the_optimist's favorites

1.		Marble Fountain (willmorrison.net)
		895 points by chris_overseas 19 days ago \| 92 comments
2.		Yet another year with Decker (beyondloom.com)
		47 points by RodgerTheGreat 40 days ago \| 3 comments
3.		Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024) (github.com/anthropics)
		392 points by cjbarber 48 days ago \| 117 comments
4.		How insurance risk is transformed into investable assets (riskvest.io)
		145 points by rrjjww 63 days ago \| 43 comments
5.		Air-dried vs. Kiln-dried Wood (christopherschwarz.substack.com)
		159 points by crescit_eundo 5 months ago \| 82 comments
6.		Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024) (quartr.com)
		396 points by bilekas 4 months ago \| 305 comments
7.		Spider Eye Development Editing and Silk Fiber Engineering Using CRISPR-Cas (wiley.com)
		14 points by PaulHoule 6 months ago \| 6 comments
8.		Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI (github.com/zaneh)
		203 points by FinalDestiny 4 months ago \| 58 comments
9.		iPhone 11 emulation done in QEMU (github.com/chefkissinc)
		389 points by 71bw 5 months ago \| 33 comments
10.		PDF to Text, a challenging problem (marginalia.nu)
		357 points by ingve 6 months ago \| 201 comments
11.		Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills
		580 points by charleszyong 5 months ago \| 219 comments
12.		Ask HN: How do I learn robotics in 2025?
		408 points by srijansriv 5 months ago \| 99 comments
13.		Show HN: Hsdlib – A C Library for Vector Similarity with SIMD Acceleration
		38 points by habedi0 6 months ago
14.		Airport for DuckDB (query.farm)
		141 points by jonbaer 6 months ago \| 28 comments
15.		Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful (aruarian.dance)
		361 points by aecsocket 6 months ago \| 294 comments
16.		$30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener (2024) (sifter.org)
		329 points by busymom0 6 months ago \| 151 comments
17.		Wavelet Trees: An Introduction (2011) (alexbowe.com)
		56 points by Tomte 6 months ago \| 16 comments
18.		A Tiny Boltzmann Machine (eoinmurray.info)
		262 points by anomancer 6 months ago \| 47 comments
19.		Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
		573 points by amanchanda 6 months ago \| 354 comments
20.		21 GB/s CSV Parsing Using SIMD on AMD 9950X (nietras.com)
		322 points by zigzag312 6 months ago \| 169 comments
21.		Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency (github.com/koljab)
		524 points by koljab 6 months ago \| 227 comments
22.		Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for web browsing AI agents (github.com/stanford-mast)
		145 points by calebhwin 7 months ago \| 66 comments
23.		Show HN: I built a tool to manage and compare credit card rewards (getonecard.io)
		87 points by jsh1 7 months ago \| 72 comments
24.		ArkFlow: High-performance Rust stream processing engine (github.com/arkflow-rs)
		170 points by klaussilveira 7 months ago \| 34 comments
25.		Augurs demo (augu.rs)
		185 points by weinzierl 9 months ago \| 13 comments
26.		The Startup CTO's Handbook (github.com/zachgoldberg)
		649 points by simonebrunozzi 8 months ago \| 206 comments
27.		Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more (xpipe.io)
		175 points by crschnick 8 months ago \| 80 comments
28.		How to Build a Thousand-Year-Old Tree (noemamag.com)
		95 points by matthewjpo 8 months ago \| 13 comments
29.		Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning (github.com/mathfoundationrl)
		424 points by ibobev 8 months ago \| 43 comments
30.		Tips for using Gemini 2.0 for PDF ingestion (sergey.fyi)
		58 points by serjester 8 months ago \| 7 comments
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