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  1. Karmem: A fast binary serialization format faster than Google Flatbuffers

    14 points by siddontang | view on HN

    Karmem is a fast binary serialization format that is easy to use while being as fast as possible. It is optimized to take Golang and TinyGo's maximum performance and is efficient for repeatable reads, reading different content of the same type. Karmem has proven to be ten times faster than Google Flatbuffers, with the additional overhead of bounds-checking included. Karmem is still under development, and the API is not stable. However, the serialization-format itself

  2. Why I built a dictionary app even with more than +300 apps available at AppStore

    26 points by zehfernandes | view on HN

    The article is about the author's journey to create the perfect dictionary app, and how he realized that it was harder than he thought.

  3. Raw footage inside Sears with Atari 800 and 2600 (1982) [video]

    4 points by kloch | view on HN

  4. Show HN: International Legal Dictionary

    16 points by dogweather | view on HN

  5. EasyRPG

    239 points by tosh | view on HN

    The Easy RPG Player is a program that allows you to play RPG Maker 2000 and 2003 games on a variety of platforms, including GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, mobile devices, and even in your web browser.

  6. Differentiable Programming from Scratch

    7 points by TheNumbat | view on HN

    Differentiable programming is a useful tool for solving many kinds of optimization problems.

  7. Gitea 1.17.0 is released – includes package registry support

    63 points by belfalas | view on HN

    The article discusses the release of Gitea version 1.17.0, which includes a lot of new and exciting features and plenty of breaking changes.

  8. A looming copper crunch and why recycling can’t fix it

    91 points by simonebrunozzi | view on HN

    The article discusses how the electrification of transportation could begin stalling as early as mid-decade due to a lack of key battery metals.

  9. RISC-V based Single Board Computers are getting there

    133 points by bmlw | view on HN

    The MangoPi MQ Pro is a compute-focused board that outperforms the Raspberry Pi Zero W in most tests, with the exception of USB SSD and microSD card speed.

  10. Lyra: Fast, in-memory, typo-tolerant, full-text search engine in TypeScript

    5 points by bpierre | view on HN

    ' , author : 'Jim Rohn' } ] } The article is about how to use Lyra to query a database.

  11. Meshtastic: A Review

    21 points by thcipriani | view on HN

    The article discusses how Meshtastic attempts to solve the problem of communication infrastructure failures and how AT&T established room 641A to funnel communication to the NSA.

  12. Show HN: Outserv – GraphQL Search Engine

    12 points by mrjn | view on HN

    The article discusses the Outserv, a GraphQL-powered Blockchain Search Engine that is a unique mix of GraphQL, Search, and Cache systems that enables production-grade GraphQL Search APIs over any blockchain data 10x faster than existing mechanisms.

  13. Pagefind: Static Low-Bandwidth Search at Scale

    17 points by chmaynard | view on HN

    The article discusses the two main options for search on a documentation website - frontend search and third-party platform - and argues in favor of frontend search.

  14. Fresnel Integral

    11 points by peter_d_sherman | view on HN

    The Fresnel integrals S(x) and C(x) are two transcendental functions used in optics that are closely related to the error function.

  15. Public Domain Posix Make

    10 points by donmcc | view on HN

    The article discusses the problem with make being that it is a tool for developers and how there are many different versions of make around.

  16. If Only Borland Had Stuck with Turbo Modula-2 for CP/M (2013)

    83 points by nope96 | view on HN

    The article is about the Turbo Modula-2 programming language for CP/M, which was released in 1986 and then quickly withdrawn.

  17. End of the Machinery Game Engine

    7 points by eigenbom | view on HN

  18. Kubernetes Reinvented Virtual Machines (in a good sense)

    81 points by paulgb | view on HN

    The article discusses how, in 2010, it was common to deploy applications using virtual machines and how, depending on the scale of the business, this would define the ways provisioning, scaling, service discovery, and deployment were done.

  19. Time for Army Corps of Engineers to investigate moving water West?

    30 points by danboarder | view on HN

    It is time for the Army Corps of Engineers to investigate the feasibility of moving water from the Mississippi River to the Colorado River at Lake Powell and then downstream to Lake Mead in order to solve the water problems of the Southwest.

  20. What ever happened to xmms.org? (2010)

    10 points by ecliptik | view on HN

    The xmms.org domain was sold to a cyber-squatter by 4Front, the company that originally sponsored development of XMMS.

  21. A Mormon Housewife Turned a Fake Diary into an Enormous Best-Seller

    3 points by aesthesia | view on HN

    The article tells the story of how the book "Go Ask Alice" became a best-seller.

  22. Greg can't use encrypted apps and must open his phone for police at any time

    77 points by adrian_mrd | view on HN

    The article discusses the bail conditions imposed on some Blockade Australia climate protesters, which include not being allowed to use any encrypted messaging apps, having to produce their computer and mobile phone for police inspection on demand, only being allowed to have one mobile phone, and not being allowed to associate with a list of 38 people.

  23. Tang Nano 9K – FPGA SBC with HDMI

    7 points by peter_d_sherman | view on HN

    The Tang Nano 9K is a development board based on the Gowin GW1NR-9 FPGA chip that is equipped with an HDMI connector, RGB screen interface connector, SPI screen connector, 32Mbit SPI flash, and 6 LEDs.

  24. Citroen 2cv pages

    76 points by dayve | view on HN

    The person writing has collected a lot of 2pk parts over the past 45 years.

  25. Patterns (YC S21) is hiring devs to build the Figma for data

    1 points by cstanley | view on HN

    The article is discussing how to use pre-built applications and components to speed up problem solving.

  26. The many flavors of hashing

    18 points by ciprian_craciun | view on HN

    The article discusses a procedure for hiding small internal identifiers when exporting them as part of an API. A use-case for such a procedure would be hiding patient primary keys in an API that lists patients given some query.

  27. Nuclear energy is clean

    173 points by mpweiher | view on HN

    The article argues that nuclear waste is not an actual problem.

  28. Inside an IBM AS/400 eSeries Factory [video]

    39 points by grunthos | view on HN

  29. Did Manuel Ramírez spend years in prison for murdering a man who is still alive?

    30 points by helsinkiandrew | view on HN

    In 2000, Manuel Ramírez was hosting a dinner at his home in Tepexpan, Mexico, when several men burst into the house, claiming to be police officers. The men beat Ramírez and his guests, then dragged Ramírez out of the house, stripped him naked, bound his hands, and dunked him in freezing water.

  30. Birds and Frogs (2009) [pdf]

    4 points by Tomte | view on HN