Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming

122 vitaelabitur 2025-12-30 23:09:23 UTC codecrafters.io Llama Share 36

Developers can choose from 73 project ideas that teach a lot and are fun to build, such as building a BitTorrent client, a Wordle solver, or a system that uses Euclid's postulates to derive geometric proofs. These projects help developers learn various programming concepts and technologies.

A faster heart for F-Droid

275 kasabali 2025-12-30 19:09:23 UTC f-droid.org Llama Share 115

F-Droid replaced its 12-year-old server with new hardware thanks to community donations. The upgrade improved performance, allowing for faster app builds and updates, benefiting the entire repository.

FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service

225 birdculture 2025-12-30 20:09:23 UTC it-notes.dragas.net Llama Share 54

The user created FediMeteo, a weather forecasting service on the Fediverse, using FreeBSD jails, snac, and Open-Meteo API. The service now supports 38 countries and has 7,707 direct followers, demonstrating a simple and efficient solution to online presence without relying on third-party services.

Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite

325 keepamovin 2025-12-30 17:09:23 UTC hackerbook.dosaygo.com Full Share 104

Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline

29 azinman2 2025-12-31 00:09:23 UTC foodmedcenter.org Llama Share 7

A new 2026 study found that airline drinking water quality varies significantly by airline, with many providing potentially unhealthy water. The study ranked 21 airlines by their Water Safety Score, with Delta Air Lines and Frontier Airlines receiving the highest scores.

A Vulnerability in Libsodium

203 raggi 2025-12-30 18:09:23 UTC 00f.net Llama Share 25

Libsodium's goal is to expose simple APIs for cryptography operations, not low-level functions. A recent bug in libsodium's crypto_core_ed25519_is_valid_point function has been fixed, affecting users of versions prior to 1.0.20.

Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig – 5x faster than MuPDF

118 lulzx 2025-12-30 20:09:23 UTC github.com/lulzx Llama Share 46

MuPDF's zpdf library extracts text from PDFs, with single-threaded text extraction and parallelized page extraction. It provides commands for extracting text, showing document info, and running benchmarks.

OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026

177 1vuio0pswjnm7 2025-12-30 22:09:23 UTC economist.com Llama Share 227

Private markets continued to invest heavily in startups in 2025, with $150bn poured into firms like Open and Anthropic. This confidence may lead Open to raise up to $100bn from private investors in 2026.

Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems

123 PaulHoule 2025-12-30 18:09:23 UTC ethz.ch Llama Share 27

ETH Zurich researchers developed an electrochemical process to render environmental toxins like DDT and lindane harmless and convert them into valuable chemicals. The method uses cheap equipment and can be used on contaminated landfills, soils, or sludge, promoting a sustainable circular economy.

Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985)

17 anigbrowl 2025-12-30 23:09:23 UTC audio-database.com Llama Share 9

A Diatone woofer system from 1980 uses a 160 cm cone type woofer with a honeycomb diaphragm and field coil for weight reduction. The system was tested at the Koriyama Factory and caused damage to the neighborhood due to its powerful sound and vibration.

Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux

208 akka47 2025-12-30 17:09:23 UTC loss32.org Llama Share 306

The loss32 project aims to create a free and open-source OS with a Win32 desktop environment running under WINE, combining the Linux kernel with ReactOS userland components. It seeks to improve WINE's usability and stability for power users and creative users.

Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels

119 ignoramous 2025-12-30 18:09:23 UTC github.com/torokernel Llama Share 104

Toro is a unikernel for deploying microservices as microVMs with a minimalistic architecture. It can be tried with the HelloWorld example using a Docker image and commands like wget and python3.

Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers

112 AkshatJ27 2025-12-30 22:09:23 UTC vptdigital.com Llama Share 23

Honey browser shopping plug-in breaks affiliate marketing rules by ignoring stand-down rules when users have sufficient points or affiliate industry cookies. This behavior is revealed through source code analysis, telemetry, and hands-on testing, showing Honey's intent to evade testers and maintain its affiliate link presentation.

Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel (2016)

170 bayesnet 2025-12-30 16:09:23 UTC gkbrk.com Llama Share 22

The user discovered a hotel's elevator music was being streamed as multicast UDP packets on port 2046, which they analyzed using Python scripts to find the correct offset to extract the MPEG Audio data. The user found the music to be elevator music, not a bug or a sneaky surveillance system, and suggested spoofing the multicast to play other audio.

Escaping containment: A security analysis of FreeBSD jails [video]

53 todsacerdoti 2025-12-30 20:09:23 UTC media.ccc.de Llama Share 1

Researchers audited FreeBSD's jail mechanism, finding 50 vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to break out. They developed proof-of-concept exploits to demonstrate these vulnerabilities and are working with the FreeBSD team to fix them.

Non-Zero-Sum Games

326 8organicbits 2025-12-30 12:09:23 UTC nonzerosum.games Llama Share 169

Non-Zero-Sum James explores win-win games for a better future through game theory, moral philosophy, and AI. He connects complex problems through non-zero-sum games in categories like ethics and economics.

Professional software developers don't vibe, they control

108 dpflan 2025-12-30 20:09:23 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 151

Experienced developers value AI agents for productivity but retain control over software quality. They use agents effectively by controlling behavior and complementing their limitations with expertise.

Sabotaging Bitcoin

77 zdw 2025-12-30 21:09:23 UTC blog.dshr.org Llama Share 44

The author defends Bitcoin from critics by analyzing a potential attack on the cryptocurrency using derivatives, but concludes that the attack is unlikely due to significant difficulties in obtaining and maintaining the necessary resources. The attack would require a large short position in Bitcoin, which is difficult to establish and maintain, and the author estimates that the costs of the ...

Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo

178 benbeingbin 2025-12-30 20:09:23 UTC kasava.dev Llama Share 166

The company Kasava uses a single repository for its entire platform, including code, documentation, and marketing, allowing for instant updates and no sync issues. This monorepo structure enables AI tools to access all relevant information and facilitates faster development, deployment, and validation of changes across the platform.

The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network

161 giuliomagnifico 2025-12-30 14:09:23 UTC subseacables.blogspot.com Llama Share 42

The British Empire's Red Line cable network was highly resilient with a ring configuration and multiple cables between end points, making it difficult to disrupt. Starlink's satellites have shorter than expected life spans, which may hit its income statement hard due to increased network depreciation and replacement needs.

Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts

218 firexcy 2025-12-30 13:09:23 UTC hsu.cy Llama Share 134

The US State Department switched back to 14-point Times New Roman after a Biden-era directive to 15-point Calibri, citing professionalism and tradition. However, design experts argue that Times New Roman lacks authority and is often used due to inertia rather than aesthetic excellence.

Approachable Swift Concurrency

158 wrxd 2025-12-30 13:09:23 UTC fuckingapproachableswiftconcurrency.com Llama Share 70

Swift's concurrency model uses async/await, Tasks, and actors to handle waiting and organize code. Isolation domains protect data, and the Sendable protocol ensures safe data sharing between domains, making concurrency safer and easier to reason about.

Igniting the GPU: From Kernel Plumbing to 3D Rendering on RISC-V

71 michalwilczynsk 2025-12-30 17:09:23 UTC mwilczynski.dev Llama Share 8

A PowerVR GPU driver was enabled on a RISC-V SoC, the T-HEAD TH1520, marking a significant milestone in mainline kernel development. The driver required significant enablement work, including implementing platform drivers for power sequencing, clock, and reset controllers, and using a new Power Sequencing framework.

Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years

84 rmason 2025-12-30 22:09:23 UTC popularmechanics.com Llama Share 38

Japanese researchers are testing a drug to regrow human teeth, with human trials starting in September 2024 and aiming for a 2030 release. The drug targets a protein that inhibits tooth growth, with previous animal studies showing promising results and no reported side effects.

What Happened to Abit Motherboards

85 zdw 2025-12-30 15:09:23 UTC dfarq.homeip.net Llama Share 62

Abit, a legendary motherboard manufacturer, went out of business in 2009 due to declining quality, loss of key engineers, and a scandal involving questionable accounting practices. Abit motherboards are now prized by collectors and can be used with high-quality capacitor replacements, but their original capacitors were a major weakness.

Braid Math Article

12 marysminefnuf 2025-12-30 22:09:23 UTC mathvoices.ams.org Llama Share 0

Frank Wilczek compared quipus, an ancient Andean recording system, to modern physics and computing theory through topology. Researchers also found that humans have a universal intuition of geometry, independent of language and environment.

Go away Python

342 baalimago 2025-12-30 09:09:23 UTC lorentz.app Full Share 326

Lorentz Kinde's personal website. Cloud Engineer sharing insights, projects, and experiments in coding.

Netflix Open Content

588 tosh 2025-12-30 11:09:23 UTC opencontent.netflix.com Llama Share 118

Netflix developed test titles for prototyping technologies in entertainment, technology, and academia, available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Titles include Knights of Sidonia, Flavours of Youth, Godzilla, and others, showcasing HDR, 4K, and Dolby Atmos capabilities.

Hive (YC S14) Is Hiring a Staff Software Engineer (Data Systems)

0 2025-12-30 15:09:23 UTC jobs.ashbyhq.com Llama Share

Hive is a marketing platform for event marketers that helps personalize and automate campaigns. As a Staff Engineer, you'll build a cloud-native big data platform to handle audience data for millions of attendees.

Coase's Penguin, Or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm [pdf]

8 loughnane 2025-12-30 23:09:23 UTC benkler.org Prefix Share 1

For decades our common understanding of the organization of economic production has been that individuals order their productive activities in one of two ways: either as employees in firms, following the directions of managers, or as individuals in markets, following price signals. This dichotomy was first identified in the early work of Ronald Coase and was developed most explicitly in the ...