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| 241. | Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers (ergaster.org) | |
| 253 points | 2025 | author thibaultamartin showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“indeed I bought a JetKVM. A colleague had one and recommended it warmly! I'm Very happy with it so far, but my usage has been rather basic. I've heard that it might be…” | ||
| 242. | Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies (resobscura.substack.com) | |
| 252 points | 2025 | author benbreen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree that my read may not be correct either. It’s tough to make out. Although keep in mind that “ph” is used in Latin and Greek (or at least transliterations of Greek…” | ||
| 243. | Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta (untested.sonnet.io) | |
| 251 points | 2025 | author rpastuszak showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the feedback, most of my usual readers know about Ensō and it seems I forgot to leave my little bubble when writing this post!” | ||
| 244. | Triptych Proposals (alexanderpetros.com) | |
| 250 points | 2025 | author alexpetros showed up | their comment | thread
“I'll let the proposal mostly speak for itself but one recurring question it doesn't answer is: "how likely is any of this to happen?" My answer is: I'm pretty…” | ||
| 245. | DeepMind program finds diamonds in Minecraft without being taught (nature.com) | |
| 248 points | 2025 | author danijar showed up | their comment | thread
“Dreamer learns to find diamonds from scratch by interacting with the environment, without access to external data. So there are no explainer videos or internet text…” | ||
| 246. | LLM code generation may lead to an erosion of trust (jaysthoughts.com) | |
| 248 points | 2025 | author acedTrex showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Sorry about the JS stuff I wrote this while also fooling around with alpine.js for fun. I never expected it to make it to HN. I'll get a static version up and running.…” | ||
| 247. | I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey (ertu.dev) | |
| 246 points | 2025 | author ertucetin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thank you all for taking the time to read about my journey and, of course, for playing my game. I’m very glad that you liked it!” | ||
| 248. | The day my smart vacuum turned against me (codetiger.github.io) | |
| 245 points | 2025 | author codetiger showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“And I tried unblocking every time it went down. But my experience was, once it got bricked, it never started. So flashing was necessary to get it up and running. I…” | ||
| 249. | I can't recommend Grafana anymore (henrikgerdes.me) | |
| 245 points | 2025 | author kodama-lens showed up | their comment | thread
“I know the old way still works and I respect that. Given the history I ask myself how long will it work, since ist not the default anymore.” | ||
| 250. | Animated Cursors (tattoy.sh) | |
| 244 points | 2025 | author tombh showed up | their comment | thread
“I just chose the fire cursor for the demo. There are lots of other shaders available, eg, they have a simple smear cursor like Neovide's.” | ||
| 251. | Eavesdropping on smartphone 13.56MHz NFC polling during screen wake-up/unlock (old.reddit.com) | |
| 243 points | 2025 | author c10ned showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me clarify, as that was indeed worded rather vaguely in my post—I forgot to mention why exactly Android is at risk. On the Pixel 7, Airplane mode absolutely did not…” | ||
| 252. | Buttplug MCP (github.com) | |
| 242 points | 2025 | author neomantra showed up | their comment | thread
“What a Happy Friday to see this now, as I created it on April Fool's Day. I annually do silly personal projects on that day. That week I happened to be playing with MCP…” | ||
| 253. | Migrating to Postgres (engineering.usemotion.com) | |
| 241 points | 2025 | author ScalaHanSolo showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Optimizing bad queries was absolutely part of the issues with the performance. The issue with cockroach was that the visibility into those bad queries was not great. It…” | ||
| 254. | Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters? (martinalderson.com) | |
| 241 points | 2025 | author martinald showed up | their comment | thread
“I mix up American and British English all the time. It's pretty common for us Brits to do that imo. See also how all (?) Brits pronounce Gen Z in the American way (ie…” | ||
| 255. | Modern JavaScript for Django developers (saaspegasus.com) | |
| 240 points | 2025 | author czue showed up | their comment | thread
“I would say the core principles still hold up well, though the tooling and libraries are constantly evolving. An incomplete list of things I'd add / change today (and…” | ||
| 256. | Cancellations in async Rust (sunshowers.io) | |
| 240 points | 2025 | author sunshowers showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here -- I'd recommend reading my blog post about how cargo-nextest uses Tokio + async Rust to handle very complex state machines:” | ||
| 257. | Google Safe Browsing incident (statichost.eu) | |
| 240 points | 2025 | author ericselin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“This is all true. The main assumption from my part is that anything remotely important or even sensitive should be and is hosted on a domain that is _not_…” | ||
| 258. | Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust (github.com) | |
| 239 points | 2025 | author HansHalverson showed up | their comment | thread
“very cool to see this get posted! Thank you @ivankra for adding this to and running those benchmarks, I really appreciate it! This started as a hobby project that I've…” | ||
| 259. | The unreasonable effectiveness of fuzzing for porting programs (rjp.io) | |
| 238 points | 2025 | author rjpower9000 showed up | their comment | thread
“That's a great idea. I didn't explore that for this session but it's worth trying. I didn't measure consistently, but I would guess 60-70% of the symbols ported easily,…” | ||
| 260. | Understanding Memory Management, Part 1: C (educatedguesswork.org) | |
| 237 points | 2025 | author ekr____ showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“You're quite right that this isn't the thing you would normally do. I'm just trying to help people work through the logic of the system with as few dependencies as…” | ||
| 261. | Using your Apple device as an access card in unsupported systems (github.com) | |
| 237 points | 2025 | author kormax showed up | their comment | thread
“As far as I know, Ubiquiti is not responsible for this 5$ per year "tax". Apple takes about 3$ per user per year for usage of "Apple Access Platform", and the rest is…” | ||
| 262. | The model is the product (vintagedata.org) | |
| 237 points | 2025 | author Dorialexander showed up | their comment | thread
“An important background is the imminent rise of actual LLM agents I discuss in the next post: So answering to a few comments: *The shift is coming relatively soon thanks…” | ||
| 263. | Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know (prateekcodes.dev) | |
| 237 points | 2025 | author prateekkish showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey there. I wrote the article. While I know the version numbers aren’t concrete, I added the proposal anyways as a way for readers to visualise what the maintainers had…” | ||
| 264. | Handy – Free open-source speech-to-text app written in Rust (handy.computer) | |
| 237 points | 2025 | author sipjca showed up | their comment | thread
“The default recommendation is Parakeet (mainly because it runs fast on a lot more hardware), but definitely think people should experiment with different models and see…” | ||
| 265. | Sampling and structured outputs in LLMs (parthsareen.com) | |
| 234 points | 2025 | author parthsareen showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! I'm the author of the post. We haven't optimized sampling yet so it's running linearly on the CPU. A lot of SOTA work either does this while the model is running…” | ||
| 266. | Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria (fusionenergybase.com) | |
| 232 points | 2025 | author sam showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“some other posters have touched on the reasons. Much of the focus on high performing tokamaks shifted to ITER in recent decades, though this is now changing as fusion…” | ||
| 267. | Which table format do LLMs understand best? (improvingagents.com) | |
| 230 points | 2025 | author mattcollins showed up | their comment | thread
“This has made me chuckle several times - thanks!” | ||
| 268. | When did people favor composition over inheritance? (sicpers.info) | |
| 230 points | 2025 | author grahamlee showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I wrote “ But even a modestly more recent language like Java has visibility attributes that let a class control what its subtypes can view or change, meaning that any…” | ||
| 269. | Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry Pi (smallstep.com) | |
| 229 points | 2025 | author tashian showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your questions here. Yep, it's overkill. Homelabs are learning environments. People want tutorials when trying new things. It's a poor man's HSM because not…” | ||
| 270. | My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024) (fangpenlin.com) | |
| 229 points | 2025 | author fangpenlin showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“So BeanHub is built on top of Beancount and uses double-entry accounting. It's one of the benefits of double-entry accounting. Many accounting software are not good at…” | ||
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