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Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake

https://c3-lang.org/blog/unsigned-sizes-a-five-yea...
118 points
149 comments

Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/2015041...
216 points
96 comments

Treat your coding agents like developers

https://finbarr.site/2026/05/05/treat-your-coding-...
23 points
16 comments

Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design
230 points
92 comments

Southwest Headquarters Tour

https://katherinemichel.github.io/blog/travel/sout...
321 points
99 comments

The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox

https://www.mendral.com/blog/agent-harness-belongs...
180 points
121 comments

A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games

https://easel.games/blog/2026-rollback-physics
127 points
40 comments

The Camera-Shy Hoodie

https://www.macpierce.com/the-camera-shy-hoodie
13 points
1 comments

Six years perfecting maps on watchOS

https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-o...
453 points
119 comments

Inventing Cyrillic

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matte...
10 points
0 comments

My Claude Code Setup: Pure CLI, Pure Unix, Zero IDE

https://sindro.me/posts/2026-04-09-claude-code-pur...
15 points
5 comments

Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11717
117 points
45 comments

xAI will be dissolved as a separate company

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/20521053736211...
17 points
9 comments

Ti-84 Evo

https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/g...
600 points
482 comments

Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/small-html-pages...
90 points
68 comments

Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q2-2026-fu...
145 points
26 comments

AI Product Graveyard

https://tooldirectory.ai/ai-graveyard
252 points
89 comments

Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015)

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/each-bla...
76 points
30 comments

A complete Llama2 inference engine that fits in 1356 bytes of x86 assembly

https://github.com/rdmsr/sectorllm
27 points
0 comments

We Tried to Detect Bots in Comments. We Found a More Interesting Problem

https://www.musubilabs.ai/post/ai-comment-detectio...
9 points
0 comments

Alert-driven monitoring

https://simpleobservability.com/docs/alert-driven-...
126 points
43 comments

School Cellphone Ban Study Finds Mixed Results

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/did-school-c...
7 points
0 comments

Did I photograph the Aurora or was it something else? (2016)

https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/aurorawatchuk/2016/03/16/di...
22 points
8 comments

SubQ: a sub-quadratic LLM with 12M-token context

https://subq.ai/introducing-subq
72 points
24 comments

Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/05/psa-instagram...
102 points
51 comments

From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control

https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/from-cvs-to-git-thi...
72 points
64 comments

Show HN: I Built a Museum Exhibit

https://knhash.in/built-an-exhibit/
38 points
4 comments

BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets

https://electrek.co/2026/05/05/byd-overtakes-tesla...
257 points
436 comments

Pope Leo called his bank's customer service line. They hung up on him

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/05...
63 points
37 comments

LaDiR: Latent Diffusion Enhances LLMs for Text Reasoning

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/ladir
9 points
0 comments