What went wrong with wireless USB (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
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Blogspot
What went wrong with wireless USB
(Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) A few moons ago I was thinking of ways to take my Palm OS Fossil Wr...
Legendary Bose Magic Carpet Suspension Is Finally Going Global (❄️ Score: 152+ in 3 days)
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The Drive
Legendary Bose Magic Carpet Suspension Is Finally Going Global
Bose once blew us away with a car that could jump over potholes and ride perfectly flat. Over 20 years later, the tech is finally hitting mass production.
Metagenomics test saves woman's sight after mystery infection (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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BBC News
Metagenomics test saves woman's sight after mystery infection
After years of suffering, a cutting-edge test diagnosed Ellie Irwin with a rare bacterial infection.
Google Gemini has the worst LLM API (Score: 151+ in 16 hours)
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Show HN: I taught AI to commentate Pong in real time (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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GitHub
GitHub - pncnmnp/xpong: LLM-generated real-time commentary for Pong
LLM-generated real-time commentary for Pong. Contribute to pncnmnp/xpong development by creating an account on GitHub.
The Alabama Landline That Keeps Ringing (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
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Oxford American
The Alabama Landline That Keeps Ringing
At Auburn University, students at the Foy Information Desk have been answering questions for more than 70 years.
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1987) [pdf] (Score: 150+ in 20 hours)
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Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy (Score: 152+ in 14 hours)
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Programmablemutter
Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy
Organizing and generating variety in politics
Design for 3D-Printing (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
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blog.rahix.de
Design for 3D-Printing - Rahix' Blog
Deep dive into mechanical design that is optimized for 3d-printing.
I'd rather read the prompt (🔥 Score: 167+ in 2 hours)
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Claytonwramsey
I'd rather read the prompt
I have literally never seen LLM writing that actually improved my life.
Oberon Pi (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
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Dummy's Guide to Modern LLM Sampling (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
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rentry.co
Dummy's Guide to Modern Samplers
An idiot's comprehensive guide to modern sampling
Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart (❄️ Score: 153+ in 2 days)
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Space
Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart
If the object really is Planet Nine, it would be larger than Neptune and exist 700 times further from the sun than Earth.
Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire (Score: 154+ in 1 day)
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A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire
This week we’re looking at a specific visual motif common in TV and film: the arrow volley. You know the scene: the general readies his archers, he orders them to ‘draw!’ and then…
Technical analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app Trump officials used (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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micahflee
TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials
💡Update May 3, 2025: I have posted a follow-up, Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials.
Update May 4, 2025: Another followup, and a big one: The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
Yesterday, a Reuters photographer…
Update May 4, 2025: Another followup, and a big one: The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
Yesterday, a Reuters photographer…
AI code is legacy code? (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
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Text Incubation
AI code is legacy code from day one - Text Incubation
It seems like there are a few stages in the life of a codebase (and/or parts of it), that dictate its likelihood of deep improvement. 1. When something is new, and you’re the one who built it: “Oh ye…
Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
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Been going to a bunch of hackathons in SF lately and honestly, everything feels fake. There are like 20 sponsors handing out credits for their tools that all do the same thing. Half the time, they can’t even explain what they’re for. They’re just hoping someone uses them so they can count it as adoption. Everyone jams these into projects to check a box, and what gets built is mostly BS with zero innovation.
Was it always like this and I'm noticing it now, or has something changed?
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Been going to a bunch of hackathons in SF lately and honestly, everything feels fake. There are like 20 sponsors handing out credits for their tools that all do the same thing. Half the time, they can’t even explain what they’re for. They’re just hoping someone uses them so they can count it as adoption. Everyone jams these into projects to check a box, and what gets built is mostly BS with zero innovation.
Was it always like this and I'm noticing it now, or has something changed?
Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
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VictoriaMetrics
Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns
Go applications can implement graceful shutdown by handling termination signals (SIGTERM, SIGINT) via os/signal or signal.NotifyContext. Shutdown must complete within a specified timeout (e.g., Kubernetes’ terminationGracePeriodSeconds)…
On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
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The Hedgehog Review
On Not Carrying a Camera
The ten thousand photographs stored on a cellphone are a dramatic refutation of my photographic diffidence.
AI Meets WinDBG (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
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svnscha.de
The Future of Crash Analysis: AI Meets WinDBG
Because manually squinting at hex dumps is so last century. Let me show you how AI-assisted debugging is leaving WinDBG's command line in the dust.