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A story about how I dug into the PostgreSQL sources to write my own WAL receiver

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Show HN: Sfsym – Export Apple SF Symbols as Vector SVG/PDF/PNG

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Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits

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Bodega cats of New York

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Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals

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Japan's Cherry Blossom Database, 1,200 Years Old, Has a New Keeper

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How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain

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Who Is Blake Whiting?

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Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution

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Kefir C17/C23 Compiler

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A simplified model of Fil-C

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Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything

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Two Motorola Transistors Became the Default NPNs

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Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery

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Year of the IPv6 Overlay Network

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Even "cat readme.txt" is not safe

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Show HN: A working reference implementation of context engineering

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All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)

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Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines

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Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock

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