It’s time to free JavaScript

198 pavelai 2025-12-04 09:18:47 UTC javascript.tm Llama Share 77

Oracle controls the JavaScript trademark, but its use has been discontinued and it's become a generic term. The trademark has remained with Oracle since its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, but it has been in disuse for years, causing confusion and disruption.

PGlite – Embeddable Postgres

188 dsego 2025-12-04 11:18:47 UTC pglite.dev Full Share 45

Lightweight WASM Postgres

I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer

26 todsacerdoti 2025-12-04 12:18:47 UTC lalitm.com Llama Share 0

The author, a Senior Staff Engineer at Google, disagrees with Sean Goedecke's advice to optimize for visibility and fungibility, instead advocating for stewardship and long-term ownership of systems. This approach allows for deeper technical context, trust, and promotion opportunities through technical advocacy and metrics tracking engineering health.

Ghostty is now non-profit

1179 vrnvu 2025-12-03 19:18:47 UTC mitchellh.com Llama Share 250

Ghostty is now a non-profit project under Hack Club's fiscal sponsorship, ensuring its mission-driven and publicly beneficial goals. This structure allows for tax-deductible donations and transparent financial transactions, paving the way for sustainable development.

Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm

832 evolve2k 2025-12-03 19:18:47 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 717

Valve is working on bringing Windows games to Arm chips, allowing games to run on phones, laptops, and desktops. The company is using open-source technologies such as Proton and Fex to make this possible, with funding from Valve supporting the development of these technologies.

Programming peaked

48 Antibabelic 2025-12-04 10:18:47 UTC functional.computer Llama Share 31

The author reflects on how programming has changed over the years, lamenting the complexity and slowness of modern development processes. They miss the simplicity and reliability of older tools like Eclipse and Maven.

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files

727 bearsyankees 2025-12-03 18:18:47 UTC alexschapiro.com Llama Share 249

The user discovered a vulnerability in Filevine's system, allowing access to a law firm's confidential Box files, and responsibly disclosed it to Filevine, who quickly remediated the issue. This highlights the importance of data security in AI legal-tech companies, especially when handling sensitive information.

Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust

44 janicerk 2025-12-04 09:18:47 UTC github.com/nubskr Llama Share 16

Walrus is a distributed message streaming platform with a high-performance log storage engine providing fault-tolerant streaming and automatic leadership rotation. It includes a formal TLA+ specification and a Rust library for embedded use cases..

Interop and MathML Core

19 todsacerdoti 2025-12-04 10:18:47 UTC conflor.es Llama Share 1

The Interop program aims to align browser implementations of MathML, a standard for rendering mathematical notation, to provide a consistent user experience. Key features like mirroring, cramped mode, and math-depth are being implemented to improve rendering of complex formulas.

Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format

16 daninet 2025-12-04 11:18:47 UTC github.com/daninet Llama Share 4

MTXT is a human-editable text format for representing music information, simplifying the process of writing, reading, and editing musical data. It supports real-time data transfer, microtonal notes, and flexible organization.

Unreal Tournament 2004 is back

142 keithoffer 2025-12-04 10:18:47 UTC old.reddit.com Llama Share 54

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

Elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs

249 50kIters 2025-12-04 09:18:47 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 258

Elites use AI-driven persuasion to shape public opinion, potentially increasing polarization. Advances in persuasion technology can either heighten or dampen polarization depending on the governing environment.

Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)

15 amalinovic 2025-12-04 11:18:47 UTC railsdesigner.com Llama Share 1

Custom elements are simple HTML tags with JavaScript behavior, similar to Hotwire's turbo-frame and turbo-stream. They can be used to create reusable components that work anywhere, similar to Stimulus but with simpler conventions.

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business

627 simlevesque 2025-12-03 18:18:47 UTC investors.micron.com Llama Share 310

Micron Technology is exiting its Crucial consumer business and will continue to support enterprise products. The company will transition and continue warranty service for Crucial products until February 2026.

Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s

189 rgun 2025-12-04 06:18:47 UTC uncloud.run Llama Share 87

Uncloud is an open source project for zero-downtime deployments, automatic HTTPS, and cross-machine scaling without Kubernetes. It uses a simple network of machines with WireGuard mesh networking and peer-to-peer communication for reliable infrastructure.

Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months

371 zekrioca 2025-12-04 00:18:47 UTC pcpartpicker.com Llama Share 271

The graph displays average part prices with a gray band showing minimum and maximum price ranges. Dips in the lower bound often indicate sales or merchant pricing errors.

30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript"

36 donohoe 2025-12-04 12:18:47 UTC web.archive.org Llama Share 9

Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript, an open, cross-platform object scripting language for enterprise networks and the Internet. JavaScript complements Java, allowing easy online application development.

Saturn (YC S24) Is Hiring Senior AI Engineer

0 2025-12-04 07:18:47 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Saturn is a company revolutionizing financial services with AI, building the operating system for financial advisors. They offer a Senior AI Engineer role, requiring robust software engineering fundamentals, deep LLM intuition, and obsession for product quality in a regulated domain.

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

468 nooks 2025-12-03 18:18:47 UTC conwaylife.com Llama Share 166

A unidimensional spaceship, also referred to as "Arrow 1", has been successfully created using a combination of four construction arms, including a newly invented fuse arm, a binary arm, and two extreme compression construction arms (ECCA1 and ECCA2). The spaceship's period is 133076755768 and it uses a complex system of gliders, blinkers, and corderships to achieve its movement, with a total ...

Shrinking Elephants: Managing large projects with Gradle

3 rileymichael 2025-12-04 12:18:47 UTC engineering.block.xyz Prefix Share 0

So you want Intellij IDEA to sync 5 million lines of Kotlin code,1 spread across more than 2000 Gradle projects. In one of our largest repos, a Kotlin backend project, syncing it all takes an average of about 8.4 minutes, and that's being generous. Achieving that required a fully up-to-date build, with all dependencies already downloaded—meaning this was 8.4 minutes for what is ...

Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions

274 mhashemi 2025-12-03 21:18:47 UTC finfam.app Llama Share 92

Credit unions offer competitive mortgage rates compared to big banks due to their non-profit nature and focus on serving members. A daily-updated comparison of mortgage rates from over 120 US credit unions can help individuals find the best rates, potentially saving thousands of dollars.

RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js

556 rayhaanj 2025-12-03 16:18:47 UTC github.com/vercel Llama Share 213

A React vulnerability affects versions 19.0.0-19.2.0 and Next.js 15.x and 16.x using App Router. Users should upgrade to a patched version or downgrade to a stable release.

All the Way Down

31 surprisetalk 2025-12-04 08:18:47 UTC futilitycloset.com Llama Share 11

Archimedes found the infinite series 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + 1/256 + ... sums to 1/3. This is demonstrated visually by equal areas of black, white, and gray in unit squares and triangles.

Why WinQuake exists and how it works

108 wicket 2025-12-04 02:18:47 UTC fabiensanglard.net Llama Share 12

The original Quake binaries had different versions for various operating systems, but winquake.exe was a special version that optimized performance on Windows 95 by using different backends for input, audio, and video. It used DirectInput and DirectX for input and audio, and SciTech's MegaGraph Graphics Library (MGL) for video, which provided a fast rendering path through DirectDraw or ...

Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server

100 doener 2025-12-04 00:18:47 UTC isc.org Llama Share 31

Kea DHCP is a modern, open-source DHCP server distribution with features like modular design, REST API, and database support. It allows for high availability, separate data storage, and a graphical management dashboard called Stork.

8086 Microcode Browser

127 zdw 2025-12-03 21:18:47 UTC nand2mario.github.io Llama Share 1

User recreated 8086 microcode for an interactive browser, decoding 21-bit micro-instructions into readable fields with tooltips. The browser features a list of documented instructions and highlights the 8086's reuse of micro-operations for various arithmetic behaviors.

Acme, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet

125 coffee-- 2025-12-04 00:18:47 UTC blog.brocas.org Llama Share 67

The ACME protocol, developed by the Let's Encrypt team, has enabled the widespread adoption of HTTPS by providing an automated and free certificate authority service, resulting in over 700 million active certificates and 95% HTTPS usage in the US. The protocol's standardization process within the IETF has led to improvements in security, flexibility, and adoption, making it a crucial tool for ...

Show HN: A Minimal Monthly Task Planner (printable, offline, no signup)

68 defcc 2025-12-04 06:18:47 UTC printcalendar.top Full Share 23

A calm, printer-friendly canvas to map your month, capture notes, and keep a lightweight log of what matters.

Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

119 rushingcreek 2025-12-03 18:18:47 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 87

Phind 3 is an AI answer engine that creates interactive mini-apps to visualize and answer questions in real-time. It generates custom widgets and tools to enable new functionality and answer complex questions that other tools can't.

How to Synthesize a House Loop

244 stagas 2025-12-03 15:18:47 UTC loopmaster.xyz Llama Share 91

A kick drum is synthesized using a sine wave, frequency modulation, and an amplitude envelope, with the phase synced to the beat. Additional elements like hi-hats, snare, bass, and chords are created using various waveforms, filters, and envelopes to produce a classic house sound.