Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code(github.com)
1772 points by davikr | 371 comments
GitHub commit in ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013 adding the Team Fortress 2 SDK source code, with over 5,000 changed files.
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Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme(tintin.dlazaro.ca)
727 points by dlazaro | 137 comments
A live-updating version of the Tintin 'What a week, huh?' meme that shows the current day, week, month, or year based on the visitor's timezone.
A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate(bitecode.dev)
616 points by bertdb | 321 comments
A Bite Code blog post reviewing a year of using uv, Astral's Python project management tool, covering pros, cons, and migration advice.
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Grok3 Launch [video](x.com)
547 points by travelhead | 1157 comments
An X post from xAI containing a video of the Grok 3 model launch livestream.
XOR(chiark.greenend.org.uk)
541 points by mariuz | 91 comments
Simon Tatham's long-form essay explaining the XOR operation in boolean logic and on integers, its properties, and applications such as cryptography, graphics, and swaps.
Pi-hole v6(pi-hole.net)
482 points by tkuraku | 237 comments
Pi-hole blog post announcing the release of Pi-hole v6, the open-source network-wide DNS ad blocker.
Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration(cea.fr)
461 points by mpweiher | 445 comments
CEA press release announcing its WEST tokamak sustained a plasma for over 22 minutes on 12 February, setting a world record for plasma duration in a tokamak.
My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation(cosive.com)
428 points by tashicorp | 382 comments
Blog post by Cosive CTO Chris Horsley using an analogy from his washing machine's time estimates to reflect on software effort estimation.
Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations(scripton.dev)
421 points by nightcraft | 136 comments
Landing page for Scripton, a macOS Python IDE with built-in realtime interactive visualizations, an integrated REPL, and a custom debugger.
My LLM codegen workflow(harper.blog)
409 points by lolptdr | 130 comments
Harper Reed's blog post describing his workflow for building software with LLMs: brainstorm a spec, plan, then execute with LLM codegen in discrete loops.
Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything(smithsonianmag.com)
385 points by Hooke | 162 comments
Smithsonian Magazine article profiling physician Alice Hamilton and her campaign against workplace hazards and the widespread use of toxic lead.
Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)(johnsalvatier.org)
368 points by lis | 190 comments
John Salvatier's 2017 essay arguing, via examples like building basement stairs, that reality has hidden detail which explains why people get intellectually stuck.
Show HN: Subtrace – Wireshark for Docker Containers(github.com)
345 points by adtac | 71 comments
GitHub repository for Subtrace, a tool that intercepts and displays all HTTP requests in Docker containers with a Chrome DevTools-like interface.
Moving on from 18F(ethanmarcotte.com)
293 points by mkeeter | 119 comments
The Generative AI Con(wheresyoured.at)
292 points by nimbleplum40 | 353 comments
HP Acquires Humane's AI Software(humane.com)
247 points by colesantiago | 259 comments
Augurs demo(demo.augu.rs)
170 points by weinzierl | 12 comments
Svelte 5 is not JavaScript(hodlbod.npub.pro)
148 points by jonstaab | 166 comments
Go 1.24(tip.golang.org)
135 points by TriangleEdge | 12 comments
The Buenos Aires Constant(johndcook.com)
103 points by zdw | 43 comments
Robocode(robocode.sourceforge.io)
74 points by kaycebasques | 17 comments
Append-Only Programming (2024)(iafisher.com)
68 points by delifue | 37 comments
The Fall of FiveM(fivem.team)
64 points by ChocolateGod | 17 comments
