zdw's submissions | Hacker News

1.		Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
		3 points by zdw 7 hours ago \| past \| 1 comment
2.		Principles of Mechanical Sympathy (martinfowler.com)
		2 points by zdw 9 hours ago \| past \| discuss
3.		People love to work hard (anildash.com)
		55 points by zdw 18 hours ago \| past \| 51 comments
4.		Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard? (aresluna.org)
		19 points by zdw 1 day ago \| past \| 23 comments
5.		Winners of the 2026 Kokuyo Design Awards (spoon-tamago.com)
		52 points by zdw 1 day ago \| past \| 17 comments
6.		OpenNMC is an open network management card platform for APC SmartSlot UPS units (gitlab.com/netcube-systems-austria)
		5 points by zdw 2 days ago \| past \| discuss
7.		Shooting down ideas is not a skill (scottlawsonbc.com)
		157 points by zdw 2 days ago \| past \| 176 comments
8.		What does Open Source mean? (nesbitt.io)
		3 points by zdw 3 days ago \| past \| 2 comments
9.		Why stdout is faster than stderr? (2024) (orhun.dev)
		5 points by zdw 4 days ago \| past \| discuss
10.		Things I Think I Think... Preferring Local OSS LLMs (newardassociates.com)
		54 points by zdw 5 days ago \| past \| 9 comments
11.		Why LLM-Generated Passwords Are Dangerously Insecure (irregular.com)
		19 points by zdw 5 days ago \| past \| 24 comments
12.		The beginning of programming as we'll know it? (bitsplitting.org)
		62 points by zdw 5 days ago \| past \| 69 comments
13.		The JetStream 3 Benchmark Suite (webkit.org)
		3 points by zdw 6 days ago \| past \| discuss
14.		Infinite Midwit (experimental-history.com)
		3 points by zdw 7 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
15.		Googlebot: demystifying crawling, fetching, and the bytes we process (developers.google.com)
		4 points by zdw 7 days ago \| past \| discuss
16.		DCJ11Hack+ – DEC PDP/11 based homebrew computer (codeberg.org/techpaula)
		30 points by zdw 7 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
17.		The curious case of retro demo scene graphics (datagubbe.se)
		358 points by zdw 8 days ago \| past \| 93 comments
18.		The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history (righto.com)
		100 points by zdw 9 days ago \| past \| 25 comments
19.		Aldus PageMaker on the Apple Macintosh (stonetools.ghost.io)
		3 points by zdw 10 days ago \| past \| discuss
20.		AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip (arstechnica.com)
		311 points by zdw 10 days ago \| past \| 170 comments
21.		Desk for people who work at home with a cat (soranews24.com)
		465 points by zdw 11 days ago \| past \| 166 comments
22.		Prompt Engineering Is Not. Engineering, That Is (the-infrastructure-mindset.ghost.io)
		3 points by zdw 11 days ago \| past \| discuss
23.		A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support (mceglowski.substack.com)
		101 points by zdw 11 days ago \| past \| 23 comments
24.		App Store Connect analytics missing platform versions (lapcatsoftware.com)
		2 points by zdw 11 days ago \| past \| discuss
25.		I Can't See Apple's Vision (matduggan.com)
		6 points by zdw 12 days ago \| past \| discuss
26.		Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity) (hofstede.it)
		647 points by zdw 12 days ago \| past \| 280 comments
27.		China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000 (kdwalmsley.substack.com)
		192 points by zdw 13 days ago \| past \| 163 comments
28.		Supreme Court rules ISPs aren't liable for subscribers' music piracy (engadget.com)
		10 points by zdw 13 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
29.		Why I Got Out Of The Gambling Business (defector.com)
		3 points by zdw 13 days ago \| past \| 3 comments
30.		PyTheory Is Awesome (kennethreitz.org)
		23 points by zdw 13 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
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