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The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]
(www.ischool.berkeley.edu)
82 points
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by
ronbenton
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today at 12:17 AM
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28 comments
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
(simonwillison.net)
86 points
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by
bilsbie
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yesterday at 11:45 PM
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36 comments
AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64
(meanhamster.com)
10 points
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by
erickhill
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today at 1:45 AM
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0 comments
Rhombus 1.1 is now available
(blog.racket-lang.org)
23 points
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by
spdegabrielle
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today at 12:48 AM
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9 comments
A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"
(rvembedded.com)
390 points
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by
Narishma
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yesterday at 5:01 PM
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209 comments
Claude: System Prompts
(platform.claude.com)
560 points
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by
tosh
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yesterday at 12:48 PM
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234 comments
Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of "Solar Realms Elite"
(breakintochat.com)
16 points
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by
bananaboy
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08/09/2026
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1 comment
Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter
(wiki.lowtechlab.org)
102 points
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by
Bluestein
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last Tuesday at 3:36 PM
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31 comments
SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX
(pikuma.com)
76 points
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by
ibobev
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last Thursday at 12:44 PM
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35 comments
Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network
(reticulum.network)
21 points
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by
sudo_cowsay
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yesterday at 11:59 PM
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5 comments
Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome
(buf.build)
122 points
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by
theanonymousone
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yesterday at 6:48 PM
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81 comments
The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
(www.highereddive.com)
95 points
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by
walrus01
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today at 12:14 AM
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8 comments
The AI Credit Resale Economy
(vectoral.com)
235 points
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by
mlenhard
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yesterday at 2:44 PM
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92 comments
Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence
(community.wolfram.com)
17 points
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by
surprisetalk
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last Tuesday at 12:40 PM
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1 comment
MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent
(math-ai-org.github.io)
67 points
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by
homarp
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yesterday at 6:17 PM
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23 comments
Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga
(nnamgreb.de)
89 points
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by
emptybits
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last Thursday at 3:05 AM
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10 comments
Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
(www.reuters.com)
117 points
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by
root-parent
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yesterday at 9:07 PM
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43 comments
Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
(w4g1.dev)
278 points
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by
hruvhwe
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yesterday at 7:04 PM
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155 comments
Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life
(commonreader.wustl.edu)
68 points
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by
lermontov
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last Friday at 11:53 PM
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13 comments
Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]
(www.youtube.com)
52 points
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by
tobr
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last Saturday at 8:15 PM
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15 comments
A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs
(bernsteinbear.com)
52 points
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by
evakhoury
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last Friday at 7:52 PM
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20 comments
Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
(support.mozilla.org)
552 points
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by
pentagrama
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yesterday at 12:58 PM
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229 comments
Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter
(www.bloomberg.com)
214 points
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by
zacharyozer
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yesterday at 8:31 PM
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149 comments
The FastLanes Unified Transport Layout
(blog.dave.tf)
3 points
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by
raggi
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last Tuesday at 8:22 PM
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0 comments
Red queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI
(www.cst.cam.ac.uk)
15 points
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by
hardlianotion
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yesterday at 8:01 PM
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2 comments
Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
(self)
303 points
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by
stagas
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yesterday at 5:49 PM
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74 comments
A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator
(ei3lh.eu)
90 points
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by
austinallegro
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yesterday at 12:16 PM
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9 comments
Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering
(tasklet.ai)
1 points
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by
mayop100
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yesterday at 1:30 PM
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0 comments
Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work
(duckdb.org)
272 points
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by
pdet
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08/10/2026
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31 comments
Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama
(www.ianvisits.co.uk)
26 points
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by
brod_ie
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last Tuesday at 3:56 PM
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3 comments
Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware
(hwbusters.com)
134 points
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by
txrx0000
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last Thursday at 10:01 PM
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40 comments
St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core
(www.wptv.com)
160 points
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by
toomuchtodo
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yesterday at 3:16 PM
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128 comments
A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem
(arxiv.org)
87 points
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by
matt_d
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last Wednesday at 6:30 AM
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35 comments
NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers
(www.science.org)
141 points
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by
brandonb
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yesterday at 4:14 PM
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69 comments
Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
(brandur.org)
142 points
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by
abelanger
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last Wednesday at 8:13 PM
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93 comments
Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
(scholar.google.com)
367 points
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by
Alifatisk
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yesterday at 12:22 PM
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132 comments
Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)
(publicdomainreview.org)
25 points
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by
samclemens
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last Wednesday at 10:46 PM
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3 comments
Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons
(www.sciencedaily.com)
9 points
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by
gradus_ad
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today at 1:10 AM
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0 comments
Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane
(www.nature.com)
64 points
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by
sbulaev
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last Wednesday at 7:07 PM
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15 comments
TSMC Uses Old Fabs to Make New Chips [video]
(www.youtube.com)
11 points
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by
eig
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today at 12:07 AM
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3 comments
The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains
(www.wunc.org)
25 points
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by
yareally
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last Thursday at 12:02 AM
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10 comments
Show HN: Continuum – Financial simulations for DIY multimillionaires
(continuum-app.xyz)
4 points
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by
charleswcho
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today at 12:58 AM
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9 comments
Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018)
(tinkerings.org)
111 points
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by
Eridanus2
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yesterday at 1:26 AM
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27 comments
AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward
(www.science.org)
181 points
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by
AnodicElegy
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last Saturday at 7:12 PM
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90 comments
Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
(daringfireball.net)
152 points
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by
ropbear
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yesterday at 9:53 PM
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157 comments
The weekend is 100 years old
(www.theguardian.com)
181 points
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by
lentil_soup
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yesterday at 3:30 PM
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121 comments
Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
(www.severe-weather.eu)
415 points
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by
dgellow
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last Saturday at 7:20 PM
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316 comments
Anthropic CEO says the way for AI to win over the public is to cure cancer
(www.businessinsider.com)
20 points
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by
wertyk
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yesterday at 10:50 PM
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29 comments
Falstad Math and Physics Simulations
(www.falstad.com)
66 points
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by
pykello
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yesterday at 4:19 AM
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14 comments
A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer
(lapcatsoftware.com)
157 points
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by
frizlab
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08/10/2026
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35 comments