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Does Computer Science Need Computers?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-computer-science-need-computers-20260828/
2•Michelangelo11•1h ago

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musha68k•41m ago
I guess Dijkstra would have commented something along the lines of "just call it informatics already".
SanjayMehta•40m ago
Do chefs need kitchens?

What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/opinion/ai-power-lobbying-military-britain-east-india-company....
1•Anon84•47s ago•0 comments

Atlantropa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
1•yitchelle•2m ago•0 comments

Iceland votes 'No' to reopening EU accession talks

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/30/iceland-votes-no-to-further-eu-accession-talks-in-t...
1•sehw•4m ago•0 comments

Rehearse a specific English work conversation before you have it

https://www.unfreezy.com
1•czaar1•4m ago•0 comments

Groom of the Stool

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom_of_the_Stool
1•soupspaces•5m ago•0 comments

IguanaTex

https://github.com/Jonathan-LeRoux/IguanaTex
1•Eridanus2•5m ago•0 comments

Innovation Doesn't Happen on Schedule

https://www.thesignalist.io/s/innovation-doesnt-happen-on-schedule/
1•kodesko•6m ago•0 comments

The largest electric plane takes flight today

https://www.popsci.com/technology/worlds-largest-electric-plane/
1•thinkingemote•7m ago•0 comments

Scientists Create the Littlest Big Bang to Study the Universe's Origins

https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-create-littlest-big-bang-to-study-universe-origins/
1•joozio•7m ago•0 comments

When Led Zeppelin bombed in front of 1.9B people [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPJJdQfVxyg
1•jurf•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Thousand – 1k founders, 1 question, one book

https://thethousand.co
1•jabed•8m ago•1 comments

Google Maps – Lake America

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lake+America/@43.7036865,-79.2490163,8z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1...
1•pseudolus•9m ago•0 comments

Columbia House Is Shutting Down

https://pitchfork.com/story/columbia-house-is-shutting-down/
1•pseudolus•16m ago•0 comments

He Did Not Conquer: Franklin's Failure to Annex Canada

https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2025/12/how-vain-an-attempt-review-he-did-not-conquer/
2•Bluestein•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Get your free AI search visibility scan

https://www.visiscan.app
1•not_wowinter14•18m ago•0 comments

Tortoise and the Birds – an African folktale recreated with Lego animation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVHlqLa7-u0
1•CodePapi_•21m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Nuzzle – adorable live wallpapers of your pets

https://usenuzzle.com
1•13001r•22m ago•0 comments

Against Dumb Vibe Coding, Not Vibe Coding

https://funnygeek.com/essays/vibe-coding-speech/
1•ifoo•23m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Drop a SQL schema, get an interactive ER diagram

https://mcdview.dev/
1•PatuDev•23m ago•0 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto: Basic Superlogical Demo

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2093451043661316217
2•mdrachuk•26m ago•0 comments

The U.S. Munitions Crisis

https://www.cfr.org/articles/the-u-s-munitions-crisis
2•Betelbuddy•26m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Time tracking for solo consultants that ends in a PDF invoice

https://hourtobill.com/demo
1•Stackedboost•27m ago•0 comments

Tja – TUI for learning German verbs in your terminal, one-armed-bandit style

https://github.com/progapandist/tja
1•progapandist•28m ago•1 comments

US Threatens Britain over Falklands

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/08/28/us-uk-boost-defence-spending-lose-falklands-sup...
1•Betelbuddy•30m ago•1 comments

Iceland votes against restarting talks on joining EU

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70le8ed1plo
2•vinni2•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Train 300M/32-Layer Model in 1.5GB RAM on Base M1 Mac

1•vlad_kalinkin•31m ago•0 comments

Only believe what you can validate: a verification framework for agentic AI

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/only-believe-what-you-can-validate/
2•yani__•32m ago•0 comments

Delhi Metro Jazz

https://www.delhimetrojazz.com/
1•mscholz•34m ago•0 comments

Veldo: Stop paying for App Store keywords that never pay back

https://veldo.app/
1•welsenesbros•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rose – reusable foundation embeddings for industrial 1H NMR

https://github.com/romboai/rose-1h-nmr
1•zaza3311•37m ago•0 comments