Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

See a recreation of the Project Hail Mary in-ship navigation computer with accurate star data from the GAIA DR3 mission.

Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps

Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess

uv's CLI feels surprisingly clunky compared to its peers like pnpm or Poetry.

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

It's that time of the year again, a new version of Python is just around the corner. With the Python 3.15.0b1 feature freeze, we know what's...

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Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

How I built a queryable video archive locally on a 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max using Gemma 4 31B in LM Studio. The build journey, the absurdity of 50GB of swap, and four bugs that taught real lessons.

Flipper One – we need your help

With Flipper One, we're reimagining what a Linux cyberdeck can be — it's a huge project. We're opening up the development process and asking the community for help.

Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

In 2024 I quit my FAANG job to become an independent researcher. To do this I needed GPUs, so I built "grumbl", a 6x 6000 Ada GPU server. This blog describes the build, some of the issues I faced, and answers the question "was it worth it to build the server myself, or should I…

Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

After a decade on Ubuntu 16.04, I migrated my blog to FreeBSD on Hetzner. Some notes on setting up a VPS with FreeBSD, Jails, Bastille, Caddy reverse proxies, and load testing and benchmarking the blog from four continents.

Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team

The runtime for all your team's agents. Sandboxed coding agents with your company's context, integrations, and guardrails — triggered from Slack, Linear, CLI, or the browser.

Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

Seattle Shield requests suspicious activity reports from companies, which are then circulated with members as part of surveillance apparatus

Using Kagi Search with Low Vision

How I'm using Kagi Search with low vision to manage visual fatigue, plus my favorite Kagi accessibility features for low vision + CVI and Kagi low vision theme

Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

Waymo's robotaxi service is now suspended in both Atlanta and San Antonio, as the company works to stop its vehicles from driving into flooded roads.

Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?

Hello and welcome to the K6 project, a personal adventure to travel the length and breadth of the UK finding old red telephone boxes, the k6 used to be everywhere before mobile telephones became the prevalent form of telecommunication.

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

Analysis of the trinity nuclear test captured the terrifying new power of atomic weaponry and reset humanity’s understanding of warfare

Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success

Over 460 million years ago, plants and mycorrhizal fungi formed a beneficial relationship below the soil surface that nurtured and protected plants while feeding the fungi and other organisms in the root zone of the plants.1 That relationship exists today for over ninety percent of terrestrial species in natural settings, allowing plants to survive harsh conditions of drought, diseases, temperature extremes, poor soil, and competition.

Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans

Spotify announced a feature during its investor day called "Reserved," which will save a pair of concert tickets on select tours for fans to buy.

We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot

Google is introducing new ad formats built with Gemini in Search and expanding the Direct Offers pilot for shoppers.