Hobby Thread - August 23, 2025 [Crafty Rex]
acecomments.mu.nu·12h
💾Retro Computing
Webmentions but manual (for Jekyll)
joelchrono.xyz·1d
✍Blogging
FFmpeg 8.0 Released With OpenAI Whisper Filter, Many Vulkan Video Improvements
phoronix.com·1d
🗃️Game Curation
New Tests and Devices for Early Cancer Detection (2020)
embs.org·13h·
Discuss: Hacker News
⚖️Digital Ethics
Is Glass Liquid or Solid?
math.ucr.edu·22h·
Discuss: Hacker News
💾Retro Computing
First release candidate of SQL Server 2025 is now available
microsoft.com·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🚀Web Performance
Bloom patterns: radially expansive, developable and flat-foldable origami
royalsocietypublishing.org·2d·
Discuss: Hacker News, r/programming
🖼️ASCII Art
A Systematic Study of Post-Training Quantization for Diffusion LLMs
arxiv.org·3d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🌍Fan Translation
Implementing Gist Memory: Summarizing and Searching Long Docs with a ReadAgent
inference-docs.cerebras.ai·3d·
Discuss: Hacker News
📝Markdown
Launch HN: BlankBio (YC S25) – Making RNA Programmable
news.ycombinator.com·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🏠IndieWeb
I added this free, open-source app to my creative toolkit, and it's been a game-changer
xda-developers.com·17h
🎨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·20h·
Discuss: Hacker News
⚖️Digital Ethics
Why Semantic Layers Matter (and how to build one with DuckDB)
motherduck.com·4d·
Discuss: Hacker News, r/programming
🔖Bookmarking Systems
The 32 Bit 6502 You Never Had
hackaday.com·2h
⚡FPGA Gaming
HTML Partials and Server Reducers: An Alternative to React Spas
cimatic.io·19h·
Discuss: Hacker News, r/htmx
✨Micro-Interactions
Show HN: Making Postgres Self-Describing for LLMs with a Semantic Catalog
tigerdata.com·2d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🗃️Game Curation
Don't Understand PromQL? AI Agents Help You with Large-scale Metric Data Analysis
dev.to·3d·
Discuss: DEV
📡Feeds
Contrasting Data and Objects (2018)
tedinski.com·3d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🎮Game Development