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Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

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1•signa11•3m ago•0 comments

Sid Meier's System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
1•GaryBluto•11m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Slop News – HN front page now, but it's all slop

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3•keepamovin•12m ago•1 comments

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1•justinlord•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bitcoin wallet on NXP SE050 secure element, Tor-only open source

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2•sickthecat•17m ago•1 comments

White House Explores Opening Antitrust Probe on Homebuilders

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1•petethomas•17m ago•0 comments

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How do you estimate AI app development costs accurately?

1•insights123•23m ago•0 comments

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 5

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-5/
1•goto1•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP Server for TradeStation

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1•theelderwand•26m ago•0 comments

Canada unveils auto industry plan in latest pivot away from US

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2•breve•27m ago•1 comments

The essential Reinhold Niebuhr: selected essays and addresses

https://archive.org/details/essentialreinhol0000nieb
1•baxtr•30m ago•0 comments

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1•tempodox•31m ago•0 comments

StovexGlobal – Compliance Gaps to Note

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1•AbduNebu•36m ago•0 comments

Trump says America should move on from Epstein – it may not be that easy

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6•tempodox•36m ago•2 comments

Tiny Clippy – A native Office Assistant built in Rust and egui

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LegalArgumentException: From Courtrooms to Clojure – Sen [video]

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1•adityaathalye•43m ago•0 comments

US moves to deport 5-year-old detained in Minnesota

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8•petethomas•47m ago•2 comments

If you lose your passport in Austria, head for McDonald's Golden Arches

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Chinese chemical supplier causes global baby formula recall

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2•fkdk•1h ago•0 comments

I've used AI to write 100% of my code for a year as an engineer

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AI-native capabilities, a new API Catalog, and updated plans and pricing

https://blog.postman.com/new-capabilities-march-2026/
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What changed in tech from 2010 to 2020?

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3•endorphine•1h ago•0 comments

From Human Ergonomics to Agent Ergonomics

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1•Anon84•1h ago•0 comments

Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Inertial_Reference_Sphere
1•cyanf•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Without Deeds, Without Names

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/without-deeds-without-names
31•toomuchtodo•4mo ago

Comments

keiferski•4mo ago
This article reminds me of medieval cathedrals, which (from what I understand) were basically built by craftsmen that were functionally anonymous. These incredible achievements were made without any real desire for fame or desire to be remembered posthumously, by name.

It made me wonder if there are any analogous projects in the modern world. Doesn’t seem like there is anything in the architectural realm, but maybe we could consider things like subway systems and infrastructure to be along the same lines, just with modern industrial values and not medieval ones.

Wikipedia sort of counts, in the software world.

brazukadev•4mo ago
Yes. git is a gift Linus gave to humanity.
wizzwizz4•4mo ago
Linus Torvalds started the Git project, but soon handed it over to another developer. Pop quiz: what was this developer's name?
WJW•4mo ago
Isn't pretty much everything in the world like this? I have no idea who built my house, designed the road network in my city, programmed the driver for the keyboard I'm typing this comment on. Even for "big" projects, I don't think anyone except for a small group of people would know (without looking it up) the name of the lead engineer of the A380 project, or the person who was in charge of designing the ISS. Even less people will know the names of the people who actually built those things. Almost everyone in the modern world is functionally anonymous.
keiferski•4mo ago
Sure, but I meant more in the sense of a giant project that is aesthetically impressive and will exist long after the creators’ lives.
WJW•4mo ago
I'm willing to bet nobody in this thread knows the name of the architect of the Burj Khalifa either, without looking it up online. Let alone the name of the bloke who installed the toilet fixings on the 243rd floor, or of any of the other thousands of anonymous tradesmen who were involved.
keiferski•4mo ago
Yep that’s a good example.
titanomachy•4mo ago
Title should have (~1330 CE)?
txrx0000•4mo ago
Reality over propriety.

...seems to be the sentiment expressed here: there is so much more of everything else to care about than money and fame.

But there is also value in caring about those things a little bit. Propriety is a part of reality after all. We just have to be careful not to delude ourselves into thinking that it's the other way around.