Pre-2022 Books

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You prefer books published before 2022 due to the manual effort involved in their creation, giving them more weight and credibility. This preference stems from valuing the human touch and effort that went into producing these works.

Not just books: renting a sewing machine from the library can improve democracy

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Finland's libraries are thriving as community service centers, offering more than just books, and promoting social inclusion and democracy. They are valued for their role in helping societies function, with over 700 libraries serving Finland's 5.6 million people.

A Love Story

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A Stanford University study found that couples in excellent relationships were more likely to have their relationships improve during the pandemic, with mutual agreement on safety measures being a key factor. The study suggests that modern relationships require too much from partners, leading to tension and isolation, but also highlights the importance of shared meaning and mutual support in ...

Epoll vs. Io_uring in Linux

First, I want to tell you how exactly I got to this point and why I started researching different options for handling asynchronous I/O on Linux… Last year, my students and I built a reverse proxy server called TinyGate. It was super simple, worker-based, and it basically worked well. Of course, I didn’t expect it to be very fast, but it was an educational project, and since we’d made a real, ...

Alice is impatient

You're measuring time in requests or outages, but users like Alice and Alex experience time in seconds and minutes, leading to a discrepancy in perceived wait times. This is due to the inspection paradox, where users experience a time-weighted version of the latency distribution, resulting in a higher mean time to recovery than the actual MTTR.

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

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SMPTE has made its entire Standards catalog freely available to the global media technology community. This move aims to accelerate adoption and implementation, strengthen interoperability, and drive innovation in the industry.

UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro

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visionOS receives X11 calls from clients and vintage machines, opening each top-level window separately. X authority cookies are generated on device and copied to clients for secure connections.

PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services

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A benchmark was created to compare Postgres performance across various services, including AWS RDS, Aurora, and others, using a TPC-B-like workload. The results show that Postgres managed by ClickHouse outperforms others due to its NVMe-backed storage and architecture.

Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil

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Unauthorized alert with "misantropi4" message sent to cell phones in Brazil, suspected to be a hacker attack. Brazilian government is investigating the incident and restoring the National Civil Defense's warning platform.

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

The F-15 Strike Eagle 2 reconstruction project has made significant progress, with all C code rewritten and data moved from assembly to C. The project is now open for testing and bug reporting, with the latest release v0.9.1 available for download.

Inference cost at scale with napkin math

To estimate the cost of serving AI models, we calculate the dollar cost-per-user based on GPU cluster scale, model architecture, and inference math. With a 32B model on a B200 GPU, we can serve 300 users comfortably, with a lifetime cost of $133 per user or $0.013 per user per hour.

Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

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Dialog, a secret group led by Peter Thiel, has a 2026 retreat with 222 attendees including high-ranking officials and business leaders. The group's focus is on AI, longevity, and the near future, with some predicting societal degeneration and mass labor displacement.

CSSQuake

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Play Quake in your browser with no install. cssQuake renders the game as inspectable HTML and CSS powered by PolyCSS.

Semiconductor Lifeline Keeps Fighter Jets in the Air

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Phoenix Semiconductor repackages off-the-shelf semiconductors to replace unavailable chips for the US Navy and other customers. The company aims to bridge the gap between high-mix, low-volume demand and large chip manufacturers.

The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows

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A marketing agency, Qontour, created an unauthorized website for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, using AI-generated content and monetizing it with affiliate links. The site outranks the official site in search results, causing confusion over its authorship and potentially damaging the book's reputation.

Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

StartupWiki is a community-driven AI-powered research directory of global startup ventures. Explore AI, Biotech, CleanTech, FinTech and more.

Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)

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make-look-scanned is a CLI and browser tool that degrades PDFs to look like physical scans. It uses Go and a C toolchain for the CLI and PDF.js for the browser build, both with AGPL-3.0 licenses.

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract

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Tesco sued Broadcom for breach of contract over VMware licenses, claiming it must pay excessive prices for software updates. Tesco warns that lack of support may impact its ability to supply groceries in the UK and Ireland.

Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

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What this is Shared-memory threads for JavaScriptCore. new Thread(fn) runs fn on another thread, in the same heap, with the same objects. No structured clone, no message passing, no SharedArrayBuff...

The rise of South Korea’s weapons business

South Korea's defense industry has grown rapidly, becoming the 9th-largest arms exporter in the world, with a projected combined revenue of $37 billion in 2026. The country's emphasis on speed, affordability, and technology transfer has made it a reliable alternative supplier to European NATO members.

Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents

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Cloudflare updated Wrangler to allow agents to deploy code without signing up for an account. Agents can now use the --temporary flag to deploy code instantly, with a 60-minute claim window to make the account permanent.

Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed

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A Tesla driver in self-driving mode crashed into a Texas house, killing a woman inside. The driver, Michael Butler, was injured but showed no signs of intoxication and is cooperating with investigators.

Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing

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Argusred is a free security scanner that runs locally on your machine, scanning your code for vulnerabilities and attempting safe reproductions of findings with exploit verification. It offers a free trial with 2M tokens, and scans can be run in two modes: Security Scan and Pen Test, with the latter requiring booking and authorisation.

Show HN: Tiny – An interpeted dynamic langauge with inline Go native functions

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Tiny is a concurrent language with a runtime system that compiles to bytecode and runs on a virtual machine. It features a multi-tiered execution model, direct OS-level parallel threading, and a built-in Language Server.

Why has the pointe shoe been so resistant to change?

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Pointe shoes have evolved over the past few decades with small adjustments and some manufacturers incorporating 21st-century technologies. Despite innovation, traditional aesthetics and limited financial resources hinder widespread adoption of new designs.

Linux Eliminates the Strncpy API After Six Years of Work, 360 Patches

Linux 7.2 has eliminated the deprecated strncpy API due to bugs and performance issues. It has been replaced with alternative functions like strscpy() and memcpy().

Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod

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Skip to desktop applications Skip to start menu After you log on, the system's yours to explore. Every detail has been designed with a purpose. Tap on the user icon to begin

Systemd 261 released with systemd-sysinstall, IMDSD, and storagectl

Systemd 261 is released with new features including IMDS, storagectl, and systemd-sysinstall. It also adds support for Live Update Orchestrator and Kernel Handover.

Show HN: Domphy – plain-object UI for tool apps, AI-correctable output

I built a UI framework named Domphy because I could not learn React although I tried many times. I mean I could not understand React code which is hidden behind multiple layers, especially when some of them use React ecosystem libs. Maybe I am an architect turned developer, so I had no foundation of programming, or I expected something clear and clean. I just think that UI should be simple — ...

Coding a Brick Tower [video]