✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HackEurope is over. In many ways, it was a complete shitshow (vibe coded inaccessible UI for participants, lots of delays, miscommunications, and other issues too many to list). But now that the caffeine overdose and sleep deprivation is over, I can say that there were actually some important lessons. TL;DR: Front-end is almost everything. There is 0 burden of proof that your project is actually functional or that it has any practical application. As long as it looks cool, investors and non-technical people will…
✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Linear Algebra Done Right Sheldon Axler The fourth and most recent edition of Linear Algebra Done Right is an Open Access book available in English, Chinese, Farsi, Greek, and Portuguese. Other languages are coming soon. Electronic versions of this fourth edition, which has a Creative Commons BY-NC license, are legally availble without cost at the links below. The fourth edition of Linear Algebra Done Right contains over 250 new exercises and over 70 new examples, along with several new topics and multiple improvements throughout…
💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Earlier this year, we explained why residents of the PJM area, America’s largest electricity market, have seen their power bills rise by ~20%. We argued that the main culprit was PJM’s auction design choices and how PJM models demand and supply. To better understand the extent of the problem, our Energy Model team spent the last 6 months reverse-engineering PJM’s main system model, the ‘Reserve Requirement Study’, which to date has been a black box. This study is how PJM decides what type of and…
🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Soon after President Donald Trump retook office, researchers and academics across the country began receiving startling news. They were abruptly informed, often mid-project, that their federal grant funding had been terminated. Form letters bearing the news often offered few details beyond that their work no longer aligned with agency priorities. As part of a lawsuit filed by University of California researchers, a handful of federal agencies confirmed…
💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Gmail might partially be to blame for me receiving emails from other Sean Conners I was reading the Lobsters thread about the article “A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets” when I left a comment about my own struggles with receiving emails for other Sean Conners. That started a thread that swamped the comment section about other people who had similar stories, so it's nice to know that I'm not alone. Also, here's one of my favorite comments in that thread (for reasons…
💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Prolly publishes the prolly Rust library crate. Users depend on the package as prolly-map, while code imports stay concise: use prolly::🔥;. The crate provides content-addressed prolly tree storage primitives: an immutable, ordered key-value index over byte keys and byte values, with stable content-derived structure for efficient structural sharing, diff, merge, and bulk loading. At the API boundary, a Tree is a small persistent handle: root: Option points at the content-addressed root node. config: Config records the chunking and encoding parameters used by the tree. The…
✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AGI on the C64, at last We are happy to announce AGI-64, a long-awaited AGI interpreter for the Commodore 64. It is currently around 75% complete for Space Quest 1, which is completely playable now, and the engine aims to support most AGI games of the era. The interpreter is in testing and already supports most standard AGI operations. Free download, your own game files AGI-64 will be a free download when it is ready. It includes a tool that takes the .vol and .obj…
💥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Rhombus version 1.1 is now available! We are pleased to announce Rhombus 1.1 is now available from https://rhombus-lang.org/. Rhombus is a general-purpose programming language that is easy to use and uniquely customizable. As of this release: Add annot and annot.def as ways to define an annotation without directly writing meta-time (i.e., macro) code. Add as as a binding form, which is sometimes more readable for naming than using && and provides a way to shadow an identifier that is bound as a binding form. Change…
🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Buf is proud to announce the first fully-featured, production-grade LSP server for Protobuf. The Language Server Protocol is the standard API for integrating language support into your favorite IDE or text editor, such as VSCode, IntelliJ, or Neovim. An LSP server provides the smarts that power go to definition, code completion, finding references, and semantics-aware syntax highlighting. Before today, Protobuf lacked the same LSP support other major programming languages enjoy. We don’t want to overstate our own work, but this is a game-changer for Protobuf…
✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! I have no problem tipping. I love tipping for a job well done. It’s part of American culture.However, I do have a problem being manipulated into it.America didn't just create a tipping culture. We’ve created a guilt culture coupled with technology. Somewhere between the pandemic and the explosion of digital payment screens, saying "thank you" quietly became a financial obligation. What used to be a reward for exceptional service has turned into an expectation for simply completing…