Ape Coding
Ape coding is a software development practice where a human developer deliberately hand-writes source code. Practitioners of ape coding will typically author code by typing it on a computer keyboard, using specifically designed text editing software. History The term was popularized when agentic coding (coding performed by AI agents) became the dominant form of software […]
RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#
around a year ago, we built a regex engine in F# that not only outperformed the ones in dotnet, but went above and beyond competing with every other industrial regex engine on a large set of industry-standard benchmarks. additionally, it supports the full set of boolean operators (union, intersection, complement) and even a form of […]
Show HN: I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs
:: Deterministic typesetting for the programmable web. A pure-JS, zero-dependency typesetting engine that yields bit-perfect PDF output across any runtime—from Cloudflare Workers to the browser. Stop using Headless Chrome to print text. If you generate PDFs with headless browsers or HTML-to-PDF tools, you’ve accepted a compromise: heavy dependencies, memory leaks, and ”approximate” layout that shifts […]
I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it’s ”free” and ad-supported
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Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables
A Rust compiler written in PHP that emits x86-64 Linux ELF binaries directly (no LLVM, no assembler, no linker). Implements ownership checking, borrow checking, type checking, move semantics, generics, traits, closures, and iterators. Useful if you need to compile Rust on a shared hosting server from 2008 where the only installed runtime is PHP. Installation […]
Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of the PHP Foundation
We’re excited to welcome Elizabeth Barron as the next Executive Director of The PHP Foundation, following a thorough process led by our search committee of Nils Adermann, Sebastian Bergmann, Lorna Mitchell, and Ben Ramsey. Elizabeth brings a rare combination of deep roots in the PHP community and proven leadership in open-source governance. She co-founded a […]
The Cathode Ray Tube site
The Cathode Ray Tube site 150 years of CRT evolutionThe Dutch collection NEVA Finebeam tube Close-up of the gun. The fadenstrahlrohre or Finebeam tube is used in conjunction with two Helmholtz coils to investigate the deflection of electron beams in electrical and magnetic fields, particularly the determination of the specific electron charge e/m, the Electron Charge […]
Microgpt explained interactively
Andrej Karpathy wrote a 200-line Python script that trains and runs a GPT from scratch, with no libraries, no dependencies, just raw Python. The script contains the complete algorithm that powers LLMs like ChatGPT. Everything else is just efficiency. Let’s walk through it piece by piece and watch each part work. Andrej did a walkthrough […]
Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB?
2026-02-28 TLDR; The C++ standard library sets up exception handling infrastructure early on, allocating memory for an “emergency pool” to be able to allocate memory for exceptions in case malloc ever runs out of memory. I like to spend (some of) my time hacking and experimenting on custom memory allocators with my own malloc implementation(s). […]
Show HN: Terminal-Style Portfolio on the Internet
19-year-old AI developer, Perplexity Business Fellow, winner of Nothing Essential Lab S1 Hackathon (awarded a Nothing Phone 3), featured by The Independent for ClawX, 4th place at Unsloth x AMD RL Hackathon at IIT Delhi, with 20+ hackathons under his belt. From New Delhi, India. Participant in OpenAI Asia-Pacific Developer Discussion. Creator of innovative AI […]