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1. Boids - An artificial life program which simulates the flocking behaviour of birds

   2025-05-10
   bird game/emergent-behaviour game/half-life game/simulation programming/java programming/lisp

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   • Craig Reynolds - Boids
   • Graphics livecoding in Common Lisp - Developing a Boids program from scratch without restarting it
   • Half-Life - Boid AI Flocking Behavior (Youtube)
   • AFlocks, Boids, Protozoans | Half-Life Resurgence (Youtube)
   • louis-jean0/boidsy - Interactive boids simulation in 2D and 3D using Bevy and Rust
2. Archiving URLs | Gwern

   2025-04-09
   network/http personal-knowledge/bookmark personal-knowledge/digital-garden programming/go programming/html programming/java programming/python web web/scraping

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   • Archiving Web Sites (LWN)
   • Robots.txt meant for search engines don’t work well for web archives

   Web page archive formats:

   • ARC (1996)
   • WARC (BnF, 2009)
     • WARC Specifications
     • The WARC Ecosystem

   Tools for crawling, scraping and archiving Web pages:

   • internetarchive/heritrix3 - Extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project (Java)
   • internetarchive/Zeno - State-of-the-art web crawler (Go)
     • internetarchive/gowarc - Read and write WARC files in Go
   • webrecorder/pywb - Web Archiving Toolkit for replay and recording of web archives (Python)

   Self-hosted solutions:

   • ArchiveBox - A self-hosted app that lets you preserve content from websites in a variety of formats
   • Wallabag - Save and classify articles, read them later
3. Intellij Community - FernFlower - An analytical decompiler for Java

   2025-01-14
   game/minecraft intellij programming/java reverse-engineering

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   • MinecraftForge/FernFlower - Forge's modifications to FernFlower
   • MinecraftForge/ForgeFlower
   • Vineflower/vineflower - A modern, general purpose JVM language decompiler
   • leibnitz27/cfr - A modern Java decompiler written in Java 6
4. Watabou's Procgen Arcana

   2024-11-10
   game/role-playing-game image/2d image/svg map procedural-generation programming/haxe programming/java

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   • watabou - itch.io
5. Hacking the T2S+ Out of Fear: Get Lock-In Thermography for Free

   2024-11-03
   camera/thermal electronics hardware image/2d linux mobile/android opencv programming/c++ programming/java programming/python reverse-engineering serial-communication/usb

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   • netman69/inficam - Android app and C++ bindings for InfiRay cameras
   • stawel/ht301_hacklib - ht-301 thermal camera opencv lib
   • What is the occasional clicking sound made by the Tau2 camera? What is FFC?
   • diminDDL/IR-Py-Thermal - Python Thermal Camera Library
   • Lock-in IR-Thermography - a novel tool for material and device characterization (PDF)
6. Stirling-PDF - Self-hosted PDF manipulation tool

   2024-06-22
   document/pdf image/optical-character-recognition linux/container/docker network/http programming/java

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7. Kestra - Orchestration platform for scheduled and event-driven workflows

   2024-06-09
   data/workflow programming/java programming/javascript

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   • kestra-io/kestra
   • Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative
   • How Leroy Merlin managed their cloud data pipelines with Kestra
8. Leela Zero - Go engine with no human-provided knowledge, modeled after the AlphaGo Zero paper

   2024-05-02
   game/go neural-network programming/c++ programming/java research

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   • leela-zero/leela-zero
   • featurecat/lizzie - Leela Zero Interface
   • Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge [PDF]
9. Amulet Map Editor - A new Minecraft world editor and converter that supports all versions since Java 1.12 and Bedrock 1.7.

   2024-04-14
   game/minecraft programming/java programming/python

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   • Amulet Editor
10. The One Billion Row Challenge

    2024-02-22
    concurrency database jvm performance/benchmark performance/profiling programming/java

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    • gunnarmorling/1brc
    • The Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) - Step-by-step from 71s to 1.7s
    • The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 4s in nine solutions
    • One Billion Rows Challenge in Golang
11. Elasticsearch - Grok processor

    2023-11-19
    observability/elastic/elasticsearch observability/elastic/logstash observability/logging programming/go programming/java programming/regular-expressions programming/rust

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    • Elastic - Grokking Grok
    • Kibana - Debug grok expressions
    • Grok Constructor
    • Elasticsearch Grok Patterns
    • Logstash Grok Patterns

    Alternative implementations:

    • vjeantet/grok - Simple library to use/parse grok patterns with Go
      • GuanceCloud/grok - Fork of the above
      • logrusorgru/grokky - Pure golang grok-like library
      • Telegraf's Grok Parser Plugin
    • Vector Remap Language - Datadog Grok Parser
12. Warp10 - a modular platform to collect, store and analyze IoT sensor data

    2023-02-19
    internet-of-things observability/time-series programming/java

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    • https://www.warp10.io/content/03_Documentation/00_Overview
    • https://www.warp10.io/content/03_Documentation/04_WarpScript
    • https://www.clever-cloud.com/doc/administrate/metrics/warp10/
    • https://senx.io/cases-studies/clevercloud
    • https://github.com/senx/warp10-platform
    • https://github.com/ovh/erlenmeyer
13. Lisping at JPL | Ron Garrett

    2023-01-29
    nasa/jet-propulsion-laboratory programming/c programming/c++ programming/java programming/lisp

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    • http://blog.rongarret.info/2023/01/lisping-at-jpl-revisited.html
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34524552
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22087419
    • https://www.corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret/
14. jjazzboss/JJazzLab-X: A complete Midi-based framework for automatic backing tracks generation.

    2022-12-14
    audio improvisation instrument/midi music/jazz programming/java

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    • https://www.jjazzlab.com/en/
15. Purpur is a drop-in replacement for Paper servers designed for configurability and new, fun, exciting gameplay features

    2022-01-16
    game/minecraft programming/java

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    • https://purpurmc.org/docs/
    • https://github.com/PurpurMC/Purpur
16. BlueMap is a tool that generates 3d-maps of your Minecraft worlds and displays them in your browser

    2022-01-16
    game/minecraft graphics/3d internet/browser programming/java

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    • https://github.com/BlueMap-Minecraft/BlueMap
17. eXist - Native XML Database and Application Platform

    2021-11-07
    database/nosql programming/java programming/xml

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    • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/exist/9781449337094/
    • http://exist-db.org/exist/apps/doc/
18. Generating Go client/server code from an OpenAPI specification

    2021-05-18
    documentation programming/api programming/code-generation programming/go programming/java

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    Generate code from specification:

    • https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen
    • https://github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger
    • https://github.com/deepmap/oapi-codegen

    Generate specification from code:

    • https://github.com/swaggo/swag
19. Smithy - A language for defining services and SDKs

    2021-05-18
    cloud-computing/aws programming/api programming/code-generation programming/java

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    • https://github.com/awslabs/smithy
    • https://awslabs.github.io/smithy/1.0/guides/index.html
20. Two Quarkus Books for Christmas

    2021-01-05
    book framework/quarkus programming/java red-hat

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    • https://developers.redhat.com/books/understanding-quarkus
    • https://developers.redhat.com/books/practising-quarkus