Men Who Made America’s Self-Made Man
Back in the days when only aristocrats and spiritual leaders could hold political and cultural authority, there was no pride in claiming to be self-made. Instead, an assertion of self-made success was dangerous, both blasphemous and foolhardy; it put souls and social relationships at risk. It took two revolutions and their ambitious storytellers to reverse […]
Counter Galois Onion: Improved encryption for Tor circuit traffic
It’s always a good day when we can talk about cryptography. Especially when we are sunsetting one of the oldest and most important encryption algorithms in Tor and replacing it with a research-backed new design, called Counter Galois Onion. This overhaul will defend users against a broader class of online attackers (described below), and form […]
YesNotice
October 10, 2025 YesNotice is a website to notify you the moment something you care about changes from no to yes. YesNotice is a website # YesNotice is a new website, yesnotice.com, that notifies you the moment something you care about changes from no to yes. For example, if you want to be notified when […]
Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – The open-source chat UI
Hey HN, Chris and Yuhong here from Onyx (https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx). We’re building an open-source chat that works with any LLM (proprietary + open weight) and gives these LLMs the tools they need to be useful (RAG, web search, MCP, deep research, memory, etc.). Demo: https://youtu.be/2g4BxTZ9ztg Two years ago, Yuhong and I had the same recurring problem. […]
Apt Rust requirement raises questions
It is rarely newsworthy when a project or package picks up a new dependency. However, changes in a core tool like Debian’s Advanced Package Tool (APT) can have far-reaching effects. For example, Julian Andres Klode’s declaration that APT would require Rust in May 2026 means that a few of Debian’s unofficial ports must either acquire […]
Historic Engineering Wonders: Photos That Reveal How They Pulled It Off
Human ingenuity has produced engineering solutions that continue to inspire long after their creators disappeared into history. Long before modern machinery, builders and inventors relied on raw skill, observation, and clever experimentation to shape cities, move water, tame landscapes, and secure structures against time and nature. Each innovation reveals a moment when necessity met creativity, […]
Brain has five ‘eras’ with adult mode not starting until early 30s
Scientists have identified five major “epochs” of human brain development in one of the most comprehensive studies to date of how neural wiring changes from infancy to old age. The study, based on the brain scans of nearly 4,000 people aged under one to 90, mapped neural connections and how they evolve during our lives. […]
N-Body Simulator – Interactive 3 Body Problem and Gravitational Physics
✕ About the N-Body Simulator What is the Three-Body Problem? The three-body problem is one of the most famous challenges in classical physics and celestial mechanics. It asks: given the initial positions, masses, and velocities of three bodies in space, can we predict their future motion under mutual gravitational attraction? Unlike the two-body problem (which […]
WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS
Run Windows applications (including Microsoft 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud) on GNU/Linux with KDE Plasma, GNOME or XFCE, integrated seamlessly as if they were native to the OS. Underlying Mechanism WinApps works by: Running Windows in a Docker, Podman or libvirt virtual machine. Querying Windows for all installed applications. Creating shortcuts to selected Windows applications […]
Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)
As one of the co-creators of Crash Bandicoot, I have been (slowly) writing a long series of posts on the making of everyone’s favorite orange marsupial. You can find them all below, so enjoy. If you are on mobile and cannot see the grid of posts, click here.