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My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
170•seg6•5h ago•72 comments

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

https://os8088.com/
82•jggonz•4h ago•32 comments

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html
115•bobbiechen•1w ago•15 comments

The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyrzn8p94o
29•cwwc•2h ago•6 comments

Fastmail offers EU data region

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/
340•groomlake•12h ago•169 comments

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

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
88•adletbalzhanov•5h ago•49 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
69•jmusall•5h ago•11 comments

Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-025-00171-5
21•davidbarker•6d ago•0 comments

_for-sale DNS records

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
366•shaunpud•14h ago•135 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...
100•MarcoDewey•8h ago•22 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves
75•hakkikonu•3d ago•29 comments

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/
365•882542F3884314B•17h ago•360 comments

The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video]

https://gdcvault.com/play/1024135/The-Sound-and-Music-of
33•hyperific•3d ago•6 comments

TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics

https://theoremdb.org/
8•frozenseven•2h ago•0 comments

US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with...
266•rbanffy•18h ago•415 comments

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
147•electricant•14h ago•28 comments

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

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/25-26/12urenloop-uwb/
51•robinpdev•1w ago•3 comments

Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake

https://jakearchibald.com/2026/my-tooltip-a11y-mistake/
5•robin_reala•1w ago•0 comments

Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/08/want-energy-efficiency-dude-youre-getting-a-dell/
177•gumby•12h ago•133 comments

Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/preventing-misfolding-preventing-folding
49•surprisetalk•4d ago•3 comments

When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense

https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/12/19/when-feature-flags-do-and-dont-make-sense/
12•whack•5d ago•5 comments

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/chatgpt-stops-cloning-famous-writers-voices-but-may-capture-a-...
19•Eloissssss•2h ago•5 comments

DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler

https://github.com/GrammaTech/ddisasm
27•aboardRat4•5d ago•5 comments

Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

https://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805
240•ilamont•1d ago•177 comments

TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

https://classicbits.net/coding-and-software/my-software/monosol/
51•skibz•10h ago•14 comments

“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers
619•senko•13h ago•391 comments

Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments

https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/
533•theanonymousone•9h ago•248 comments

Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-part-2/
108•rfarley04•15h ago•87 comments

Message your other Claude Code sessions

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging
80•mfiguiere•12h ago•35 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
9•minimaxir•41m ago•0 comments