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The power of two random choices

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2012/01/17/two-random.html
3•signa11•3m ago•0 comments

Ronnie Rondell, Stuntman Set on Fire for Pink Floyd Cover, Dies at 88

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/us/ronnie-rondell-dead.html
3•donohoe•4m ago•0 comments

Kneel Before Zod

http://www.i-mockery.com/generalzod/default.php
3•mistyvales•6m ago•0 comments

THE BIBITES - Digital Life

https://www.thebibites.com/?v=0b3b97fa6688
3•frozenseven•6m ago•0 comments

UK Government expands police use of facial recognition vans

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4wy21dwkwo
4•hacker_yacker•7m ago•0 comments

HotSwiftUI – Hot Reloading SwiftUI Apps

https://github.com/johnno1962/HotSwiftUI
3•wahnfrieden•8m ago•0 comments

Various desktop Linux tips for newbies

https://akselmo.dev/posts/how-to-linux-2025/
3•signa11•10m ago•0 comments

Beg HN: I Am Looking for a Friend

3•lihaciudaniel•10m ago•0 comments

MakerCon: Alasdair Allan and "The Inevitability of Smart Dust" (2014) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnnWrLt_RCo
2•paulnpace•12m ago•0 comments

NUMA Is the New Network: Reshaping Per-Socket Microservice Placement

https://codemia.io/blog/path/NUMA-Is-the-New-Network-How-Per-Socket-Memory-Models-Are-Reshaping-Microservice-Placement
2•signa11•13m ago•0 comments

Test drive Linux distros online

https://distrosea.com/
3•exiguus•15m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Approaches to decluttering a disorganised digital hoard?

2•phs318u•16m ago•1 comments

Gouach wants you to insert and pluck the cells from its Infinite e-bike battery

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/gouach-wants-you-to-insert-and-pluck-the-cells-from-its-infinite-e-bike-battery/
2•pabs3•20m ago•0 comments

8M patients: the only neurosurgeon in Sierra Leone

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/08/17/g-s1-82000/neurosurgeon-neurosurgery-sierra-leone
4•bookofjoe•21m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I invented a new type of crossword with partially obscured clues

https://lexaobscura.com
2•laffcollie•25m ago•1 comments

Caote: KV Cache Eviction for LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14051
2•bbzjk7•31m ago•0 comments

A fraudulent cancer breakthrough investigated

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/13/magazine/sally-kornbluth-duke-research-scandal/
3•abawany•32m ago•0 comments

Men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/17/being-short-is-a-curse-the-men-paying-thousands-to-get-their-legs-broken-and-lengthened
4•pseudolus•33m ago•0 comments

Wildfires in Canada are now burning where they never used to

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/17/new-canada-wildfires-locations
5•pseudolus•38m ago•1 comments

Logistic Regression-based Immunotherapy-response Score

https://loris.ccr.cancer.gov
2•gone35•38m ago•0 comments

A Man Lost His Career for Sharing the Babylon Bee [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl4bsL9Bl-g
3•keepamovin•39m ago•1 comments

IPv4 Address Exhaustion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion
2•alhazraed•39m ago•0 comments

A New Reality for Terminal Cancer: Longer Lives, with Chronic Uncertainty

https://www.wsj.com/health/terminal-cancer-treatments-lifespan-acde24cf
2•impish9208•44m ago•1 comments

Sustainability in Boreal Forests: Does Elevated CO2 Increase Wood Volume?

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17/15/7017
2•PaulHoule•45m ago•0 comments

The Rise of Cute Debt

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/buy-now-pay-later-women-shopping-debt/683883/
4•bdev12345•45m ago•2 comments

Nanobots to Treat Tooth Sensitivity

https://newatlas.com/medical-devices/tooth-hypersensitivity-calbot-nanobot/
2•Gaishan•46m ago•0 comments

Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN (2023)

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/build-your-own-private-wireguard-vpn-pivpn
2•thunderbong•51m ago•0 comments

Mangle – a language for deductive database programming

https://github.com/google/mangle
3•simonpure•58m ago•0 comments

A mysterious particle could explain the Universe's missing antimatter

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2025/neutrinos-could-explain-universes-missing-antimatter
3•ProAm•59m ago•0 comments

Clojure Async Flow Guide

https://clojure.github.io/core.async/flow-guide.html
12•simonpure•1h ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

What Even Is Instagram Now?

https://www.wired.com/story/what-even-is-instagram-now/
4•donsupreme•2h ago

Comments

pyman•1h ago
I know the answer to this one:

Instagram used to be a photo sharing app, but after Mark Zuckerberg bought it, it turned into an infinite scroll of junk that keeps you glued to your phone for hours, chasing the next video to make you feel a little less miserable about wasting your time.