfre.net/2025/04/the-end-of-sierra-as-we-knew-it-part-1-the-acquisition/
265
416
Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-dow-plunges-2200-points-nasdaq-enters-bear-market-as-trump-tariffs-spark-worst-meltdown-since-2020-200042876.html
248
163
DeepMind program finds diamonds in Minecraft without being taught
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01019-w
204
506
The Decline of the U.S. Machine-Tool Industry and Prospects for Recovery (1994)
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB1500.html
194
60
Benchmarking LLM social skills with an elimination game
https://github.com/lechmazur/elimination_game
127
What's in that bright red fire retardant? No one will say, so we had it tested
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/how-much-toxic-heavy-metal-is-in-that-bright-red-fire-retardant-we-had-it-tested-to-find-out
190
69
Kerosene did not save the sperm whale (2024)
https://edconway.substack.com/p/no-kerosene-did-not-save-the-sperm
186
389
Why does Britain feel so poor?
https://martinrobbins.substack.com/p/von-6-why-does-britain-feel-so-poor
178
Trump's Trade War Escalates as China Retaliates with 34% Tariffs
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/business/china-trump-tariffs-retaliation.html
168
139
Pitfalls of Safe Rust
https://corrode.dev/blog/pitfalls-of-safe-rust/
35
DeepSeek: Inference-Time Scaling for Generalist Reward Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02495
162
188
Growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us (2003) [pdf]
https://faculty.washington.edu/ss1110/IF/Buffett%20Fortune%202003%20(6).pdf
161
47
Google announces Sec-Gemini v1 a new experimental cybersecurity model
https://security.googleblog.com/2025/04/google-launches-sec-gemini-v1-new.html
141
182
Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/i-no-longer-hack-paypals-doge-staffers-hacker-past-raises-red-flags/
134
103
The Tcl Programming Language
https://www.magicsplat.com/ttpl/index.html
132
75
Anduril banned from recruiting on NixOS forums
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/anduril-industries-electromagnetic-warfare-team-is-hiring/62569
The Curse of Ayn Rand's Heir
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/ayn-rand-peikoff-inheritance-battle/682219/
125
11
The Mathematics of Crochet
https://hellohartblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/the-mathematics-of-crochet/
122
50
Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source
https://danb.me/blog/gumroad-is-not-open-source/
121
21
Show HN: uWrap.js – A faster and more accurate text wrapping util in < 2KB
https://github.com/leeoniya/uWrap
120
84
Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/wealthy-americans-have-death-rates-on-par-with-poor-europeans/
119
55
What is Local first development
https://alexop.dev/posts/what-is-local-first-web-development/
112
82
Head of NSA and Cybercommand Is Ousted
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/politics/nsa-cyber-command-chief-fired.html
111
52
Mass grave of Roman soldiers found under Vienna sports field
https://gizmodo.com/mass-grave-of-150-roman-soldiers-found-under-vienna-sports-field-2000584946
110
34
Microsoft blocks VSCode-derived editors (like Cursor) from using MS extensions
https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/2976
107
10
Deterministic simulation testing for async Rust
https://s2.dev/blog/dst
106
27
Show HN: Clawtype v2.1 – a one-hand chorded USB keyboard and mouse [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2PSiOl-auM
94
Dow Slides Another 1k Points. Nasdaq on Pace to Enter Bear Market
https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-040425
101
NOAA Weather will delete websites using Amazon, Google cloud services Saturday
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-04/us-weather-agency-websites-to-vanish-under-planned-contract-cuts
96
14
Smallest Pacemaker Is the Size of a Rice Grain
https://www.sciencealert.com/breakthrough-worlds-smallest-pacemaker-is-the-size-of-a-rice-grain
207
A number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/03/ev-factories-canceled/
40
Hackers strike Australia's largest pension funds in coordinated attacks
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/multiple-australian-pension-funds-hit-by-coordinated-hacking-media-reports-say-2025-04-04/
92
15
Stay on schedule with Raspberry Pi Pico W and an e-ink dashboard
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/stay-on-schedule-with-raspberry-pi-pico-w-and-an-e-ink-dashboard/
86
105
A wild 'freakosystem' has been born in Hawaii
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250403-the-new-hawaiian-freakosystem-emerging-on-oahu-accidentally-created-by-humans
83
144
Wall Street Blew It
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/wall-street-trump-tariffs/682304/
80
44
I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today
https://codeberg.org/luciofstars/altabasic
65
The booming, high-stakes arms race of airline safety videos
https://thehustle.co/originals/the-booming-high-stakes-arms-race-of-airline-safety-videos
23
Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-tsmc-tentatively-agree-form-185938022.html
78
I just want to serve 5 terabytes [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI
77
43
Germany's 'Deutschlandticket' helps environment – study
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-deutschlandticket-helps-environment-study/a-72128647
76
51
Mac Numbers now supports LAMBDA functions and MAP
https://support.apple.com/guide/functions/map-ffa7bf25643c/web
72
33
Use the Gemini API with OpenAI Fallback in TypeScript
https://sometechblog.com/posts/try-gemini-api-with-openai-fallback/
71
In the 1980s we also downloaded software from TV
https://newslttrs.com/in-the-1980s-we-also-downloaded-software-from-tv/
70
Reinventing Feathering for the Vectorian Era
https://rive.app/blog/how-rive-reinvented-feathering-for-the-vectorian-era
64
63
A Man Out to Prove How Dumb AI Still Is
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/arc-agi-chollet-test/682295/
61
116
How the 2025 US Financial Crisis is Different than 2008
https://samhenrycliff.medium.com/how-the-2025-us-financial-crisis-is-different-than-2008-5b63bdd06067
56
17
Anagram Word Game
https://codingjlu.github.io/anagram/
7
Show HN: Transputer emulator in JavaScript (fast enough to be useful)
https://nanochess.org/transputer_emulator.html
54
CINC Is Not Chef
https://cinc.sh/
38
Hyperinflation Heralded the Fall of German Democracy (2023)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-hyperinflation-heralded-the-fall-of-german-democracy-180982204/
68
Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/microsoft_remote_desktop_support/
8
Dwarf Fortress Coming to Steam Changed Everything [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX65XCk2-6U
58
Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-odds-asteroid-briefly-threatened-earth.html
