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Plasma Bigscreen is an open-source project that aims to provide a user-friendly and versatile platform for large screen displays, enabling efficient multitasking and media consumption on big screens.

The article discusses a potential issue with the Go programming language, where the new hash function in Go 1.19 may cause compatibility issues with existing code that relies on the old hash function. The discussion explores potential solutions and the impact on the Go ecosystem.

This article explores the importance of using CSS to create a more human-centric web design, focusing on aspects like accessibility, emotional connection, and the acknowledgment of user imperfections.

The article discusses the limitations of large language models (LLMs) in writing correct code, highlighting their tendency to produce code with bugs or syntax errors. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the underlying principles and limitations of these models when using them for programming tasks.

Researchers have discovered Galileo Galilei's handwritten notes in the margins of an ancient astronomy text, providing a unique glimpse into the renowned scientist's thought processes and research methods as he studied the universe.

QGIS 4.0 introduces significant improvements to the user interface, data management capabilities, and analysis tools, aimed at enhancing the overall user experience for geographic information system professionals.

The article explores the concept of pattern, examining how it shapes our perception of the world and influences decision-making. It delves into the role of patterns in various fields, from science and technology to art and culture, and suggests that a deeper understanding of patterns can lead to more informed and effective problem-solving.

Helix is a modern, open-source text editor designed for developers, offering a rich set of features, including syntax highlighting, code folding, and extensive customization options. The editor aims to provide a seamless and efficient coding experience with support for a variety of programming languages and platforms.

The article provides insights into working and communicating with Japanese engineers, highlighting cultural differences, communication styles, and strategies for effective collaboration, such as building trust, being patient, and respecting hierarchy and consensus-based decision-making.

The article discusses the author's experience in querying and analyzing 3 billion vector embeddings, including the challenges faced and the strategies employed to handle the large-scale data processing and storage requirements.

I've been building a modern Ultima Online server emulator from scratch. It's not feature-complete (no combat, no skills yet), but the foundation is solid and I wanted to share it early.

What it does today: - Full packet layer for the classic UO client (login, movement, items, mobiles) - Lua scripting for item behaviors (double-click a potion, open a door — all defined in Lua, no C# recompile) - Spatial world partitioned into sectors with delta sync (only sends packets for new sectors when crossing boundaries) - Snapshot-based persistence with MessagePack - Source generators for automatic DI wiring, packet handler registration, and Lua module exposure - NativeAOT support — the server compiles to a single native binary - Embedded HTTP admin API + React management UI - Auto-generated doors from map statics (same algorithm as ModernUO/RunUO)

Tech stack: .NET 10, NativeAOT, NLua, MessagePack, DryIoc, Kestrel

What's missing: Combat, skills, weather integration, NPC AI. This is still early — the focus so far has been on getting the architecture right so adding those systems doesn't require rewiring everything.

Why not just use ModernUO/RunUO? Those are mature and battle-tested. I started this because I wanted to rethink the architecture from scratch: strict network/domain separation, event-driven game loop, no inheritance-heavy item hierarchies, and Lua for rapid iteration on game logic without recompiling.

GitHub: https://github.com/moongate-community/moongatev2

Sarvam, an AI company, has unveiled its next-generation language model, Sarvam 30B, which boasts 30 billion parameters and improved performance across various natural language tasks. The article provides an overview of the model's capabilities and potential applications.

The article details the process of editing a patch for a knife with a junk junk handle, including steps to remove the old handle, prepare the blade, and install a new handle. It provides a practical guide for knife enthusiasts looking to refurbish and customize their blades.

The article explores the concept of 'longing' and its role in shaping human desires, relationships, and the search for meaning in a digital age. It examines how technology and online interactions have impacted our emotional and social experiences.

This article explores the importance of context cancellation in Go programming, explaining how it can help manage the lifecycle of long-running operations and handle errors effectively. It delves into the different ways context cancellation can be triggered and the implications it has on the overall application design.

The article discusses the challenges of building a secure, performant, and energy-efficient data center infrastructure, focusing on Intel's efforts to develop new hardware and software technologies to address these concerns. It highlights Intel's work on improving server efficiency, power management, and security features in their upcoming chip designs.

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Zero dependencies. No external databases. Single binary. Just deploy and go. I needed something that would allow for real-time monitoring, and installation is as simple as dropping a single file and running it. That's exactly what Kula is. Kula is the Polish word for "ball," as in "crystal ball." The project is in constant development, but I'm already using it on multiple servers in production. It still has some rough edges and needs to mature, but I wanted to share it with the world now—perhaps someone else will find it useful and be willing to help me develop it by testing or providing feedback. Cheers! Github: https://github.com/c0m4r/kula

This article explores the potential of health wearables to revolutionize personal healthcare, discussing their ability to continuously monitor various health metrics and provide valuable insights to users and medical professionals.

Hi HN! We’re Sam and Michael from Palus Finance (https://palus.finance). We’re building a treasury management platform for startups and SMBs to earn higher yields with a high-yield bond portfolio.

We were funded by YC for a consumer-focused product for higher-yield savings. But when we joined YC and got our funding, we realized we needed the product for our own startup’s cash reserves, and other startups in the batch started telling us they wanted this too.

We realized that traditional startup treasury products do much the same thing: open a brokerage account, sweep your cash into a money market fund (MMF), and charge a management fee. No strategy involved. (There is actually one widely-advertised treasury product that differentiates on yield, but instead of an MMF it uses a mutual fund where your principal is at considerable risk – it had a 9% loss in 2022 that took years to recover.)

I come from a finance background, so this norm felt weird to me. The typical startup cashflow pattern is a large infusion from a raise covering 18–24 months of burn, drawn down gradually. That's a lot of capital sitting idle for a long time, where even a modest yield improvement compounds into real money.

MMFs are the lowest rung of what's available in fixed income. Yes, they’re very safe and liquid, but when you leave your whole treasury in one, you’re giving up yield to get same-day liquidity on cash you won’t touch for six months or more. Big companies have treasury teams that actively manage their holdings and invest in a range of safe assets to maximize yield. But those sophisticated bond portfolios were just never made accessible to startups. That’s what we’re building.

Our bond portfolio holds short-duration floating-rate agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), which are an ideal, safe, high-yielding asset for long-term startup cash reserves under most circumstances.[1]

The bond portfolio is managed by Regan Capital, which runs MBSF, the largest floating-rate agency MBS ETF in the country. Right now we're using MBSF to generate yields for customers (you can see its historical returns, including dividends, here: https://totalrealreturns.com/n/USDOLLAR,MBSF). We're working with Regan to set up a dedicated account with the same strategy, which will let us reduce fees and give each startup direct ownership of the underlying securities. All assets are held with an SEC-licensed custodian.

Based on historical returns, we target 4.5–5% returns vs. roughly 3.5% from most money market funds.[2] Liquidity is typically available in 1-2 business days. We will charge a flat 0.25% annual fee on AUM, compared to the 0.15–0.60%, depending on balance, charged by other treasury providers.

We think that startup banking products themselves (Brex, Mercury, etc.) are genuinely good at what they do: payments, payroll, card management. The problem is the treasury product bundled with them, not the bank. So rather than building another neobank, we built Palus to connect to your existing bank account via Plaid. Our goal was to create the simplest possible UX for this product: two buttons and a giant number that goes up.

See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q_gwSqtnxM

We are live with early customers from within YC, and accepting new customers on a rolling basis; you can sign up at https://palus.finance/.

We'd love feedback from founders who've thought about idle cash management or people with a background in fixed-income and structured products. Happy to go deep in the comments.

[1] Agency MBS are pools of residential mortgages guaranteed by federal government agencies (Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac). It's a $9T market with the same government backing and AAA/AA+ rating as the Treasuries in a money market fund. No investor has ever lost money in agency MBS due to borrower default.

It's worth acknowledging that many people associate “mortgage-backed securities” with the 2008 financial crisis. But the assets that blew up in 2008 were private-label MBS, bundles of risky subprime mortgages without federal guarantees. Agency MBS holders suffered no credit losses during the crisis, and post-2008 underwriting standards became even stricter. If anything, 2008 was evidence for the safety of agency MBS, not against it.

The agency guarantee eliminates credit risk. Our short-duration, floating-rate strategy addresses the other main risk: price risk. Fixed-rate bonds lose value when rates rise, but floating-rate bonds reset their coupon based on the SOFR benchmark, protecting against interest rate movements.

[2] This comes from the historical spread between MMFs and floating-rate agency MBS; MMFs typically pay very close to SOFR, while the MBS pay SOFR + 1 to 1.5%. This means that if the Federal Reserve changes interest rates and SOFR moves, both asset types will move by about the same amount, and that 1-1.5% premium will remain.

This post is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial, investment, or legal advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Yields and spreads referenced are approximate and based on historical data.

The article explores the shady world of IP leasing, which involves renting out unused IP addresses for profit. It discusses the legal complexities, risks, and potential implications of this practice, highlighting the lack of regulation and the potential for abuse in the industry.

This article discusses the development of a new 3D scanning system called AntScan, which uses particle accelerator technology to create high-resolution images of objects. The system is designed to provide detailed scans of small, fragile, or complex objects without causing damage.

The article discusses the author's experience debugging an assembler program, highlighting the challenges of debugging low-level code and the importance of understanding the underlying hardware and architecture when troubleshooting issues.

The article discusses the performance impact of implicit conversions between NVARCHAR and VARCHAR data types in Dapper queries, highlighting the importance of explicitly specifying data types to avoid potential performance issues.

The bugs are the ones that say "using Claude from Anthropic" here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-1...

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/hardening-firefox-anthro...

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/send-us-more-anthropics-claude-s...

This is a game I wish I had as a kid learning programming. The concept of it is fairly similar to other coding games like Screeps, but instead of a complex world with intricate mechanics, Yare is a lot more minimal and approachable with quick 1v1 <3 min matches.

It's purely a passion project with no monetization aspirations. And it's open source: https://github.com/riesvile/yare

The first version 'launched' several years ago and I got some good feedback here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27365961 that I iterated on.

The latest overhaul is a result of simplifying everything while still keeping the skill ceiling high. And at least the LLMs seem to struggle with this challenge for now (I run a small tournament between major models - results and details here: https://yare.io/ai-arena

I'd love to hear your thoughts

I’m ready to retire. In my younger days, I remember a few pivotal moments for me as a young nerd. Active Server Pages. COM components. VB6. I know these are laughable today but back then it was the greatest thing in the world to be able to call server-side commands. It kept me up nights trying to absorb it all. Fast forward decades and Claude Code is giving me that same energy and drive. I love it. It feels like it did back then. I’m chasing the midnight hour and not getting any sleep.

Transact is an open-source library for building reliable and scalable distributed systems using a transactional message bus. It provides a simple and intuitive API for managing and coordinating complex distributed workflows across multiple services.

The article discusses the potential drawbacks of using excessive business jargon and buzzwords in the workplace. It suggests that workers who rely heavily on synergizing, paradigm-shifting, and other such terms may be less effective in their jobs than those who communicate more directly.