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Re:Former SR-71 Engineer Talks NASA's Blackbird Revival Program
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @04:45AM (#49951917)
I'd second that. I saw the surviving M-21 in Seattle. The highlight of the visit. If you get the chance, well worth your time
Re:Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and the New York Times Are...
on Friday September 25, 2026 @04:42PM (#49849695)
https://popfeed.social/ on ATproto
Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]
2026 Eclipse Webcams
Re:Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:20PM (#49203437)
I thought the article was going to be about how people scan chips
Rapid Chip Reverse Engineering Using Laser, Focused ion beams, and Scanning electron microscope https://academic.oup.com/mam/article/30/Supplement_1/ozae044...
FIBs are also used to test modifications before doing a respin. I'm still in awe that matter can be manipulated so precisely
Canaries in the column? AI exposure and the UK's hiring slowdown
Re:Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @10:11PM (#48654270)
Re:The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it duri...
on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @03:38AM (#48551900)
The big one I remember was many applications, not just games assuming the buffer swap was performed by a blit into the display buffer, not an framebuffer pointer update. They relied on the previous frames data still being in the back buffer. For those applications you were forced to blit the buffer, not swap the pointer and take a performance hit.
I also remember a media player being called out by name in the code for doing invalid operations, needing a work around and code to detect it was running just to function.
Re:Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy
on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @07:20PM (#48469170)
> If being in the EU was so great, then why don't Norway or Switzerland join?
https://www.ft.com/content/5c8a871f-9a49-45f4-9ac0-543a608a5...
Re:Ask HN: Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data?
on Sunday June 07, 2026 @05:14PM (#48438624)
The CTO Craft survey would be my go to buy tends to be quite UK focused.
The Art and Engineering of Silpheed
Re:The TfL Cupboard Filled with Lost Tube Moquettes
on Monday June 01, 2026 @03:19PM (#48361363)
One of my first jobs was working on the website for John Holdsworth (now https://www.camirafabrics.com/), scanning all the different types of moquette
Re:BFI Online Video Collection
on Saturday May 23, 2026 @06:51PM (#48252396)
and some background
Re:Robert X Cringely is back to blogging
on Friday May 22, 2026 @07:45PM (#48242982)
Hyperland [video]
Re:Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years
on Monday May 11, 2026 @02:30AM (#48091687)
Guy and Elliott Gotkine interviewed about the book
Who will be the senior engineers of 2035?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:08AM (#47747826)
Re:Bulldog: A compiler for VLIW architectures [pdf]
on Saturday April 11, 2026 @11:40AM (#47731516)
See also Multiflow
Re:The 1987 Game "The Last Ninja" was 40 kilobytes
on Monday April 06, 2026 @04:19AM (#47658226)
See also Elite in 22KB
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38707095
Re:What Happened to Gem?
on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @02:19PM (#47521189)
Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) was on the Retro Hour talking about the Atari ST at the start of the year
Re:Beginning autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo Driver
on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:43AM (#47000026)
Tom Scott visits Peachtree City, Georgia
Re:March for Billionaires
on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @09:20AM (#46871303)
Reminds me of https://youtu.be/t5zQpN28xa4 and
https://youtu.be/PN-vUaawaF8
Re:The battle to stop clever people betting
on Friday December 26, 2025 @08:11PM (#46398173)
The battle to stop clever people betting
Re:Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf]
on Thursday December 25, 2025 @07:26PM (#46388021)
- Stencil Routed A-buffer [1]
- Multi-Fragment Effects on the GPU using the k-Buffer [2]
- Production Volume Rendering [3]
- Translucent Shadow Maps [4]
[1] https://developer.download.nvidia.com/presentations/2007/sig...
[2] https://www.sci.utah.edu/~stevec/papers/kbuffer.pdf
[3] https://graphics.pixar.com/library/ProductionVolumeRendering...
[4] https://www.scribd.com/document/657069029/Translucent-Shadow...
Scammers, spies and triads: inside cyber-crime's $15T global empire
Re:Ask HN: As CTO, do you pick JavaScript/TS as the default stack?
on Friday November 28, 2025 @01:01AM (#46075921)
I went with JS/TS at my last place. It worked well. I wrote up some thoughts.
https://zoenolan.org/2022/09/language-choices/
Today, I'd add having some sort of a plan on how to deal with npm attacks but wouldn't see that as a deal breaker.
Re:Ed Zitron is mad as hell
on Sunday September 28, 2025 @07:40AM (#45403603)
The FT recently did a series on 'The AI race', which they described as 'A three-part series exploring the quest for AI capacity and the data centres at the heart of hundreds of billions of dollars in capital investment'
- ‘Absolutely immense’: the companies on the hook for the $3tn AI building boom [1][2]
- Inside the AI race: can data centres ever truly be green? [3][4]
- Inside the relentless race for AI capacity [5]
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/efe1e350-62c6-4aa0-a833-f6da01265...
[3] https://www.ft.com/content/0f6111a8-0249-4a28-aef4-1854fc8b4...