Hacker News Digest
· 19 Hacker News
Jan van den Berg revisits Frederick Brooks's 1975 law — adding manpower to a late software project makes it later — and asks whether it still holds when the manpower is AI agents. Onboarding and stan…
Microsoft dropped 16-bit app support from 64-bit Windows, but winevdm brings it back. The open-source project, built on Wine's code, lets you run Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, and 3.1 programs on modern 64-…
- ▲ 74CocoTerra founder grows cacao trees in Northern California, proving chocolate can be made at home
Cacao trees need tropical warmth and years to fruit, but CocoTerra founder Nate Saal managed to grow them in the San Francisco Bay Area. This step-by-step guide covers choosing seeds, indoor vs. outd…
A graphics instructor at SAE Institute Geneva explains why his intro course still targets OpenGL ES 3.0, a 2012 mobile API, instead of Vulkan or WebGPU. The same C++ code and shaders run on Windows,…
Researchers at the University of Sydney analyzed data from 11,380 participants in the Australian Genetics of Depression Study and found that about 1 in 4 fit a newly defined "circadian" subtype of de…
In 1998, LAN parties like the BeatDown in Costa Mesa drew hundreds of gamers who hauled their PCs across the country to play face-to-face. The irony: games built for long-distance play now compelled…
The Advanced Photonics Coalition has approved a set of manufacturing, interface, and test standards aimed at enabling high-volume production of co-packaged optics. The move comes as AI data centers h…
A hobbyist builds a C expression parser and works through Pratt parsing using Pratt's original paper and Crafting Interpreters. The key insight: Pratt parsing is just shunting yard with the operator…
Starting August 2028, universities in England will pay an annual levy of £925 for each international student beyond a 220-student exemption, covering both new and existing enrolments. The government…
In Mundaka, a coastal Basque village, a private txoko society — a 150-year-old tradition of men-only cooking clubs that once sheltered the banned Basque language under Franco — invited a handful of T…
Shiva Kintali presents a streamlined exposition of OpenAI's argument that the Exponential Time Hypothesis fails. For every fixed ε > 0, he gives a deterministic 3-SAT algorithm running in Cε(n + m +…
A video titled "In Context" was submitted to Hacker News by adityaathalye, drawing a small handful of points and a discussion thread. The linked page itself could not be fetched, so only the Hacker N…
Encarta 95 Web is a statically hosted GitHub Pages recreation of Microsoft's beloved Encarta '95 multimedia encyclopedia, letting anyone browse the nostalgic CD-ROM experience directly in a browser.…
A former ThredUp executive, after 11 years, explains why he became unhappy at the top: he was a chemical engineer—someone who designs and scales systems—promoted into a plant manager role that fought…
A loose, self-funded group of engineers is preserving digital telecommunications from the late 1960s to the late 1990s — ISDN, X.25 packet networks, PDH/SDH, ATM, and digital switches like EWSD and S…
AllModels has launched a router that gives abliterated models a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Abliterated is now served by five independent providers, with GLM 5.3 Abliterate…
LimonOS is a 64-bit monolithic kernel written in C, booting through Limine with its own GDT, IDT, PS/2 drivers, a windowed desktop, and a hand-rolled TLS 1.3 stack. It ships Citrus, a text-only brows…
Lavik keeps application values on NVMe SSD while holding keys and metadata in DRAM, and its published benchmark reports 1.14 million GETs per second — 12.5% faster than Redis on DRAM. The pitch: repl…
A longtime haunted-attraction operator laments that AI-generated art has invaded every part of the haunt experience—from flyers and posters to props, merchandise, and even actor backstories. Major pa…