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Milton Bartholomew: More pianos than typewriters

Implementing and Improving Skiplists

Microjs

Astronomical Accidents, and the Proxima Centauri 'Signal' That Wasn't

Chromium has over 1600 command-line switches

How many children had Lady Macbeth?

How Clang compiles a function (2018)

Understanding Performance Implications of Storage-Disaggregated Databases

Show HN: Patchwork – Open-source framework to automate development gruntwork

U.S. Department of Defense – Detecting Agile BS [pdf]

Real-Time Procedural Generation with GPU Work Graphs [pdf]

ULTRA drone flies for days in military test

Dungeons and Dragons taught me how to write alt text

Tesla Q2 2024 Update [pdf]

The love letter generator created by Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey

Custom Linux powered smart-TV breaks free from ads and tracking

Investing in Rust

Rare footage of largest uncontacted tribe in the world: 'disaster in the making'

Automerge: A library of data structures for building collaborative applications

Concerns about Passkeys

Writing an MP4 Muxer for Fun and Profit

What can TypeScript learn from Zig? What can Zig learn from TypeScript?

Mystery as 4k-year-old axe-heads sent to museum

Tunnel found in Tijuana is so long authorities need oxygen tanks

Fitting an Elephant with Four Non-Zero Parameters

Seiko Originals: The UC-2000, A Smartwatch from 1984

AT&T Paid a Hacker $370k to Delete Stolen Phone Records

A prank cursor resulted in an employee being fired before they started (2020)

Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game

Oystercatchers are waging war on NYC's beach drones

Helium reservoir with 'mind-boggling' concentrations may be even bigger

The economics of a Postgres free tier

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Reproduces BIG-Bench Canary String

The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (2014)

Why We Build Simple Software

Lots of people in education disagree with the premise of maximizing learning

Negative Temperature

Construction of the 4th Chinese aircraft carrier has reportedly started

Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after release

Jqjq: Jq Implementation of Jq

Show HN: Foorr – A minimal to-do app with social accountability

Should the Hawthorn Be Saved?

Moshi: A voice AI that can display emotions

Solving a math problem with planner programming

Big Tech's playbook for swallowing the AI industry