hackernews 1 year ago

Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456834 )

Daylight | The Fast 60fps E-paper and Blue-Light Free Tablet

The Daylight Computer is a calm tablet, with a high refesh-rate 60hz e-paper display — that's also blue-light free, and eye-strain free.

hackernews 1 year ago

Act on Press Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40458655 )

X (formerly Twitter)

John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) on X

Act on press This is a UI design hill I will die on, and it dismays me how often and hard I have had to fight for it. Almost all interaction meth...

hackernews 1 year ago

SOAR-ing Away with Smalltalk: Berkeley RISC-III Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456114 )

SOAR-ing Away with Smalltalk: Berkeley RISC-III

'Smalltalk On A RISC' and three mysteries!

hackernews 1 year ago

DNS glitch that threatened Internet stability fixed; cause remains unclear Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40457313 )

Ars Technica

A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why.

For 4 days, the c-root server maintained by Cogent lost touch with its 12 peers.

hackernews 1 year ago

A designer's guide to documenting accessibility and user interactions (2022) Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40424650 )

A Designer’s Guide to Documenting Accessibility & User Interactions by Stéphanie Walter

hackernews 1 year ago

Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40455478 ) https://www.papertalk.xyz/research/home

hackernews 1 year ago

Matcha.css – Drop-in semantic styling library in pure CSS Comments (

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matcha.css | Drop-in semantic styling library in pure CSS

matcha.css is a pure CSS library designed to style HTML elements similarly to a default browser stylesheet, eliminating the need for users to manua...

hackernews 1 year ago

US Army researched the health effects of radioactivity in St Louis 1945-1970 Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40458686 ) https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/13170

hackernews 1 year ago

The Strangeness of Grief (2019) Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40453467 )

The New Yorker

The Strangeness of Grief

V. S. Naipaul reckons with the different forms of loss.

hackernews 1 year ago

Festival of Britain (1951) Comments (

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Festival of Britain - Wikipedia

hackernews 1 year ago

M2dir: Treating mails as files without going crazy Comments (

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M2dir: treating mails as files without going crazy - bitfehler!

hackernews 1 year ago

vu128: Efficient variable-length integers Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426666 )

John Millikin

vu128: Efficient variable-length integers

hackernews 1 year ago

We're ending our Samsung collaboration Comments (

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iFixit

We’re Ending Our Samsung Collaboration

It’s not us, it’s you. It’s with a heavy wrench that we have decided to end our partnership with Samsung. Despite a huge amount of effort, Sa...

hackernews 1 year ago

Show HN: Excel to Python Compiler Comments (

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Excel automation and Python code generation AI assistant | Pyoneer

Pyoneer AI automatically converts Excel files to Python code. Automate your Excel workbooks using Pyoneer AI in minutes.

hackernews 1 year ago

The S-matrix is the oracle physicists turn to in times of crisis Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456801 )

Quanta Magazine

The S-Matrix Is the Oracle Physicists Turn To in Times of Crisis | Quanta Magazine

Particle physicists in search of the next theory of reality are consulting a mathematical structure that they know will never fail: a table of poss...

hackernews 1 year ago

Disappointment Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40452731 ) https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202309/noti2782/noti2782.html

hackernews 1 year ago

Running PHP fast at the edge with WebAssembly Comments (

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) https://wasmer.io/posts/running-php-blazingly-fast-at-the-edge-with-wasm

hackernews 1 year ago

First pictures from Euclid satellite reveal billions of orphan stars Comments (

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News - First pictures from Euclid satellite reveal billions of orphan stars - University of Nottingham

The first scientific pictures from the Euclid satellite mission have revealed more than 1,500 billion orphan stars scattered throughout the Perseus...

hackernews 1 year ago

Bytehound: Memory Profiler for Linux Comments (

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GitHub

GitHub - koute/bytehound: A memory profiler for Linux.

A memory profiler for Linux. Contribute to koute/bytehound development by creating an account on GitHub.

hackernews 1 year ago

Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity? Comments (

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the Guardian

‘My songs spread like herpes’: why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity?

In the 1950s and 60s, his songs stunned and delighted listeners with their irreverence, wit and nihilism. Then he gave it all up to teach mathemati...