Show HN: How random are you?

Say numbers out loud as randomly as you can. Before each one, a predictor in your browser seals its guess, and a split-flap board shows how far ahead of chance it gets.

Gemini 4 Argon

Our next era of frontier intelligence

Recreational Programming

Learn more about Christopher Phiri work experience, education, connections & more. Software developer, UX/UI, Illustrator,A presentation about rediscovering the joy of programming through recreational coding

Felix Rieseberg Homepage

I work on Claude at Anthropic. Electron co-maintainer. Maintainer of too many little open source projects. Some of it is on VHS.

What agents mean for Rust (and vice versa)

Arena Allocators in C

In this article, I show you a simple yet effective arena allocator implementation in the C programming language. It significantly eases the task of managing memory in such a low level language.

Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled

Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2022)

900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan)

There’s ahead of its time, then there’s Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau -- or, in its original Dutch title, Klaer Lightende Spiegel der Verfkonst, a 900-page book of paint colors made before any such things were common tools of the artist’s, scientist’s, and industrial designer’s trade. Open Culture, openculture.com

Same Job, Two Engines: InnoDB and Iceberg Internals

The OLTP vs OLAP post. What InnoDB was optimizing for, and the two paths that make a lakehouse work: pruning on the read and the atomic pointer swap commit.

The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s

Globally, electricity generation per person has grown by more than 50% this century.

Kcgi – minimal CGI and FastCGI library for C/C++

A C/C++ library for security-oriented web applications.

Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones. The battlefield depends on SpaceX

**SpaceX has introduced a speed restriction affecting StarShield terminals used by Ukraine. According to Ukrainian sources, connectivity began to fail when platforms exceeded around 160 km/h, disrupting part of Ukraine’s combat missions. Later reports claimed that the restriction may have been tightened further, with some operators losing communication already at 60–70 km/h. If confirmed, that would no longer affect only fast strike drones, but also a much wider group of reconnaissance and tactical UAVs.**

MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors

Encora Therapeutics, which developed a wrist-based device that reduces essential tremor, started as a project in MIT’s famous product-design class, 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes).

Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard

Play a free virtual guitar online with your keyboard or by touch. Slow songs down and see every chord, string and strum. Acoustic, classic, electric and bass.

How to Select an Experiment

More on experiment metastrategy

Redesigning source control at Anthropic

As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months.

Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts

Ledger has confirmed that some of its devices distributed through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis were compromised with a hardware implant that drained users' cryptocurrency wallets.

Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font

AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs

Description On Android 17 builds from September 2026, wcscspn() and wcspbrk() stop at the first character of the string that is >= U+0100 whenever the reject set has two or more characters that are all < U+0100. The character is reported...