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Show HN: I made a library of 200+ viral TikTok ads for B2C content ideas (demos.firehooks.io)
Sharing this free resource I made for B2C SaaS founders who market using short form content.<p>I made this because I post TikToks to promote some SaaS apps I have (irrelevant), so I’m constantly looking for content ideas that’ll help me go viral<p>Like everyone else, I usually do this by saving hund...
2x Performance, $300k Savings: Rewriting a Critical Service in Rust at TikTok (wxiaoyun.com)
Efficient Deep Learning Book (efficientdlbook.com)
The Qweremin (a theremin built with a Commodore 64 and a clamp) (youtube.com)
The Long History of Life on Mars (newyorker.com)
Statechart – Minimal Generic Statechart Library for Go (github.com)
Moof! in Mind! The history of dogcow (1997) (storybytes.com)
Jesse Welles - With the Devil (2025) (youtube.com)
Greek-American musician George Smaragdis dies tragically in Manhattan (thenationalherald.com)
The All-American Rejects: Field Recordings x Aspen Ideas Festival (2025) (youtube.com)
Sabrina Carpenter - Tears (2025) (youtube.com)
snuffle / salsa / chacha (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
Writing a Hypervisor in 1k Lines (seiya.me)
Everybody Imitates Hypnotoad (History of and Recreating the Hypnotoad Sound) (scottsmitelli.com)
Ask HN: Writing Custom Instructions for the AI
Hello HN, with the advent of AI coding, I&#x27;m starting wondering if people will switch from writing coding guides and guidelines for humans to writing them specifically for LLMs.<p>Vscode and other editors already let you insert custom instructions either globally or on repository basis. But as o...
Coffi – Foreign function interface library for Clojure (github.com)
Takeaway: A work-stealing task queue library for Rust (bal-e.org)
Short History of the Business Card, from Versailles to Microsoft Word (themalin.co)
Effective Writing for Software Developers (refactoringenglish.com)
Duty-free no more: Parcels worth under $800 no longer qualify for a US tariff exemption (apnews.com)
Artificial Writing and Automated Detection (papers.ssrn.com)
What have you been listening to this week?
A Brief, Incomplete and Mostly Subjective History of Chinese Internet Censorship (danglingpointer.fun)
God created the real numbers (ethanheilman.com)
Writing Mac and iOS Apps Shouldn't Be So Difficult (inessential.com)
Alleged Washington DC sandwich thrower charged with a misdemeanor after grand jury rejects felony indictment (cnn.com)
Classical Papers in Computer Science and Software Engineering: A Reading Group (ozimmer.ch)
Experiment: Improving the Rust Book (rust-book.cs.brown.edu)
Show HN: A minimal TS library that generates prompt injection attacks (prompt-injector.blueprintlab.io)
I made an open source, MIT license Typescript library based on some of the latest research that generates prompt injection attacks. It is a super minimal&#x2F;lightweight and designed to be super easy to use.<p>Keen to hear your thoughts and please be responsible and only pen test systems where you ...
Mystical Postscript (github.com)