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Thursday, 03 April 2025

• Building Gearbox Dynamometer
  thriftybuilder.dev · Discuss

• Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture
  finance.yahoo.com · Discuss

• Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code
  gatesnotes.com · Discuss

• Was Houdini a Spy? (2021)
  cia.gov · Discuss

• The Mainframe Vocabulary Problem, and Why It Matters
  mainframesociety.com · Discuss

• Aviator (YC S21) is hiring engineers to build AI DevEx platform
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• The cultural evolution of distortion in music
  royalsocietypublishing.org · Discuss

• Bonobos' calls may be the closest thing to animal language we've seen
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• AI cheats: Why you didn't notice your teammate was cheating
  niila.fi · Discuss

• Show HN: Slipstream – A Python library for stateful stream processing
  slipstream.readthedocs.io · Discuss

• How Servo Motors Work
  jameco.com · Discuss

• Banked Memories for Soft SIMT Processors
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• US tariff protection decimated American shipbuilding; could do same to cleanTech
  grist.org · Discuss

• Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age
  manuel.kiessling.net · Discuss

• How Big Is VMS? – VMS Software, Inc
  vmssoftware.com · Discuss

• Installing AIX PS/2 v1.3 on a 486
  hardwarehacks.org · Discuss

• Show HN: GitMCP is an automatic MCP server for every GitHub repo
  gitmcp.io · Discuss

• 2025 Recession Indicators Hit Fashion and Wall Street at Once
  marieclaire.com · Discuss

• The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT Due to AI
  dutchosintguy.com · Discuss

• Tenstorrent Launches Blackhole Developer Products at Tenstorrent Dev Day
  tenstorrent.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters
  monkeys.zip · Discuss

• Bikes in the Age of Tariffs
  renehersecycles.com · Discuss

• Declarative Schemas for simpler database management
  supabase.com · Discuss

• Onyx (YC W24) Is Hiring
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Reasoning models don't always say what they think
  anthropic.com · Discuss

• AI 2027
  ai-2027.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Novanode, Global load balancing with Caddy, no vendor lock-in
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• AnimeJs v4 Is Here
  animejs.com · Discuss

• Overengineered Anchor Links
  thirty-five.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Offline JavaScript PubSub between browser tabs
  simon-frey.com · Discuss

• Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database
  opennutrition.app · Discuss

• A university president makes a case against cowardice
  newyorker.com · Discuss

• Type (YC W23) is hiring a senior software engineer
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly
  isomorphism.xyz · Discuss

• Space Debris: Is It a Crisis?
  esa.int · Discuss

Wednesday, 02 April 2025

• .NET library MassTransit going commercial with V9
  masstransit.io · Discuss

• DIY Synths Database
  diy-synths.snnkv.com · Discuss

• News Graveyards: How Dangers to War Reporters Endanger the World
  watson.brown.edu · Discuss

• Calibrated Basic Income by Derek Van Gorder [pdf]
  greshm.org · Discuss

• Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"
  cs.utexas.edu · Discuss

• I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
  pilledtexts.com · Discuss

• Tech companies are telling immigrant employees on visas not to leave the U.S.
  washingtonpost.com · Discuss

• Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots with web access
  matterrank.ai · Discuss

• The reality of working in tech: We're not hired to write code (2023)
  idiallo.com · Discuss

• Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with RL
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Switzerland's vinyl turntable roundabout: Unique road art (2019)
  newlyswissed.com · Discuss

• Chronic ethanol produces sex-dependent impairments in striatum computations
  science.org · Discuss

• Multi-Token Attention
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org against AI crawlers
  social.kernel.org · Discuss

• MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks
  shd.mit.edu · Discuss

• The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)
  newyorker.com · Discuss

• What We Knew Without Knowing
  newyorker.com · Discuss

• UpCodes (YC S17) Is Hiring SWEs and CSMs to make construction more productive
  up.codes · Discuss

• Henry James's American Journey
  chronicle.com · Discuss

• US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Prof. Sussman's Reading List
  aurellem.org · Discuss

• Show HN: Color palettes inspired by Mexican architecture
  seis.pointlessprojects.com · Discuss

• Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers
  pico.sh · Discuss

• Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365
  techradar.com · Discuss

• What, exactly, is an 'AI Agent'? Here's a litmus test
  tines.com · Discuss

• Location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding
  science.org · Discuss

• Item Flow, Part 1: A new unified concept for layout
  webkit.org · Discuss

• Restructuring Announcement
  automattic.com · Discuss

• Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Why I don't discuss politics with friends
  shwin.co · Discuss

• Ace: Realtime Computer Autopilot
  generalagents.com · Discuss

• Zero Day in Microchip SAM Microcontrollers
  wiki.recessim.com · Discuss

• PaperBench
  openai.com · Discuss

• Pulse (YC S24) Is Hiring
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Practical Prolog Planner Prompting
  quantumprolog.sgml.net · Discuss

• Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code
  docs.mermaidchart.com · Discuss

• Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS
  matrix.org · Discuss

• Bare: Run JavaScript Everywhere
  pears.com · Discuss

• Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure
  spectrum.ieee.org · Discuss

• Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat
  potter-yachters.org · Discuss

• Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)
  dorithegiant.com · Discuss

• Porting Tailscale to Plan 9
  tailscale.com · Discuss

• Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• Why is the world losing color?
  culture-critic.com · Discuss

• "Fiume O Morte " Brilliantly Dramatizes the Rise of a Demagogue
  newyorker.com · Discuss

• How Google built its Gemini robotics models
  blog.google · Discuss

• A dramatic Einstein ring seen by Webb
  phys.org · Discuss

• Abusive AI Web Crawlers: Get Off My Lawn
  mythic-beasts.com · Discuss

• Using fake deadlines without driving your engineers crazy
  newsletter.manager.dev · Discuss

• Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds
  unsw.edu.au · Discuss

• Kindle as a High-Contrast GPS
  instructables.com · Discuss

• A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test
  blog.cloudflare.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Hot Notes – Fuzzy Search for Apple Notes (macOS)
  hotmatcha.dev · Discuss

• Measuring Acceleration Structures
  zeux.io · Discuss

• Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers
  engadget.com · Discuss

• RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015)
  reactormag.com · Discuss

• Coffea stenophylla: A forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction
  smithsonianmag.com · Discuss

• UCSD: Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point
  journals.aom.org · Discuss

Tuesday, 01 April 2025

• Where does air pollution come from?
  ourworldindata.org · Discuss