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The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You

https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/
3•calcifer•1h ago

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calcifer•1h ago
> I don’t need a stair-climbing wheelchair that costs $30,000 and requires a maintenance crew. I need better doorknobs and/or a ramp. But a ramp is boring. You can't make investors have a hard on for a ramp that doesn't connect to the cloud. You can’t give a TED Talk about a ramp. You can’t get venture capital funding for a slightly wider doorframe.

Adding Recursive Functions to Futhark

https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2026-08-05-recursion.html
1•Svip•42s ago•0 comments

Inside the Long, AI-Powered Quest to Perfect Pringle-Making

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/inside-the-long-ai-powered-quest-to-perfect-pringle-making-ab37a231
1•thm•1m ago•0 comments

Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260729051515.htm
1•jandrewrogers•1m ago•0 comments

Fontstash: Light-weight online font texture atlas builder

https://github.com/memononen/fontstash
1•klaussilveira•2m ago•0 comments

The power of key paths in Swift

https://www.swiftbysundell.com/articles/the-power-of-key-paths-in-swift/
1•conferza•2m ago•0 comments

Using Trust and Safety Tycoon in the Classroom

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/04/using-trust-safety-tycoon-in-the-classroom/
1•hn_acker•2m ago•0 comments

Yet another metaphor about tech debt

https://ericwbailey.website/published/heres-yet-another-metaphor-about-tech-debt/
1•speckx•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What paid tools have you now replaced with personalized AI-coded tools?

1•gtbcb•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: DotDoctor – Interactive CLI tool to diagnose dev env and update system

https://github.com/m11tya/DotDoctor
1•m1tya•6m ago•0 comments

33554432px is the max value ff a CSS length layout unit

https://nerdy.dev/max-value-of-a-css-length-layout-unit
1•speckx•8m ago•0 comments

Would You Like to Come to a Barbecue?

https://nothingbutawordbag.substack.com/p/would-you-like-to-come-to-a-barbecue
1•herbertl•8m ago•0 comments

Things I would like to tell my 10 year old self

https://winnielim.org/journal/things-i-would-like-to-tell-my-10-year-old-self/
1•herbertl•9m ago•0 comments

Plate – A rich-text editor framework for React

https://platejs.org/
1•mrlightful•10m ago•0 comments

How–and Why–To Cull Your Book Collection

https://lithub.com/how-and-why-to-cull-your-book-collection/
1•herbertl•10m ago•0 comments

Spam on GitHub

https://blog.gitguardian.com/40-million-fake-push-when-spam-commits-took-over-the-public-github/
2•guisch•10m ago•0 comments

Write/read review your interview at a company

https://www.apply-tracker.com/en/company-reviews
1•mirnumbing•11m ago•0 comments

The Friendship That Made Google (2018)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge
2•tosh•11m ago•0 comments

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textures

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curiosity-rover/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-...
1•Tomte•12m ago•0 comments

It's cute how Grandma doesn't even know how to blood tithe to the Data Lord

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-cute-how-grandma-doesnt-even-know-how-to-blood-tithe-to-t...
2•diafygi•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vest.fyi – equity calculator shows range of outcomes and benchmarks

https://vest.fyi/
1•egyptianblue•13m ago•1 comments

FastGen-PDD: Parallel Decoding Distillation for Image and Video Generation

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/genair/pdd/
1•gmays•15m ago•0 comments

Ancient Sea Worms Have "Biometal" Jaws

https://nautil.us/these-ancient-sea-worms-have-biometal-jaws-1283391
1•Brajeshwar•16m ago•0 comments

Ledgerful – I built a local tool to catch when AI invents stuff in my code

https://www.ledgerful.dev
2•ryan-b•19m ago•1 comments

Stateless MCP is cheaper to scale

https://jeffauriemma.leaflet.pub/3msdu742fik24
2•jdauriemma•20m ago•0 comments

Google is killing Google Assistant next month

https://www.neowin.net/news/another-one-bites-the-dust-google-is-finally-killing-google-assistant...
2•bundie•21m ago•0 comments

Offensive Internet Posture

https://bruceediger.com/posts/offensive-machine/
2•DaOne256•22m ago•1 comments

Batteries are getting cheaper while gas gets pricier. Here's why

https://theconversation.com/batteries-are-getting-cheaper-while-gas-gets-pricier-heres-why-287956
2•epistasis•22m ago•0 comments

Wikipedia: AI or Not Quiz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AI_or_not_quiz
1•hiccuphippo•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode

https://github.com/adrida/hud-mode
2•adam_rida•23m ago•1 comments

Jellyware

https://twitter.com/thorstenball/status/2085017920782877041
1•tosh•23m ago•0 comments