The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. //John W. Tukey

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#Favorites

Unlock your unknown with Airtable AI
//airtable.com sponsored

Meta Llama 3
//llama.meta.com comments→

This is a teenager
//pudding.cool comments→

A curious phenomenon called 'Etak'
//maphappenings.com comments→

AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
//twitter.com comments→

Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer
//bawolf.substack.com comments→

Stop Acting Like You're Famous
//ajkprojects.com comments→

Lessons after a Half-billion GPT Tokens
//kenkantzer.com comments→

I keep a WTF notebook
//simplermachines.com comments→

What is Webb observing now?
//spacetelescopelive.org comments→

Spectral Ray Tracing
//larswander.com comments→

Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG
//github.com comments→

I nearly died drowning
//longreads.com comments→

#Ask HN

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

What movies changed your perception of reality or life?

One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?

#Classifieds

Open-source "Durable RPC" platform for Typescript //github.com

A community conference for data makers everywhere, May 29 - 30, in Puebla, Mexico! //csvconf.com

Seeking Sr. Software Engineer on our Enterprise Enablement team @ Fullstory //fullstory.com

In Beta: High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails //pragprog.com

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#Show HN

Building a GPS receiver //axleos.com comments→

Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator //sonauto.ai comments→

I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown //markdowndown.vercel.app comments→

Fairbuds: In-ear with replaceable batteries //shop.fairphone.com comments→

Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app //zerosheets.com comments→

My $1k self-install, off-grid solar backup build for renters //sunboxlabs.com comments→

Term Typer – Learn a language by typing //termtyper.com comments→

#Code

Hello World //thecoder08.github.io comments→

HonoJS: Small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges //github.com comments→

"Volkswagen" detects when your tests are being run in a CI server //github.com comments→

Transformers.js – Run Transformers directly in the browser //github.com comments→

If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it? //buttondown.email comments→

Notes on Git's Error Messages //jvns.ca comments→

Tiger – Function Hub for LLM Agents //github.com comments→

#Data

Loading a trillion rows of weather data into TimescaleDB //aliramadhan.me comments→

I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests //github.com comments→

Ten years of improvements in PostgreSQL's optimizer //rmarcus.info comments→

Collection of notebooks showcasing some fun and effective ways of using Claude //github.com comments→

#Design

Hardest problem in computer science: centering things //tonsky.me comments→

French artists in 1899 envisioned what life would look like in the year 2000 //openculture.com comments→

It's not what the world needs right now //thebaffler.com comments→

El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour //museodelprado.es comments→

An artist's perplexing tribute to the Pythagorean Theorem //mathtourist.blogspot.com comments→

#Books

Calculus Made Easy //calculusmadeeasy.org comments→

A self-published art book about Google's first 25 years //damaia.com comments→

Mathematical Handbook: Higher Mathematics //archive.org comments→

#Working

Mental health in software engineering //vadimkravcenko.com comments→

The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework //sequoiacap.com comments→

A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar //theparisreview.org comments→

Mentally stimulating work plays key role in staving off dementia, study finds //theguardian.com comments→

#Learn

A tiny ultrabright laser that can melt steel //spectrum.ieee.org comments→

Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions //scientificamerican.com comments→

Goldene: A single atom layer of gold //liu.se comments→

To Build Muscle, It's the Sets That Count //outsideonline.com comments→

Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits //quantamagazine.org comments→

#Watching

Debunking Devin: "First AI Software Engineer" Upwork Lie Exposed //youtube.com comments→

I ported thousands of apps to Windows 95 //youtube.com comments→

New Boston Dynamics humanoid robot //youtube.com comments→

Japanese minimalist and his designs for a minimalist lifestyle //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News

Justice Department to file antitrust suit against Live Nation //wsj.com comments→

Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator //intel.com comments→

Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets //theverge.com comments→

Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff //reuters.com comments→

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince buys local paper, feuds over mansion build //archive.ph comments→

AI Inference Now Available in Supabase Edge Functions //supabase.com comments→

#Fun

Descent 3 Source Code //github.com comments→

Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii //github.com comments→

There’s a 30-year old dead Rabbit in Seven Sisters tube station //ianvisits.co.uk comments→

PumpkinOS, a Re-Implementation of PalmOS //github.com comments→

Nathan Tolbert pushes the limitations of new games on old consoles //smilepolitely.com comments→

A daily word game versus my grandma //wordswithgrandma.com comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

Embezzlers Are Nice People //stimmel-law.com comments→

We need to rewild the internet //noemamag.com comments→

Interview with a blind developer on how he works //vincit.com comments→

I accidentally built a meme search engine //harper.blog comments→

The forgotten war on beepers //newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org comments→

How I prepare a talk for a tech conference //chelseatroy.com comments→

Going in circles without a real-time clock //rachelbythebay.com comments→

Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search //pluralistic.net comments→

A Lego model of financial capitalism //asomo.co comments→

Web-based Turbo Pascal compiler //github.com comments→

Body Design and Gait Generation of Chair-Type Robot //shin0805.github.io comments→

Delayed Gratification – The Slow Journalism Magazine – Last to Breaking News //slow-journalism.com comments→

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