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RCA VideoDisc's Legacy: Scanning Capacitance Microscope

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rca-videodisc
2•WaitWaitWha•1h ago

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PaulHoule•1h ago
I had a friend who had one of those capacitive video disc players when I was a kid. Those got front of mind for me a few years ago when I noticed that a local fleas market had a lot of the discs but no players. I found out you could probably get a deadstock player on EBay but the belts would need replacing and when the stylus needed replacing… well they don’t make them anymore.

California electric vehicle drivers will lose carpool lane privileges

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-10/california-ev-drivers-will-lose-carpool-lane-...
3•PaulHoule•2m ago•0 comments

The grind tactic in Lean 4 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxpIzxrLkHA
1•matt_d•3m ago•0 comments

Increased vCPU for Workers Builds on paid plans

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/2025-09-07-builds-increased-cpu-paid/
1•NicoJuicy•3m ago•0 comments

Pressure on Canada to Export Water Will Be Immense (2024)

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/11/04/Pressure-Canada-Export-Water-Immense/
1•walterbell•5m ago•0 comments

Teach Kids Electronics Using Dough: Light Up Caterpillar Project

https://newsletter.infiniteretry.com/dough-circuits-led-caterpillar/
3•ekuck•6m ago•1 comments

Atlassian to Acquire DX for $1B

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250918366643/en/Atlassian-Enters-Into-Definitive-Agreeme...
1•wilhelmklopp•7m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How would you lint natural-language specs before LLMs run them?

1•ceyhunkazel•8m ago•0 comments

From suspicion to published curl CVE

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/09/18/from-suspicion-to-published-curl-cve/
2•todsacerdoti•12m ago•0 comments

The dead weight loss of strictly isotonic regression

https://www.gojiberries.io/calibration/
1•neehao•16m ago•0 comments

Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Technology, Rights and Power

https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350464322
2•0xggus•19m ago•0 comments

Boarding Group 1: Why Status Is Our Last Religion

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/boarding-group-one
1•bookofjoe•19m ago•0 comments

Hosting projects built with Cursor / n8n / Lovable is harder than it should be

1•Vikram_jindal•21m ago•0 comments

A Coin Flip by Any Other Name

https://cgad.ski/blog/a-coin-flip-by-any-other-name.html
2•lawrenceyan•24m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Besides micro, helix, btop, and lolcat, what else supports 24 bit color?

1•amichail•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I created a small 2D game about an ant

https://aanthonymax.github.io/ant-and-apples/
5•aanthonymax•30m ago•1 comments

Since Leaving Washington, Elon Musk Has Been All in on His A.I. Company

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/technology/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-xai.html
5•moonka•30m ago•1 comments

Mesda Craftsman Database

http://test0.dlibrary.org/en/nodes/4066-craftsman-database
1•1970-01-01•31m ago•0 comments

The Cache Crash

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/the-cache-crash/
1•Bogdanp•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Illustria – AI illustration generator with free downloadable gallery

https://arcanvia.com/illustria
1•atulnair2202•32m ago•0 comments

Trump floats pulling licenses if networks are 'against' him

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/trump-jimmy-kimmel-tv-network-licenses.html
7•saubeidl•33m ago•0 comments

Listening for the Next Wow Signal with Low-Cost SDR

https://hackaday.com/2025/09/18/listening-for-the-next-wow-signal-with-low-cost-sdr/
1•aureliusm•35m ago•0 comments

FOSDEM 2026: 31st January and first February

https://fosdem.org./2026/news/2025-09-18-fosdem-2026/
1•edward•39m ago•0 comments

Radio Apocalypse: Clearing the Air with Scatana

https://hackaday.com/2025/09/18/radio-apocalypse-clearing-the-air-with-scatana/
1•jnord•40m ago•0 comments

Returning to Church won't save us from nihilism

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/returning-to-church-wont-save-us-from-nihilism/
10•hhs•41m ago•8 comments

In Their Own Words: Trump and Top Officials Change Tone on Free Speech

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/us/politics/trump-free-speech.html
5•duxup•41m ago•1 comments

Lovemoney Game online- popular clicking game

https://lovemoneygames.com
1•Febe1212•43m ago•0 comments

I've built a directory of tech indexes similar to Meritech or Bessemer Cloud

https://multiples.vc/sector-indexes
1•olekskw•47m ago•1 comments

Tanks Were Just Tanks, Until Drones Made Them Change

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/08/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-drones-tanks-milit...
3•bookofjoe•49m ago•1 comments

Zencoder Lets Developers Bring Their CLI Coding Agent of Choice to Its Platform

https://thenewstack.io/zencoder-lets-developers-bring-their-cli-coding-agent-of-choice-to-its-pla...
1•ashvardanian•50m ago•0 comments

10 Myths of Scalable Parallel Languages Part 6: Performance of High-Level Langs

https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/10myths-part6/
2•matt_d•50m ago•0 comments