Chinese investment in Afghanistan’s lithium sector (2022)(brookings.edu)

38 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 29 comments

Codon: Python Compiler(usenix.org)

69 points by joak 3 years ago | 39 comments

Maine becomes first state to decriminalize selling sex(seattletimes.com)

105 points by MilnerRoute 3 years ago | 100 comments

The Cluetrain Manifesto (1999)(cluetrain.com)

82 points by KingOfCoders 3 years ago | 78 comments

Show HN: My husband quit his job to build a new social audio app with Flutter(bubblic.app)

45 points by stephanietam36 3 years ago | 34 comments

VoCore – Coin-sized Linux Computer(vocore.io)

123 points by vinnyglennon 3 years ago | 51 comments

The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon(larstofus.com)

557 points by mariuz 7 months ago | 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.

VVVVVV Source Code(github.com)

385 points by radeeyate 1 year ago | 72 comments

GitHub repository by Terry Cavanagh hosting the source code of the indie platformer game VVVVVV, with desktop and mobile versions.

I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it(edw.is)

599 points by eliasdaler 2 years ago | 240 comments

Elias Daler's blog post on learning Vulkan and building a small game engine with two demo games in three months, with code on GitHub.

Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster(minimaxir.com)

85 points by mooreds 1 month ago | 46 comments

Max Woolf blog post on using AI coding agents to iteratively optimize Rust code until it outperforms state-of-the-art libraries.

The Coming Loop(lucumr.pocoo.org)

375 points by ingve 4 months ago | 259 comments

Armin Ronacher blog post about people building automated loops on top of coding agents like Claude instead of prompting them directly.

Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate)(devforum.play.date)

66 points by ibobev 24 days ago | 7 comments

Playdate developer forum thread sharing advanced C optimization tricks learned while building a full-speed Game Boy emulator for the Playdate.