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My server is a phone now
(seg6.space)
189 points
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by
seg6
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yesterday at 10:49 PM
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78 comments
Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
(os8088.com)
96 points
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by
jggonz
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yesterday at 11:37 PM
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37 comments
Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding
(www.redblobgames.com)
129 points
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by
bobbiechen
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07/28/2026
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15 comments
Fastmail offers EU data region
(www.fastmail.com)
352 points
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by
groomlake
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yesterday at 4:04 PM
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176 comments
Dithered QR Codes
(www.andrewt.net)
87 points
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by
jmusall
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yesterday at 11:05 PM
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12 comments
"The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years." (2011)
(longbets.org)
3 points
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by
doubletwoyou
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today at 4:30 AM
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0 comments
Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled
(shopify.engineering)
101 points
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by
adletbalzhanov
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yesterday at 10:32 PM
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64 comments
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect
(www.nature.com)
30 points
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by
davidbarker
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08/02/2026
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1 comment
_for-sale DNS records
(specification.website)
369 points
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by
shaunpud
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yesterday at 1:26 PM
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136 comments
Incentives Are for Losers
(www.experimental-history.com)
14 points
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by
bkudria
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today at 1:49 AM
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3 comments
The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding
(www.bbc.com)
33 points
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by
cwwc
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today at 1:55 AM
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17 comments
Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse
(eclipsefan.org)
108 points
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by
MarcoDewey
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yesterday at 7:38 PM
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25 comments
Making difficulty curves in games
(www.davetech.co.uk)
82 points
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by
hakkikonu
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last Wednesday at 9:59 AM
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32 comments
The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video]
(gdcvault.com)
34 points
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by
hyperific
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last Wednesday at 6:42 AM
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7 comments
Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults
(academic.oup.com)
12 points
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by
bohaska
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today at 12:59 AM
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1 comment
Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection
(daringfireball.net)
48 points
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by
minimaxir
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today at 3:26 AM
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3 comments
Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU
(blog.getutm.app)
152 points
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by
electricant
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yesterday at 1:33 PM
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29 comments
Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband
(zeus.ugent.be)
53 points
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by
robinpdev
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08/01/2026
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3 comments
TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics
(theoremdb.org)
12 points
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by
frozenseven
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today at 1:23 AM
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0 comments
DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler
(github.com)
29 points
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by
aboardRat4
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last Monday at 4:13 AM
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5 comments
Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding
(www.science.org)
51 points
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by
surprisetalk
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last Tuesday at 3:03 PM
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3 comments
Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
(twitter.com)
247 points
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by
ilamont
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last Friday at 8:25 PM
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181 comments
Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?
(hackaday.com)
180 points
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by
gumby
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yesterday at 4:04 PM
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139 comments
Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake
(jakearchibald.com)
11 points
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by
robin_reala
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07/28/2026
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1 comment
“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
(blog.senko.net)
635 points
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by
senko
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yesterday at 2:32 PM
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396 comments
Message your other Claude Code sessions
(code.claude.com)
88 points
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by
mfiguiere
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yesterday at 3:34 PM
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37 comments
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments
(mezha.net)
540 points
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by
theanonymousone
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yesterday at 6:09 PM
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248 comments
When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense
(software.rajivprab.com)
13 points
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by
whack
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last Monday at 7:35 PM
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8 comments
ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
(arstechnica.com)
24 points
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by
Eloissssss
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today at 2:01 AM
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13 comments
Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
(www.bbc.com)
27 points
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by
tchalla
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yesterday at 10:36 PM
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31 comments
Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)
(buttondown.com)
109 points
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by
rfarley04
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yesterday at 12:31 PM
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92 comments
TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS
(classicbits.net)
51 points
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by
skibz
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yesterday at 5:42 PM
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14 comments
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
(deepmind.google)
402 points
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by
bhavansig
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yesterday at 9:18 AM
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121 comments
Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator
(zaneham.github.io)
80 points
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by
rahen
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yesterday at 1:28 PM
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13 comments
Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
(simonwillison.net)
376 points
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882542F3884314B
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yesterday at 10:57 AM
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362 comments
BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments
(omnistrate.com)
70 points
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by
kkgupta
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last Tuesday at 1:37 AM
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11 comments
What makes companies dodge taxes?
(news.mccombs.utexas.edu)
5 points
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by
hhs
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today at 1:03 AM
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0 comments
From your doorbell to your home network
(adepts.of0x.cc)
80 points
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by
mmoogle
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last Wednesday at 12:43 AM
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10 comments
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (1960)
(web.njit.edu)
32 points
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by
pseudolus
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yesterday at 8:37 PM
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13 comments
Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age
(itsfoss.com)
5 points
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by
WaitWaitWha
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today at 4:03 AM
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0 comments
US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide
(www.bloomberg.com)
274 points
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by
rbanffy
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yesterday at 10:04 AM
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422 comments
Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack
(news.maryland.gov)
101 points
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by
bookofjoe
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yesterday at 9:07 PM
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63 comments
A viral mosquito-killing laser device could be coming to the U.S.
(www.npr.org)
16 points
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by
toomuchtodo
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today at 1:35 AM
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7 comments
Show HN: Tura – Build agent that uses 80% less token and delivers better results
(github.com)
4 points
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by
turaainet
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today at 12:13 AM
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0 comments
A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
(www.runnersworld.com)
426 points
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by
aanet
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last Wednesday at 9:44 PM
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97 comments
ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014)
(github.com)
69 points
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by
csmantle
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08/02/2026
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9 comments
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
(arcprize.org)
768 points
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by
tosh
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last Friday at 5:56 PM
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460 comments
What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
(www.noemamag.com)
996 points
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by
RickJWagner
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last Friday at 12:42 PM
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1205 comments
Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload
(social.treehouse.systems)
157 points
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by
happosai
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yesterday at 1:55 PM
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106 comments
As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program
(unsung.aresluna.org)
212 points
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by
allenc
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last Tuesday at 3:46 AM
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167 comments