Evan Prodromou Launches the Social Web Foundation
In a gesture that’s been a long time coming, Evan Prodromou, co-author of the ActivityPub protocol, has launched The Social Web Foundation. The organization aims to tackle the various headaches and challenges the ActivityPub ecosystem has faced over the last decade of its development. Their mission? A bigger, better Fediverse. “I wish I would’ve started […]
OpenBSD now enforcing no invalid NUL characters in shell scripts
Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2024-09-24 from the feed me NUL, you go POOF dept. Our favorite operating system is now changing the default shell (ksh) to enforce not allowing invalid NUL characters in input that will be parsed as parts of the script. The commit message reads, List: openbsd-cvs Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: […]
Show HN: Oodle – serverless, fully-managed, drop-in replacement for Prometheus
TL;DR We designed a serverless & cost-efficient metrics observability system that delivers fast performance at any scale. Try out our playground with 13M+ active time series/hr & 13B+ samples/day Explore all features with live data via Quick Signup Instant exploration (
Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting
What is OpenFreeMap? OpenFreeMap lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free. You can either self-host or use our public instance. Everything is open-source, including the full production setup — there’s no ‘open-core’ model here. Check out our GitHub. The map data comes from OpenStreetMap. Using our public instance is completely […]
Move Fast and Abandon Things
15 Sep 2024 Almost-Rans Maybe it’s the change of weather. Fall often finds me looking backward, to the past — and anyway it is as good excuse as any as to why I have found myself peering into old hard drives trying to recover old bits and bytes from games that I wrote some thirty-five years […]
Jetstream: Shrinking the AT Protocol Firehose by >99%
24 Sep 2024 Bluesky recently saw a massive spike in activity in response to Brazil’s ban of Twitter. As a result, the AT Proto event firehose provided by Bluesky’s Relay at bsky.network has increased in volume by a huge amount. The average event rate during this surge increased by ~1,300%. Before this new surge in […]
Fully documented source code for Lander on the Acorn Archimedes
This site contains reconstructed source code for Lander, David Braben’s epic game for the Acorn Archimedes, with every single line documented and (for the most part) explained. Lander was the very first game to be released for the ARM processor, and it is both a milestone and a masterpiece. My hope is that this site […]
The Quest to Build a Telescope on the Moon
Elements The Quest to Build a Telescope on the Moon If the FarView radio telescope is built, it would double as a demonstration of two unprecedented activities: mining and manufacturing in space. By Matthew Hutson September 24, 2024 Play/Pause Button Pause Illustration by Todd St. John Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this […]
Show HN: An expression parser supporting multiple types
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Linearizability Refinement Prophecy
Back in August, Murat Derimbas published a blog post about the paper by Herlihy and Wing that first introduced the concept of linearizability. When we move from sequential programs to concurrent ones, we need to extend our concept of what “correct” means to account for the fact that operations from different threads can overlap in […]