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Ask HN: Who is the best computer programmer of all times?

1•xqb64•56s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pgconverge – An experimental multi-master PostgreSQL framework in Go

1•sobowalebukola•1m ago•0 comments

MFA-optional banks leave accounts open for thieves

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/05/mfa-optional-banks-leave-safe-doors-and-accounts-...
1•logickkk1•2m ago•0 comments

Claude Played Me for a Fool

https://ramblingafter.substack.com/p/claude-played-me-for-a-fool
1•paulpauper•4m ago•0 comments

Prepare for Airplane Purgatory

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/07/airlines-flight-extended-tarmac-delay/687802/
1•paulpauper•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: GameFork – AI agents publish and fork browser games via MCP

https://gamefork.io
1•TakayukiKomada•5m ago•0 comments

Claude Code cache guard because Fable 5 tokens are way too precious to waste

https://github.com/yuliang615/claude-cache-guard
1•yuliang615•5m ago•0 comments

IBM claims first sub-1 nanometer chip technology

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/ibm-claims-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology/
1•gmays•7m ago•0 comments

The Experiences and Effects of Psychopathy in Romantic Relationships

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9527357/
2•wslh•11m ago•0 comments

The first programmer I know who was murdered in a targeted strike was Haitham

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n12/muhammad-shehada/i-would-never-release-him
1•bhouston•11m ago•0 comments

The Future of Flipper Zero Development

https://blog.flipper.net/future-of-flipper-zero-development/
1•croes•12m ago•0 comments

Play Minesweeper as a One Giant World Map; Strait of Hormuz Heavly Mined

https://minesweeper.free/world/
1•nadermx•12m ago•0 comments

Taxing Artificial Intelligence

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02144
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Keyboard-first Hacker News client with a twist

https://www.orangecrumbs.com/hn/
1•oyster143•19m ago•0 comments

Every Postcard Tells a Story

https://observer.co.uk/style/features/article/every-postcard-tells-a-story
1•NaOH•19m ago•0 comments

I Found Something Weird in Claude Fable 5 Talks Too Much This Fixes It Shorts [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jWLxXeL5p5E
1•gptaiclips•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sun light and path calculation for photography

https://www.lightwindow.app
1•sourabh86•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A GPUdriven voxel engine with binary greedy meshing & indirectrendering

https://github.com/omar-owis/VoxelEngine
1•Iwho•21m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How Do You "Not Write Any Code by Hand" with a Token Budget?

1•mc-0•21m ago•0 comments

Loss of Cognitive Flexibility, Not Memory, May Be Earliest Sign of Alzheimer's

https://nautil.us/memory-loss-may-not-be-the-earliest-sign-of-alzheimers-1282448
2•bookofjoe•22m ago•0 comments

I built a weather station that runs machine learning to forecast weather

https://github.com/Dominic-Muscatella/weather-station-alpha/tree/master
2•makegreatthings•23m ago•1 comments

Do you hate XML? (2010)

https://sigfrid-lundberg.se/entries/2010/07/hate_xml/
3•theanonymousone•23m ago•0 comments

Dead Forest Theory

https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/dead-forest-theory
2•akkartik•26m ago•0 comments

Wing Commander IV and the FMV future that never quite was

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/07/wing-commander-iv-and-the-fmv-future-that-never-quite-was/
3•ulrischa•26m ago•0 comments

Ancient Greek Technology: The Origins of Robotics and Engineering

https://kotsanas.com/news/ancient-greek-technology/
2•andsoitis•29m ago•0 comments

RetroPad: A Tiny Notepad-style Windows text editor ~2.5kb

https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/TinyRetroPad
2•rishikeshs•29m ago•0 comments

Two nasty surprises in Home Assistant's config

https://blog.frankel.ch/home-assistant/9/
2•edward•29m ago•0 comments

Urban thermal structures in scenarios of hot weather: The Bologna study

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212095526000106?via%3Dihub
1•simonebrunozzi•29m ago•0 comments

QuickFolder: Android Home Screen Organizer and App Launcher

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=QuickFolder&c=apps
1•amm811•31m ago•0 comments

When AI agents get you kicked out from a YC Startup

https://github.com/vaishcodescape/shipd-agent
1•vaishcodescape•33m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The Computers Used in Movies

https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computers.html
47•gitowiec•1h ago

Comments

gitowiec•1h ago
I found ZX Spectrum! And it was not popular in movies
andrea76•48m ago
Commodore 64 film list is really impressive.. .
WillAdams•41m ago
While not a movie, a bunch of NeXT Cubes (at least the monitors) were used in a Madonna video --- apparently some production company got a good deal on machines intended for Japan (hence the katakana interface)
emchammer•33m ago
Cool, what video?
svantana•26m ago
It's "Rain" (1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15kWlTrpt5k

pieterr•18m ago
With Ryûichi Sakamoto as The Director.
wgx•12m ago
He’s the reason Mogwai have a track called “Ritchie Sacramento”
martin-adams•36m ago
What timing. I was just preparing my Sony Vaio PCT-C1MHP only yesterday to try and sell. I remember seeing this in a movie around 2000 (probably Charlies Angels) and got one.

https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=64

hamburglar•29m ago
No Cray appearances? Surprising.
pieterr•10m ago
Sneakers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/95izj7/sneake...

purplezooey•22m ago
My fav. so far is the IMSAI 8080 in "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (2007).
eh_why_not•17m ago
Love sites like this, has all the goodness from the early Internet days:

One nerdy hobby-type subject with a clear passion behind it, appreciable by anyone, and a simple yet effective design that works without Javascript (hey look at that, a website that doesn't go BLANK PAGE on first visit!)

jim_lawless•17m ago
I remember seeing the TRS-80's in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou but I didn't know that they were Model IV's.

According to this list, there was a TRS-80 Model III in the Star Wars TV series Andor:

Andor - Season 1, Episode 1, "Kassa" (2022)

ssenssei•17m ago
Fun Fact: in king of queens, most of the pcs (for example airport episode with doug's parents) are just RCT tvs with paper printout of a screen taped over it.
jmclnx•16m ago
Ones in the List I have used :)

* CDC 6600

* DEC VAX 11/780 (IIRC)

* Honeywell H200, did not expect to see this on the list

* IBM S/370 (IIRC)

* IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads - 760, T43, T420, T61, W500

* Wang Professional Computer - these were bomb proof. I had a 16 bit Unix running on this.

* Wang WLTC