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Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain
posted on Sun Oct 23 15:50:51 UTC 2022 by mkosmul | view on HN
The heirs of origami master Shuzo Fujimoto have released his five self-published books to the public domain.
FaCT: Constant Time Programming Language
posted on Sun Oct 23 16:15:25 UTC 2022 by ducktective | view on HN
The FaCT compiler is a domain-specific language that helps you write constant-time code for cryptographic routines that need to be free from timing side channels.
Eglot has landed on master: Emacs now has a built-in LSP client
posted on Thu Oct 20 17:33:34 UTC 2022 by todsacerdoti | view on HN
A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes
posted on Sun Oct 23 07:24:52 UTC 2022 by itsuka | view on HN
27 years ago, Hoover offered free international flights with any £100 purchase
posted on Sun Oct 23 13:23:56 UTC 2022 by Anon84 | view on HN
The article is about a website that allows users to join for free. The website has a button that says "Join Free" and when clicked, takes the user to a page where they can enter their email address and sign up for the website.
posted on Sun Oct 23 16:28:18 UTC 2022 by kevinslin | view on HN
The article is discussing how product market fit is the only thing that matters for a early stage startup founder and how it is notoriously hard to nail down.
posted on Sun Oct 23 13:21:07 UTC 2022 by memorable | view on HN
The article discusses how to use a virtual keyboard.
Textual TUI framework for Python adds CSS renderer
posted on Sun Oct 23 13:35:24 UTC 2022 by willm | view on HN
The headline feature of Textual 0.2.0 is CSS support, but there are a lot more additional features and improvements than a minor version might suggest.
Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data
posted on Sun Oct 23 10:58:45 UTC 2022 by AndreVitorio | view on HN
How Rust 1.64 became faster on Windows
posted on Sun Oct 23 13:43:01 UTC 2022 by todsacerdoti | view on HN
The article is about how to host a Spring Boot AngularJS app on Ubuntu 16.
The Mainframe in Your Pocket Running Minicomputer Software
posted on Sun Oct 23 16:31:45 UTC 2022 by klelatti | view on HN
This article is about how the author added a post about 60-bit computing, in response to a question, and how looking at historic systems can prompt us to challenge our thinking.
Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)
posted on Sun Oct 23 02:36:30 UTC 2022 by pabs3 | view on HN
The article discusses how the author wrote a program to find out how much of his email comes from Google, and found that about a third of it does.
Log4Shell – Through the scope of a reactive network telescope
posted on Fri Oct 21 00:01:29 UTC 2022 by Trouble_007 | view on HN
The article discusses the Log4Shell vulnerability which enables remote code execution through vulnerable applications by injecting a prepared string into the omnipresent Log4j library.
Ray tracing Voxels made out of Glass
posted on Sun Oct 23 16:44:07 UTC 2022 by beefman | view on HN
Things I did before app launch and what I wish I have done
posted on Fri Oct 21 04:15:24 UTC 2022 by andrewon | view on HN
The article discusses the author's experience launching an iOS app on Product Hunt, and includes tips for those considering a similar launch.
Skio (YC S20) is hiring – subscriptions for Shopify, easy ReCharge migrations
posted on Sun Oct 23 12:02:56 UTC 2022 by kennandavison | view on HN
The article discusses a new company that helps brands on Shopify sell subscriptions and how they have raised 7.4 million dollars in seed funding.
posted on Thu Oct 20 12:54:55 UTC 2022 by Aissen | view on HN
C2Rust is a translator that produces unsafe Rust code from C code in order to preserve functionality.
On Bruno Latour (1947–2022): The world was his laboratory
posted on Sat Oct 22 02:43:53 UTC 2022 by drdee | view on HN
This article is about Bruno Latour, a philosopher who believes that one man alone can do very little and that success is a result of careful coordination between many human and non-human actors.
posted on Sun Oct 23 03:01:32 UTC 2022 by johndbeatty | view on HN
The article discusses Automattic's acquisition of Pocket Casts and the team's efforts to make the Pocket Casts app open source.
Pouring the 200 inch disk at Corning Glass Works
posted on Sun Oct 23 04:18:50 UTC 2022 by DoreenMichele | view on HN
In 1928, the famed astronomer, George Ellery Hale, had a vision to build the world’s largest telescope at Palomar Mountain in California, which was entrusted to Corning Glass Works using their signature Pyrex®.
Curl doesn't add libproxy due to its quality issues
posted on Sun Oct 23 12:21:24 UTC 2022 by fagnerbrack | view on HN
The article discusses the pros and cons of adding support for the libproxy library to the curl tool. The author is ultimately skeptical of the library due to its lack of tests and docs and the unresponsiveness of the project to bug reports.
Wolfgang Denk, creator of the U-Boot bootloader, has died
posted on Sun Oct 23 14:31:12 UTC 2022 by gdgghhhhh | view on HN
Revised Report on the Propagator Model (2011)
posted on Thu Oct 20 16:12:35 UTC 2022 by mmphosis | view on HN
The article discusses how cells can be merged with simple "link these two with (conditional) identity propagators" and how this can be used to merge compound data structures.
Cloudflare Pages: Best server tech since CGI-bin?
posted on Sun Oct 23 16:03:30 UTC 2022 by mehal | view on HN
The article discusses the author's experience using Cloudflare Pages and Functions to set up a static website with a custom domain, and how the process was easy and the benefits were great.
Space-based solar power is getting serious
posted on Thu Oct 20 11:36:24 UTC 2022 by rbanffy | view on HN
The article discusses how solar power could be collected in space and beamed back down to Earth, and how this once seemed impossible but now may be a matter of "pulling it all together and making it work."
Caps wiki – cataloging information on repairing caps, ICs, batteries, belts
posted on Sun Oct 23 12:07:26 UTC 2022 by rwmj | view on HN
The article is about the website Caps Wiki, which is a site dedicated to cataloging and sharing information on repairing devices.
posted on Sat Oct 22 03:13:14 UTC 2022 by lermontov | view on HN
H.D. was a tall, angular beauty with gray-blue eyes who, at fifteen, met a brash teen-ager named Ezra Pound at a Halloween party.
A Quantum Computer by Blasting It with the Fibonacci Sequence
posted on Thu Oct 20 10:27:36 UTC 2022 by tambourine_man | view on HN
A team of physicists created a new phase of matter by shooting laser pulses reading out the Fibonacci sequence to a quantum computer in Colorado.
Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release?
posted on Sun Oct 23 09:18:15 UTC 2022 by sylwester | view on HN
The Wire retracts its Meta stories
posted on Sun Oct 23 11:30:13 UTC 2022 by throwaway81523 | view on HN
The Wire has decided to conduct an internal review of its recent coverage of Meta, after discrepancies emerged in the material used.