Backing Up Spotify

651 vitplister 2025-12-20 19:12:10 UTC annas-archive.li Llama Share 241

Anna's Archive released a 300TB music archive with 256 million tracks and 186 million unique ISRCs, representing 99.6% of listens. The archive is open and can be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space, aiming to preserve humanity's musical heritage.

Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title

156 1659447091 2025-12-20 20:12:10 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 52

Diarmuid Early, known as the "LeBron James of Excel spreadsheets," won the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships with a $60,000 prize. He defeated triple-world champion Andrew Ngai in the final and plans to use his skills in his financial business.

Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files

109 lukeigel 2025-12-20 22:12:10 UTC jmail.world Full Share 29

You are logged in as Jeffrey Epstein, [email protected]. These are real emails released by Congress. Explore by name, contribute to the starred list, search, or visit a random page.

Claude in Chrome

49 ianrahman 2025-12-20 22:12:10 UTC claude.com Llama Share 19

Developers can use Claude Code to build and test in Chrome, enabling faster iteration on browser-based projects. Use Claude with caution, pre-approving actions and supervising it closely to avoid security risks.

Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates

262 a1k0n 2025-12-20 17:12:10 UTC a1k0n.net GoogleT5 Share 40

A few days before the tt8 deadline, i submitted two designs to the competition. the first was based on ripping art and music, the second was an audio donut - both of which failed to make it into the final cut despite being simulated in verilog vs. tinytapeout 8 is now available for pre-order from efabless.cc/tt8/devices/.

Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed

287 todsacerdoti 2025-12-20 15:12:10 UTC utcc.utoronto.ca Llama Share 188

The user is blocked due to using an old browser version or being identified as a suspicious crawler. They can contact the author to resolve the issue or use archive.org for a better behaved archival crawler.

Big GPUs don't need big PCs

119 mikece 2025-12-20 18:12:10 UTC jeffgeerling.com Llama Share 39

The author tested various GPUs on a Raspberry Pi 5 and a modern desktop PC, finding that the Pi can match or beat the PC's performance in some cases, especially in efficiency. The Pi's efficiency is due to its lower power consumption, often 20-30W lower than the PC.

Go ahead, self-host Postgres

396 pavel_lishin 2025-12-20 16:12:10 UTC pierce.dev Llama Share 259

The author argues that self-hosting a database is a viable option, especially with the rising costs of managed services like AWS RDS. They claim that the performance difference between self-hosting and managed services is minimal, and that self-hosting offers more control and flexibility.

I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)

99 mahirsaid 2025-12-20 19:12:10 UTC apalrd.net Llama Share 156

Implementing IPv6 is necessary to move away from legacy methods and address exhaustion, and it offers advantages such as global routing, no need for NAT or port forwarding, and improved network design. The primary methods of transition are Dual-Stack, SIIT, NAT64, and 464XLAT, with Dual-Stack being the easiest but most difficult to scale, and 464XLAT being a solution with no user-visible downsides.

Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less agressive

38 wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 2025-12-20 21:12:10 UTC phys.org Full Share 9

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Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal

244 alphabetting 2025-12-20 14:12:10 UTC blog.jcz.dev Full Share 68

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MIRA – An open-source persistent AI entity with memory

35 taylorsatula 2025-12-20 21:12:10 UTC github.com/taylorsatula Llama Share 20

MIRA is a comprehensive digital entity that generates recipes based on user preferences, utilizing asynchronous conversation processing and context window manipulation. It's an open-source project that allows users to extend and customize it with tools and APIs.

I wrote a code editor in C and now I'm a changed man

31 birdculture 2025-12-20 23:12:10 UTC github.com/thisismars-x Full Share 9

text editor made for me, by me. Contribute to thisismars-x/light development by creating an account on GitHub.

OpenSCAD is kinda neat

183 c0nsumer 2025-12-20 18:12:10 UTC nuxx.net Llama Share 139

You created a basic battery holder design in Autodesk Fusion and recreated it in OpenSCAD to learn the basics of the new tool. The OpenSCAD code allows for customizable battery holders with adjustable parameters.

Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN

98 hubraumhugo 2025-12-20 18:12:10 UTC hn-wrapped.kadoa.com Full Share 58

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More databases should be single-threaded

10 lawrencechen 2025-12-20 23:12:10 UTC blog.konsti.xyz Llama Share 0

A developer argues that databases should be single-threaded and aggressively sharded to avoid transactional issues and improve scalability.

Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries

56 eatonphil 2025-12-20 18:12:10 UTC github.com/crystallinecore Llama Share 8

Biscuit is a PostgreSQL index access method for fast pattern matching on LIKE and ILIKE queries. It improves performance on wildcard-heavy queries by eliminating recheck overhead.

Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Support Engineer (Remote/US)

0 2025-12-20 18:12:10 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Depot is a build acceleration platform that saves companies thousands of hours in build time every week. We're hiring an Enterprise Support Engineer to handle technical support requests and advise customers on CI/CD optimization.

NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power

415 lpage 2025-12-20 08:12:10 UTC lists.nanog.org Llama Share 188

NIST's Boulder campus lost power due to high winds and utility shutdowns, affecting atomic time scale and internet time services. Standby power generators are failing, causing disruptions to time distribution services.

X-59 3D Printing

40 Jsebast24 2025-12-20 19:12:10 UTC nasa.gov Llama Share 4

The X-59 aircraft is a 100-foot long experimental plane designed to fly at Mach 1.4 and reduce sonic booms. It's part of the Quesst mission to gather data on human responses to supersonic flight sounds.

Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches?

83 sedboyz 2025-12-20 16:12:10 UTC shkspr.mobi Llama Share 4

The OpenBenches project is a crowd-sourced repository of memorial benches with 39,000 catalogued worldwide, allowing users to share connections and express feelings through comments. Comments on the site are used for various purposes, including sharing personal connections and expressing emotions.

Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool

124 simonpure 2025-12-20 14:12:10 UTC github.com/ertugrulcetin Llama Share 20

Immersa is a 3D presentation tool that creates animated transitions between slides. It allows users to add 3D models and export presentations as .edn files.

You have reached the end of the internet (2006)

75 raytopia 2025-12-20 17:12:10 UTC hmpg.net Full Share 16

You have finally reached the end of the internet! There's nothing more to see, no more links to visit. You've done it all. This is the very last page on the very last server at the very far end of the internet. You should now turn off your computer and go do something useful with the rest of your life. * In order to save time, we will now start downloading the internet to your local drive.

Skills Officially Comes to Codex

232 rochansinha 2025-12-20 08:12:10 UTC developers.openai.com Llama Share 119

Codex skills are task-specific capabilities that extend Codex with instructions, resources, and scripts. They can be shared across teams or the community and are built on the open Agent Skills standard.

Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study

175 bookofjoe 2025-12-20 16:12:10 UTC facs.org Llama Share 287

A new study found that over 40% of drivers who died in crashes tested positive for THC, with average blood levels far exceeding impairment thresholds. The rate of THC positivity remained unchanged after recreational cannabis legalization in Ohio.

The Graffiti Question

16 bryanrasmussen 2025-12-20 21:12:10 UTC guernicamag.com Full Share 21

CSS Grid Lanes

703 frizlab 2025-12-20 00:12:10 UTC webkit.org Llama Share 213

Grid Lanes is a new CSS feature that allows for flexible masonry layouts on the web, using grid-template-columns and grid-auto-flow to create a layout that works on all screen sizes. It also introduces a new concept called "tolerance" that lets developers adjust how picky the layout algorithm is when deciding where to place items.

How to Write a 21st Century Proof (2011) [pdf]

6 User23 2025-12-20 23:12:10 UTC lamport.azurewebsites.net Prefix Share 0

A method of writing proofs is described that makes it harder to prove things that are not true. The method, based on hierarchical structuring, is simple and practical. The author’s twenty years of experience writing such proofs is discussed. In addition to developing the students’ intuition about the beau- tiful concepts of analysis, it is surely equally important to per- suade them that ...

Approaching 50 Years of String Theory

41 jjgreen 2025-12-20 19:12:10 UTC math.columbia.edu Llama Share 80

Edward Witten expresses discomfort with the anthropic landscape in string theory, finding it made him unhappy for years. He now accepts it, but critics see this as a refusal to admit string theory's failure and instead repeating outdated hype.

Detailed balance in large language model-driven agents

40 Anon84 2025-12-20 17:12:10 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 4

Researchers propose a method to understand LLM dynamics using the least action principle, discovering a macroscopic physical law in LLM generative dynamics. This discovery aims to establish a theoretical framework for complex AI systems, elevating AI research from engineering practices to a science.