1. Foreign funds help make housing unaffordable: research (news.mccombs.utexas.edu)
International investment and local rules push prices up faster than supply
3. Show HN: Hacker News on a Train Station Style Flip Board (popflame.quickish.space)
The top 20 stories on Hacker News, rendered on a split-flap departures board. Rank, points and headline on real mechanical flaps, refreshed by a scheduled cloud function. A remix of the Quickish flipboard.
4. How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? (www.quantamagazine.org)
Plausible answers range from 17 to — in all seriousness — 995.5.
5. How H-E-B Became Texas' Most Beloved Brand (2024) (texashighways.com)
The grocery giant H-E-B's quiet acts of kindness are preserving communities and cementing its icon status
6. Fusion Programming Language (fusion-lang.org)
Transpiling to C, C++, C#, D, Java, JavaScript, Python, Swift, TypeScript and OpenCL.
7. One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V (www.theregister.com)
A homebrew PC and mini-mainframe were only the warm-up for Yuri Zaporozhets
8. Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression (kirill.korins.ky)
DEFLATE level 13 is a deliberately impractical libdeflate compression level: the output remains standard DEFLATE, while the encoder spends far more time searching parse, Huffman, and block split choices. On Silesia it saves 86
9. A Farmer Arrested for Going 5 Seconds over His Time Limit at Data Center Meeting (www.gadgetreview.com)
Claremore man arrested for exceeding a 3-minute public comment limit at a city council meeting over a 300-acre data center proposal — and it's all on bodycam.
10. Enhancing X11 Application Security with LXC (dobrowolski.dev)
11. Screen time can damage under-twos' development, landmark study suggests (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Researchers call for urgent investigation of risks to babies of tablets, smartphones and other digital devices
12. Researchers have developed pixels that can emit and analyse light together (ethz.ch)
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed pixels that can not only create images, but also analyse them. In the future, this could lead to the development of devices that function as camera and display at the same time.
14. How do you keep Web MIDI from crashing a 1983 synthesizer? (knob.monster)
Why writing Web MIDI code for 8-bit CPUs from 1983 is a nightmare. Flow control, timing pacing, and proprietary vendor SysEx parsing in JavaScript.
15. Running a software jam in a world of slop (foxmoss.com)
Insentives, insentives, insentives...
16. IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering (github.com)
IBM MCGA reverse engineered chips. Contribute to schlae/IBM_MCGA development by creating an account on GitHub.
17. Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike (www.lloydslist.com)
Despite the IMO freezing its evacuation plan after <em>Ever Lovely</em> was struck, ships are still moving through both Hormuz routes as operators weigh conflicting signals from Iran and the risks of staying put
18. A History of Menus Is a Menu of History (pudding.cool)
What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?
19. A Tiny Compiler for Data-Parallel Kernels (healeycodes.com)
Exploring how compilers lower ordinary loops into explicit data-parallel kernels.
20. Jest/Vitest interactive course (runs in the browser) (howtotestfrontend.com)
Learn how to test your React based Frontend applications - blog posts, resources, tips and tricks
21. Cultures of Making and Relating (blog.khinsen.net)
22. Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He had worms (arstechnica.com)
His doctors went looking for cancer, then they saw the worms' heads.
23. Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos (www.theatlantic.com)
What Darwin saw in the Galápagos
25. Making Sense of Proof by Contradiction [pdf] (www.foster77.co.uk)
26. Is America Becoming a Gerontocracy? (www.economist.com)
27. Task Failed Successfully: Saturating NIC and Disk Bandwidth (blog.mrcroxx.com)
A journey from ‘wonder how’ to ‘wonder why’.
28. The eerie interface of man and machine (Life Magazine, October 1967) (blog.jgc.org)
29. Show HN: Starglyphs - A constellation puzzle game based on Euler paths (starglyphs.com)
A puzzle game about tracing constellations in a living night sky.
30. SCC Technical Assistance Program (nerocam.com)
NeroSoft - Software, Consulting, Dogs, Cars, Airplanes, Fun and More