Europe converged rapidly on the United States before stagnating

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Europe's growth slowed after the 1970s due to regulatory overkill and a focus on non-economic goals. To revive prosperity, the EU should focus on its core function of economic integration, simplify rules, and trust its people to innovate and build.

The 'Toy Story' You Remember

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Pixar's 1995 film Toy Story was a transitional project that used analog film for theatrical release due to technology limitations. The film's look changed with digital transfers, and its original version is barely available today, sparking a conversation about film preservation.

Show HN: Gametje – A casual online gaming platform

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I Fell in Love with Erlang

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The author's journey with programming began at age 8 with Commodore-64 and BASIC, but it wasn't until university that he started to understand programming concepts. He discovered Erlang, a functional programming language, which changed his approach to building systems.

Widespread distribution of bacteria containing PETases across global oceans

iPhone Pocket

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Apple and ISSEY MIYAKE unveiled iPhone Pocket, a 3D-knitted accessory for iPhone. It features a ribbed open structure and is available in various colors, priced at $149.95 and $229.95.

Show HN: Tusk Drift – Open-source tool for automating API tests

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The Node.js Tusk Drift SDK records and replays API calls for fast and deterministic testing. It's licensed under Apache License 2.0 and can be installed via the Tusk CLI.

Advent of Code on the Z-Machine

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The Z-machine is a fantasy console developed by Infocom in 1979 to standardize and port text adventures across various platforms. It still exists and is used today, with modern compilers and languages like Inform 6 allowing developers to create games for it.

US Army to buy 1 million drones, in major acquisition ramp-up

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Welcome, the entire land - "Hello, world!" in hieroglyphics

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The author attended a conference in Brighton, UK, where they met friends who could read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. They created a "Hello World" program in hieroglyphs, translating "Welcome, the entire land" from the glyphs, which they printed on a t-shirt.

High speed X-ray video: jumping beans, wind-up toys and more

The kind of company I want to be a part of

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You want software that feels personal and caring, like a chef who takes pride in their work, and not just a cookie cutter template. You believe thoughtful engineering should be reflected in the UI, even if it's extra work.

Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers

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Hazel is a mission-driven organization using AI to help US government purchasing teams buy efficiently and effectively. They are hiring full stack engineers to architect and build their platform, solving complex procurement challenges.

Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work

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The act of creation involves fractal exploration-exploitation under optimal feedback control, where resolution increases precision tax that scales superlinearly with perceived quality. Effort seems to scale superlinearly as perceived quality rises due to nested search and high-precision edits.

Drawing Text Isn't Simple: Benchmarking Console vs. Graphical Rendering

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User decided to learn Go by rewriting FAR Manager, a text-based file manager, but found Go not suitable for complex tasks. User switched to C# and discovered the bottleneck in Windows font drawing, achieving speedup with DirectX and direct text drawing.

Zig / C++ Interop

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You're using a macro to embed types from one language in another, providing size and alignment information to ensure correct memory layout. This allows you to use pointers to access and pass data between languages, simplifying casting and conversions.

The Perplexing Appeal of the Telepathy Tapes

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Ky Dickens, the director of The Telepathy Tapes, repeatedly describes her findings — namely, that non-verbal autistic people can read minds — as “paradigm-shifting.” This is not a cherry-picked hyperbole: at the official Telepathy Tapes website, t-shirts bearing the phrase “paradigm shifted” are on sale for $40 USD (plus shipping & handling). The series is a roughly 500-minute ...

The R47: A new physical RPN calculator released today in 2025

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The R47 is a powerful, RPN-based programmable scientific calculator with an extensive feature set. Its software has been refined over many years, born from the vision of a dream calculator developed by a team of engineers and mathematicians, all dedicated calculator enthusiasts. Community-developed and manufactured by SwissMicros, the R47 runs firmware that is functionally identical to that ...

OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules

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SanDisk launches dongle-like Extreme Fit USB-C flash drive with up to 1 TB

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Sandisk introduced the Extreme Fit USB-C flash drive starting at $15.99 with a compact design and USB 3.2 Gen 1 speed. It's available in up to 1 TB storage with read speeds of 300-400 MB/s and compatible with multiple platforms.

Baby shoggoth is listening

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Writers are advised to write for AI to influence its development and potentially achieve immortality through digital resurrection. This raises questions about the future of human reading and writing, and whether AI readers will prioritize information from high-quality outlets.

DARPA and Texas Bet $1.4B on Unique Foundry -3D heterogeneous integration

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A 1980s-era semiconductor fab in Austin, Texas, is being renovated to become the world's only 3D heterogenous integration plant. The Texas Institute for Electronics will receive $1.392 billion in funding to develop and manufacture stacked chips with a mix of materials.

Trying two dozen different psychedelics

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The writer tried two dozen psychedelics in a three-year window before Russia banned them, experiencing unique effects like synesthesia and unity with the universe. They now see their initial exploration as a "hit and miss" process, but are heartened by the potential of psychedelic medicine companies like Mindstate Design to precision engineer mental states.

Show HN: Venturu – Zillow for the market of local businesses

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High-performance 2D graphics rendering on the CPU using sparse strips [pdf]

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Upbeat Technology's RISC-V MCU Takes Flight with Near-Threshold Computing

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Upbeat Technology announced a new family of ultra-low power microcontrollers (MCUs) with RISC-V architecture and AI accelerators. The UP201/UP301 MCUs achieve 40% lower power consumption than ARM solutions and target wearables, drones, and IoT sensors.

The write last, read first rule

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TigerBeetle is a financial transactions database that maintains consistency in the absence of transactions by using a system of record and system of reference, and ensuring idempotent operations and intentional ordering. The system of record, TigerBeetle, determines the existence of an account, and the application layer uses durable executions and Resonate's Distributed Async Await to ...

Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025

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Hiring in 2025 is challenging due to a lack of funds and too many applicants. A small indie studio like Ballard Games manually reviews 159 applications, using a simple take-home assignment to gauge candidate skills and interest.

When Soviet-made cars roamed Singapore roads

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Soviet-made Lada and Volga cars were introduced to Singapore in 1977, but poor sales led to Lada Motors giving up distribution rights in 1981. Lada cars attempted to re-enter the Singapore market in 1989 but were plagued by quality issues and eventually disappeared from Singapore roads.

Writing your own BEAM

The user implemented a simplified version of the BEAM (Erlang Virtual Machine) scheduler in Elm, focusing on concurrency, messaging, and process linking. The implementation includes cooperative scheduling, reduction budgets, mailboxes, and system messages, demonstrating the core primitives that make BEAM languages appealing.