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Francis Bacon's Essays, in print 400 years

https://theconversation.com/francis-bacons-essays-explore-the-darker-side-of-human-nature-400-years-on-they-still-instruct-and-unnerve-259051
1•cwmoore•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TheFastHost – Fast and Affordable Web Hosting

https://thefasthost.net/
1•gsoftwarelab•6m ago•0 comments

We're Losing Our Love of Learning and AI Is to Blame

https://mndaily.com/294949/opinion/op-ed-were-losing-our-love-of-learning-and-ai-is-to-blame/
1•jruohonen•7m ago•0 comments

Sheltervrclub

https://www.twitch.tv/sheltervrclub
1•hnuser123456•9m ago•0 comments

Your Continuous Delivery Transformation Is Not Complete

https://www.maxdaten.io/2025-08-09-your-continuous-delivery-transformation-is-not-complete
1•maxdaten•10m ago•0 comments

Quantum Computing Could Upend Bitcoin

https://www.barrons.com/articles/quantum-computing-bitcoin-blockchain-55474890
1•bookofjoe•13m ago•1 comments

How to Phish a Crypto Scammer

https://leonewton.com/posts/calling-crypto_scammer/
1•leonewton253•15m ago•1 comments

Disinformation report: The Wikipedia article in the most languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-08-09/Disinformation_report
1•decimalenough•17m ago•0 comments

Thinking Machines: Mathematical Reasoning in the Age of LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00459
1•chrsw•17m ago•0 comments

The Telemessage saga, and how you can view the data

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/10/telemessage_archive_online/
1•defrost•18m ago•0 comments

The new Compute's Gazette magazine has a BBS column

https://old.reddit.com/r/bbs/comments/1mm6hzh/the_new_computes_gazette_magazine_has_a_bbs_column/
1•JPolka•23m ago•1 comments

Cryptophasia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptophasia
1•thunderbong•27m ago•0 comments

Designing an SOI Interleaver Using Genetic Algorithm

https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/12/8/775
1•PaulHoule•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 16-Pad Sampler from Your Videos

https://sampler.rlafuente.com/
1•andes314•29m ago•0 comments

The Tooth Fairy Is Real. She's a Dentist in Seattle

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/parenting/tooth-fairy-dentist-letters.html
1•gmays•29m ago•0 comments

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector A Hacker Showed It Could Be a Bug

https://www.wired.com/story/school-bathroom-vape-detector-audio-bug/
3•voxadam•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gemlink.app – A Social-First Pocket Alternative to Save and Share Web

https://gemlink.app/
1•wainguo•32m ago•0 comments

Buttercup is now open-source

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/08/buttercup-is-now-open-source/
1•wrayjustin•35m ago•0 comments

FidoNet Global HyperText Interface

https://github.com/Mithgol/FGHI-URL/blob/master/FidoURL.txt
1•xk3•37m ago•0 comments

Introduction to the Linux Laptop PCI-DSS at OVHcloud

https://blog.ovhcloud.com/introduction-to-the-linux-laptop-pci-dss-at-ovhcloud/
1•pabs3•38m ago•1 comments

GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?"

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/08/07/blueberry-hill/
3•Wonnk13•40m ago•0 comments

Hamas Pulls Israel Deeper into Gaza

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/israel-gaza-city-benjamin-netanyahu-hamas-59a2f40d
1•andsoitis•52m ago•0 comments

Turns out GPT-5 can count but GPT-5-chat can't

https://bsky.app/profile/nishtahir.com/post/3lvz5nuxue224
1•CarefreeCrayon•52m ago•0 comments

HHS cites list of studies as scientific justification for mRNA cancellation

https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/kennedy-scientific-justification-mrna-vaccines/
3•zzzeek•57m ago•0 comments

Trump administration threatens to strip Harvard University of lucrative patents

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/09/trump-administration-harvard-patent-review
5•andsoitis•1h ago•0 comments

Subversive of What? (1948)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1948/08/subversive-of-what/643363/
1•Jtsummers•1h ago•0 comments

Galileo's telescopes: Seeing is believing (2010)

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/galileos-telescopes-seeing-believing
1•hhs•1h ago•0 comments

Official Prompt Optimizer for GPT-5

https://platform.openai.com/chat/edit?models=gpt-5&optimize=true
1•ayushnangia16•1h ago•0 comments

Google is killing millions of web links to save a few bucks

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/01/google-shuts-down-link-shortener/
5•pseudolus•1h ago•3 comments

Democratizing Access to Alternative Assets for 401(K) Investors

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/democratizing-access-to-alternative-assets-for-401k-investors/
2•harporoeder•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Steve Wozniak's Perforated Pads of $2 Bills

https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n36a40.html
6•CharlesW•2h ago

Comments

hcta•2h ago
This guy was (is) a whole other level of genius.
gnabgib•2h ago
(2015)

Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills (401 points, 2022, 517 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34566738

Woz Buys $2 Bills in Sheets from the Treasury (25 points, 2012, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4342924

CharlesW•2h ago
> (2015)

(2011), which we know thanks to your helpful post which linked to a link to an archive of the source: https://web.archive.org/web/20111122202554/http://archive.wo...

treetalker•1h ago
The photo in the main article (the original HN post) appears to be from 2015, though, because Woz seems to be wearing an Apple Watch.