Second-Chance Pool | Hacker News

		Show HN: 7x faster Iceberg ingestion, how we redesigned OLake's writer (olake.io)
		5 points by rohankhameshra 8 days ago \| 1 comment
		Typewriter Plotters (2022) (biosrhythm.com)
		130 points by LaSombra 8 days ago \| 12 comments
		Emacs is my new window manager (2015) (howardism.org)
		229 points by gpi 8 days ago \| 87 comments
		First English language slang dictionary (1698) (upenn.edu)
		2 points by bookofjoe 8 days ago \| discuss
		Columns limit in PostgreSQL – how many columns fit into a table (scherbaum.la)
		2 points by eatonphil 8 days ago \| discuss
		Vibe code like it's 1986 (vibecommander.dev)
		2 points by fatliverfreddy 8 days ago \| discuss
		Go's escape analysis and why my function return worked (bonniesimon.in)
		42 points by bonniesimon 8 days ago \| 70 comments
		Tropy (tropy.org)
		2 points by nanna 8 days ago \| discuss
		When square pixels aren't square (alexwlchan.net)
		4 points by ravenical 8 days ago \| discuss
		Writing our own cheat engine (2021) (lonami.dev)
		113 points by hu3 8 days ago \| 28 comments
		Word spacing (wikipedia.org)
		46 points by doener 8 days ago \| 47 comments
		Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass [pdf] (tum.de)
		14 points by luu 8 days ago \| discuss
		Reverse Benchmarking (dominiknitsch.com)
		2 points by wseqyrku 9 days ago \| discuss
		How to speed up the Rust compiler in December 2025 (nnethercote.github.io)
		25 points by todsacerdoti 9 days ago \| discuss
		A Man I Want to Meet the Most (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
		3 points by surprisetalk 9 days ago \| discuss
		Life_logger – Turn your daily experiences into retro thermal receipt-style logs (life-logger.netlify.app)
		3 points by Eyoz 9 days ago \| 1 comment
		Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter (reuters.com)
		287 points by NaOH 9 days ago \| 169 comments
		Map of all the buildings in the world (gizmodo.com)
		184 points by dr_dshiv 9 days ago \| 64 comments
		Tile IR Specification (nvidia.com)
		19 points by my123 9 days ago \| 3 comments
		Intel 8086 Microcode Explorer (nand2mario.github.io)
		36 points by todsacerdoti 9 days ago \| 2 comments
		Impacts of working from home on mental health tracked in study of Australians (abc.net.au)
		49 points by anotherevan 9 days ago \| 70 comments
		Osaka Kansai Expo Globe-Shaped Aquaponics "Cradle of Life" [pdf] (2025osaka-pavilion.jp)
		2 points by gnabgib 9 days ago \| discuss
		The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks (steerlabs.substack.com)
		323 points by steerlabs 9 days ago \| 380 comments
		Radiance Meshes for Volumetric Reconstruction (half-potato.gitlab.io)
		3 points by xnx 9 days ago \| discuss
		Why does the Salish Sea glow in the dark? (atlasobscura.com)
		18 points by prismatic 9 days ago \| 6 comments
		AWS Trainium3 Deep Dive – A Potential Challenger Approaching (semianalysis.com)
		71 points by Symmetry 9 days ago \| 24 comments
		I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years (resobscura.substack.com)
		257 points by benbreen 9 days ago \| 49 comments
		Scientists create ultra fast memory using light (isi.edu)
		125 points by giuliomagnifico 9 days ago \| 31 comments
		Super-Flat ASTs (jhwlr.io)
		98 points by mmphosis 9 days ago \| 26 comments
		Physicists overcome fundamental limitation of acoustic levitation (phys.org)
		3 points by stevenjgarner 9 days ago \| 1 comment
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