The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority(twitter.com)
757 points by turrini | 682 comments
A post on X by John Carmack arguing that the world could run on older hardware if software optimization were prioritized.
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Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo(github.com)
753 points by thefilmore | 413 comments
The official GitHub repository for Mozilla's Firefox web browser source code.
Internet Artifacts(neal.fun)
582 points by mikerg87 | 117 comments
Neal.fun's Internet Artifacts, an interactive museum-style exhibit of notable objects and moments from internet history.
Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
463 points by amanchanda | 285 comments
Ask HN thread where a founder of a $50/month B2C AI SaaS asks how others acquired their first 100 and next 500 users.
Changes since congestion pricing started in New York(nytimes.com)
412 points by Vinnl | 611 comments
New York Times Upshot interactive article examining what has changed in New York City traffic, travel times, and noise since congestion pricing began.
Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode(androidauthority.com)
409 points by logic_node | 367 comments
Article giving a first look at a leaked Android desktop mode from Google, similar to Samsung DeX, that turns phones into desktop-like PCs.
Flattening Rust’s learning curve(corrode.dev)
403 points by birdculture | 335 comments
A Corrode blog post from May 2025 offering advice on how to make learning the Rust programming language easier.
Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions(comsec.ethz.ch)
397 points by alberto-m | 177 comments
ETH Zurich COMSEC research page on Branch Privilege Injection, a class of Intel CPU vulnerabilities exploiting branch predictor race conditions to leak privileged memory.
Multiple security issues in GNU Screen(openwall.com)
397 points by st_goliath | 236 comments
An oss-security mailing list post from SUSE disclosing multiple security issues in GNU Screen, including a local root exploit in setuid-root Screen 5.0.0 installations.
FastVLM: Efficient vision encoding for vision language models(github.com)
335 points by nhod | 68 comments
Apple's GitHub repository with the official implementation of FastVLM, an efficient vision encoding method for vision language models presented at CVPR 2025.
Material 3 Expressive(design.google)
332 points by meetpateltech | 516 comments
Google Design library article introducing Material 3 Expressive, an update to Material Design informed by Google's user research.
PDF to Text, a challenging problem(marginalia.nu)
312 points by ingve | 176 comments
Lua for Elixir(davelucia.com)
196 points by davydog187 | 65 comments
Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode(wired.com)
192 points by thomasjudge | 390 comments
MCP: An in-depth introduction(speakeasy.com)
189 points by ritzaco | 77 comments
It Awaits Your Experiments(rifters.com)
178 points by pavel_lishin | 62 comments
Rustls Server-Side Performance(memorysafety.org)
163 points by jaas | 52 comments
Starcloud(ycombinator.com)
136 points by wiley1454 | 266 comments
Dusk OS(duskos.org)
121 points by GTP | 66 comments
Anti-Personnel Computing (2023)(erratique.ch)
107 points by transpute | 48 comments
Fast machines, slow machines (2023)(jmmv.dev)
80 points by amatheus | 49 comments
Returning to My Roots in Hardware(dancrimp.nz)
74 points by dcrimp | 11 comments
GTK Krell Monitors(gkrellm.srcbox.net)
74 points by Deeg9rie9usi | 27 comments
Show HN: A5(github.com)
69 points by pheelicks | 21 comments
TheForger's Win32 API Tutorial(winprog.org)
55 points by xeonmc | 4 comments
