ZFS Native Encryption by Tom Caputi
OpenZFS · 2 HN recommenders
Tom Caputi presents the design of native encryption for ZFS at the OpenZFS Developer Summit, including design decisions and how authentication uses checksum fields.
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ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems Part 1
Deirdré Straughan · 4 HN recommenders
Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore, the creators of ZFS, present 'ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems' at the 2008 SNIA Software Developers' Conference. They explain the design, including copy-on-write, checksumming and avoiding the write hole.
Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains
JetBrains · 5 HN recommenders
JetBrains interviews Zig creator Andrew Kelley about why Zig has no 1.0 after a decade, why the project left GitHub, and why it bans AI contributions. He also covers what makes Zig better than C and his views on open source.
Zig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity – Andrew Kelley
Recurse Center · 6 HN recommenders
Andrew Kelley, creator of Zig, introduces the language at the Recurse Center's Localhost series in 2018. He covers its goals of robustness, optimality and clarity, C interop, cross-compilation and explicit allocators.
Zipline - How Rwanda Built A Drone Delivery Service
Real Engineering · 9 HN recommenders
Real Engineering explains how Zipline built a drone delivery network for medical supplies in Rwanda. It covers the fixed-wing drones, catapult launch, parachute drop and the logistics behind the service.
ZX Spectrum 1-bit music: Agent X (Tim Follin, 1985)
aki__ · 3 HN recommenders
A recording from real hardware of Tim Follin's multichannel 1-bit music for Agent X on the ZX Spectrum. It shows several voices coaxed out of the single-bit beeper.
Я позвонил своему убийце. Он признался
Алексей Навальный · 3 HN recommenders
Alexei Navalny phones an FSB chemical-weapons specialist, posing as a senior official, and gets him to describe the 2020 Novichok poisoning and its cover-up. The video is in Russian; HN commenters point to English subtitles.
“Hello, world” from scratch on a 6502 — Part 1
Ben Eater · 11 HN recommenders
Ben Eater starts a series building a working computer on breadboards around the 6502 microprocessor. In this first part he gets a 'hello world' running from scratch.
“I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room
The New Yorker · 2 HN recommenders
Victoria Warmerdam's Oscar-winning Dutch short film in which a woman fails a series of Captcha tests and is plunged into a strange new reality. It is a dark, Black Mirror-like sci-fi comedy.
“What is Success?” by Evan Czaplicki
Elm Europe · 2 HN recommenders
Elm creator Evan Czaplicki's 2018 Elm Europe talk on how to define success for an open source project and language community. It argues against judging projects by GitHub activity and touches on community expectations.
★ Cab ride 🇨🇭St. Moritz - 🇮🇹Tirano (Bernina pass), Switzerland to Italy [10.2019]
lorirocks777 · 3 HN recommenders
A two-hour driver's-eye cab ride along the Bernina railway from St. Moritz in Switzerland to Tirano in Italy. The UNESCO-listed line crosses the Alps at high altitude with steep adhesion gradients.
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ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS! · 3 HN recommenders
A short music video by the Japanese group Electronicos Fantasticos, led by Ei Wada, playing festival-style music on repurposed old electronics. Instruments include CRT TVs, a barcode reader, an electric fan harp and TV taiko drums.
🚀 TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong (Ian Cooper)
DevTernity Conference · 11 HN recommenders
Ian Cooper's DevTernity talk revisits Kent Beck's original TDD ideas and shows where misunderstandings crept in. It argues tests should target behaviors through public interfaces rather than implementation details, so suites support refactoring instead of resisting it.