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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
287•satvikpendem•3h ago•130 comments

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

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32•iamnothere•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

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59•Rochus•4h ago•15 comments

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https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
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John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
39•Kiboneu•3h ago•16 comments

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11•shayonj•1h ago•1 comments

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57•dcastm•6d ago•11 comments

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144•gukoff•9h ago•19 comments

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https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them
5•eighttrigrams•1h ago•1 comments

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

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47•akyuu•1h ago•30 comments

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
450•seg6•18h ago•211 comments

I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won

https://jorypestorious.com/blog/portable-agent-factory/
14•calmhive•2h ago•12 comments

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-read...
93•evo_9•1h ago•70 comments

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
55•Lammy•6h ago•39 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword
132•BruceEel•11h ago•57 comments

Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/
55•Thorondor•1h ago•14 comments

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

https://os8088.com/
222•jggonz•17h ago•146 comments

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https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/8/4/the-grid-that-doubles-the-strength-of-the-ground
100•michaefe•4d ago•28 comments

Dithered QR Codes

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328•jmusall•17h ago•35 comments

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https://github.com/uber/submitqueue/
64•handfuloflight•1w ago•49 comments

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324•bobbiechen•1w ago•37 comments

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

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24•jader201•1h ago•15 comments

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/a-partial-digestion-of-the-hrt-counterexample/
6•ijustlovemath•2h ago•1 comments

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https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/willoughbyland-englands-forgotten-south-amer...
6•benbreen•1w ago•1 comments

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
303•adletbalzhanov•18h ago•204 comments

Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future

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4•dosinga•2h ago•0 comments

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22•login588•7h ago•12 comments

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/fcc-moves-to-ban-lidar-equipped-foreign-drones-...
9•f-serif•36m ago•0 comments

Stylized GGX Shading

https://alexandrelamure.github.io/graphics-posts/stylized-ggx-shading.html
55•ibobev•5d ago•0 comments

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html
83•tremguy•5h ago•66 comments