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85

Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT (mattweidner.com)

2 days ago | samwillis | mattweidner.com | best

4

Show HN: ElectricSQL Cloud – Postgres sync in 30 seconds (electric-sql.com)

a month ago | samwillis | electric-sql.com | newest

3

Biologist whose innovation saved lives wins $3M Breakthrough prize (theguardian.com)

a month ago | samwillis | theguardian.com | newest

2

Postgres UUIDv7 and per-back end monotonicity (brandur.org)

4 months ago | samwillis | brandur.org | newest

2

Punch (1844) predicts LLMs: "The new patent novel writer" (hathitrust.org)

5 months ago | samwillis | hathitrust.org | newest

7

Bad Keming – Where kerning's so bad it's keming (badkeming.com)

5 months ago | samwillis | badkeming.com | frontpage

21

Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await (pocoo.org)

6 months ago | samwillis | pocoo.org | best

7

Let's unite the startup ecosystem in Europe with a standardized ‘EU Inc' (eu-inc.org)

7 months ago | samwillis | eu-inc.org | frontpage

7

Hybrid Search with PostgreSQL and Pgvector (jkatz05.com)

8 months ago | samwillis | jkatz05.com | frontpage

2

CMA objects to Google's ad tech practices to help UK advertisers and publishers (gov.uk)

8 months ago | samwillis | www.gov.uk | newest

127

NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew (nasa.gov)

9 months ago | samwillis | nasa.gov | best

2

UK's Browser and Cloud Investigation may fail to allow Web App competition (open-web-advocacy.org)

9 months ago | samwillis | open-web-advocacy.org | newest

173

Show HN: PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync (pglite.dev)

9 months ago | samwillis | pglite.dev | best

1

HTML Application (wikipedia.org)

10 months ago | samwillis | wikipedia.org | newest

70

Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that? (jlongster.com)

10 months ago | samwillis | jlongster.com | best

2

Recapping the first Local-First conference in 15 minutes (evilmartians.com)

10 months ago | samwillis | evilmartians.com | newest

166

CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser (mattferraro.dev)

a year ago | samwillis | mattferraro.dev | best

2

Py2wasm: A Python to WASM Compiler (wasmer.io)

a year ago | samwillis | wasmer.io | newest

16

AI Inference Now Available in Supabase Edge Functions (supabase.com)

a year ago | samwillis | supabase.com | best

2

PostgreSQL Extensions or Protocols: Architecture Roulette (materializedview.io)

a year ago | samwillis | materializedview.io | newest

1

The Rise of Protocols (bricolage.io)

a year ago | samwillis | bricolage.io | newest

4

Val Town's Seed Round (val.town)

a year ago | samwillis | val.town | newest

1

Insights from building Stripe's developer platform and API developer experience (kenneth.io)

a year ago | samwillis | kenneth.io | newest

2

Local AI with Postgres, pgvector and llama2, inside a Tauri app (electric-sql.com)

a year ago | samwillis | electric-sql.com | newest

4

Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that? (jlongster.com)

a year ago | samwillis | jlongster.com | frontpage

1

The Most Secretive Longevity Lab Finally Opens Its Doors (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | samwillis | bloomberg.com | newest

69

Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase (supabase.com)

a year ago | samwillis | supabase.com | best

3

18y Ago Today: Snakes & Rubies, Django+Rails Comparison by Adrian Holovaty & DHH (youtube.com)

a year ago | samwillis | youtube.com | newest

1

Build Notes: Creating a Local Lirst Vite/React/ElectricSQL Starter (bricolage.io)

a year ago | samwillis | bricolage.io | newest

2

Linearlite – A local-first app built with ElectricSQL and React (electric-sql.com)

a year ago | samwillis | electric-sql.com | newest

4

The first Local-first Software London meet up is next week (18th Oct) (guild.host)

a year ago | samwillis | guild.host | newest

2

Humane reveals first AI device – the AI Pin – at Coperni’s Paris fashion show (ma.ne)

a year ago | samwillis | ma.ne | newest

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Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps (electric-sql.com)

a year ago | samwillis | electric-sql.com | best

6

“For fun, I decided to add <BLINK> tag support to NCSA Mosaic” (twitter.com/awesomekling)

a year ago | samwillis | twitter.com | newest

2

Kamal – Deploy web apps anywhere (kamal-deploy.org)

a year ago | samwillis | kamal-deploy.org | newest

2

Array Types in TypeScript (tkdodo.eu)

a year ago | samwillis | tkdodo.eu | newest

3

Uranium Glass (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | samwillis | wikipedia.org | newest

4

Mosaic Challenge - Draw... (mosaic-party.vercel.app)

a year ago | samwillis | vercel.app | newest

128

A Critical Problem (2017) (nucleardiner.wordpress.com)

a year ago | samwillis | wordpress.com | best

2

Alan Kay’s Objects and Arts (nedbatchelder.com)

a year ago | samwillis | nedbatchelder.com | newest

4

Assistive technology shouldn’t be a mystery box (christianheilmann.com)

a year ago | samwillis | christianheilmann.com | newest

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Memex is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed (2020) (filiph.net)

a year ago | samwillis | filiph.net | best

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‘One step at a time’: entrepreneur buys stairwell in London to help startups (theguardian.com)

a year ago | samwillis | theguardian.com | frontpage

2

Non-Thoughts on the Open Source Initiative (yakshav.es)

a year ago | samwillis | yakshav.es | newest

2

KegRocket – We're Building a Liquid Rocket Made from Beer Kegs (kegrocket.com)

a year ago | samwillis | kegrocket.com | newest

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Can you build a Liquid Rocket out of BEER KEGS? [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | samwillis | youtube.com | newest

2

Sidewinder: Configured Django on your own server in 10 minutes (stribny.name)

a year ago | samwillis | stribny.name | newest

6

Cloudburst – Enshittification Isn't Inevitable (pluralistic.net)

a year ago | samwillis | pluralistic.net | newest

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The cloud is a prison. can the local-first software movement set us free? (wired.com)

a year ago | samwillis | wired.com | best

1

GIL removal and the Faster CPython project (lwn.net)

a year ago | samwillis | lwn.net | newest

1

Volvo now only sell SUVs in the UK: Swedish brand axes saloon and estate cars (thisismoney.co.uk)

a year ago | samwillis | thisismoney.co.uk | newest

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Run Llama 2 on your own Mac using LLM and Homebrew (simonwillison.net)

a year ago | samwillis | simonwillison.net | frontpage

2

TranscribeGlass – See the Conversation (transcribeglass.com)

a year ago | samwillis | transcribeglass.com | newest

2

French Republican Metric Calendar (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | samwillis | wikipedia.org | newest

2

You are Atlas. You hold up the sky (youareatlas.com)

a year ago | samwillis | youareatlas.com | newest

1

Buerli, Custom Cloud CAD (buerli.io)

a year ago | samwillis | buerli.io | newest

2

Codifying a ChatGPT workflow into a malleable GUI (geoffreylitt.com)

a year ago | samwillis | geoffreylitt.com | newest

2

Bryan Adams Lied to You (shkspr.mobi)

a year ago | samwillis | shkspr.mobi | newest

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Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal (github.com/1j01)

a year ago | samwillis | github.com | best

1

Beware of Fast-Math (simonbyrne.github.io)

a year ago | samwillis | github.io | newest

2

Coding an ad-hoc UI system in C (mattiasgustavsson.itch.io)

a year ago | samwillis | itch.io | newest

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Securing the Web forward: Addressing developer concerns in web security (w3.org)

a year ago | samwillis | w3.org | newest

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Llama2.c compiled with Emscripten to run in a web page (ggerganov.com)

a year ago | samwillis | ggerganov.com | frontpage

1

Moving Vite's Node API as ESM Only (github.com/vitejs)

a year ago | samwillis | github.com | newest

1

We could soon see a Jane Austen-style marriage market due to the housing crisis (theguardian.com)

a year ago | samwillis | theguardian.com | newest

3

Collabs, a collections library for collaborative data structures (github.com/composablesys)

a year ago | samwillis | github.com | frontpage

1

Anchor Positioning Exploration (inkedblade.net)

a year ago | samwillis | inkedblade.net | newest

1

South Park from the future: a fully AI-generated TV show series via simulation (twitter.com/drjimfan)

a year ago | samwillis | twitter.com | newest

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Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption (9to5mac.com)

a year ago | samwillis | 9to5mac.com | best

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PartySocket, WebSocket that automatically reconnects if the connection is closed (github.com/partykit)

a year ago | samwillis | github.com | newest

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Inconvenient Truths about TypeScript (fettblog.eu)

a year ago | samwillis | fettblog.eu | best

4

Pierre – A different way to build together (pierre.co)

a year ago | samwillis | pierre.co | newest

2

Pierre.co – Introducing a new developer platform for modern teams (pierreco.substack.com)

a year ago | samwillis | substack.com | newest

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OpenBenches – A map of memorial benches (openbenches.org)

a year ago | samwillis | openbenches.org | best

4

ggtag – Programmable (via sound) e-paper tag with RFID (github.com/rgerganov)

a year ago | samwillis | github.com | newest

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Effect, a functional effect system for TypeScript with a rich standard library (github.com/effect-ts)

a year ago | samwillis | github.com | newest

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Three amateurs cracked 445-year-old code to reveal Mary Queen of Scots’ secrets (ft.com)

a year ago | samwillis | ft.com | newest

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Critical TootRoot bug lets attackers hijack Mastodon servers (bleepingcomputer.com)

a year ago | samwillis | bleepingcomputer.com | frontpage

1

Japan’s report on mobile ecosystems is published (brucelawson.co.uk)

a year ago | samwillis | brucelawson.co.uk | newest

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WebAssembly and Replayable Functions (bartoszsypytkowski.com)

a year ago | samwillis | bartoszsypytkowski.com | best

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Chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a browser engine (igalia.com)

a year ago | samwillis | igalia.com | best

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Breaking Up with SVG-in-JS in 2023 (kurtextrem.de)

a year ago | samwillis | kurtextrem.de | best

5

Hugging Face – Looking into incident, a malicious user took over Meta's account (twitter.com/huggingface)

a year ago | samwillis | twitter.com | frontpage

3

How to Give a Status Update to Executives (jacobian.org)

a year ago | samwillis | jacobian.org | newest

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File format so old it includes “insert paper tape this way” arrow in it's header (mastodon.social)

a year ago | samwillis | mastodon.social | newest

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The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook (theverge.com)

a year ago | samwillis | theverge.com | best

3

Skiff Security – Cryptography and decentralization to keep your data private (skiff.com)

a year ago | samwillis | skiff.com | newest

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Stylistic QR Code with Stable Diffusion (antfu.me)

a year ago | samwillis | antfu.me | newest

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Visual Studio’s IntelliSense list can now steer GitHub Copilot code completions (microsoft.com)

a year ago | samwillis | microsoft.com | best

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Shared Storage API Explainer (github.com/wicg)

a year ago | samwillis | github.com | newest

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Drones take to the waves: Saildrones are getting data where people can’t (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samwillis | arstechnica.com | newest

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River Thames was pumped full of oxygen in 2022 to prevent fish deaths (newscientist.com)

a year ago | samwillis | newscientist.com | newest

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German Tank Problem (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | samwillis | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Rendering Bidirectional Text with multiple fonts & styles in immediate mode GUI (hasen.substack.com)

a year ago | samwillis | substack.com | newest

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What if I will tell you how we could solve fit-to-width text with pure CSS (kizu.dev)

a year ago | samwillis | kizu.dev | newest

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Rescue expert claims debris is 'landing frame' and 'rear cover' of submersible (theguardian.com)

a year ago | samwillis | theguardian.com | newest

1

The Perfect Drawing Tool (ralphammer.com)

a year ago | samwillis | ralphammer.com | newest

2

Depth-Based Blur in CSS (frosted-glass.shud.in)

a year ago | samwillis | shud.in | newest

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In a surprising twist, I just received a second $100k sponsorship for Ladybird (twitter.com/awesomekling)

a year ago | samwillis | twitter.com | best

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I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser (twitter.com/awesomekling)

a year ago | samwillis | twitter.com | best