Hashcards: A Plain-Text Spaced Repetition System

127 thomascountz 2025-12-14 17:09:07 UTC borretti.me Llama Share 27

Hashcards is a local-first spaced repetition app that uses Markdown files in a Git repo for flashcards, allowing for easy editing and version control. It aims to provide a frictionless experience for creating and editing flashcards, using an advanced scheduler and a simple UI.

The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System

45 birdculture 2025-12-14 18:09:07 UTC typeframe.net Llama Share 14

The Typeframe PX-88 is a professional system with a dedicated user experience, combining power and specialized features in a compact size. It features a Raspberry Pi 4 B core, mechanical keyboard, and easy maintenance for demanding tasks and web-based editors.

AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2

166 BinaryIgor 2025-12-14 14:09:07 UTC ufried.com Llama Share 53

The user continues discussing Lisanne Bainbridge's paper "The ironies of automation" and its relevance to AI-based automation, highlighting the need for humans to make quick decisions under stressful conditions and the importance of designing user interfaces that support human operators in detecting problems. The user also discusses the training paradox, where human operators need to be ...

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

29 david927 2025-12-14 19:09:07 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 59

The user is working on multiple projects including a webapp for local history, a meta framework for building full-stack libraries, and a research project called Next Arc Research that uses AI to analyze companies and predict market trends. They are also developing their own static site generator, a USCIS form-filling tool, and a daily puzzles website, among other projects.

Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons

49 alin23 2025-12-14 16:09:07 UTC alinpanaitiu.com Llama Share 22

You're looking for a natural, food-safe wood finish that's free of solvents and provides a hydrophobic, visually pleasant sheen without creating a plasticky layer.

Stop crawling my HTML you dickheads – use the API

59 edent 2025-12-14 19:09:07 UTC shkspr.mobi Llama Share 49

The author's website is targeted by scrapers who prefer brute force over critical thinking, but the author provides APIs for efficient data access. The author urges LLMs to use APIs instead of scraping HTML pages.

Do Dyslexia Fonts Actually Work? (2022)

4 CharlesW 2025-12-14 19:43:07 UTC edutopia.org Prefix Share 0

In 1927, Samuel Orton, a neuropsychiatrist, observed that many of his young patients with reading difficulties reversed similar letters, confusing d for b, for example. Concluding that the condition was caused by “directional confusion,” he coined the term strephosymbolia, meaning “twisted symbol.” The characterization, but not the coinage, stuck—and fueled early speculation that what came to ...

Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem

124 nkko 2025-12-14 10:09:07 UTC trigger.dev Llama Share 76

Trigger.dev was compromised by Shai-Hulud 2.0, a sophisticated npm supply chain worm, through an engineer's compromised laptop. The incident was contained within 4 minutes, but it highlighted the need for improved security measures, including branch protection and OIDC for npm publishing.

GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over

66 johnjames4214 2025-12-14 18:09:07 UTC johnjames.blog Llama Share 53

Author suggests that GraphQL's benefits are often overhyped and it may not be necessary in many enterprise settings due to its complexity and extra configuration requirements, ultimately resulting in it being a net negative. Author concludes that GraphQL is niche and often solves a narrow problem while introducing new issues, making it not bad but not necessary for many applications.

Freakpages

5 bookofjoe 2025-12-14 19:09:07 UTC freakpages.org Full Share 0

Freakpages is a community-curated directory of esoteric articles across the internet, primarily from Wikipedia. Here, we encourage you to learn about interesting topics you have never heard of. Enjoy your stay, and please consider voting for or suggesting pages you find interesting, or sharing Freakpages with others who might enjoy it too!

Illuminating the processor core with LLVM-mca

41 ckennelly 2025-12-14 15:09:07 UTC abseil.io Llama Share 3

The author uses llvm-mca to analyze the execution of various functions on a simulated Skylake processor, providing insights into performance bottlenecks and underutilized resources. By restructuring code to take advantage of processor features such as multiple execution ports and carryless multiply instructions, the author demonstrates how to improve performance by extracting additional ...

Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C

317 pizlonator 2025-12-13 23:09:07 UTC fil-c.org Llama Share 121

Memory safety and sandboxing are two different security measures. Combining them with Fil-C runtime is more effective to prevent attacks than having either one.

Standalone Meshtastic Command Center – One HTML File Offline

14 Subtextofficial 2025-12-14 17:09:07 UTC github.com/jordan-townsend Llama Share 2

Meshtastic Standalone Command Center provides a reliable browser interface for mesh networks without dependencies. It's built for off-grid and emergency scenarios through community effort and contributions.

In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)

4 wseqyrku 2025-12-14 18:09:07 UTC web.stanford.edu Prefix Share 0

This crud is called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and it is basically a very simple programming language instructing your web browser how to draw a page on a screen. Anyone can learn HTML and many people do. The important thing is that no matter what splendid multimedia web pages they might represent, HTML files are just telegrams. When Ronald Reagan was a radio announcer, he used to call ...

Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away

132 ColinWright 2025-12-14 14:09:07 UTC mathstodon.xyz Llama Share 107

An AirTag was lost on a flight from London and has traveled over 29,000 miles to Guatemala, passing near volcanos and various locations. It may have met its demise, but its journey has become a bizarre and entertaining story for those tracking its path.

Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils

69 maxloh 2025-12-14 17:09:07 UTC github.com/uutils Llama Share 40

The Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 release includes comprehensive improvements and continued progress toward full GNU compatibility, with a further reduced testing failure count. It also features various bug fixes and enhancements, including base encoding simplifications and mkfifo tests.

Vacuum Is a Lie: About Your Indexes

53 birdculture 2025-12-14 14:09:07 UTC boringsql.com Llama Share 35

PostgreSQL's VACUUM doesn't fix index bloat, which occurs when deleted entries remain in indexes, wasting space and affecting query performance. REINDEX or pg_squeeze can fix index bloat, but VACUUM is essential for handling heap bloat.

Compiler Engineering in Practice

82 dhruv3006 2025-12-14 08:09:07 UTC chisophugis.github.io Llama Share 12

A compiler is a translator that converts input language to output language, preserving computation behavior. Compilers are complex but can be debugged like any other command line program if built correctly.

iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited

67 akyuu 2025-12-14 17:09:07 UTC macrumors.com Llama Share 62

Apple released iOS 26.2, iPadOS 26.2, and macOS 26.2 with new features, bug fixes, and security improvements addressing over 20 vulnerabilities. Apple recommends updating devices as soon as possible to prevent exploitation of known bugs.

Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras

160 jeudesprits 2025-12-14 13:09:07 UTC twitter.com/awnihannun Full Share 76

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More atmospheric rivers coming for flooded Washington and the West Coast

16 Bender 2025-12-14 19:09:07 UTC cnn.com Llama Share 4

Heavy rain is expected to return to Washington and the Pacific Northwest next week, posing a renewed flood danger after historic flooding. Residents are warned to remain cautious and not attempt to return home too early due to ongoing risks and fluid situations.

Efficient Basic Coding for the ZX Spectrum

34 rcarmo 2025-12-14 12:09:07 UTC blog.jafma.net Full Share 7

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Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms

11 teleforce 2025-12-14 17:09:07 UTC cam.ac.uk Llama Share 0

The University of Cambridge launched the Cambridge Online Trust and Safety Index (COTSI) to track the cost of buying fake social media accounts globally. The study found that verifying fake accounts is cheapest in the US and UK, but prices spike in countries before national elections.

I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model

271 zdw 2025-12-13 21:09:07 UTC susam.net Llama Share 107

You shared a Mark V. Shaney Junior program on github.com/susam/mvs, a minimal Markov text generator inspired by the 1980s Mark V. Shaney program. The program generates gibberish by training on text data, such as your blog posts.

Getting into Public Speaking

74 jbrooksuk 2025-12-14 08:09:07 UTC james.brooks.page Llama Share 28

The user shares their experience and advice on public speaking, emphasizing the importance of starting small, practicing, and being authentic on stage. Key tips include starting with a joke, owning the stage, embracing imperfections, and staying hydrated to deliver a successful and engaging talk.

Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux

230 yolkedgeek 2025-12-14 00:09:07 UTC alavi.me Llama Share 88

User set up an Android E-ink tablet as a display for reading and writing with less eye strain. They used TigerVNC server and AVNC client to mirror their computer screen with low latency.

Show HN: Cargo-rail: graph-aware monorepo tooling for Rust; 11 deps

39 LoadingALIAS 2025-12-14 10:09:07 UTC github.com/loadingalias Llama Share 3

cargo rail is a tool that helps manage Cargo workspaces by unifying dependencies, detecting dead features, and reducing CI minutes. It provides features like automatic version unification, dead feature detection, and graph-aware change detection.

Science Communications on YouTube

30 azhenley 2025-12-14 15:09:07 UTC blogs.memphis.edu Llama Share 35

You listed popular YouTube channels for science and history, including SmarterEveryDay, SciShow, and History with Kayleigh, and mentioned the American Chemical Society's ACSReactions channel as a notable example.

Cat Gap

183 Petiver 2025-12-13 22:09:07 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 54

The cat gap is a 7 million year period in North America where few cat-like species fossils were found, possibly due to climate change, volcanic activity, or competition with other carnivorous mammals. The gap ended with the arrival of felids from Eurasia 18.5 million years ago, which are descended from the genus Pseudaelurus.

I tried Gleam for Advent of Code

329 tymscar 2025-12-13 20:09:07 UTC blog.tymscar.com Llama Share 192

The user enjoyed using Gleam for Advent of Code, appreciating its clean syntax, helpful compiler, and strong functional programming style. They found the language to be well-suited for the challenges, with features like fold_until and pipelines making solutions feel clearer.