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My Astrophotography in the Movie Project Hail Mary (square.site)

×3.69 #3 | 113 points by wallflower 3 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microbenchmarking Chipsets for Giggles (chipsandcheese.com)

×0.73 32 #16 | 25 points by zdw 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines (mropert.github.io)

×1.47 8 #20 | 83 points by ingve 5 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why did the chicken cross the road? (taylor.town)

×0.87 27 #67 | 35 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV (historytoday.com)

×1.06 17 #22 | 42 points by Petiver 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VNDB founder Yorhel has died (vndb.org)

×1.88 5 #12 | 94 points by indrora 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Chess Playing Machine – Shannon (1950) [pdf] (caltech.edu)

×0.90 15 #73 | 20 points by kristianp 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The final switch: Goldsboro, 1961 (2013) (nuclearsecrecy.com)

×0.56 47 #56 | 19 points by 1970-01-01 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fun with CSF firmware (RK3588 GPU firmware) (icecream95.gitlab.io)

×0.75 41 #26 | 47 points by M95D 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You can run a DNS server (2025) (simonsafar.com)

×1.34 17 #21 | 109 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intel Device Modeling Language for virtual platforms (github.com/intel)

×0.55 54 #38 | 38 points by transpute 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Algorithm Visualizer (algorithm-visualizer.org)

×1.67 23 #23 | 155 points by vinhnx 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An Aural Companion for Decades, CBS News Radio Crackles to a Close (nytimes.com)

×0.79 46 #33 | 73 points by tintinnabula 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I ran a language model on a PS2 (github.com/xaskasdf)

×1.14 28 #84 | 37 points by xaskasdf 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What happened to GEM? (dfarq.homeip.net)

×0.84 33 #49 | 80 points by naves 16 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question (opper.ai)

×1.55 46 #39 | 77 points by felix089 16 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller (videojs.org)

×2.72 6 #10 | 493 points by Heff 17 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Antimatter – Match the opposites (Mahjong solitaire mechanic) (linguabase.org)

×0.26 64 | 10 points by michaeld123 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
purl: a curl-esque CLI for making HTTP requests that require payment (purl.dev)

×0.57 36 #79 | 44 points by bpierre 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How the world’s first electric grid was built (worksinprogress.co)

×0.81 52 #35 | 101 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls (reuters.com)

×2.86 9 #46 | 343 points by doughnutstracks 19 hours ago | 531 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gridland: make terminal apps that also run in the browser (gridland.io)

×0.89 36 #59 | 91 points by rothific 20 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Data Manipulation in Clojure Compared to R and Python (codewithkira.com)

×1.01 48 #41 | 119 points by tosh 21 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Testing the Swift C compatibility with Raylib (+WASM) (carette.xyz)

×0.58 58 #63 | 60 points by LucidLynx 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I quit editing photos (jamesbaker.uk)

×1.30 49 #62 | 100 points by speckx 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Overcoming the friendship recession (joeprevite.com)

×1.84 57 #40 | 149 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build (github.com/AmElmo)

×1.04 60 #45 | 135 points by jberthom 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MSA: Memory Sparse Attention (github.com/EverMind-AI)

×0.81 50 #74 | 91 points by chaosprint 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Box of Secrets: Discreetly modding an apartment intercom to work with Apple Home (jackhogan.me)

×1.27 50 #44 | 269 points by jackhogan11 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BIO – The Bao I/O Co-Processor (crowdsupply.com)

×0.62 61 #76 | 83 points by hasheddan 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 6502 disassembler with a TUI: A modern take on Regenerator (github.com/ricardoquesada)

×0.86 60 #78 | 89 points by wslh 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pompeii's battle scars linked to an ancient 'machine gun' (phys.org)

×0.92 48 #88 | 110 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents (mozilla.ai)

×1.32 41 #75 | 209 points by peteski22 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application (github.com/dune3d)

×1.41 50 #68 | 226 points by luu 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets (socket.dev)

×1.36 42 #80 | 245 points by jicea 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BIO: The Bao I/O Coprocessor (bunniestudios.com)

×1.13 44 #90 | 171 points by zdw 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI SDLC Scaffold, repo template for AI-assisted software development (github.com/pangon)

×0.88 123 | 27 points by pangon 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made an email app inspired by Arc browser (define.app)

×0.79 112 | 65 points by johndamaia 4 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???