Hobby Thread - August 23, 2025 [Crafty Rex]
acecomments.mu.nu·18h
💾Retro Computing
The Hidden CD Player
yordi.me·11h
🎮Portable Gaming
FFmpeg 8.0 Released With OpenAI Whisper Filter, Many Vulkan Video Improvements
phoronix.com·2d
🗃️Game Curation
New Tests and Devices for Early Cancer Detection (2020)
embs.org·19h·
Discuss: Hacker News
⚖️Digital Ethics
Is Prompt Engineering Just Hype for Now?
dev.to·20h·
Discuss: DEV
📚Interactive Fiction
Bloom patterns: radially expansive, developable and flat-foldable origami
royalsocietypublishing.org·3d·
Discuss: Hacker News, r/programming
🖼️ASCII Art
Launch HN: BlankBio (YC S25) – Making RNA Programmable
news.ycombinator.com·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🏠IndieWeb
Fast .NET Converter for Markdown to HTML, HTML to Markdown, AmigaGuide to HTML
github.com·2d·
Discuss: Hacker News
📝Markdown
Ejabberd 25.08 / ProcessOne – Erlang Jabber/XMPP/Matrix Server – Communication
process-one.net·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🎪Doujin Software
Coding Is Deciding
benmccormick.org·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
⚖️Digital Ethics
A Systematic Study of Post-Training Quantization for Diffusion LLMs
arxiv.org·3d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🌍Fan Translation
Implement AES-256 Encryption and Decryption in C#: A Beginner-Friendly Guide
dev.to·2d·
Discuss: DEV
🔧Console Modding
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·8h
⚡FPGA Gaming
I added this free, open-source app to my creative toolkit, and it's been a game-changer
xda-developers.com·23h
🎨Pixel Art
Show HN: Making Postgres Self-Describing for LLMs with a Semantic Catalog
tigerdata.com·2d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🗃️Game Curation
HTML Partials and Server Reducers: An Alternative to React Spas
cimatic.io·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News, r/htmx
✨Micro-Interactions
Contrasting Data and Objects (2018)
tedinski.com·3d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🎮Game Development
Don't Understand PromQL? AI Agents Help You with Large-scale Metric Data Analysis
dev.to·3d·
Discuss: DEV
📡Feeds
AI Is at the PageRank Moment
twkrr.com·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
📻RSS Revival