Chemistry behind the Garden Grove chemical tank

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A few interesting modern pixel fonts

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Designers created pixel fonts like Analog Mono, Coral Pixels, and Two Slice to evoke nostalgia and visual interest. Geist Pixel is a functional pixel font designed for real usage, solving problems like scaling and typographic rigor.

I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Book Production Pipeline

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The author discusses the importance of story and writing quality in fiction, then shares their process for formatting and publishing their Christian historical novels. They use Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign, and Calibre to create print and electronic versions of their books.

The worst job interview I ever had

The writer had a bad job interview experience at a mental health startup where they were asked invasive personal questions, making them feel emotionally drained and judged. The writer suggests reconsidering the approach to evaluating cultural fit to avoid making candidates feel vulnerable.

C array types are weird

The author discusses how arrays in C decay to pointers, which can be confusing, and proposes a strict separation of arrays and pointers to make the language easier to learn. They also explore how arrays can be treated as pointers and propose a new operator, @, to create an array from a pointer, and discuss the implications of this on the language.

Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia

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The Wikimedia Foundation fired its longtime lead developer and disbanded a team that listened to volunteers, prompting a potential strike by Wikipedia editors. The Foundation has $296 million in reserves and a profitable AI revenue stream, but its actions have sparked a confrontation with global implications.

Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop

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Rosalind is a Rust genomics engine with a compact memory footprint, running whole-genome workloads in under 100 MB RAM. It achieves deterministic replay and O(√t) working memory, ideal for clinical diagnostics, outbreak monitoring, and education.

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

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Drew Houston is stepping down as Dropbox CEO, transitioning to executive chairman role, while Ashraf Alkarmi will take over as co-CEO. Houston will focus on AI entrepreneurship after nearly two decades at Dropbox.

The Steinwinter Supercargo

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The Steinwinter Supercargo is a retro-futuristic truck designed by Manfred Steinwinter in 1983 with a modular platform and low profile for efficiency. It was a flop due to handling issues and reliability problems, but appeared in several films and TV shows before disappearing from public view.

Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale

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Minicor builds and maintains desktop automations for teams to focus on deals and product shipping. It adapts to UI changes and edge cases with 93-96% click accuracy.

The Ballad of TIGIT

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TIGIT, a protein target for cancer treatment, failed in clinical trials despite initial promise and significant investment. The failure highlights the complexity of biology and the challenges of translating scientific theory into effective treatments.

C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”

To create an Ultima-style map view, you need to decouple the world coordinates from the visible screen coordinates and treat the playable area as a window into a larger 'world' buffer. Optimizations such as using lookup tables, unrolling loops, and replacing slow pokes with print statements can significantly improve performance, but it's essential to measure the hot path before optimizing.

The real cost of owning a home

Home ownership has many hidden costs including loan fees, interest, insurance, taxes, maintenance, and repairs. These costs can add up quickly and may not be immediately apparent when deciding whether to rent or buy a home.

Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs

The essay concludes that hiring an engineer in a cheaper country with a capable model becomes more economical than using top frontier models around month 11. The rising costs of AI can only go so far before becoming a concerning cash burn for enterprises, putting a price ceiling on frontier lab offerings.

DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD

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DynIP provides fast DNS updates in under a minute, supporting RFC 2136 TSIG and both IPv4 and IPv6. It offers a generous free tier, BYOD, and no vendor lock-in for homelabs and infrastructure teams.

Sage Care (YC S24) Is Hiring Software Engineers

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Sage Care Home is a home care agency operating system that uses AI to automate paperwork and streamline client intake. They're hiring engineers to build their platform and drive growth.

What color is your function? (2015)

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The author discusses how many programming languages, including JavaScript, have a problem with asynchronous code, which can be thought of as "red functions" that can only be called by other "red functions". This problem is solved by languages like Go, which use threads to eliminate the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous code.

Are we self-sovereign PKI yet?

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The current public-key infrastructure for people relies on a tower of custody, where trust is placed in a server or a CA, and this setup is vulnerable to various attacks and compromises. A new system called Spaces aims to provide a self-sovereign identity layer by using Bitcoin's proof-of-work security and a Merkle trie to bind names to keys without relying on a trust anchor or a signing key.

Use boring languages with LLMs

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Jacob, a software consultant, believes consistency compounds in software development and large language models amplify this effect, favoring languages with strong conventions over fragmented ones. He recommends using Go with a coding agent for building non-visual software due to its consistent corpus, one-right-way tooling, and performance advantages.

Opaque Types in Python

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To avoid compatibility issues when evolving a complex object like ShippingOptions, use the opaque data type design pattern by wrapping a private class with a public type that can be used in type annotations. This approach preserves flexibility and allows for future changes without breaking existing APIs, as shown by using Python's NewType to create a public ShippingOptions type with minimal overhead.

Performance of Rust Language [pdf]

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A Portentous Reunion

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I just attended my thirtieth college reunion, and there were some clear trends among my mid-life peers. First among them: grave concern for what AI means for our future and for the future of our (broadly young adult) kids. Now, surely many generations have looked back at the three decades since their undergraduate years with a mix of nostalgia for the past and apprehension for the future, so ...

Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier

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Commission chief says EU can learn from “pioneer” Australia in imposing minimum age for social media. European cyber and AI authorities in past weeks failed to gain access to superhacking AI, causing anxiety among officials.

Don't Subscribe So Casually

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Subscriptions can change your behavior and preferences, often in subtle ways, making it difficult to analyze their true value. Companies prioritize profits over user benefit, structuring subscriptions to optimize for long-term profitability and behavioral modification.

Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up

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Earthion is a space shooter game where Azusa Takanashi fights to save humanity from hostile invaders on Earth. The game features stunning visuals, intense gameplay, and a legendary soundtrack by Yuzo Koshiro.

Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking

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Stack Overflow's revenue has doubled to $115 million despite a decline in engagement due to AI, while the company has found a new niche in licensing its data to AI companies. The demise of software engineering roles may have been overblown as AI agents still require human management.

Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?

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Colorectal cancer rates are increasing in younger people due to various factors including general health, diet, and environmental exposures. However, the trend may be more complex than initially thought, with rates also increasing in older generations and other types of cancer rising in younger people.

A sleep-like consolidation mechanism for LLMs

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Researchers improved transformer models for long tasks by adding a sleep-like mechanism that reduces attention computation. This method, which involves offline processing during "sleep," improves performance on tasks that require deep reasoning.

Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC

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Modern Blu-ray players can now rip physical media from older consoles like GameCube and Xbox 360 with OmniDrive firmware. Compatibility is limited to select MediaTek MT1959 chipset Blu-ray drives from Asus, LG, Buffalo, and Verbatim.