A Verilog to Factorio Compiler and Simulator (Working RISC-V CPU)
This file describes this repository and tool. v2f is short for ”Verilog to Factorio.” The purpose of this tool is to allow Factorio players to use Verilog to describe combinator circuits. An additional purpose is to provide a simple API for describing combinators, so players can manually create designs. Take a Verilog file and outputs […]
Swift 6.3
Swift is designed to be the language you reach for at every layer of the software stack. Whether you’re building embedded firmware, internet-scale services, or full-featured mobile apps, Swift delivers strong safety guarantees, performance control when you need it, and expressive language features and APIs. Swift 6.3 makes these benefits more accessible across the stack. […]
Show HN: Robust LLM Extractor for Websites in TypeScript
Robust Web Data Extractor Using LLMs and Browser Automation Lightfeed Extractor is a Typescript library built for robust web data extraction using LLMs and Playwright. Use natural language prompts to navigate web pages and extract structured data. Get complete, accurate results with great token efficiency — critical for production data pipelines. 🤖 Browser Automation in […]
When Do We Become Adults, Really?
Annals of Inquiry When Do We Become Adults, Really? Scientists define the stages of life in biological, societal, and chronological terms—but none of them quite capture what it’s like to grow up. By Shayla Love February 25, 2026 Illustration by Grace J. Kim Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story In February, […]
The Last Contract: William T. Vollmann’s Battle to Publish an Epic (2025)
William T. Vollmann in Rome, Italy, 2023, Photograph, Maria Moratti via Getty Images A few years ago, the novelist William T. Vollmann was diagnosed with colon cancer. The prognosis wasn’t great but he went ahead with the treatment. A length of intestine drawn out and snipped. It was awful but it worked. The cancer went […]
The Loneliness of a Room of One’s Own
The part of A Room of One’s Own that everybody knows isn’t buried. It’s there on the first page—“a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”—and there again on the last, with more caveats but more ambition: If we get our money and our room, and […]
The Cassandra of ’The Machine’
One day, Mrs. Pengelley came to London seeking the assistance of Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective with the mustache, whose “little grey cells” assist him in solving mysteries. With a troubled look, she tells him that she fears she is being slowly poisoned. The doctor doesn’t see anything much the matter, she says. He […]
Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
There is a distinct, visceral kind of pain in watching an otherwise brilliant engineer hold down the Backspace key for six continuous seconds to fix a typo at the beginning of a line. We’ve all been there. We learn ls, cd, and grep, and then we sort of… stop. The terminal becomes a place we live in-but we […]
Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist
As probably everyone reading this blog, I have a lot of USB cables. I want to sort and categorize them. What the cable can and cannot do is an important factor. But how do I really find out what a cable supports? As I found out during this quest, your cable may successfully lie to […]
Running Tesla Model 3’s computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars
Tesla runs a bug bounty program that invites researchers to find security vulnerabilities in their vehicles. To participate, I needed the actual hardware, so I started looking for Tesla Model 3 parts on eBay. My goal was to get a Tesla car computer and touchscreen running on my desk, booting the car’s operating system. The […]