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| 121. | Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024) (kylezhe.ng) | |
| 134 points | 2026 | author zhengkyl showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for posting this and glad people enjoyed reading. I did some editing and added a conclusion that boring QR codes are a better choice for real world use. Easier…” | ||
| 122. | Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol (mihai.dinculescu.dev) | |
| 134 points | 2026 | author faithraven showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“tapo is an unofficial Rust client library for TP-Link Tapo devices (plugs, lights, hubs, cameras), with a Python wrapper built on the same crate. It is not affiliated…” | ||
| 123. | Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net) | |
| 132 points | 2026 | author marcua showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Thank you for trying the bookmarklet and catching this issue. I pushed some fixes that should get around the CSP issue by storing capture.js in the bookmarklet. Let me…” | ||
| 124. | Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer (righto.com) | |
| 132 points | 2026 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for all your core memory questions...” | ||
| 125. | Reasons robotics is hard (secondthoughts.ai) | |
| 131 points | 2026 | author snewman showed up | their comment | thread
“My thinking here is that Waymo has logged hundreds of millions of miles at this point (and even more in sim), and there are a lot of nines in their safety record. So…” | ||
| 126. | Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction (righto.com) | |
| 131 points | 2026 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for your 8087 questions...” | ||
| 127. | Education shouldn't be held for ransom (blog.kagi.com) | |
| 129 points | 2026 | author kelgan showed up | their comment | thread
“What's deceptive about it? I mentioned that Google walked it back some and even link to it. But what educators that I've spoken to want is no AI Overviews in Google…” | ||
| 128. | Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime (lambda-symbolics.com) | |
| 128 points | 2026 | author magnusi showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“com/luciusmagn), I am pretty new to Hacker News. I will respond to your posts as soon as I can :)” | ||
| 129. | GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview (marc.info) | |
| 128 points | 2026 | author oridb showed up | their comment | thread
“correct, it's currently on the user to deal with corrupted data. I'm not opposed to adding a RAID layer, but I also want to explore what adding trim-style feedback to a…” | ||
| 130. | The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction (righto.com) | |
| 128 points | 2026 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“What part of the 8087 should I look at next?” | ||
| 131. | The worst spam emails: iLands AI agent hustle (tedium.co) | |
| 127 points | 2026 | author shortformblog showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi I'm the author and yes, this.” | ||
| 132. | Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests (tangled.org) | |
| 127 points | 2026 | author autonome showed up | their comment | thread
“yes this is the origin. I was trying similar names and a friend reminded me of Bez. Done.” | ||
| 133. | There is no posttraining data commons (openathena.ai) | |
| 127 points | 2026 | author dlwh showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn't expect to see this here, etc., etc. Happy to answer any questions. We have a discord” | ||
| 134. | Ok, but does it scale? (spacetimedb.com) | |
| 126 points | 2026 | author cloutiertyler showed up | their comment | thread
“These are all fair caveats/criticisms. I wouldn't say completely meaningless, but it isn't a game benchmark that's true. We feel very comfortable that it's the most…” | ||
| 135. | Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC (righto.com) | |
| 126 points | 2026 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for your 8087 questions...” | ||
| 136. | Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns (dl.acm.org) | |
| 125 points | 2026 | author vespertine_ showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi everyone! I am one of the authors (Falk), so feel free to ask me questions :)” | ||
| 137. | Towards Self-Driving Codebases (blog.detail.dev) | |
| 123 points | 2026 | author drob showed up | their comment | thread
“hello! Happy to expand on how we're thinking about this if any of it is unclear. We wrote this post as part of a launch, which you can check out here:” | ||
| 138. | Taking another shot at the cheap IP camera, part 2 (ericswpark.com) | |
| 122 points | 2026 | author ericswpark showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“good question! I actually didn’t know what model I wanted to use; I had a general idea of “let’s try a Chinese model instead” but didn’t know how Deepseek, Qwen, or any…” | ||
| 139. | Software engineering is about managing complexity (hack8s.com) | |
| 119 points | 2026 | author justorius showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“what's wrong with this article? No issues detected...” | ||
| 140. | France's tax agency got hacked (in French) (cybernetica.fr) | |
| 118 points | 2026 | author bronks showed up | their comment | thread
“I have an updated version in English here :” | ||
| 141. | Text.js: Build full-stack React apps that render inside console.log (textjs.org) | |
| 118 points | 2026 | author adamdotdev showed up | their comment | thread
“It’s just for fun :). I think I went too hard on the satire and people thought it was something other than a good time, but it’s just a good time.” | ||
| 142. | The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding (distantprovince.substack.com) | |
| 115 points | 2026 | author distantprovince showed up | their comment | thread
“You should definitely share your experience!! We really need to study more success stories so we could figure out what makes them successful. If it's possible I would…” | ||
| 143. | C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake (pikuma.com) | |
| 113 points | 2026 | author gustavopezzi showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for sharing.” | ||
| 144. | OpenLDK: Bringing the Java World into Common Lisp (atgreen.github.io) | |
| 113 points | 2026 | author atgreen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yes, I worked in the University of Toronto's AI lab as a student many years ago, back when Lisp in AI was a thing. It definitely would be full circle!” | ||
| 145. | When the fractional part of a float fixes your shader (crocidb.com) | |
| 111 points | 2026 | author CrociDB showed up | their comment | thread
“hey! author here. I think I missed the opportunity to mention that, it wasn't only reproducible on the 40xx. it was my first hypothesis, but after I figured out it was a…” | ||
| 146. | Quantifying Colour (ekunazanu.foo) | |
| 110 points | 2026 | author ekunazanu showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, as mentioned, all the colours and curves are approximations. I created it in a rush during my last summer break, to be able to submit it before the SoME4 [0]…” | ||
| 147. | LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest (github.com) | |
| 108 points | 2026 | author gauravapiscean showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Context for why I did this: There's a growing literature arguing LRU is the wrong eviction policy for agentic LLM serving, because agent sessions idle and LRU can't…” | ||
| 148. | Show HN: Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors (github.com) | |
| 107 points | 2026 | author kitao showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I haven't removed the repository; my GitHub account is currently suspended after unauthorized use of my token. I revoked the tokens and removed the malicious workflows…” | ||
| 149. | The NX bit is not just about security (purplesyringa.moe) | |
| 106 points | 2026 | author sleirsgoevy showed up | their comment | thread
“I wanted the code to be "as generic as possible", so I had to accept the possibility of some useful thing being at address 0.” | ||
| 150. | A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it (kevin.md) | |
| 105 points | 2026 | author thekevintang showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“One thing that didn't make it into the post: there are no hand-drawn traces on this board. I find mouse-driven PCB layout maddening, so the whole card is a Python script…” | ||
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