Quicksort explained IKEA-style

676 foehrenwald 2025-09-21 11:35:21 UTC idea-instructions.com Full Share 134

Quicksort is an efficient sorting algorithm based on a “divide and conquer” approach. Choosing the dividing element at random is a good strategy to avoid bad worst-case runtime. v1.1: Change title from KWICK SÖRT to KVICK SÖRT to make it sound even more Swedish

They Thought They Were Free (1955)

595 nataliste 2025-09-21 10:56:42 UTC press.uchicago.edu Llama Share 498

A German academic reflects on the gradual loss of freedom under Nazi rule, as people became accustomed to being governed by surprise and secrecy. This habituation allowed the regime to take drastic measures.

Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99

472 simonpure 2025-09-21 16:43:45 UTC github.com/rxi Llama Share 240

A C program loads a rectangle from a JSON string into a struct using the SimpleJSON library. It prints the loaded rectangle's coordinates (x, y, w, h) to the console.

AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?

460 elmsec 2025-09-21 00:56:59 UTC elma.dev Llama Share 466

AI in coding has limitations and still requires human judgment and expertise, particularly in areas like code review, architecture, and security. Currently, AI benefits senior developers more than junior developers, who should not be placed in risky situations with AI.

Meta exposé author faces $50k fine per breach of non-disparagement agreement

442 mindracer 2025-09-21 12:15:11 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 352

Former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams is facing bankruptcy due to Meta's fines and gagging order after speaking out against the company in a book. Wynn-Williams claims she is being silenced and punished for making allegations about Meta's dealings with China and treatment of teenagers.

Amazon to end commingling after years of complaints from brands and sellers

417 blindriver 2025-09-21 02:23:59 UTC modernretail.co Llama Share 155

Amazon is ending its "commingling" program which mixed and tracked items from different sellers. This move signals a stronger commitment to protecting brands and reducing counterfeit risks on Amazon's marketplace.

LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain

397 akyuu 2025-09-21 15:57:49 UTC reclaimthenet.org Llama Share 196

LaLiga's anti-piracy efforts cause widespread internet outages, disrupting lawful websites, services, and platforms in Spain. The initiative, run in partnership with Telefónica, flags entire IP ranges, ensnaring companies like Amazon, Google and innocent users in the process.

iFixit iPhone Air teardown

359 zdw 2025-09-21 03:09:47 UTC ifixit.com Llama Share 223

The iPhone Air has a thinnest design ever without sacrificing repairability due to its unique logic board placement and modular parts. It earns a 7 out of 10 repairability score thanks to Apple's dual entry design and commitment to day-one repair manuals.

Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD

318 JumpCrisscross 2025-09-21 03:46:07 UTC spectrallabs.ai Llama Share 65

SGS-1 is a foundation model generating fully manufacturable and parametric 3D geometry from images or 3D meshes. It outperforms existing generative models with accurate and editable CAD B-Rep parts in STEP format.

DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list

285 todsacerdoti 2025-09-21 14:45:50 UTC slugcat.systems Llama Share 86

Space Station 14 crashes on Windows ARM64 due to DXGI detours, which are installed by Windows to force games to use the flip model when bitblt is specified, a setting that only applies to specific named games and affects ANGLE's performance. The issue can be resolved temporarily by disabling this feature in Windows settings.

Oxford loses top 3 university ranking in the UK

268 ilamont 2025-09-21 15:51:03 UTC hotminute.co.uk Llama Share 427

Durham University topped the chart at third in the Times University Rankings 2026 ahead of Oxford and Cambridge. LSE secured the first spot, while the University of St Andrews ranked second, driven by high teaching quality and student experience.

I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

262 wallflower 2025-09-21 14:00:16 UTC pixelpusher.club Llama Share 109

The user is promoting the Lagree Buddy app by spending business hours on marketing and distribution instead of coding. The user had to overcome discomfort and created a content calendar, crafted story arcs, and reached out to studios and trainers for collaborations.

Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank

255 arnon 2025-09-21 12:31:57 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 316

A woman who covers tech and ultralight backpacking bought a 20,000mAH power bank shaped like a Haribo gummy bear. It is a lightest-ever option that weighs 9.9 ounces.

The Beginner's Textbook for Fully Homomorphic Encryption

249 Qision 2025-09-21 14:26:10 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 46

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) allows computations on encrypted data with the result able to be decrypted for use. Applications include privacy-preserving machine learning, confidential blockchain services, and secure data analytics.

Vibe coding cleanup as a service

248 sjdonado 2025-09-21 06:01:49 UTC donado.co Llama Share 144

A quiet tech trend, Vibe Coding cleanup, is emerging as companies struggle to fix production-unready AI-generated code. Specialists are hired to fix AI messes, with a market growing rapidly and expected to reach 75% of enterprise software engineers using AI code assistants by 2028.

UK, Canada and Australia formally recognise Palestinian state

244 ath3nd 2025-09-21 14:13:06 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 297

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the recognition of a Palestinian state, joining countries like Canada and Australia in a bid for a two-state solution. This move symbolically weighs heavily due to Britain's key role in Israel's creation.

How can I influence others without manipulating them?

228 kiyanwang 2025-09-21 22:20:16 UTC andiroberts.com Llama Share 221

Influence is the currency of all relationships and can be understood as an invitation, not manipulation, through different styles like rationalising, asserting, negotiating, inspiring, or bridging. Being aware of one's preferred style and that of others can help to choose the most suitable door to influence someone effectively.

Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden?

194 pseudolus 2025-09-21 22:56:31 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 342

Venus is a hellscape with a hostile climate possibly due to ancient volcanism that released large amounts of carbon dioxide. Scientists believe Earth faces a similar threat with the potential for a runaway greenhouse state.

Apple Silicon GPU Support in Mojo

155 mpweiher 2025-09-21 20:35:14 UTC forum.modular.com Llama Share 69

Mojo now supports Apple Silicon GPUs, making it easier to develop GPU-accelerated algorithms and AI models. Initial support includes compatibility with M1-M4 series chips, but some features are still being built out.

Unified Line and Paragraph Detection by Graph Convolutional Networks (2022)

145 colonCapitalDee 2025-09-21 21:18:14 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 29

Researchers use a graph convolutional network to detect paragraphs in documents by clustering text detection boxes into lines and then into paragraphs, achieving state-of-the-art quality. This approach is highly efficient and effective on public benchmarks and real-world images.

Universities should be more than toll gates

138 wdib 2025-09-21 07:19:59 UTC waliddib.com Llama Share 136

A Jordanian engineering student attended the German Jordanian University, feeling the education focused on good grades rather than understanding. He now values learning for its own sake, planning to use financial freedom to pursue his interests.

What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?

137 martinald 2025-09-21 12:11:18 UTC martinalderson.com Llama Share 176

Human adaptation to AI tech is quick. However, current coding agents and Large Language Models (LLMs) face significant reliability issues and slow speeds, hindering their adoption.

California bans masks meant to hide law enforcement officers' identities

135 1659447091 2025-09-21 16:23:58 UTC npr.org Llama Share 101

California enacted a law banning law enforcement from wearing masks on duty, except for specific situations. The law aims to increase transparency and accountability, particularly targeting federal agents operating in the state.

The bloat of edge-case first libraries

134 PaulHoule 2025-09-21 02:09:43 UTC 43081j.com Llama Share 145

The user is criticizing overly-granular libraries, arguing they are over-engineering edge cases and creating deep dependency trees. They recommend defining functions with specific input expectations and validating values at data boundaries.

Be careful with Go struct embedding

133 mattjhall 2025-09-21 23:16:08 UTC mattjhall.co.uk Full Share 100

Go has a feature called struct embedding that allows you to compose types. It looks something like this: I would expect this to fail to compile as URL is ambiguous. It actually prints abc.com, presumably as it is the least nested version of that field. This happened at the day job, although it was caught in a test. Be careful when embedding structs!

Timesketch: Collaborative forensic timeline analysis

130 apachepig 2025-09-21 16:43:19 UTC github.com/google Full Share 13

Timesketch is an open-source tool for collaborative forensic timeline analysis. Using sketches you and your collaborators can easily organize your timelines and analyze them all at the same time. Add meaning to your raw data with rich annotations, comments, tags and stars. This is not an official Google product (experimental or otherwise), it is just code that happens to be owned by Google.

UUIDv7 Comes to PostgreSQL 18

124 sierikov 2025-09-21 14:24:09 UTC thenile.dev Llama Share 67

PostgreSQL 18 adds native support for UUIDv7, a timestamp-based UUID variant that solves index locality concerns and is sortable by time sequence. This improvement is expected to benefit users who previously hesitated to use UUIDs as primary keys due to performance drawbacks.

Zig got a new ELF linker and it's fast

122 Retro_Dev 2025-09-21 22:40:28 UTC github.com/ziglang Llama Share 50

Several suggestion constraints can't be met to add this to a batch commit, including no code changes made and suggestions from pending reviews are not supported.

Rail travel is booming in America

120 martinpw 2025-09-21 20:12:21 UTC economist.com Llama Share 190

Amtrak uses TikTok to showcase its US trains, receiving hundreds of thousands of views. Its most recent video features a new "next-gen" Acela train set to Beethoven's "Ode to Joy".

In defence of swap: common misconceptions (2018)

115 jitl 2025-09-21 00:06:38 UTC chrisdown.name Llama Share 149

Swap is not just for emergency memory but a mechanism for efficient memory reclamation under contention, making systems more resilient and adaptable to changing loads. Tuning vm.swappiness and memory.low can help balance system performance and avoid pathological memory behavior under pressure.

Disk Utility still can't check and repair APFS volumes and containers (2021)

110 rahimnathwani 2025-09-21 13:37:13 UTC eclecticlight.co Llama Share 64

When Disk Utility fails to check or repair disks, use Recovery mode or manually unmount the volume with Disk Utility's Unmount tool before running command tool fsck_apfs. Use Terminal to run fsck_apfs with -n or -y options to check or repair disks, or -l to check encrypted volumes live.

How to stop functional programming (2016)

107 thunderbong 2025-09-21 14:55:20 UTC brianmckenna.org Llama Share 120

Manager made a technical decision based on a coworker's concern about functional programming. Now a task requires adding non-pure functionality to a method to count coworkers due to a large number of rows resulting from previous pure logic.

A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy

104 Qwuke 2025-09-21 19:20:23 UTC apiguy.substack.com Llama Share 171

The author apologized for their role in a RubyCentral controversy, stating it was a result of a complex supply chain issue. They felt they did the best they could under the circumstances, prioritizing the safety and stability of RubyGems.

New thermoelectric cooling breakthrough nearly doubles efficiency

103 westurner 2025-09-21 14:43:21 UTC sciencedaily.com Llama Share 60

Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL developed the CHESS technology, nano-engineered materials that nearly double refrigeration efficiency. This advancement provides a scalable alternative to traditional compressor-based refrigeration.

The link between trauma, drug use, and our search to feel better

101 PaulHoule 2025-09-21 16:45:06 UTC lithub.com Llama Share 99

Humans have used drugs to ease pain throughout history, and modern capitalism has led to specifically formulated drugs to cope with its inherent anxieties and traumas. Prescription drugs, including benzos, have become widely used, often blurring the lines between illicit and prescription use.

A webshell and a normal file that have the same MD5

97 shlomo_z 2025-09-21 05:52:51 UTC github.com/phith0n Full Share 46

A webshell and a normal file that have the same MD5 - phith0n/collision-webshell

Show HN: Tips to stay safe from NPM supply chain attacks

92 bodash 2025-09-21 21:19:47 UTC github.com/bodadotsh Llama Share 52

To secure npm packages, pin exact versions of direct dependencies, use lockfiles, and avoid lifecycle scripts. Additionally, enable 2FA, use access tokens, and establish provenance, while also monitoring dependencies for known security vulnerabilities and fixing them.

My new Git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name

89 jamesbowman 2025-09-21 21:59:12 UTC blog.plover.com Llama Share 62

You explained your workflow involves making multiple commits and then reorganizing them. You built a utility named what-changed-twice, now called Fred, which analyzes commits and recommends related changes be grouped.

LLMs are still surprisingly bad at some simple tasks

76 FromTheArchives 2025-09-21 12:03:44 UTC shkspr.mobi Llama Share 105

Comparison was attempted but several matches were missed. The AI provided plausible but sometimes inaccurate answers relying on the Barnum Effect.

Procedural Island Generation (VI)

73 ibobev 2025-09-21 21:11:57 UTC brashandplucky.com Llama Share 4

CartoKit packages the generated island by baking the mesh, visualizing it, and exporting artefacts for other tools. The system renders imagery on the CPU, keeps the TopoMesh structure, and allows easy export for further processing or viewing in Blender.

EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system

72 1vuio0pswjnm7 2025-09-21 22:54:10 UTC ft.com Llama Share 64

The EU's Financial Data Access regulation excludes Big Tech groups from accessing financial data, a win for the financial industry. The move risks transatlantic tensions due to Donald Trump's threats of retaliatory tariffs against countries that 'discriminate' against US companies.

Liberté, égalité, Radioactivité

69 paulpauper 2025-09-21 16:43:48 UTC worksinprogress.co Llama Share 52

France's nuclear ambitions accelerated from the 1970s with a buildout led by EDF that produced reactors at one third to half the cost of their US counterparts amid an anti-nuclear backlash in most major economies. Decoupled from the anti-nuclear movement through a combination of institutional, tax, and subsidy policies, French communities gained economic benefits from nuclear hosting, ...

How AI and surveillance capitalism are undermining democracy

64 pseudolus 2025-09-21 00:18:14 UTC thebulletin.org Llama Share 17

The State Department's "Catch and Revoke" program aims to use AI to review student visa holders' social media, raising concerns about surveillance, first amendment rights, and democracy. AI-driven surveillance blurs public and private lines, threatens individuality and democracy, and can be misused to control behavior, requiring restrictive controls to prevent abuse.

I Spent Three Nights Solving Listen Labs Berghain Challenge (and Got #16)

62 kuberwastaken 2025-09-21 14:11:12 UTC kuber.studio Llama Share 23

A startup's growth hack turned into a 30,000-person distributed computing experiment where engineers obsessively solved optimization problems. The community's collaboration and creative approaches made the problem-solving journey more rewarding than the destination.

Review: Project Xanadu – The Internet That Might Have Been

59 paulpauper 2025-09-21 16:03:27 UTC astralcodexten.com Llama Share 32

Van Bush and Doug Engelbart envisioned personal libraries storing and organizing vast amounts of information with ease.

That DEA agent's 'credit card' could be eavesdropping on you

58 toss1 2025-09-21 12:24:31 UTC independent.co.uk Llama Share 21

The DEA has bought 57 covert audio-video recorders disguised as credit cards to be used by undercover agents. The devices can record audio and video, store 16GB of memory and have a built-in microphone.

Biconnected components

53 emih 2025-09-21 23:06:42 UTC emi-h.com Llama Share 20

A top-secret package must be transported from Alice to Bob on a metro network but Eve can sabotage one metro line. The number of possible pairs of locations where Alice and Bob can meet and transport the package safely is sought.

President Trump Signs Technology Prosperity Deal with United Kingdom

52 donutloop 2025-09-21 16:44:45 UTC whitehouse.gov Llama Share 56

President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed the Technology Prosperity Deal, a landmark US-UK science agreement. The deal promotes American innovation, joint tech standards, and benefits in areas like healthcare and nuclear energy.

How modern life makes us sick

51 giuliomagnifico 2025-09-21 17:42:22 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 79

Humans encounter many problems due to self-sabotage and getting in the way of themselves, often requiring delayed gratification for long-term goals. Our brains, bodies, and instincts are poorly matched to modern life due to "evolutionary mismatch," resulting in various issues like obesity and mental health problems.

Bringing Observability to Claude Code: OpenTelemetry in Action

50 pranay01 2025-09-21 18:37:04 UTC signoz.io Llama Share 18

We connected Claude Code's monitoring hooks with OpenTelemetry and exported data to SigNoz for observability, providing clarity on developer workflows and usage. This observability pipeline helps teams make smarter decisions about scaling AI-assisted coding.

Driving Complex Decisions

49 garrettdbates 2025-09-21 17:51:34 UTC garrettdbates.com Llama Share 4

To make complex decisions in engineering, start by acknowledging the many solution paths and focus on getting a "solution" first, not "the solution". Then, "throw out some garbage solution" for discussion and incorporate team feedback to refine it.

As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media

49 bhouston 2025-09-21 00:31:43 UTC fair.org Llama Share 17

Larry Ellison, Oracle founder, is gaining control over US media outlets through his son David Ellison, who acquired Paramount. Ellison's consolidation of power poses a threat to US democracy and could steer news coverage in a pro-Trump direction.

How far can you go by train in 5 hours? (interactive map)

45 mudkipdev 2025-09-21 15:29:41 UTC old.chronotrains.com Llama Share 23

A map shows optimal travel times from European stations under 5 hours, sourced from Deutsch Bahn and accounting for 20-minute interchanges. It assumes optimal travel with minimal waiting time.

Storing Unwise Amounts of Data in JavaScript Bigints

44 Bogdanp 2025-09-21 18:58:51 UTC jonathan-frere.com Llama Share 14

The user describes an experiment using JavaScript bigints to store compact data. They defined fields with sizes and offsets, implemented bit-shifting functions, and used getters/setters for type conversions.

Linux Ready to Upstream Support for Google's PSP Encryption for TCP Connections

44 Bender 2025-09-21 16:17:07 UTC phoronix.com Llama Share 15

Google's PSP encryption protocol for TCP network connections is ready for Linux 6.18 kernel. It offers simplicity, better functionality, and improved scalability over IPsec for data centers.

Extrachromosomal DNA–Driven Oncogene Evolution in Glioblastoma

39 PaulHoule 2025-09-21 14:22:10 UTC aacrjournals.org Llama Share 4

Researchers studied 94 human glioblastoma samples and found unique oncogene patterns driving tumor growth and treatment resistance. EcDNA accumulation can precede clonal expansion, emerging cancer variants, and altering genomic data interpretation in GBMs.

History of Telecommunications T-Carrier

39 aberoham 2025-09-21 07:30:36 UTC computer.rip Llama Share 15

T-carrier is a digital communication protocol developed in the 1950s allowing high-speed digital connections over copper lines. It was widely used in the computer industry for internet access, especially in the 1990s, but has since been surpassed by newer technologies like Ethernet and SONET.

Show HN: Freeing GPUs stuck by runaway jobs

37 lexokoh 2025-09-21 16:00:06 UTC github.com/kagehq Llama Share 0

A CLI tool called GPU Kill manages and secures multiple GPU systems from NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Apple Silicon. The tool offers features like listing GPUs, killing stuck processes, and starting a web dashboard.

Linkgraphs are fun

37 soapdog 2025-09-21 11:45:39 UTC andregarzia.com Llama Share 3

User discussed Artemis Link Graph, a feature allowing users to see posts from followed sites mentioning the current webpage. Similar feature was implemented in BlogCat, another web reader, for a different user experience.

Ask HN: Radar and radio failures at Dallas area airports

36 pdonner 2025-09-21 02:28:35 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 24

A fiber cut caused internet disruption and a cyber attack in Europe affected European boarding, also impacting major US airports. Officials are pointing to inadequate infrastructure and failure recovery, sparking concerns about the national airspace system's reliability.

Transforming recursion into iteration for LLVM loop optimizations

35 matt_d 2025-09-21 18:13:09 UTC dspace.mit.edu Llama Share 7

A novel technique temporarily converts recursive algorithms into synthetic loops for optimization before restoring original semantics, improving performance by up to 30%. This approach establishes a proof-of-concept for bridging recursion and iteration in compilers, promising better optimization for real-world recursive code.

Yangwang U9 Xtreme hits 308mph(496km/h), becomes fastest production car

35 SoKamil 2025-09-21 11:56:38 UTC topgear.com Llama Share 11

The Yangwang U9 Xtreme car is now the fastest production car, hitting 308.4mph in Germany. It surpasses the Bugatti Chiron with its 2,978bhp, four electric motors, and ultra high voltage platform.

Processing Strings 109x Faster Than Nvidia on H100

34 samspenc 2025-09-21 03:30:07 UTC ashvardanian.com Llama Share 3

StringZilla v4, a SIMD-first string processing library, is now capable of accelerated performance on both CPUs and GPUs, featuring over 500 GigaCUPS of edit-distance calculations. Its features include parallel multi-pattern search, sorting algorithms, and string similarity kernels, all under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.

Tiny reactors could one day power towns, campuses; community input will be key

31 rntn 2025-09-21 22:05:23 UTC theconversation.com Llama Share 51

Small nuclear microreactors, like tiny nuclear reactors, could power communities with low environmental impact. Microreactor design aims for simplicity, safety, and collaboration with local communities.

The Strange Tale of the Hotchkiss

31 rwmj 2025-09-21 10:37:35 UTC edrdg.org Llama Share 2

The Japanese term "ホチキス" refers to a office paper stapler and its name is derived from the American brand, with possible confusion with the inventor of the Hotchkiss machine gun. There seems to be a case of mistaken identity in Japan between two Hotchkiss families, the gun inventor and the stapler manufacturer.

How is einx notation universal?

30 HiPHInch 2025-09-21 07:11:50 UTC einx.readthedocs.io Llama Share 3

einx provides a unified tensor operation interface with vectorization expressed using einx notation. It allows elementary operations to be represented by exactly one API.

How Neural Super Sampling Works: Architecture, Training, and Inference

30 PaulHoule 2025-09-21 00:12:00 UTC semiengineering.com Llama Share 0

The Neural Super Sampling (NSS) solves aliasing issues in upscaling through a trained neural model that learns from data and adapts to motion dynamics. It uses a four-level UNet backbone, skip connections, and parameter prediction for efficient and accurate upscaling on mobile hardware.

Ask HN: Am I the only person who hates mobile apps but adores computer software?

29 adinhitlore 2025-09-21 23:31:38 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 17

You dislike mobiles and the ecosystem of apps, preferring the simplicity of the past when people played classic games on feature phones, not getting-rich-quick schemes.

Ask HN: How do you choose languages for building applications?

28 yamapikarya 2025-09-21 07:19:37 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 46

The user wants to build a TCP client that can check a connection without extra dependencies for deployment. They're considering using Go due to its stability and no runtime baggage.

Kirkwood Gap Facts for Kids

25 kamaraju 2025-09-21 04:03:35 UTC kids.kiddle.co Llama Share 4

Here is a 2-sentence summary: The Kirkwood gaps are empty spaces within the asteroid belt created by Jupiter's gravity causing orbital resonances. These resonances, where asteroids' orbits are in simple ratios with Jupiter, lead to asteroids being pushed out of specific orbits over millions of years.

Sequoia: Rust OpenPGP Implementation

24 Bogdanp 2025-09-21 13:00:40 UTC gitlab.com Full Share 4

GitLab.com

Representing Heterogeneous Data (2023)

21 azhenley 2025-09-21 05:13:35 UTC journal.stuffwithstuff.com Llama Share 0

You're designing a statically typed game scripting language. You're considering various approaches for representing heterogeneous data, such as data that can be either present or absent.

Show HN: Gocd – a lightweight Go-based CI/CD tool that runs on your dev machine

20 soxprox 2025-09-21 21:21:42 UTC github.com/simonjcarr Llama Share 4

GoCD is a lightweight, cross-platform continuous deployment service. It syncs code from GitHub to dev, staging, or production servers and executes deployment scripts after pulling changes.

I created a bouncing DVD screensaver for your terminal

20 integrii 2025-09-21 20:20:04 UTC github.com/integrii Full Share 5

A bouncing DVD screen saver for your terminal. You can configure tmux to start this after a period of being idle for extra fun. Run dvd as a tmux screen saver by using tmux’s lock mechanism. Just add the following to your ~/.tmux.conf:

Cloudflare's 2025 Annual Founders' Letter

16 eastdakota 2025-09-21 17:51:37 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 1

Cloudflare is celebrating 15 years by discussing its role in shaping the Internet, highlighting areas of progress and stagnation, and envisioning a potential new business model where content creators are paid based on their value to AI systems. A transition from traffic-based rewards to an incentive system for original, creative content is seen as crucial to a healthier Internet.

Mollweide map projection and Newton's method

15 ibobev 2025-09-21 15:00:59 UTC johndcook.com Llama Share 6

The Mollweide map projects Earth's surface to an ellipse with a 2:1 aspect ratio. Newton's method is inefficient for high latitudes due to a double root, but a modified version with m = 2 maintains quadratic convergence near the root.

The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s? [pdf]

14 throw0101c 2025-09-21 14:33:23 UTC meisterlab.caltech.edu Llama Share 2

The article discusses the neural conundrum of human behavior being slow, despite the high information throughput of sensory systems. The human brain operates at a speed limit of 10 bits/s for behavior, while single neurons can transmit information at faster rates, raising the paradox of why peripheral information processing is so much faster than overall brain function.

Omittable – Solving the Ambiguity of Null

14 TheWiggles 2025-09-21 04:51:16 UTC committing-crimes.com Llama Share 3

The concept of null in Java leads to confusion with absence, causing problems with partial updates and filtering. A library-level solution like Omittable, which distinguishes between null and absence, is needed to clearly convey these semantic differences in Java.

Ask HN: Local hostnames without root/admin

13 terry_hc 2025-09-21 16:41:45 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 31

The user wants to define internal hostnames without root privileges, preferably through a browser extension for Firefox and Chromium. They need this to access internal services via a VPN, and consider using a DNS server, SOCKS proxy, or browser-specific DNS cache manipulation as possible solutions.

The (Business) Process Deadlock

12 BinaryIgor 2025-09-21 08:09:29 UTC ufried.com Llama Share 1

Companies using business processes tend to become rigid and less adaptive over time due to autopoiesis, eventually leading to reduced effectiveness and efficiency. A more resilient organization requires alignment, values, and principles, not just processes and roles, to cope with unexpected events and changing market conditions.

Effect Systems vs. Print Debugging: A Pragmatic Solution

11 jorkadeen 2025-09-21 07:19:49 UTC blog.flix.dev Llama Share 0

The Flix language is designed to ensure truth of type and effect system. Adding a print statement for debugging purposes is treated as a lie to the effect system, preventing compilation with a redundancy check error.