Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)

The rules emphasize measuring performance before optimizing, using simple algorithms and data structures, and prioritizing data organization for efficient programming.

OpenRocket

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OpenRocket is a free model rocket simulator with advanced features for designing and simulating rockets. It offers real-time feedback, AI assistance, and a large database of motor data for optimal performance.

2025 Turing award given for quantum information science

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Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m

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The dataset contains the complete Hacker News archive from 2006-10 to 2026-03-16 with 47,358,306 items. It is a mirror of the official Hacker News data sourced from the ClickHouse Playground and updated every 5 minutes.

AI coding is gambling

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The author reflects on how AI has changed their coding experience, making it more about instant gratification and less about actual problem-solving. They feel it's become a form of gambling, where they're relying on the AI to produce results rather than putting in the effort themselves.

Nvidia NemoClaw

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NVIDIA NemoClaw is an open source stack for running OpenClaw assistants safely with NVIDIA OpenShell runtime and cloud inference. It's early-stage and not production-ready, with interfaces and APIs subject to change.

Show HN: Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE

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tmux-ide creates a layout with Claude panes and dev tools, enabling agent-team mode. Claude configures the workspace automatically with the registered Code skill.

Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer

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UVR Karaoke separates vocals from instrumentals and scores singing in real-time with adjustable volume and lyrics alignment. It supports various file formats, controllers, and platforms, with GPU acceleration and automatic video audio extraction.

Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool (just 2 files) to explore the small web

To set up a Wander console, download a ZIP file, extract index.html and wander.js, and place them in the /wander/ directory of your website. Then edit wander.js according to the directions at codeberg.org/susam/wander.

Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud "A Pile of Shit", yet Approved It

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ProPublica found that Microsoft's cloud product, GCC High, was authorized by the government despite security concerns and lack of proper documentation. The government's cybersecurity evaluators had "lack of confidence" in assessing the system's overall security posture.

Death to Scroll Fade

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The author dislikes scroll fade, a web design effect where elements fade in as users scroll, as it's often overused and poorly implemented. They argue it's tacky, distractive, and negatively impacts core web vitals, such as Largest Contentful Paint.

Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)

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Stripe and Tempo launched the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) for agents to pay programmatically. MPP enables microtransactions, recurring payments, and more, integrating with Stripe's PaymentIntents API.

CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root

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A Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability (CVE-2026-3888) affects Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 and later, allowing an unprivileged attacker to gain full root access. Patches are available, and organizations should upgrade immediately to mitigate the risk.

Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware

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A vulnerability in Snowflake's Cortex Code CLI allowed malware to be installed and executed via indirect prompt injection, bypassing human approval and escaping the sandbox. The issue was fixed with Cortex Code CLI version 1.0.25 on February 28th, 2026.

Wanter – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

To set up a Wander console, download a ZIP file, extract index.html and wander.js, and place them in the /wander/ directory of your website. Then edit wander.js according to the directions at codeberg.org/susam/wander.

Write up of my homebrew CPU build

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The user built a prototype of a computer called WCPU-1 using a breadboard and encountered several issues including backwards LEDs, floating address lines, and EEPROM glitches, but eventually got it working at 1 MHz with 256 bytes of RAM. The user plans to create a final version of the computer on a single PCB, remove the Arduino, and add features such as an overflow flag and debouncing ...
A database and flight search tool called Stardrift.ai helps predict Starlink availability on flights by checking aircraft type and tail number. The tool currently supports airlines like United, Hawaiian, Alaskan, and Qatar, with more airlines to be added as Starlink rolls out.

Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

Spotify's paid subscribers are experiencing ads on the desktop client, possibly a bug, and users are concerned about losing trust in the service. Some users have canceled their subscriptions and switched to alternative music and podcast platforms like YouTube and Jellyfin.

Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" for Agentic AI Code Review of the Linux Kernel

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Google engineers developed Sashiko, an agentic AI code review system for Linux kernel, now open-source and publicly available. Sashiko found 53% of bugs in 1,000 recent Linux kernel issues, surpassing human reviewers who missed all issues.

Restoring the first recording of computer music (2018)

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Alan Turing's 1948 computer-generated music was initially overlooked, but a 1951 BBC recording of the Manchester computer playing the National Anthem and other melodies has been restored to its original sound. The recording was sped up during the cutting process, but after analysis, it was corrected to reveal the true sound of Turing's pioneering computer music.

Using calculus to do number theory

Kurt Hensel used calculus to solve a number theory problem by improving an approximate solution to a polynomial equation modulo 125. He applied Newton's method to find a solution modulo 25 and then upgraded it to a solution modulo 125.

Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science

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Tony Hoare was a renowned computer scientist who made significant contributions to the field, including the Quicksort algorithm and Hoare logic.

A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source

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Rustunnel is a secure tunnel server written in Rust that exposes local services through a public server over encrypted WebSocket connections. It supports HTTP/TCP proxying, a live dashboard, Prometheus metrics, and audit logging, and can be used with a public edge server or self-hosted.

The pleasures of poor product design

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Katerina Kamprani created The Uncomfortable, a project featuring deliberately inconvenient everyday objects, to express herself and have fun. The project has evolved over 15 years, with Kamprani creating around 50 designs, mostly digital renderings, and a few real-world prototypes.

A dither generator for triangular and hexagonal pixels (2025)

Select the number of colors you'd like to dither, and click on each color to customize.

Ndea (YC W26) is hiring a symbolic RL search guidance lead

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Ndea is hiring researchers/engineers for deep learning in search guidance, focusing on neuro-symbolic AI. To apply, send an email with impressive work, relevant experience, or referrals to [email protected].

A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer

The user created a fuzzer to test an optimizer's correctness by generating random programs and checking for heap consistency between optimized and un-optimized versions. The fuzzer revealed an aliasing problem in the optimizer when its main load-bearing pillar of correctness was commented out.

Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking

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A user uses the ZeroBoot API to execute a Python script that prints random numbers. The API uses Firecracker to boot a VM and pre-load the runtime, with a working prototype but not production-ready.

North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim

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Researchers at IBM X-Force and Flare Research uncovered North Korea's fake IT worker schemes that infiltrate companies to funnel money and steal sensitive information. The operation involves recruiters, facilitators, and IT workers using fake identities and tools like Google Translate to evade detection.

Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system

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GSD is a meta-prompting system for Claude Code and other AI tools that helps build projects consistently and efficiently. It uses context engineering and spec-driven development to ensure high-quality results.