HN blogs - 17/11/25
How to DIY New Scientific Protocols https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2025/11/17/how-to-diy-new-scientific-protocols/ (HN source)
Building Custom Hackberry Pi https://eclypsium.com/blog/build-the-ultimate-cyberdeck-hackberry-pi/ (HN source)
What Couchbase Taught Me About System Thinking https://lorbic.com/what-couchbase-taught-me-about-system-thinking/ (HN source)
BigQuery Table Sampling https://jameshartig.dev/2025-bigquery-tablesample/ (HN source)
I 3D printed a running buggy https://leontrolski.github.io/buggy.html (HN source)
Practical tips for what to do when you are lost https://dhirajtourani.com/posts/practical-tips-for-what-to-do-when-you-are-lost/ (HN source)
Write once, run anywhere: The promise C couldn’t keep https://ryansepassi.com/notes/universal-c (HN source)
Memory-Corrupting Pong https://arhan.sh/blog/memory-corrupting-pong/ (HN source)
Ad-Hoc Emacs Packages with Nix https://borretti.me/article/ad-hoc-emacs-packages-with-nix (HN source)
Bug Fixing Is an ETL Problem https://qckfx.com/blog/bug-fixing-is-an-etl-problem (HN source)
Thinking through how pretraining vs. RL learn
BareMetal in the Cloud https://ian.seyler.me/baremetal-in-the-cloud/ (HN source)
Click-to-Open in Neovim with Kitty https://blog.duvallj.pw/posts/2025-11-14-click-to-open-in-neovim-with-kitty.html (HN source)
Generate RAG evaluation datasets from a single prompt (1K to docs) https://alexjacobs08.github.io/datasetFactory/ (HN source)
The API of a Camera and the Unix Manifesto https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-11-17-the-api-of-a-camera-and-the-unix-manifesto (HN source)
How to uncover how someone thinks – before you hire them
What Are Blocking Queues and Why We Need Them https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/blocking-queues/ (HN source)
Against Exponential Backoff https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/against-exponential-backoff.html (HN source)
Goto Considered Harmless https://bramadityaw.github.io/blog/posts/goto/ (HN source)
Foul Play: Privilege Escalation on the Playdate https://www.peterstefek.me/foul-play.html (HN source)
Comparing Programming Communities on Reddit https://strzibny.name/blog/comparing-programming-language-communities-on-reddit (HN source)
N8n on FreeBSD – installation, configuration, and optimisation https://m4c.pl/blog/n8n-freebsd-installation-configuration/ (HN source)
Dissection of a PHP Backdoor leveraging PHP-win.exe https://dfir.ch/posts/dissection_php_backdoor/ (HN source)
I asked LLM to reverse engineer a unity game. It became a conspiracy theorist https://ankitmaloo.com/reverse-engg-catan/ (HN source)
I Built a Synth for My Daughter https://bitsnpieces.dev/posts/a-synth-for-my-daughter/ (HN source)