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WaterRun

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    Linux’s ecosystem has also improved significantly over the past two years, especially in China. Due to the influence of “Xinchuang” (that is, domestically produced Linux rebranded …

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    He makes electric vehicles. The extreme weight sensitivity of motorcycles means that high-performance racing motorcycles, whether fully electric or hybrid, are not practical; if th…

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    In the era of Windows 95, having a network connection was still a rarity. Expecting modern systems to have package management and sandboxing mechanisms would have been 20 years ahe…

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    Even that TUI is written in React.

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    The Space Shuttle’s technology is indeed quite old, but by today’s standards it is not exactly outdated. What matters is that we have lost the ability to carry out that technology …

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    I recently had a similar idea. https://github.com/Water-Run/Cmdset

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    Comment #47608917

    ICBMs also have a similar speed at the terminal warhead stage — only the direction is different.

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    Comment #47608898

    Starship is not designed for high-orbit deep-space missions; it is more like a cargo truck for low Earth orbit.

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    Developing something like this would push the frontiers of human technology. Without the Apollo program, not to mention anything else, the personal computer boom in the 1970s might…

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    Traditional programming requires the absolute precision provided by digital circuits; a single bit flip can lead to a completely different outcome. Large models do not require that…

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    Is Anthropic's acquisition of Bun alone still not enough to infer their tech stack? What more obvious signals would be needed? Also, honestly, given the speed constraints of large …

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    So what do you think the obfuscated .js code in a 2026 engineering project was generated with? Nim?

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    Thanks to Claude Code, we got such a beautifully polished and dazzling website that gives a complete introduction to itself the very moment the leak happened :)

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    Feels a bit like gradually moving back toward analog circuits, step by step. There is less and less need for the precision that digital circuits provide.

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    Anthropic acquired Bun. Clearly, Bun is not a runtime for C++, Rust, or Python. For an engineering project, strongly typed TypeScript was basically the only possible choice for the…

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    Show HN: One-click PPTX to PNG (Windows app and Python library)

    A small tool that exports .pptx files to .png images with one click. EXE (Windows, ready to use out of the box): https://github.com/Water-Run/pptx2png/releases/tag/pptx2png PyPI (c…

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    Show HN: luainstaller – Package your Lua scripts into binaries

    There are two common ways to package .lua scripts into binary executables today: the traditional srlua, and the newer luastatic, which can produce a true native binary (instead of …