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

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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.

The Free Universal Construction Kit

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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.

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

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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.

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

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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.

Desmond Morris has died

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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

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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.

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

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.

Hokusai and Tesselations

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Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

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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.

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

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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.

GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

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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.

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

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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.

AI agents that argue with each other to improve decisions

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Run meetings, plan work, and stress-test ideas with a team of AI agents that think differently — and challenge each other on purpose. HATS is inspired by the Six Thinking Hats framework — but implemented as a real multi-agent system with structured disagreement. When a meeting starts, HATS opens a stage of animated 3D avatars rendered in real time using Three.js. Each agent speaks aloud via ...

Commenting and approving pull requests

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Leave comments on PRs even if approving, as they show thought and care, and trust your team to consider them. This approach works best with low-configuration tooling and a team that's highly aligned.

What async promised and what it delivered

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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 ...

Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

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

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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 ...

Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau

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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.

Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp

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mine is an integrated development environment for Coalton and Common Lisp for Windows, macOS, and Linux. 👉 Download the latest release. mine-app for Windows and macOS is a complete, all-in-one, packaged application with no dependencies. It Just Works™, or it’s a bug. mine-core for Windows, macOS, and Linux is a hacker-friendly “bring your own compliant terminal” variant. It allows you to use ...

Panipat: The rise of the Mughals

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

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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.

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

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By Felicity Bradstock - Apr 25, 2026, 2:00 PM CDT The United States’ geothermal energy sector has gradually expanded in recent years, as states look to diversify their energy mix. While several renewable energy sectors have struggled to stay afloat under the Trump administration, the government has continued to show support for geothermal energy development. Further, innovations in enhanced ...

Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI

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Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

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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.

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

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You're attending Babashka Conf on May 8 and Dutch Clojure Days on May 9. You're considering building a tool for semantic diffing in Emacs, after being dissatisfied with difftastic.

Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

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Niri, a Wayland compositor, has released new features including blur, xray blur, and improved screencasting with cursor metadata. Other updates include animation fixes, improved IME support, and new options for tablet and input device management.

HEALPix

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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.

A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU

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A questionnaire-based system estimates body measurements with high accuracy, outperforming photo-based methods without requiring a photo. The system uses a physics-aware loss and a small MLP trained on a synthetic dataset to predict 58 Anny body parameters with a mean error of 0.3 cm and 0.3 kg.

The Stanford Freshmen Who Want to Rule the World

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W at Stanford University, I learned to shotgun a beer from a guy in a frat. Soon after, he dropped out and started an AI company. Six months later, it was valued at more than $1 billion. For most students, Stanford is a normal competitive school, where people go to class and coffee shops and fall in love and freak out over finals. But a select few attend something else: a Stanford inside ...

The mail sent to a video game publisher

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Panic, a game publisher, received bundles of mail from players expressing appreciation for their games. The mail included creative notes, gifts, and even a child's tooth.