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Visit website →30 Years of HPC: New Languages Have Barely Been Adopted, But Hardware Has Advanced Dramatically
Over 30 years, HPC hardware has radically advanced, but languages have remained largely unchanged.
WiiFin – A Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
An experimental homebrew client for using Jellyfin on the Wii.
N-Day-Bench – Can LLMs find real vulnerabilities in real codebases?
An LLM security benchmark for finding known vulnerabilities in real codebases
GitHub Stacked PRs
GitHub has released stacked PRs and the `gh stack` CLI in preview.
Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted backdoors in all of them
Over 30 WordPress plugins were infected with backdoors after being acquired.
A Python Interpreter Written in Python
Byterun's structure explains how a Python interpreter works.
Nothing Ever Happens: A Polymarket bot that always buys No in non-sports markets
A bot that buys only No in non-sports yes/no markets when the price is at or below a set cap.
Making tmux Pretty and Usable (2024)
Tweak your tmux.conf to make the prefix, splits, mouse, and colors more convenient.
中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron
Connected an LLM to Hack Chinese to cut character review speed from 30 seconds to under 1 second.
Android now blocks location sharing in photos
Android is cutting off EXIF location data transmission from photos across web and sharing paths.
reBot-DevArm: An Open-Source Robotic Arm
Seeed has open-sourced a robotic arm project, releasing everything from hardware and BOM to SDK.
Too Much Discussion About the XOR Swap Trick
The XOR swap trick offers no real benefit for local variables, pointers, or registers.
European AI. A Playbook to Own It
Europe presents an action plan that ties together talent, regulation, capital, and infrastructure for AI self-reliance and scale.
A taskbar-style Dock replacement for macOS
A Dock replacement app that brings the GNOME-style taskbar experience to macOS Spaces.
Claude Code for Power Users
A tool that wraps Claude Code in tmux and xterm.js to control long-running workflows.
Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready-made SD card)
A release that runs Oberon System 3 natively on the Raspberry Pi 3b.
Troubleshooting Email Delivery Failures to Microsoft Users
A case study summarizing why mail to Microsoft recipients hit a 451 rate limit and how it was resolved.
Tell HN: docker pull failing in Spain due to Cloudflare block over football
`docker pull` was failing like a TLS error because of an IP block within Spain.
JVM Options Explorer
An explorer for searching OpenJDK HotSpot VM options by version and platform.
How to fix a monitor turning off or flickering due to static electricity (2023)
A record of mitigating a monitor that shut off from chair static and EMI using grounding and a ferrite ring