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  1. There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
    43 points • by gukoff • today at 7:19 AM • 7 comments
  2. My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
    347 points • by seg6 • yesterday at 10:49 PM • 138 comments
  3. Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com)
    85 points • by BruceEel • today at 5:23 AM • 36 comments
  4. Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
    182 points • by jggonz • yesterday at 11:37 PM • 98 comments
  5. Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (shopify.engineering)
    220 points • by adletbalzhanov • yesterday at 10:32 PM • 131 comments
  6. Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (www.redblobgames.com)
    255 points • by bobbiechen • 07/28/2026 • 25 comments
  7. Fastmail offers EU data region (www.fastmail.com)
    431 points • by groomlake • yesterday at 4:04 PM • 226 comments
  8. Dithered QR Codes (www.andrewt.net)
    227 points • by jmusall • yesterday at 11:05 PM • 17 comments
  9. The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground (practical.engineering)
    21 points • by michaefe • last Wednesday at 4:11 AM • 3 comments
  10. Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023) (academic.oup.com)
    137 points • by bohaska • today at 12:59 AM • 114 comments
  11. The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)
    6 points • by Lammy • today at 10:06 AM • 2 comments
  12. The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)
    152 points • by doubletwoyou • today at 4:30 AM • 70 comments
  13. Protopia (kevinkelly.substack.com)
    17 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 1:00 PM • 10 comments
  14. _for-sale DNS records (specification.website)
    401 points • by shaunpud • yesterday at 1:26 PM • 156 comments
  15. Stylized GGX Shading (alexandrelamure.github.io)
    32 points • by ibobev • last Tuesday at 11:28 AM • 0 comments
  16. CSS: The bomb inside your inbox (portswigger.net)
    12 points • by ashurandi • today at 10:17 AM • 0 comments
  17. How to Survive in a Louisiana Swamp (unherd.com)
    6 points • by bookofjoe • last Wednesday at 7:24 PM • 1 comment
  18. Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025) (www.nature.com)
    65 points • by davidbarker • 08/02/2026 • 20 comments
  19. You might want to build your WebApp in Canvas instead of HTML (hivekit.io)
    6 points • by wolframhempel • last Monday at 11:11 AM • 1 comment
  20. Making difficulty curves in games (www.davetech.co.uk)
    123 points • by hakkikonu • last Wednesday at 9:59 AM • 49 comments
  21. Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
    156 points • by MarcoDewey • yesterday at 7:38 PM • 41 comments
  22. Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (www.bbc.com)
    64 points • by tchalla • yesterday at 10:36 PM • 74 comments
  23. TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
    44 points • by frozenseven • today at 1:23 AM • 2 comments
  24. Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost (www.404media.co)
    35 points • by theanonymousone • today at 8:00 AM • 11 comments
  25. Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)
    210 points • by minimaxir • today at 3:26 AM • 27 comments
  26. Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted (www.bbc.com)
    17 points • by 1659447091 • today at 4:24 AM • 12 comments
  27. Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (zeus.ugent.be)
    90 points • by robinpdev • 08/01/2026 • 7 comments
  28. Assert(): A Modern How To (fiberfs.io)
    13 points • by nyc_pizzadev • last Tuesday at 5:42 AM • 16 comments
  29. Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (blog.getutm.app)
    185 points • by electricant • yesterday at 1:33 PM • 39 comments
  30. Incentives are for losers (www.experimental-history.com)
    127 points • by bkudria • today at 1:49 AM • 86 comments
  31. Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks (medium.com)
    53 points • by fagnerbrack • 08/02/2026 • 9 comments
  32. Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake (jakearchibald.com)
    44 points • by robin_reala • 07/28/2026 • 3 comments
  33. Message your other Claude Code sessions (code.claude.com)
    137 points • by mfiguiere • yesterday at 3:34 PM • 56 comments
  34. Datalog Disassembly (github.com)
    51 points • by aboardRat4 • last Monday at 4:13 AM • 6 comments
  35. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (blog.senko.net)
    776 points • by senko • yesterday at 2:32 PM • 458 comments
  36. The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video] (gdcvault.com)
    47 points • by hyperific • last Wednesday at 6:42 AM • 11 comments
  37. Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)
    194 points • by gumby • yesterday at 4:04 PM • 152 comments
  38. Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding (www.science.org)
    61 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 3:03 PM • 3 comments
  39. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
    422 points • by bhavansig • yesterday at 9:18 AM • 123 comments
  40. Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)
    578 points • by theanonymousone • yesterday at 6:09 PM • 258 comments
  41. When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense (2019) (software.rajivprab.com)
    26 points • by whack • last Monday at 7:35 PM • 24 comments
  42. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
    398 points • by 882542F3884314B • yesterday at 10:57 AM • 381 comments
  43. TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
    56 points • by skibz • yesterday at 5:42 PM • 18 comments
  44. Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)
    111 points • by rfarley04 • yesterday at 12:31 PM • 94 comments
  45. ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style (arstechnica.com)
    59 points • by Eloissssss • today at 2:01 AM • 37 comments
  46. Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
    82 points • by rahen • yesterday at 1:28 PM • 13 comments
  47. BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments (omnistrate.com)
    71 points • by kkgupta • last Tuesday at 1:37 AM • 12 comments
  48. Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age (itsfoss.com)
    108 points • by WaitWaitWha • today at 4:03 AM • 92 comments
  49. Hyper-Markdown – Markdown for knowledge graphs (hyper-markdown.org)
    20 points • by divingstar • yesterday at 9:53 PM • 7 comments
  50. From your doorbell to your home network (adepts.of0x.cc)
    82 points • by mmoogle • last Wednesday at 12:43 AM • 11 comments