My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary(rpastro.square.site)
859 points by wallflower | 197 comments
An astrophotographer's blog post about how his astrophotography images were used in the movie Project Hail Mary.
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PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading(stuartbreckenridge.net)
798 points by JumpCrisscross | 363 comments
Blog post criticizing a PC Gamer article recommending RSS readers for its popups, ads, and 37MB page weight that keeps downloading.
The future of version control(bramcohen.com)
640 points by c17r | 360 comments
Bram Cohen's Substack post announcing Manyana, a project presenting a vision for CRDT-based version control that rethinks how merge conflicts are flagged.
Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated(stevekrouse.com)
566 points by stevekrouse | 419 comments
Steve Krouse blog post arguing that code will not be replaced by AI-written specs, since a sufficiently detailed spec is itself code.
Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline(projectnomad.us)
563 points by jensgk | 204 comments
Landing page for Project N.O.M.A.D., a free open-source system for running Wikipedia, AI, maps, and education tools offline on your own hardware.
The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon(larstofus.com)
557 points by mariuz | 153 comments
Blog post examining the technical optimizations behind RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999), based on the author's appearance on the German gaming podcast Stay Forever.
GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information(grapheneos.social)
539 points by nothrowaways | 153 comments
A Mastodon post from GrapheneOS stating the OS will stay usable worldwide without personal information, ID, or accounts, even if devices can't be sold in some regions.
Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?(hormuz.pythonic.ninja)
536 points by PythonicNinja | 346 comments
A browser-based Minesweeper game styled like Windows 95, played on a map grid of the Strait of Hormuz where mines only spawn on water.
The three pillars of JavaScript bloat(43081j.com)
430 points by onlyspaceghost | 250 comments
Blog post by James Garbutt outlining three main causes of npm dependency bloat in JavaScript, such as older runtime support, and how the e18e community addresses them.
Why I love NixOS(birkey.co)
411 points by birkey | 277 comments
A personal blog post explaining why the author loves NixOS, focusing on the deterministic, reproducible Nix package manager rather than the Linux distro itself.
Windows native app development is a mess(domenic.me)
407 points by domenicd | 385 comments
Domenic Denicola's blog post arguing that building native Windows desktop apps today is a confusing mess, explaining why developers turn to Electron.
Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop(github.com)
379 points by mft_ | 119 comments
GitHub repository for Flash-MoE, a project for running a 397B-parameter mixture-of-experts model on a laptop using Metal inference code.
Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2(radar.cloudflare.com)
364 points by winkelmann | 263 comments
Cloudflare Radar domain page for archive.today, which shows Cloudflare's categorization of the domain; it loaded only as a bot-verification challenge.
You are not your job(jry.io)
334 points by jryio | 357 comments
A personal essay arguing that software engineers shouldn't tie their identity to their job title as machines increasingly automate their work.
MAUI Is Coming to Linux(avaloniaui.net)
229 points by DeathArrow | 140 comments
Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application(github.com)
212 points by luu | 86 comments
My DIY FPGA board can run Quake II(blog.mikhe.ch)
209 points by sznio | 62 comments
VNDB founder Yorhel has died(vndb.org)
176 points by indrora | 25 comments
Chest Fridge (2009)(mtbest.net)
170 points by wolfi1 | 96 comments
I hate: Programming Wayland applications(p4m.dev)
129 points by dwdz | 97 comments
Two studies in compiler optimisations(hmpcabral.com)
115 points by hmpc | 16 comments
They’re vibe-coding spam now(tedium.co)
106 points by raybb | 62 comments
A case against currying(emi-h.com)
86 points by emih | 107 comments
JavaScript Is Enough(geajs.com)
68 points by arbayi | 46 comments
iBook Clamshell(ibook-clamshell.com)
52 points by polishdude20 | 38 comments
