Learning Music with Strudel

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A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace.

I Designed and Printed a Custom Nose Guard to Help My Dog with DLE

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A pitbull named Billie was diagnosed with Discoid Lupus Erythematosus, causing her nose to become painful and fragile. Her owner created a 3D printed SnoutCover to protect her nose and help her heal.

Mistral 3 family of models released

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Mistral 3 is a next-generation AI model with three state-of-the-art small models and Mistral Large 3, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 675B parameters. It's released under Apache 2.0 license for open-source use.

Nixtml: Static website and blog generator written in Nix

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The user's website is generated using nixtml, a Nix-based website builder, with a custom theme and layout defined in modules under website.layouts. The website uses collections to group and paginate content, and taxonomies to allow readers to explore entries by common keywords such as tags and categories.

Addressing the adding situation

Compilers use the x86's memory addressing system to work around its limitation of having a maximum of two operands per instruction. They use the lea instruction to calculate the address of memory, effectively allowing three-operand addition and specifying the destination register.

YesNotice

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YesNotice is a website that notifies users via email or SMS when something they care about changes from no to yes. It periodically checks the status of items and sends notifications when a change occurs, with customizable frequency and notification methods.

Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025

You're releasing the Advent of Compiler Optimisations project, a daily series from Dec 1-25, covering C/C++ optimisations in x86-64 and ARM.

Poka Labs (YC S24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer

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Company is building AI software for the chemicals industry to transform operations and reduce emissions. They are hiring founding engineers to own problem areas and ship production AI agents for sales, operators, and plant managers.

Lowtype: Elegant Types in Ruby

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LowType introduces type expressions in Ruby method arguments, allowing types in simple syntax with | for default values. It also supports typed instance variables and inline types with Array[]/Hash[] syntax.

Python Data Science Handbook

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This website contains the full text of the Python Data Science Handbook by Jake VanderPlas; the content is available on GitHub in the form of Jupyter notebooks. The text is released under the CC-BY-NC-ND license, and code is released under the MIT license. If you find this content useful, please consider supporting the work by buying the book!

Show HN: Marmot – Single-binary data catalog (no Kafka, no Elasticsearch)

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Marmot is an open-source data catalog for teams to discover data assets without complexity. It offers search, metadata filters, and dependency graphs to understand data flows and dependencies.

Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model

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STARFlow-V is a normalizing flow-based video generator that achieves high-quality autoregressive video generation with end-to-end training and exact likelihood estimation. It offers native multi-task support and robust causal prediction, outperforming diffusion-based models in visual fidelity and temporal consistency.

A series of vignettes from my childhood and early career

The author reflects on past predictions of the demise of software engineering due to automation and libraries, yet they continue to work in the field. The author also discusses the hype surrounding multimedia, the dot com boom, and the rise of Web 2.0, highlighting how each trend eventually became mundane.

What will enter the public domain in 2026?

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New works enter public domain on January 1st each year, with varying copyright laws worldwide. In 2026, works by those who died in 1955 or 1975 will enter public domain in different countries.

YouTube increases FreeBASIC performance (2019)

Comparing AWS Lambda ARM64 vs. x86_64 Performance Across Runtimes in Late 2025

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A benchmark was created to compare AWS Lambda performance on x86_64 and arm64 architectures using Node.js, Rust, and Python runtimes. The results show arm64 delivering 30-40% lower compute costs with equal or better performance, making it a good default architecture choice for Lambda.

Lazier Binary Decision Diagrams for set-theoretic types

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The Elixir team and CNRS are working on a set-theoretic type system for Elixir, which uses unions, intersections, and negations. They have implemented Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) to efficiently represent these operations, but it introduced new slow downs due to redundant computations.

Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years

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Amazon AWS and Google set up a rare partnership to let customers easily move data and services between platforms, reducing the risk of large outages. Meanwhile, Apple is getting serious about AI with a new hire and a delayed AI-powered Siri launch, while Tesla's sales continue to decline in Europe but show some bright spots in Norway and Italy.

Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science

Please keep in mind this is an beta-quality document. If you have corrections, I'd love to hear them. So e-mail me! Contact Beej: [email protected]

How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)

Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports is a landmark album in ambient music, released in 1979, featuring generative music created with tape loops and systems. The album's tracks, such as 1/1 and 2/1, showcase Eno's use of loops, echoes, and piano melodies to create a serene and relaxing sound.

Show HN: RunMat – runtime with auto CPU/GPU routing for dense math

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RunMat is a high-performance MATLAB runtime that automatically fuses operations and routes between CPU and GPU. It uses native APIs for GPU acceleration with no vendor lock-in.

Fallout 2's Chris Avellone describes his game design philosophy

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Chris Avellone, a renowned video game designer, learned early on that making games about the player's experience is key to success. He discovered this through his work on Planescape: Torment and Dungeons and Dragons, where he found that players are selfish and want to be the heroes.

An LED panel that shows the aviation around you

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TheFlightWall is an open source LED wall showing live flight information near your window, controlled by an ESP32 dev board and FlightAware AeroAPI. It's customizable and comes with basic guides for building and mounting the panels.

Rootless Pings in Rust

The ping command works without root by creating a UDP socket with a protocol flag, bypassing the need for a raw ICMP socket. Linux and macOS handle IP headers and checksums differently when sending UDP-based pings.

Progress on TypeScript 7 – December 2025

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Earlier this year, the TypeScript team announced that we’ve been porting the compiler and language service to native code to take advantage of better raw performance, memory usage, and parallelism. This effort (codenamed “Project Corsa”, and soon “TypeScript 7.0”) has been a significant undertaking, but we’ve made big strides in the past few months. We’re excited to give some updates on where ...

4.3M Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign

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Koi researchers have identified a threat actor we're calling ShadyPanda - responsible for a seven-year browser extension campaign that has infected 4.3 million Chrome and Edge users. A 300,000-user RCE backdoor: Five extensions, including the "Featured" and "Verified" Clean Master, were weaponized in mid-2024 after years of legitimate operation. These extensions now run ...

Proximity to coworkers increases long-run development, lowers short-term output (2023)

Being near coworkers has tradeoffs: it increases long-run human capital development but reduces short-term output. Proximity impacts career trajectories, boosting long-run pay raises but dampening short-run ones.

Tom Stoppard has died

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Sir Tom Stoppard, a renowned UK playwright, has died at 88. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Shakespeare In Love and was remembered for his brilliant and humane works that explored philosophical and political themes.

After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be

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Windows Secure Boot certificates will expire in June 2026, affecting device boot security. Users must update certificates in advance to avoid disruption.

Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard

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Researchers in computational complexity theory are trying to prove that certain problems, like the traveling salesperson problem, are hard to solve. They're using a new approach called reverse mathematics to study these problems and understand why their proofs have been unsuccessful.