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The map that keeps Burning Man honest

The event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public.

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SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format

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The Self-Cancelling Subscription

When family TV show night became systems debugging night.

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RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust

Rust TeX-style math layout with KaTeX-aligned golden tests. Ready-to-use packages for Web (WASM), iOS, Android, Flutter, and React Native—same display list everywhere.

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Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows (MCP, provider-agnostic)

Define your agents in TypeScript. Get SQLite state, MCP tools, health checks, and coordination rules — automatically.

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AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

Discover how AlphaEvolve optimizes algorithms for genomics, quantum physics, global infrastructure, and more to accelerate scientific progress and solve real-world challenges.

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Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive

Inspired by the visual language, cultural history, and format of matchboxes, three contemporary Indian projects are reimagining this object in strikingly different ways.

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Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

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Appearing productive in the workplace

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

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Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE

Motivation # I wanted to test out the new Unsloth models for Qwen3.6 and Gemma4 on my gaming PC. llama.cpp on Windows is tedious to compile, and I have littered my Windows installation with too many toolchains already. Python venvs, Mingw, Cuda, UCRT64 & WSL to name a few. Windows still does not feel developer friendly to me. I think I’m ok with it being a frontend for Steam’s Big Picture mode. I didn’t want to disturb my Windows setup that I use for gaming. Windows has a nasty habit of breaking GRUB on updates. UEFI fixes that to some extent, but it’s a pain to maintain the UEFI entries manually and change them every time the kernel updates. One of the best benefits of using the method described here is that GRUB is al

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Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)

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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

Modders, start your engines. - With the rather excellent Steam Controller now on its way to the lucky few that managed to order one, Valve has released a ful...

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MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport

This document extends the MOQT Streaming Format (MSF) by registering the "m2ts" packaging value for carrying MPEG-2 Transport Stream and M2TS source packets over Media Over QUIC Transport. It defines catalog fields for transport-stream track description and specifies receiver and relay behavior for joining, switching, and validating packetized streams.

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GovernGPT (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build Thinking Systems in Montreal

About the Team We’re a YC-backed, profitable startup that’s building agents to automate the most manual, critical function of managing multi-billion dollar investments - fundraising. Every day, Tier 1 funds rely on our product to close new and update existing investors. We build with the newest tools. Every role within our tight-knit, all-engineers team has incredible autonomy to go out and delight our users. If you want to go all in on coding agents, build knowledge graphs, or explore novel async ways of ingesting data at scale, you can do that here - everything we do is innovative at its core. This is just the start, we have much bigger plays planned in partnership with our customers to change how trillions of dollars of private capita

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Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense

Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense

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Why should a Trace-ID be 128 bits? (A Surprisingly Long Answer)

The answer touches probability theory, distributed systems constraints and fifteen years of industry migration. Let's actually dig in.

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Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp)

Upgrade your project car to electric with Chevrolet's eCrate system, featuring a 400V motor and 66 kWh battery for superior performance and reliability.

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37x Speedup in Lattice Boltzmann Cylinder Flow

Resolution robustness of vortex shedding in Lattice Boltzmann cylinder flow: a scaling study for reduced-cost simulation. - alikamp/Parks-KPBM-Scaling

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Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria

Collaboration between researchers and religious leaders led to a cut in the likelihood of early marriage by 80%.,Collaboration between researchers and religious leaders led to a cut in the likelihood of early marriage by 80%. Collaboration between researchers and religious leaders led to a cut in the likelihood of early marriage by 80%.

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Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

Fewer people are buying parts and building new PCs from scratch.

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On this day

The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force conduct surgical strikes code-named Operation SINDOOR on terrorist hideouts in Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam Attack that killed 26 people.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

The map that keeps Burning Man honest

SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format

The Self-Cancelling Subscription

RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust

Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows (MCP, provider-agnostic)

AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

Appearing productive in the workplace

Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE

Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)

Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport

GovernGPT (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build Thinking Systems in Montreal

Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense

Why should a Trace-ID be 128 bits? (A Surprisingly Long Answer)

Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp)

37x Speedup in Lattice Boltzmann Cylinder Flow

Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria

Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

On this day

The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force conduct surgical strikes code-named Operation SINDOOR on terrorist hideouts in Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam Attack that killed 26 people.

2023 Tanur boat disaster, At least 22 people are killed when a boat carrying tourists capsizes in Tanur, Malappuram, Kerala, India.

American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamist militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.

An EgyptAir Boeing 737-500 crashes on approach to Tunis–Carthage International Airport, killing 14 people.

A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.

Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.

Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.

Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.

In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.

Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.

Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.

Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.

Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.

Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.

A fire and explosion occurs at a fireworks factory at Sungai Buloh, Malaysia, killing 26.

Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.

Pacific Airlines Flight 773 is hijacked by Francisco Gonzales and crashes in Contra Costa County, California, killing 44.

Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.

Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).

The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.

The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.

Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded.

World War II: Last German U-boat attack of the war, two freighters are sunk off the Firth of Forth, Scotland.

World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.

World War II: The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.

Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.

The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.

The 7.1 Mw Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.

Polish–Soviet War: Kyiv offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kyiv only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.

Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.

World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,199 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.

The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.

In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.

American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.

The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.

The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.

Greece's independence is recognized by the Treaty of London.

World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.

French Revolutionary Wars: A French force attempting to dislodge a small British garrison on the Îles Saint-Marcouf is repulsed with heavy losses.

French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.

HMS Victory is launched at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. She is not commissioned until 1778.

Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.

The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.

Stockholm's medieval castle Tre Kronor is destroyed by fire. It is replaced in the 18th century by the current Royal Palace.

Battle of Vrtijeljka between rebels and Ottoman forces.

Inaugural celebrations begin at Louis XIV's new Palace of Versailles.

State funeral of James VI and I (1566–1625) is held at Westminster Abbey.

The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army is the first action of the Rough Wooing.

The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista.

In Avignon, France, Cardinal Pierre Roger is elected Pope and takes the name Clement VI.

In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens; it ratified a decree to regulate the election of the Pope.

The Crusader army of emperor Frederick Barbarossa defeats an army of the Rum Seljuks in the battle of Philomelion.

The Seljuk emirs of Mosul and Mardin defeat the Crusader States of Antioch and Edessa.

In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.

The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.

On this day

The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force conduct surgical strikes code-named Operation SINDOOR on terrorist hideouts in Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam Attack that killed 26 people.

2023 Tanur boat disaster, At least 22 people are killed when a boat carrying tourists capsizes in Tanur, Malappuram, Kerala, India.

The 7.1 Mw  Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.

The 7.1 Mw  Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.