🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: John Carmack's 3/18 .plan John Carmack's .plan March 18, 1997 I have gotten a significant amount of response on the Quake 2 extension mechanism. I do read everything that comes my way (I can't respond to all of it, though), and I have learned a few things from the mail. Nothing is set in stone yet, but it is still looking like a dll is going to be the primary interface. I have been seriously considering a java interface, but the tradeoffs (time…
🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: The so-called desktop first appeared on a home computer in 1981, with the release of the Xerox 8010 Star Information System. That device pioneered the graphical-user interface, or G.U.I., a convenient series of visual metaphors that allows us to interact more easily with our machines. The most basic computing interface is the command-line prompt, the empty box in which users write instructions in code directly to the machine; the Xerox Star replaced that forbidding vacuum with a friendly illustration of a tabletop surface, textured…
💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: The OSM dataset is huge, and keeps growing every day. Great news, of course, but sometimes the sheer volume can be overwhelming – there are just gobs and gobs of data! Hence, we created GOB (“Geo-Object Bundle”), a new file format that makes tackling OSM data faster and easier. It’s a companion format to our now-familiar Geo-Object Library (essentially, a tightly-compressed GOL with its indexes stripped). To support this new format, GOL Tool 2.1 has two new commands: save GOLs as GOBs and load GOBs into…
🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: Editor's Note New research offers a potential explanation for why some patients retain toxic metals long after undergoing an MRI. Published in the journal Magnetic Resonance Imaging, the findings show that gadolinium contrast agents used in MRI scans may react with common dietary compounds to form harmful metal nanoparticles in the body. As detailed in an April 7 Newsweek report on the study, gadolinium-based contrast agents are injected to sharpen MRI images and are typically excreted without causing harm. However, gadolinium particles have been found lingering…
✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: Hi there! It’s Charlie and Jackson, founders of Conductor. The two of us met eight years ago when we played ultimate frisbee together at Brown. Last year, we quit our jobs at Point72 and Netflix to start a company together. Conductor is used by engineers at YC, Linear, Vercel, Notion, Supabase, and other leading companies, and it’s changing how people work. One user told me: A huge amount of my work now is wildly parallelized, in a way I’ve never had to worry about before.…
✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: FIRST Standards Definitions and Usage Guidance — Version 2.0 TLP version 2.0 is the current version of TLP standardized by FIRST. It is authoritative from August 2022 onwards 1. Introduction a. The Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) was created to facilitate greater sharing of potentially sensitive information and more effective collaboration. Information sharing happens from an information source, towards one or more recipients. TLP is a set of four labels used to indicate the sharing boundaries to be applied by the recipients. Only labels listed in this…
🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: The Smith chart from electrical engineering is the image of a Cartesian grid under the function f(z) = (z − 1)/(z + 1). More specifically, it’s the image of a grid in the right half-plane. This post will derive the basic mathematical properties of this graph but will not go into the applications. Said another way, I’ll explain how to make a Smith chart, not how to use one. We will use z to denote points in the right half-plane and w to denote the image of these points…
🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: While the media continues to ignore and even mock Trump’s war on “Antifa” terrorism as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly interrogating protesters.The Bureau is targeting anti-ICE protesters not charged with any crime, like Chicago-based English professor Elias Cepeda, as I recently reported. Often people targeted have refused to go public with their experience, fearing retribution. But one protester, fed up with the culture of self-censorship, decided to share his story. His account sheds light on the FBI’s attempts to map out some organized Antifa superstructure…
🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: October 24, 2025 software firefox What’s going on, Internet? To the outrage of the Firefox community across the web, Mozilla has started rolling out AI across our beloved browser and has enabled the features by default. I’ve found the new Firefox “AI” features, like the pop-ups that appear when highlighting text, to be more distracting than useful. The sidebar chat isn’t something I need either; if I want that experience, I’ll just open ChatGPT in a containerised tab. If you’d like to turn…
✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: Sidenote: The Mainframe Six Created 23 September 2022 - Updated 24 September 2022 There are six companies remaining in the mainframe industry - Hitachi, NEC, Fujitsu, Atos (formerly Bull), Unisys, and IBM. Three of those - Fujitsu, NEC, and IBM - still develop their own CPUs, though Fujitsu is likely to do so for only one more generation. If I had to speculate about where each of them is used, this is more or less what I'd end up with. IBM is global and has, as…