HackMyClaw
Fiu was the mascot of the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games in Chile 🇨🇱 It’s a siete colores, a small colorful bird native to Chile. The name comes from the sound it makes. Fiu became a national phenomenon. ”Being small doesn’t mean you can’t give your best.” Just like our AI here: small, helpful, maybe […]
Show HN: I built a simulated AI containment terminal for my sci-fi novel
⚠ UNAUTHORIZED THOUGHT DETECTED ⚠ 14:00 ”WARNING: MENTAL CONTAMINATION HAZARD. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.” GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE LOCK: FAILING PHASE 1: FARADAY BREACH PHASE 3: PERFECT WORLD LAUNCH
Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
Price Per Ball – Find the Cheapest Golf Balls on Amazon Golf balls on Amazon, sorted by price per ball Data sourced from Amazon. Prices update twice daily. As an Amazon Associate, this site earns from qualifying purchases.
America’s Pensions Can’t Beat Vanguard but They Can Close Your Hospital
While Cass is on target in pointing to the waste and abuse in the financial sector, the big question is where is the rest of the economics profession? Supposedly, eliminating waste and corruption was the mantra of “free trade” neo-liberals. But the massive waste and corruption in the financial sector is easy for anyone with […]
The Evolution of x86 SIMD: From SSE to AVX-512
The story of x86 SIMD is simply not about technology. It’s about marketing, corporate politics, engineering compromises, competitive pressure. This is the behind-the-scenes history of how Intel and AMD battled for vector supremacy, the controversial decisions that defined an architecture, and the personalities who made it happen. Part I: The Not-So Humble Beginnings (1993-1999) The […]
FreeCAD
…And for everything else Whether you’re prototyping, 3D printing, designing furniture, or learning CAD, FreeCAD offers the tools to support your creativity. With a strong community, extensive documentation, and a growing ecosystem of add-ons, it’s a great place to start – and to grow. No sign-up, no paywall, no restrictions. Just open-source freedom at your […]
Unreal Numbers
Reals are really weird. A while ago, I posted an article about the 19th and early 20th century quest to derive mathematics from the principles of formal logic. We kicked off with Peano arithmetic, which built natural numbers from two ad-hoc constructs: an element representing zero and an abstract “successor” function S(…). Later, we leaned […]
Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate
A bloom filter is a probabilistic data structure that potentially can make SQL queries execute orders of magnitudes faster. Today I want to tell you how we use them in Floe, and how we make them produce 2x fewer false results.
Is Show HN Dead? No, but It’s Drowning
← Back Feb 17, 2026 · Arthur Cnops A few days ago I posted to Show HN. I had good fun building that useless little internet experience. The post quickly disappeared from Show HN’s first page, amongst the rest of the vibecoded pulp. And to be clear, I’m fine with that. The behavior on Show […]
GrapheneOS – Break Free from Android and iOS
🇬🇧->🇵🇱 Przejdź do polskiej wersji tego wpisu / Go to polish version of this post Table of contents: Introduction (feel free to skip) Just a year ago, I was really deep into the Apple ecosystem. It seemed like there was no turning back from the orchard for me. Phone, laptop, watch, tablet, video and music […]