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There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html
27•gukoff•3h ago•3 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword
80•BruceEel•5h ago•28 comments

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
336•seg6•11h ago•132 comments

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

https://os8088.com/
175•jggonz•10h ago•91 comments

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html
239•bobbiechen•1w ago•22 comments

Fastmail offers EU data region

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/
421•groomlake•18h ago•218 comments

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
207•adletbalzhanov•11h ago•121 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
214•jmusall•11h ago•17 comments

Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/46/Supplement_1/A34/7181621
128•bohaska•9h ago•105 comments

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/8/4/the-grid-that-doubles-the-strength-of-the-ground
14•michaefe•4d ago•3 comments

The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)

http://longbets.org/601/
147•doubletwoyou•5h ago•63 comments

Protopia

https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/protopia
16•surprisetalk•4d ago•7 comments

Stylized GGX Shading

https://alexandrelamure.github.io/graphics-posts/stylized-ggx-shading.html
25•ibobev•4d ago•0 comments

_for-sale DNS records

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
398•shaunpud•20h ago•153 comments

Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-025-00171-5
63•davidbarker•6d ago•20 comments

How to Survive in a Louisiana Swamp

https://unherd.com/2026/08/how-to-survive-on-a-louisiana-swamp/
4•bookofjoe•3d ago•0 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves
117•hakkikonu•4d ago•47 comments

TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics

https://theoremdb.org/
42•frozenseven•9h ago•2 comments

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-pro...
150•MarcoDewey•14h ago•37 comments

Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260807-should-i-stop-cracking-my-knuckles
60•tchalla•11h ago•66 comments

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week
191•minimaxir•6h ago•20 comments

Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost

https://www.404media.co/software-giant-sap-stops-most-travel-and-hiring-because-of-ais-soaring-cost/
26•theanonymousone•2h ago•7 comments

Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/25-26/12urenloop-uwb/
85•robinpdev•1w ago•7 comments

Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g64152v71o
10•1659447091•6h ago•0 comments

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
180•electricant•20h ago•39 comments

Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks

https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/finding-zombies-in-our-systems-a-real-world-story-of-cpu...
52•fagnerbrack•6d ago•9 comments

Incentives are for losers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/incentives-are-for-losers
122•bkudria•8h ago•81 comments

Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake

https://jakearchibald.com/2026/my-tooltip-a11y-mistake/
37•robin_reala•1w ago•3 comments

Assert(): A Modern How To

https://fiberfs.io/blog/assert_a_modern_how_to
10•nyc_pizzadev•5d ago•13 comments

Message your other Claude Code sessions

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging
131•mfiguiere•18h ago•54 comments