I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. //Susan Sontag

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#Favorites

How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1?
//physics.stackexchange.com comments→

Engineering for Slow Internet
//brr.fyi comments→

I made a tiny camera with super long battery life
//toaster.llc comments→

This Message Does Not Exist
//kmjn.org comments→

Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem
//samcurry.net comments→

Repairing my mug with Kintsugi
//fellerts.no comments→

Parable of the Sofa
//tbray.org comments→

Everything I know about the fast inverse square root algorithm
//github.com comments→

Managing my motivation as a solo dev
//mbuffett.com comments→

The long-lost Tarzan Atari game, preserved
//gamehistory.org comments→

#Ask HN

What was your most humbling learning moment?

I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?

How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes

#Show HN

Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time //shademap.app comments→

PlayBooks – Jupyter Notebooks style on-call investigation documents //github.com comments→

File0 – An easier way to manage files in serverless apps //file0.dev comments→

Webhooks for Any Event //markets.sh comments→

#Code

Reproducing GPT-2 in llm.c //github.com comments→

Diffusion on syntax trees for program synthesis //tree-diffusion.github.io comments→

Gh-dash: A beautiful CLI dashboard for GitHub //github.com comments→

What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code //blog.luden.io comments→

Web Development with Htmx, Type-Guided Components, Pure Python //getludic.dev comments→

zfind – CLI like find but using SQL syntax and also does tar/zip //github.com comments→

#Data

You'll regret using natural keys //blog.ploeh.dk comments→

What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs //eugeneyan.com comments→

ROOT: analyzing petabytes of data scientifically //root.cern comments→

10 Years to Build a Free SQL Editor //timestored.com comments→

Koheesio: Nike's Python-based framework to build advanced data-pipelines //github.com comments→

DuckDB 1.0.0 //duckdb.org comments→

Half a century of SQL //theregister.com comments→

#Design

UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look //wiredjs.com comments→

Immich – Self-hosted photo and video management solution //immich.app comments→

Original 8x16 ASCII Fixed Width Font: Classic Console Neue //webdraft.hu comments→

Web Design Museum //webdesignmuseum.org comments→

#Books

Standard Ebooks' 1,000th title: Ulysses //standardebooks.org comments→

Python notebooks for fundamentals of music processing //audiolabs-erlangen.de comments→

I wrote a book about self-hosting for a small group of friends/family //selfhostbook.com comments→

#Working

I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews //nelson.cloud comments→

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator.com

CommitAsync – $100K+ dev jobs 100% remote only //commitasync.com comments→

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //news.ycombinator.com

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //news.ycombinator.com

#Learn

An animated introduction to Fourier series //andreinc.net comments→

An intuitive guide to Maxwell's equations //photonlines.substack.com comments→

A breakthrough towards the Riemann hypothesis //mathstodon.xyz comments→

The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery //scientificamerican.com comments→

Roman Roads //sashamaps.net comments→

If English was written like Chinese //zompist.com comments→

#Watching

Mitsubishi robot solves Rubik's Cube in 0.305s //soranews24.com comments→

Feynman Computer Science Lecture – Hardware, Software, Heuristics //youtube.com comments→

I built an interactive cloth solver for Apple Vision Pro //youtube.com comments→

Testing a 1912-style Radio //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News

Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees //twitter.com comments→

Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission //bbc.co.uk comments→

AMD Unveils Ryzen 9000 CPUs for Desktop, Zen 5 //anandtech.com comments→

Jury finds Boeing stole technology from electric airplane startup Zunum //seattletimes.com comments→

Databricks to Buy Data-Management Startup Tabular //wsj.com comments→

Nvidia and Salesforce double down on AI startup Cohere in $450M round //finance.yahoo.com comments→

#Fun

Learn CSS Grid with a virtual garden game //cssgridgarden.com comments→

Foosbar – My autonomous foosball-playing robot //github.com comments→

Minimalistic Beat Maker //martinwecke.de comments→

Huewords, a Word and Logic Puzzle //huewords.snellman.net comments→

Wadzilla. Play DOOM in Zork //github.com comments→

Yes, You Can Play Duck Hunt Without a Television (But I Can't) //nicole.express comments→

Gpl2 2d web paddle game //raould.github.io comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging //workspaceupdates.googleblog.com comments→

How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop //unterminated.com comments→

A man ordered to hide his boat painted the boat on his fence //news.artnet.com comments→

Codestral: Mistral's Code Model //mistral.ai comments→

Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it //gothamist.com comments→

Making USB devices – end to end guide to your first gadget //popovicu.com comments→

Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago //torrentfreak.com comments→

Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 //blog.plerion.com comments→

Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line? //geospatial.netlify.app comments→

What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code //blog.luden.io comments→

Simple tasks showing reasoning breakdown in state-of-the-art LLMs //arxiv.org comments→

Reverse Z in 3D graphics (and why it's so awesome) //tomhultonharrop.com comments→

Making a tic-tac-toe game with ‘randomness’ using pure HTML and CSS //blog.scottlogic.com comments→

I created this land use visualisation for the Netherlands //koenvangilst.nl comments→

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