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

http://longbets.org/601/
83•doubletwoyou•1h ago•13 comments

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
237•seg6•7h ago•88 comments

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html
167•bobbiechen•1w ago•17 comments

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

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
140•adletbalzhanov•7h ago•79 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
129•jmusall•7h ago•14 comments

Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/46/Supplement_1/A34/7181621
52•bohaska•5h ago•20 comments

Fastmail offers EU data region

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/
367•groomlake•14h ago•182 comments

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

https://os8088.com/
120•jggonz•6h ago•49 comments

Incentives are for losers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/incentives-are-for-losers
59•bkudria•4h ago•26 comments

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

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

_for-sale DNS records

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
377•shaunpud•16h ago•141 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword
4•BruceEel•1h ago•0 comments

Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age

https://itsfoss.com/news/illinois-age-verification-bill/
48•WaitWaitWha•2h ago•18 comments

Assert(): A Modern How To

https://fiberfs.io/blog/assert_a_modern_how_to
6•nyc_pizzadev•5d ago•0 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves
98•hakkikonu•3d ago•35 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...
126•MarcoDewey•10h ago•26 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
98•minimaxir•2h ago•6 comments

TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics

https://theoremdb.org/
21•frozenseven•5h ago•0 comments

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
162•electricant•16h ago•30 comments

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

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/25-26/12urenloop-uwb/
64•robinpdev•1w ago•5 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...
39•fagnerbrack•6d ago•7 comments

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

https://gdcvault.com/play/1024135/The-Sound-and-Music-of
39•hyperific•3d ago•7 comments

Real-time MCP interceptor that blocks .env reads and dangerous commands agents

https://marketnow.site/
6•eddyflores•3h ago•0 comments

"Coding is solved" misses the point

https://blog.mastykarz.nl/coding-is-solved-misses-the-point/
9•listless•4h ago•2 comments

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

https://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805
266•ilamont•1d ago•189 comments

Message your other Claude Code sessions

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging
101•mfiguiere•14h ago•42 comments

Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake

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

DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler

https://github.com/GrammaTech/ddisasm
33•aboardRat4•6d 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-...
40•Eloissssss•4h ago•20 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
672•senko•15h ago•411 comments