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My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker

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Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed

Shades of Halftone

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How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020)

Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL

Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say

Code Storage by the Pierre Computer Company

Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story

Homeland Security has sent out subpoenas to identify ICE critics

Switzerland to Vote on Capping Population at 10M

What color are your bits? (2004)

Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube

Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker

The Sling: Humanity's Forgotten Power

The World of Harmonics – With a Coffee, Guitar and Synth

The mathematics of compression in database systems

Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide

Cogram (YC W22) – Hiring former technical founders

How the Little Guy Moved

Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action

Building a TUI is easy now

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics

Font Rendering from First Principles

NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

Epstein's Ugly World of Science

YouTube as Storage

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