Hobby Thread - August 23, 2025 [Crafty Rex]
acecomments.mu.nu·7h
💾Retro Computing
Webmentions but manual (for Jekyll)
joelchrono.xyz·1d
✍Blogging
This Week in Security: Anime Catgirls, Illegal AdBlock, and Disputed Research
hackaday.com·1d
⚖️Digital Ethics
New Tests and Devices for Early Cancer Detection (2020)
embs.org·8h·
Discuss: Hacker News
⚖️Digital Ethics
Is Glass Liquid or Solid?
math.ucr.edu·17h·
Discuss: Hacker News
💾Retro Computing
How to load test PostgreSQL database and not miss anything
habr.com·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🚀Web Performance
First release candidate of SQL Server 2025 is now available
microsoft.com·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🚀Web Performance
Not So Prompt: Prompt Optimization as Model Selection
gojiberries.io·3h·
Discuss: Hacker News
🚀Web Performance
Curator: Scalable data pre processing and curation toolkit for LLMs
github.com·3d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🗃️Game Curation
A Systematic Study of Post-Training Quantization for Diffusion LLMs
arxiv.org·3d·
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🌍Fan Translation
Fast .NET Converter for Markdown to HTML, HTML to Markdown, AmigaGuide to HTML
github.com·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
📝Markdown
Is Prompt Engineering Just Hype for Now?
dev.to·9h·
Discuss: DEV
📚Interactive Fiction
NDC Conferences: Navigating through the Azure Messaging (over)choice -
youtube.com·1d·
Discuss: DEV
📐Web Standards
Bloom patterns: radially expansive, developable and flat-foldable origami
royalsocietypublishing.org·2d·
Discuss: Hacker News, r/programming
🖼️ASCII Art
Implementing Gist Memory: Summarizing and Searching Long Docs with a ReadAgent
inference-docs.cerebras.ai·3d·
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📝Markdown
Launch HN: BlankBio (YC S25) – Making RNA Programmable
news.ycombinator.com·1d·
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🏠IndieWeb
I added this free, open-source app to my creative toolkit, and it's been a game-changer
xda-developers.com·12h
🎨Pixel Art
Implement AES-256 Encryption and Decryption in C#: A Beginner-Friendly Guide
dev.to·2d·
Discuss: DEV
🔧Console Modding
Ejabberd 25.08 / ProcessOne – Erlang Jabber/XMPP/Matrix Server – Communication
process-one.net·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🎪Doujin Software
Coding Is Deciding
benmccormick.org·15h·
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⚖️Digital Ethics