The Free Universal Construction Kit

229 robinhouston 2026-04-25 16:09:52 UTC fffff.at Llama Share 40

The Free Universal Construction Kit is a set of adapters that allows children's construction toys to work together, promoting creative play and hybrid designs. The Kit is a grassroots remedy for proprietary toy systems, available for free download and 3D printing.

USB Cheat Sheet

17 gwerbret 2026-04-25 22:09:52 UTC fabiensanglard.net Llama Share 0

A USB cheat sheet was created to clarify USB terms and save time. It covers USB versions, lane striping and bonding, and wire configurations for different USB speeds.

1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

494 stephen-hill 2026-04-25 12:09:52 UTC hypertalking.com Llama Share 84

User is recreating Hokusai's 36 views of Mount Fuji as 1-bit pixel art on old Macintosh computers for nostalgia and flow state. They use Aldus SuperPaint 3.0 on Quadra 700 or PowerBook 100 to create authentic 512x342 pixel images.

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

126 speckx 2026-04-25 17:09:52 UTC blog.matthewbrunelle.com Llama Share 89

The user tested Claude Code with a personal project, a shim between YouTube Music and OpenSubsonic API, and found it helpful in implementing the project from scratch. The user was able to get a working service in a short evening, but still has concerns about relying too much on AI coding assist and losing skills.

The Joy of Folding Bikes

46 pavel_lishin 2026-04-25 20:09:52 UTC blog.korny.info Llama Share 18

I recently started using a folding bike, a Brompton, which has greatly improved my commuting experience. It's convenient, durable, and cost-effective, paying for itself in just 28 weeks.

Trump fires all 24 members of the U.S. National Science Foundation

66 skullone 2026-04-25 22:40:52 UTC science.org Full Share 12

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

524 calcifer 2026-04-25 06:09:52 UTC jeffgeerling.com Llama Share 306

A new 10G USB 3.2 adapter from WisdPi offers a compact alternative to bulky Thunderbolt adapters, but its performance depends on the USB port's bandwidth. It reaches full 10 Gbps speed only with a USB 3.2 Gen 2 2x2 port, otherwise it's slower.

Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp

47 varjag 2026-04-25 18:09:52 UTC coalton-lang.github.io Llama Share 7

mine is an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It offers a complete, all-in-one application and a command-line variant with integrated REPL, debugger, and structural editing.

Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

64 thehappyfellow 2026-04-25 18:09:52 UTC blog.happyfellow.dev Llama Share 26

Report quality is often judged by superficial measures like writing style, not actual content. This can lead to reliance on AI-generated work, where appearance of quality is prioritized over actual value.

How Hard Is It to Open a File?

33 ffin 2026-04-25 19:09:52 UTC blog.sebastianwick.net Llama Share 2

Passing file paths to privileged processes can lead to security vulnerabilities due to TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) races and symlink attacks. Using file descriptors instead of paths is a safer approach, and libraries like libglnx provide fd-based filesystem operations to help mitigate these issues.

Desmond Morris has died

86 martey 2026-04-25 15:09:52 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 14

Desmond Morris was a zoologist and surrealist painter who wrote The Naked Ape, a book that framed modern humans as ape-like despite technological advances. He popularised science through his books and TV shows, including The Human Animal, which explored human customs and their biological roots.

Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games

154 ingve 2026-04-25 11:09:52 UTC github.com/martingalway Llama Share 20

The user is sharing music player information from the 1980s, specifically from games like Wizball and Athena, and is allowing others to use and modify the work. The user acquired the rights to the music and code from Infogrames and credits the original author, Martin Galway.

What async promised and what it delivered

124 zdw 2026-04-25 13:09:52 UTC causality.blog Llama Share 117

The evolution of concurrency abstractions, from threads to callbacks to promises to async/await, has improved the local experience of writing async code but introduced new costs and complexities at the global level, such as function coloring and ecosystem fragmentation. Each solution solved a problem but introduced new structural costs, and language designers are now reevaluating the approach ...

GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

119 Murfalo 2026-04-25 15:09:52 UTC openai.com Llama Share 91

OpenAI introduces Bio Bug Bounty for GPT-5.5, inviting researchers to find a universal jailbreak for bio safety questions. Applications open April 23, 2026, and close June 22, 2026.

Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets

31 neo2006 2026-04-25 19:09:52 UTC getkloak.io Llama Share 31

Kloak replaces secrets at the network edge, eliminating accidental exposure and misuse. It's open source, kernel-level, and works with any language or framework without an SDK.

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

140 adunk 2026-04-25 12:09:52 UTC fabiensanglard.net Llama Share 23

Canal+, a French TV channel, used a simple encryption system called Discret 11 to block unauthorized viewing, but it was eventually cracked and pirated due to its simplicity and the leak of its schematics. The system was later replaced with Nagravision encryption in 1992 and retired by 1995, but Canal+ went on to become a major satellite broadcaster in Europe.

Math Is Hard

4 signa11 2026-04-25 21:09:52 UTC miod.online.fr Prefix Share 0

When developing software to run in a Unix environment, you will often be able to use the same system features and benefit from good developer tools, regardless of the particular platform you're working on, as most processors will provide a rich instruction set and virtual memory, among other things. When you're on the other side of the fence, and working in the kernel, all the gory ...

Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau

43 vrn-sn 2026-04-25 18:09:52 UTC lute.luau.org Llama Share 7

Lute provides a standalone runtime for Luau with built-in APIs for common tasks. It allows for general-purpose programming outside of game engines, similar to Node.js or Deno.

Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021)

40 jxmorris12 2026-04-25 16:09:52 UTC parl.ai Llama Share 7

Researchers propose two new methods to study the relationship between model size and computation in deep learning. They show that increasing model size or computation can improve performance without increasing the other.

Can you stop beans from making you gassy?

79 jstrieb 2026-04-25 21:09:52 UTC seriouseats.com Full Share 58

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Hokusai and Tesselations

84 srean 2026-04-25 18:09:52 UTC dl.ndl.go.jp Full Share 13

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America's Geothermal Breakthrough Could Unlock a 150-Gigawatt Energy Revolution

42 sleepyguy 2026-04-25 20:09:52 UTC oilprice.com Llama Share 37

The US geothermal energy sector is expanding with support from the government and innovations in enhanced geothermal technologies. Companies like Fervo Energy are leading the way with new projects and technologies to access geothermal resources.

A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp

99 mariuz 2026-04-25 11:09:52 UTC github.com/nakagami Llama Share 41

A web-based RDP client connects to Windows Remote Desktop servers directly from browsers without plugins. It uses a Go proxy server to bridge WebSocket connections to the RDP server's TCP port.

Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

44 wslh 2026-04-25 14:09:52 UTC sciencedirect.com Full Share 19

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Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x

67 keepamovin 2026-04-25 11:09:52 UTC blisscast.wordpress.com Llama Share 51

Microsoft released Windows 2.x, a graphical user shell that ran on top of MS-DOS, with features like overlapping windows and icons on the desktop, but it was still limited by hardware and software constraints. The release was part of a larger effort by Microsoft to develop a GUI that could eventually be replaced by OS/2, but Apple sued Microsoft over copyright infringement, leading to a ...

Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay

262 rbanffy 2026-04-25 01:09:52 UTC unsung.aresluna.org Llama Share 127

ASCII diagramming tools offer limited visual choices for low-key diagramming and entry points to gen AI, combining old and new features. They promote self-constraint, making things easier and harder with AI, and celebrate the power of monospace plain text.

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

327 pigeons 2026-04-25 01:09:52 UTC github.com/yuvadm Llama Share 44

The Q-Day Prize submission demonstrates a classical attack on ECDLP using uniform random noise, not a quantum attack. The submission's results are reproducible without any quantum hardware.

Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI

128 marvinborner 2026-04-25 12:09:52 UTC victortaelin.github.io Full Share 38

github.com/VictorTaelin/LamBench v1

North American Millets Alliance(2023)

8 num42 2026-04-25 18:09:52 UTC milletsalliance.org Prefix Share 2

Millets are ancient grains that hold great promise for the future. Domesticated ages ago in diverse parts of Asia and Africa, some of this group of small-grained crops have found uses in North America, but their potential in this time of climate change and concern for healthier eating, is largely unrealized. Our goal is to change that. Most millets thrive in heat and produce with less water. ...

HEALPix

49 hyperific 2026-04-25 14:09:52 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 6

HEALPix is an algorithm for pixelizing the 2-sphere, devised in 1997 by Krzysztof M. Górski. It's widely used in cosmology for maps of the cosmic microwave background.