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Bitcoin Buried in Newport Landfill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_buried_in_Newport_landfill
2•lemaudit•2h ago

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gnabgib•2h ago
The whole story is covered in HN posts:

Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site (163 points, 2013, 123 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6809065

Man Searches Through Landfill for 8 Years for $350M Lost Bitcoin Wallet (20 points, 2021, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29586640

Man who threw away £150m in Bitcoin hopes AI and robot dogs will get it back (10 points, 2022, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32326497

Man has 'finely tuned' plan to find £500M Bitcoin thrown in tip, court told (10 points, 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42308909

Judge ends man's 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in Bitcoin (69 points, 7 months ago, 79 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42691913

Man who lost Bitcoin fortune in Welsh tip explores purchase of entire landfill (41 points, 6 months ago, 58 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999044

Orcas pretend to drown one of their own in macabre training session

https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/watch-a-pod-of-orcas-pretending-to-drown-one-of-their-own-in-macabre-training-session
1•delichon•1m ago•0 comments

The Super Weight in Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07191
1•jonbaer•1m ago•0 comments

White House Preps Order to Punish Banks That Discriminate Against Conservatives

https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/white-house-preps-order-to-punish-banks-that-discriminate-against-conservatives-8af18854
1•jaredwiener•1m ago•0 comments

What Is Superintelligence?

https://www.thefp.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-says-superintelligence-is-imminent-tech-business-artificial-intelligence
1•paulpauper•2m ago•0 comments

My Constituency: Tough Obesity Cases

https://www.exfatloss.com/p/my-constituency-tough-obesity-cases
1•paulpauper•2m ago•0 comments

Fun with Ghostty Shaders

https://catskull.net/fun-with-ghostty-shaders.html
1•cfcfcf•3m ago•0 comments

Covid-19 Made Our Brains Age Faster

https://time.com/7304417/covid-19-brain-effects-aging/
1•gmays•4m ago•0 comments

Marshall McLuhan Was Right

https://slate.com/technology/2025/07/ai-artificial-intelligence-peter-thiel-dangerous-marshall-mcluhan.html
1•laurex•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Match-3 Game I Built for a Game Jam

https://sqrz.app
1•jasonjmcghee•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: FireList – Companies ranked by years to FIRE

https://firelist.io
1•rlindskog•9m ago•0 comments

Google Makes Fun of Apple Intelligence Siri Delay in Ad Promoting Pixel 10

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/04/google-pixel-10-ad-siri-delay/
1•mgh2•14m ago•0 comments

Companies Tried to Save Money with AI Now Spending a Fortune to Fix Its Mistakes

1•laurex•14m ago•0 comments

The Future of Accrescent

https://blog.accrescent.app/posts/the-future-of-accrescent/
1•Mindless2112•14m ago•0 comments

How Hyper built a 1m-accurate "indoor GPS"

https://twitter.com/AndrewHartAR/status/1952427002696290515
1•AndrewHart•15m ago•0 comments

Our fight with Oracle is getting crazy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tGwOv3scKw
2•pier25•37m ago•0 comments

AgentSource.io – open-source your repo with AI agents (early access)

1•Mohnishgopi•38m ago•0 comments

Unit Testing for LLM Evaluations

https://evalprotocol.io/introduction
3•mehzer•39m ago•0 comments

Software flies airplanes. And sometimes software fails (2010)

https://softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/sscl/moglen-software_in_everything-transcript.html
2•petcat•47m ago•0 comments

Firefly IPO range would value company at more than $6B

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/04/firefly-aerospace-ipo-range-space.html
2•geox•52m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Created My Fav Wordle Game Using AI Copilot (No Dev Experience)

https://wordsdescrambler.com/solver/wordle/
2•rg12345•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Quickly log vehicle maintenance by taking a photo of your invoice

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vehicle-maintenance-log/id6744715294
1•zarqaTech•1h ago•0 comments

Language Models Improve When Pretraining Data Matches Target Tasks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12466
2•neehao•1h ago•1 comments

Making Software Harder

https://wryco.com/posts/1754297319-making-software-harder
1•ramity•1h ago•0 comments

Large-scale illegal wildlife shops in Laos found scamming Chinese tourists

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/large-scale-illegal-wildlife-shops-in-laos-found-scamming-chinese-tourists/
3•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Balloon risk management game

https://balloonriskgame.vercel.app/
1•rp0_0•1h ago•0 comments

Semantic Refinement/Dependent Typing for Knuckledragger/SMTLIB Pt 1

https://www.philipzucker.com/refinement_kdrag1/
1•matt_d•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built the fastest VIN decoder

https://github.com/cardog-ai/corgi
3•samsullivan•1h ago•0 comments

AI Chef

https://www.cloudchef.co/zippy
1•artur_makly•1h ago•1 comments

The Crypto Crises Are Coming

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-crypto-legislation-lacks-sufficient-regulatory-safeguards-by-simon-johnson-2025-08
8•clumsysmurf•1h ago•2 comments

iPhone rakes in 3 times the revenue of any rival

https://www.cultofmac.com/news/iphone-rakes-in-3-times-the-revenue-of-any-rival
5•mgh2•1h ago•2 comments