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France Becomes First Government to Endorse UN Open Source Principles

https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@codegouvfr/114529954373492878
185•bzg•2h ago•32 comments

California vanity license plate applications with reasons for rejection

https://github.com/veltman/ca-license-plates
46•networked•1h ago•26 comments

The effect of physical fitness on mortality is overestimated

https://www.uu.se/en/press/press-releases/2025/2025-05-15-the-effect-of-physical-fitness-on-mortality-is-overestimated
26•gnabgib•1h ago•20 comments

Spaced repetition systems have gotten better

https://domenic.me/fsrs/
673•domenicd•12h ago•414 comments

Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure

https://github.com/brianmg/voynich-nlp-analysis
266•brig90•8h ago•76 comments

Ditching Obsidian and building my own

https://amberwilliams.io/blogs/building-my-own-pkms
217•williamsss•8h ago•250 comments

Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)

https://github.com/skift-org/vaev
108•monax•6h ago•46 comments

$30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener

https://sifter.org/~simon/journal/20240718.html
175•busymom0•7h ago•72 comments

I built a platform to find tech conferences, discounts, and ticket giveaways

https://www.tech.tickets/
31•danthebaker•2d ago•11 comments

Spaced Repetition Memory System

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Spaced_repetition_memory_system
142•gasull•8h ago•12 comments

K-Scale Labs: Open-source humanoid robots, built for developers

https://www.kscale.dev/
47•rbanffy•5h ago•28 comments

The Journal of Imaginary Research

https://journalofimaginaryresearch.home.blog/
8•cenazoic•2d ago•1 comments

The Fall of Roam

https://every.to/superorganizers/the-fall-of-roam
80•ingve•5h ago•32 comments

Comparing Parallel Functional Array Languages: Programming and Performance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08906
44•vok•2d ago•7 comments

Show HN: Python Simulator of David Deutsch’s "Constructor Theory of Time"

https://github.com/gvelesandro/constructor-theory-simulator
44•SandroG•4h ago•6 comments

Building my childhood dream PC

https://fabiensanglard.net/2168/index.html
142•todsacerdoti•9h ago•56 comments

Hyper Typing

https://pscanf.com/s/341/
40•azhenley•3h ago•35 comments

Show HN: Buckaroo – Data table UI for Notebooks

https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo
76•paddy_m•8h ago•6 comments

KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called "Karton"

https://www.neowin.net/news/kde-is-finally-getting-a-native-virtual-machine-manager-called-karton/
47•bundie•1h ago•11 comments

Green Fabrication of Sulfonium-Containing Bismuth Materials for X-Ray Detection

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202418626
3•PaulHoule•2d ago•0 comments

Yahtzeeql – Yahtzee solver that's mostly SQL

https://github.com/charliemeyer/yahtzeeql
15•skadamat•3d ago•7 comments

Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu9368
43•jbotz•8h ago•13 comments

In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/memoriam-john-l-young-cryptome-co-founder
157•coloneltcb•3d ago•15 comments

Show HN: Hardtime.nvim – break bad habits and master Vim motions

https://github.com/m4xshen/hardtime.nvim
157•m4xshen•12h ago•61 comments

Dezyne Programming Language

https://dezyne.org/dezyne/manual/dezyne/dezyne.html
26•aulisius•1d ago•3 comments

A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn't Use A.I

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/style/ai-chatgpt-turnitin-students-cheating.html
15•ripe•53m ago•4 comments

How the humble chestnut traced the rise and fall of the Roman Empire

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250513-what-chestnuts-reveal-about-the-roman-empire
39•bookofjoe•4d ago•4 comments

Severed Fingers and 'Wrench Attacks' Rattle the Crypto Elite

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/crypto-industry-robberies-attacks-32c2867a
37•spenvo•1h ago•17 comments

Mystical

https://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.html
352•mmphosis•1d ago•42 comments

AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model

https://komiko.app/video/AniSora
320•PaulineGar•1d ago•181 comments
Open in hackernews

An Uplifting Origin of 86 (2001)

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/2832
30•susam•8h ago

Comments

wizardforhire•6h ago
If you like me have grown weary of trick headlines that in no way portray the words they are written with, you will be relieved to know this is not one of them.

It’s a quick read that tickles the mammalian foraging behavior itch that is manifest by our insatiable desire for novelty.

My only complaint is that more research has not been done on this most important of esoteric subjects.

paulryanrogers•5h ago
Refreshing to see some research on how it really got started.

The breathless feigned shock that Comey would share "86 47" is tiresome, especially coming from an administration whose head unrepentantly shared an image of the president bound and tied mid-kidnapping.

Sniffnoy•5h ago
Is this readable for free anywhere?
timewizard•5h ago
The entire "86 47" saga is a game of the "woke right." Seeking victimhood status so they can smear their enemies and tie the press up in knots.

Meanwhile Trump and family are in the middle east making deal after deal and no one is really paying any attention or tracking the stakes.

This whole thing is an outrageous circus. I'm severely disappointed in all American institutions right now for playing along with it even a little bit.

ctkhn•4h ago
Their hatred isn't of the machine, it's that they're not in charge of it. It's incredibly tiresome from both sides, to be honest, because the machine is what causes a lot of our current problems no matter who's in charge of it.
pstuart•4h ago
The "both sides" thing had some merit in the past but that was a different world -- the current admin is a whole new level of self-dealing and disregard for the law except as a weapon to punish its enemies.
timewizard•3h ago
Well we've witness both sides engage in that behavior recently. The only thing different about our world is the level of apologia and backward looking justifications that gets injected into social media about them.

Which I normally wouldn't comment on but your post is fairly ironic given the current thread. Which is claiming that the media is entirely absent from it's coverage of Trumps latest schemes in order to argue about what, precisely, a former FBI director meant with a picture of seashells.

Perhaps if the dog and pony show died down we could return to the very reasonable perspective that greed does not obey political boundaries.

taneq•3h ago
I thought ‘86’ in this sense was rhyming slang for ‘nix’ (ie. ‘nullify’ / ‘negate’)?
Henchman21•2h ago
I thought the term came from a speakeasy in Manhattan that had an exit on 86th street. So when ejecting a patron who'd become too drunk & disorderly, they'd "86 'em!", which roughly meant pushing them out the exit onto 86th street. I've heard this particular tale from multiple bartenders in Manhattan. I've always questioned its veracity, as it feels a bit too good to be true!