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Flashpoint Archive

đź’Ą Read this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Welcome Flashpoint Archive is a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web. Internet history and culture is important, and the web is evolving at such a rapid pace that what might be commonplace today could be obsolete tomorrow. This project is dedicated to preserving as many experiences from these platforms as possible, so that they aren't lost to time. Since December 2017, over 200,000 games and animations have been preserved across more than a hundred browser plugins and web technologies. In addition…
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Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music

đź’Ą Read this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: During my first trip to Eastern Europe, I found an “Orpheus”  electric guitar leaning against a wall in the basement of a music shop in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.  Half of its parts were missing and dust was gathering on its sparkly-orange plywood body. I bought it for the equivalent of $20 and carried it around in two pieces in my bag for the rest of my trip. Ever since, I’ve been obsessed with discovering, collecting, and playing electric guitars from the Eastern Bloc.  Besides the Orpheus, I’ve bought…
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Ternary Search: Linear Representations and Superposition

Ternary Search: Linear Representations and Superposition

đź’Ą Read this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: As LLMs become larger, more capable, and more ubiquitous, the field of mechanistic interpretability -- that is, understanding the inner workings of these models -- becomes increasingly interesting and important. Similar to how software engineers benefit from having good mental models of file systems and networking, AI researchers and engineers should strive to have some theoretical basis for understanding the "intelligence" that emerges from LLMs. A strong mental model would improve our ability to harness the technology. In this post, I want to cover two fundamental…
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UNICORN JELLY anime manga comic strip by Jennifer Diane Reitz

UNICORN JELLY anime manga comic strip by Jennifer Diane Reitz

🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Unicorn Jelly is a philosophical science fiction manga stripwhich tells a metaphoric and purposeful storywith a definitive beginning and ending.It was published every weekdayat Midnight from 2000 to 2003. PROJECT COMPLETE: April 14th, 2003 C.E.FINAL VERSION - COMPLETE STORY!Read It Right Here,  just click the  animating diamond image... Unicorn Jelly ran MoonDay through FreyasDay, Five days a week,from September 5th, 2000 to April 14, 2003   Unicorn Jelly continues, as a film noir side story that takes place in the same universe.To Save Her follows an…
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Matthias Kirschner’s Web log • I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers

Matthias Kirschner’s Web log • I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers

🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: For this year's "I love Free Software Day" I would like to thank the maintainers of Free Software documentation, and here especially the maintainers of the ArchWiki. Maintainers in general, and maintainers of documentation most of the time get way too little recognition for their contributions to software freedom.
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Vim 9.2 released : vim online

Vim 9.2 released : vim online

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The Vim project is happy to announce that Vim 9.2 has been released. Vim 9.2 brings significant enhancements to the Vim9 scripting language, improved diff mode, comprehensive completion features, and platform-specific improvements including experimental Wayland support. New Features in Vim 9.2 Comprehensive Completion: Added support for fuzzy matching during insert-mode completion and the ability to complete words directly from registers (CTRL-X CTRL-R). New 'completeopt' flags like nosort and nearest offer finer control over how matches are displayed and ordered. Modern Platform Support: Full support for…
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GitHub – alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile: The Swiss Army Knife of Offline AI. Chat, Speak, and Generate Images

GitHub – alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile: The Swiss Army Knife of Offline AI. Chat, Speak, and Generate Images

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The Swiss Army Knife of On-Device AI Chat. Generate images. See. Listen. All on your phone. All offline. Zero data leaves your device. Not just another chat app Most "local LLM" apps give you a text chatbot and call it a day. Off Grid is a complete offline AI suite — text generation, image generation, vision AI, voice transcription, and document analysis, all running natively on your phone's hardware. Text Generation — Run Qwen 3, Llama 3.2, Gemma 3, Phi-4, and any GGUF model.…
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davidgiven/ack: The Amsterdam Compiler Kit

davidgiven/ack: The Amsterdam Compiler Kit

đź’Ą Check out this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: THE AMSTERDAM COMPILER KIT V6.2+ ================================ © 1987-2005 Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 2025-04-17 INTRODUCTION ============ The Amsterdam Compiler Kit is a complete compiler toolchain consisting of front end compilers for a number of different languages, code generators, support libraries, and all the tools necessary to go from source code to executable on any of the platforms it supports. SUPPORT ======= Languages: ANSI C, Pascal, Modula 2, Basic. K&R is supported via the ANSI C compiler. Platforms: cpm produces i80 CP/M .COM files em22 produces EM22…
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GitHub – i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts: Maintained – uBlock Origin filter list to hide YouTube Shorts

GitHub – i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts: Maintained – uBlock Origin filter list to hide YouTube Shorts

đź’Ą Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A maintained uBlock Origin filter list to hide all traces of YouTube shorts videos. Copy the link below, go to uBlock Origin > Dashboard > Filter lists, scroll to the bottom, and paste the link underneath the 'Import...' heading:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/master/list.txt > uBlock Origin subscribe link < (does not work on GitHub) Bonus: hide YouTube Comments https://raw.githubusercontent.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/master/comments.txt > uBlock Origin subscribe link < (does not work on GitHub) After the initial createor of this list @gijsdev is now vanished for half a year, i ( i5heu )…
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abdimoallim/vdb: A header-only C vector database library

abdimoallim/vdb: A header-only C vector database library

đź’Ą Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A lightweight, header-only C library for storing and searching high-dimensional vector embeddings with optional multithreading support. Header-only implementation (single file: vdb.h) Multiple distance metrics (cosine, euclidean, dot product) Optional thread-safe operations via #define VDB_MULTITHREADED Save/load database to/from disk Custom memory allocators support No dependencies (except pthreads for multithreading) Python bindings (refer to vdb.py) /*test.c*/ #include "vdb.h" int main(void) { vdb_database *db = vdb_create(128, VDB_METRIC_COSINE); float embedding[128] = 🔥; vdb_add_vector(db, embedding, "vec1", NULL); float query[128] = { /* ... */ }; vdb_result_set *results = vdb_search(db,…
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