America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back https://www.molsonhart.com/blog/america-underestimates-the-difficulty-of-bringing-manufacturing-back
Molson Hart
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back — Molson Hart
On April 2nd, 2025, our president announced major new taxes on imports from foreign countries (“tariffs”), ranging from 10% to 49%. The stated goal is to bring manufacturing back to the United States and to “make America wealthy again”. These tariffs will…
Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator https://filiph.github.io/unsure/
filiph.github.io
Unsure Calculator
The Unsure Calculator is an online tool that lets you calculate with numbers you’re not sure about.
Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014) https://theappendix.net/posts/2014/02/darwins-children-drew-vegetable-battles-on-the-origin-of-species
theappendix.net
Darwin’s Children Drew All Over the On The Origin of Species Manuscript (Updated)—The Appendix
While Darwin was writing his masterpiece, his children were doodling all over it.
Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative https://coppolaemilio.com/entries/i-left-spotify-what-happened-next/
Emi's Blog
I left Spotify. What happened next?
When I stopped using Spotify I tried a few different solutions until I found the perfect replacement for me. If you want the tl;dr: I now use Jellyfin. But if you want to know how I got here, follow me through each step of the way.
An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system https://maknee.github.io/blog/2025/3FS-Performance-Journal-1/
maknee.github.io
An Intro to DeepSeek's Distributed File System | Some blog
Personal website for some random tidbits I work on
Potatoes in the Mail https://facts.usps.com/mailing-potatoes/
Postal Facts - U.S. Postal Service
mailing potatoes - U.S. Postal Facts
POSTAL FACT: It's SPUDTACULAR! As with coconuts, potatoes can be mailed without a box. Simply write the address it's going to and your return addresses on the spud, have it weighed for appropriate postage, and it can be shipped as-is.
I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs https://www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/i-analyzed-chord-progressions-in
Cantgetmuchhigher
I Analyzed Chord Progressions in 680k Songs
And the results surprised me
Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/backdooms
GitHub
GitHub - Kuberwastaken/backdooms: A self-contained game that fits inside a QR code inspired by DOOM 1993 and The Backrooms
A self-contained game that fits inside a QR code inspired by DOOM 1993 and The Backrooms - Kuberwastaken/backdooms
15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python https://jonathan.protzenko.fr/2025/04/18/python.html
Jonathan Protzenko
15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
In November 2022, I opened issue 99108 on Python’s GitHub repository, arguing that after a recent CVE in its implementation of SHA3, Python should embrace verified code for all of its hash-related infrastructure.
Restoring the Galaxian3 Theatre 6, 1992 six player arcade machine https://philwip.com/2025/04/14/galaxian-3-project-revival/
PhilWIP
Galaxian 3: Project Revival
Introduction During the late 1980s, Namco set out to create the world’s largest arcade game. The result was Galaxian3: Project Dragoon; a 28 player behemoth that debuted in April 1990 at the …
Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/android-phones-will-soon-reboot-themselves-after-sitting-unused-for-3-days/
Ars Technica
Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for 3 days
The latest Google update will make your phone more secure if you don’t touch it…
Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials https://github.com/The-Pocket/Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge
GitHub
GitHub - The-Pocket/Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge: Turns Codebase into Easy Tutorial with AI
Turns Codebase into Easy Tutorial with AI. Contribute to The-Pocket/Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge development by creating an account on GitHub.
Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-3-quantized-aware-trained-state-of-the-art-ai-to-consumer-gpus/
Googleblog
Google for Developers Blog - News about Web, Mobile, AI and Cloud
Explore Gemma 3 models now offering state-of-the-art AI performance on consumer GPUs with new int4 quantized versions optimized with Quantization Aware Training (QAT).
Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/04/pipelining/
MOND←TECH MAGAZINE
Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
Free-standing function call syntax considered kind of suboptimal.