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Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0

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The Visible Zorker: Zork 1

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Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?

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Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE

By Robert Smith mine is a brand new IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp, built from the ground up with one purpose: To make Coalton and Common Lisp easier and more accessible to the programming world. TL;DR? Go to mine's homepage with downloads for Windows/macOS/Linux. mine is a complete, single-download application that comes with everything needed to experience the interactive and incremental development programming workflow, including hot-reloading and on-the-fly debugging, that Lisp programmers often refer to as the differentiating feature of the ecosystem. After installing, one can immediately open a file, program some Coalton or Lisp, and beam code to the REPL. On the same token, it has many of the advanced features you’d expect in a pr

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Free Textbook on Engineering Thermodynamics

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USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

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QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video]

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Statecharts: hierarchical state machines

The world of statecharts describes what statecharts are, their benefits and drawbacks, how they differ from state machines, and practical examples on how to use them.

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Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0

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Sloppy Copies

Last month, I wrote an article about my recent experience creating a hobby project in a web framework - Ruby on Rails - that hasn’t been “in fashion” for some time. The blog post gathered some interest and made it to various discussion sites like Hacker News and others. It caused a pretty big spike in traffic and my post got linked from some more places and generated some interesting conversations. I had fun, talked to some new users of my app (a simple, no-strings-attached free tool to organise bands), got to geek out for a few evenings and all was good.,Last month, I wrote an article about my recent experience creating a hobby project in a web framework - Ruby on Rails - that hasn’t been “in fashion” for some time. The blog post gathered

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GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline

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Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame

How I turned a photogrammetric 3D Gaussian Splat scene into a playable browser FPS - with collision, pre-baked lighting, navmesh-driven NPCs and behavior-tree AI, all in PlayCanvas.

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Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses

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Clay PCB Tutorial

Clay PCB Tutorial MaKING Printed Circuit Boards with Wild Clay It is an open secret that the hardware in our...

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GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation

What would you do if your organization had used a domain name for 27 years, and the registrar holding the domain seized it without any advance warning? All

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The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code

The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical.

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An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below

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Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities

SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE-bench Pro.

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GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup

Issue links open automatically in a popup

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On this day

A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0

The Visible Zorker: Zork 1

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?

Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE

Free Textbook on Engineering Thermodynamics

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video]

Statecharts: hierarchical state machines

Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0

Sloppy Copies

GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline

Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

Clay PCB Tutorial

GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation

The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code

An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below

Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities

GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup

On this day

A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada.

Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote, one of the biggest vote shares in Kazakhstan's history.

Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).

Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany, before committing suicide.

Outbreak of CIH computer virus.

China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.

The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module.

Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.

The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.

People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.

The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.

The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.

The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.

A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.

Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania.

In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allow for female participation in elections.

NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.

The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.

Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule.

Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.

The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.

The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.

World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.

World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army liberate Baguio as they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.

Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.

The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.

Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1,549 Chinese miners dead.

Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria.

The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring.

Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.

Ice hockey makes its Olympic debut at the Antwerp Games with center Frank Fredrickson scoring seven goals in Canada's 12–1 drubbing of Sweden in the gold medal match.

Easter Rising: Battle of Mount Street Bridge.

World War I: Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London pledging to join the Allied Powers.

Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded.

Fires destroy Canadian cities Ottawa and Hull, reducing them to ashes in 12 hours. Twelve thousand people are left without a home.

Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.

First Barbary War: United States Marines capture Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.

Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.

Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.

Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.

Sybil Ludington, aged 16, allegedly rides 40 miles (64 km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of British regular forces.

A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.

The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry.

Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown).

The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici in order to displace the ruling Medici family kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.

The kingdom of France and the kingdom of Scotland agree on a treaty of mutual aid at Corbeil.

Following weeks of bombardment, the city of Tripoli falls to the Mamluks under Qalawun. The Mamluks massacre all men they find and enslave the women and children.

On this day

A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada.

Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote, one of the biggest vote shares in Kazakhstan's history.

Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).

Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany, before committing suicide.

Outbreak of CIH computer virus.