Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. //Henry Van Dyke

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#Favorites

WorkOS: Modern Identity Platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs
//workos.com sponsored

FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations
//ftc.gov comments→

Safe Superintelligence Inc.
//ssi.inc comments→

KidPix
//kidpix.app comments→

MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5
//axio.ms comments→

The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing
//computerwebsite.net comments→

What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days
//blog.sofiane.cc comments→

Fast Crimes at Lambda School
//sandofsky.com comments→

I found a 55 year old bug in the first Lunar Lander game
//martincmartin.com comments→

Trading cards with e-ink displays
//howtoware.co comments→

1/25-scale Cray C90 wristwatch
//chrisfenton.com comments→

Let's write a video game from scratch like it's 1987
//gaultier.github.io comments→

One year of solo dev, wrapping up the grant-funded work
//marginalia.nu comments→

#Ask HN

Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?

Are you still using your Vision Pro?

What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?

#Show HN

We made a small and cheap network switch //docs.murexrobotics.com comments→

Cyber Scarecrow //cyberscarecrow.com comments→

ESASky //sky.esa.int comments→

Radius – A Meetup.com alternative //radius.to comments→

Token price calculator for 400+ LLMs //github.com comments→

OSRD: Open-Source Railway Designer //osrd.fr comments→

I made a daily routines app, but it requires photos to complete //folksable.com comments→

#Code

Nvidia Warp: A Python framework for high performance GPU simulation and graphics //github.com comments→

Htmx 2.0.0 has been released //htmx.org comments→

Understanding SPF, DKIM, and DMARC: A Simple Guide //github.com comments→

Django SQLite Production Config //blog.pecar.me comments→

#Data

SQLite Database Explorer //github.com comments→

Large language model data pipelines and Common Crawl //blog.christianperone.com comments→

Dbmate: A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool //github.com comments→

#Design

Sculpting the moon in R: Subdivision surfaces and displacement mapping //tylermw.com comments→

Tiny beauty: how I make scientific art from behind the microscope //nature.com comments→

#Books

Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine //mitpress.mit.edu comments→

How babies and young children learn to understand language //lithub.com comments→

#Working

Being laid off and unplanned entrepreneurship //deepsouthventures.com comments→

More disabled Americans are employed, thanks to remote work //bloomberg.com comments→

Ask HN: Freelancers, how do you get work? //news.ycombinator.com

Now is a good time to start a service business //zachocean.com comments→

#Learn

The sun's magnetic field is about to flip //space.com comments→

Astronomers see a black hole awaken in real time //eso.org comments→

Monitoring marine litter from space //esa.int comments→

There's more to mathematics than rigour and proofs //terrytao.wordpress.com comments→

Horses may have been domesticated twice //sciencenews.org comments→

#Watching

How to design and manufacture your own chip //youtube.com comments→

Font as Tetris //youtube.com comments→

Wipeout XL/2097: The Making of an Iconic PlayStation Soundtrack //youtube.com comments→

Developing an LLM: Building, Training, Finetuning (A 1h Video Explainer) //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News

Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent //rknight.me comments→

DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate //dronedj.com comments→

Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model //arstechnica.com comments→

Sonos changes terms and conditions and may now pass on data to third parties //notebookcheck.net comments→

#Fun

I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries //rahulilango.com comments→

Tetris Font //erikdemaine.org comments→

23words.com //23words.com comments→

Billard – Generate music from ball collisions in 2D space //billard.medusis.com comments→

SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest hash //shallenge.quirino.net comments→

ControlNet Game of Life //jerpint.io comments→

$2.4M Texas home listing boasts built-in 5,786 sq ft data center //tomshardware.com comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

Start presentations on the second slide //tidyfirst.substack.com comments→

Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest //jorgegalindo.me comments→

AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor //tomshardware.com comments→

Experts vs. Imitators //fs.blog comments→

NumPy 2.0 //numpy.org comments→

A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research //thoughtforms.life comments→

Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR //ai.meta.com comments→

You've Read Your Last Free Article, Such Is the Nature of Mortality //mcsweeneys.net comments→

Satellites Spotting Ships //tech.marksblogg.com comments→

Curl is inside 22,734 Steam games //daniel.haxx.se comments→

SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined //sqlite.org comments→

Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland) //github.com comments→

Can language models serve as text-based world simulators? //arxiv.org comments→

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