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When did French fries become the standard side to serve with a hamburger?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/39v00a/comment/cs72af6/
7•thunderbong•51m ago

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Kinrany•18m ago
I'm curious why they lost to McDonalds
gumby•6m ago
On Friday I had a hamburger in the cafeteria of $BIG_COMPANY … in Belgium, the home of the “French fry”.

It was served with boiled potatoes.

Where Will RISC-V Be in 20 Years? Poll Results

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/where-will-risc-v-be-in-20-years
1•rbanffy•24s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Layerz – Native App Designer

https://www.layerz.app/
1•jaeyoung_choi•2m ago•0 comments

Bitcoin mining data center condemned after leaking 3M gallons of water

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/bitcoin-mining-data-center-condemned-afte...
2•rbanffy•2m ago•0 comments

How algorithms are making our environments bland

https://theconversation.com/how-algorithms-are-making-our-environments-bland-289917
1•geox•2m ago•0 comments

An off the self BYOA platform

1•theguysudo•2m ago•0 comments

The Man That Invented the Popup

https://galratner.substack.com/p/the-man-that-invented-the-popup
1•blartpaul•4m ago•0 comments

Washington Post says Piker used AI generated audio but admits it has no proof

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/2096304873557877132
2•slowin•4m ago•0 comments

All of Claude's "Never Do This" in Fable 5.1 System Prompt

https://artifactbin.dev/@vivek/MLWEU6-claude-s-nevers
2•nuwandavek•5m ago•0 comments

Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry

1•chipfixer•5m ago•0 comments

Big Brother is going to college: The federal plan to track students for life

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4710733/college-transparency-act-student-privacy-risks/
3•iamnothere•6m ago•1 comments

Apex City – Build a city that works

https://apexcity.reallexi.io
1•m22386•8m ago•0 comments

FDA Recalls IV Fluids over Possible Fiberglass, Stainless Steel Contaminants

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/fda-recalls-iv-saline-fluids-fiberglass-stainless-steel-co...
4•speckx•9m ago•0 comments

The Association for Computational Heresy

https://sigbovik.org/
2•jerlendds•12m ago•1 comments

Apple and Atari Connections – By Paul Lefebvre – Goto 10

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/apple-and-atari-connections
2•rbanffy•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?

1•rogerrogerr•16m ago•0 comments

Jelly Baby

https://jelly.scottsun.io
1•memalign•17m ago•0 comments

Guess the Song in 0.1 Seconds

https://playdaily.org/songless
5•Hemmaamlin•18m ago•1 comments

Sunday programmer emergency: production is down. (quiz)

https://textlog.cc/post/3267?hn
2•stagas•18m ago•0 comments

OpenAI: We monitor internal coding agents for misalignment

https://openai.com/index/how-we-monitor-internal-coding-agents-misalignment/
2•lukaspetersson•21m ago•0 comments

Big brother watch report reveals free speech is in "downward spiral" in the UK

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/campaigners-urge-burnham-to-review-uks-anti-free-sp...
3•DeepLogin•21m ago•0 comments

Feature complete, as long as you add more features

https://site.sebasmonia.com/posts/2026-09-06-feature-complete--as-long-as-you-add-more-features.html
1•meetpateltech•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Robot-duck soccer in the browser, powered by MuJoCo and learned walking

https://fpvsim.com/sim-duck
1•mosfets•23m ago•0 comments

.gitignore Generator by Codra

https://codra.run/free-tools/gitignore-generator
2•devarshishimpi•25m ago•0 comments

Homelab deployments: a tutorial made of prompts

https://tomjohnell.com/homelab-deployments-a-tutorial-made-of-prompts/
2•tjohnell•26m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to prepare for coding/system design interviews on a mobile phone

1•k_dev•27m ago•0 comments

AI Is Making Us Less Human

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/open-ai-consciousness-morality/688535/
2•paulpauper•29m ago•1 comments

Alzheimer's trial to test drug on people without symptoms to test prevention

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/05/alzheimers-trial-drug-dementia
4•borski•29m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What are your predictions for the rest of 2026?

3•roschdal•31m ago•1 comments

An Alien Mind

https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/
16•tosh•31m ago•5 comments

TreasuryDirect is launching a controversial login system

https://tipswatch.com/2026/08/17/treasurydirect-is-launching-a-controversial-login-system/
1•clcaev•32m ago•2 comments