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PNG is back

https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/
309•tbillington•4h ago•117 comments

Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/reading-nfc-passport-chips-in-linux/
26•robin_reala•1h ago•0 comments

Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Written in Rust

https://github.com/microsoft/edit
214•ethanpil•8h ago•100 comments

Fun with uv and PEP 723

https://www.cottongeeks.com/articles/2025-06-24-fun-with-uv-and-pep-723
438•deepakjois•13h ago•147 comments

Thnickels

https://thick-coins.net/?_bhlid=8a5736885893b7837e681aa73f890b9805a4673e
158•jxmorris12•8h ago•35 comments

Writing toy software is a joy

https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/software-is-joy
627•bundie•17h ago•249 comments

The Probability of a Hash Collision

https://kevingal.com/blog/collisions.html
43•subset•3d ago•8 comments

Build your first iOS app on Linux / Windows

https://xtool.sh/tutorials/xtool/first-app/
119•todsacerdoti•7h ago•28 comments

AI more likely to create 'yes-men on servers' than any scientific breakthroughs

https://fortune.com/2025/06/20/hugging-face-thomas-wolf-ai-yes-men-on-servers-no-scientific-breakthroughs/
55•Bluestein•1h ago•37 comments

ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/chatgpt-vs-copilot-inside-the-openai-and-microsoft-rivalry
220•mastermaq•16h ago•202 comments

Thoughts on Asunción, Paraguay

https://cpsi.media/p/thoughts-on-asuncion-paraguay
20•Michelangelo11•2d ago•0 comments

PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods

https://www.plasticlist.org/
368•homebrewer•18h ago•153 comments

Managing time when time doesn't exist

https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/temporal-resources-managing-time-when-time-doesnt-exist/
86•TMEHpodcast•8h ago•44 comments

Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom/
346•zdw•19h ago•102 comments

Ancient X11 scaling technology

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/forbidden-secrets-of-ancient-X11-scaling-technology-revealed
228•todsacerdoti•13h ago•172 comments

XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne

https://xbow.com/blog/top-1-how-xbow-did-it/
216•summarity•16h ago•96 comments

Assembly Theory of Time

https://faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/Assembly%20Theory.htm
11•andsoitis•2h ago•1 comments

Subsecond: A runtime hotpatching engine for Rust hot-reloading

https://docs.rs/subsecond/0.7.0-alpha.1/subsecond/index.html
141•varbhat•13h ago•25 comments

How to Think About Time in Programming

https://shanrauf.com/archive/how-to-think-about-time-in-programming
129•rmason•12h ago•48 comments

Canal Boat Simulator

https://jacobfilipp.com/boat/
66•surprisetalk•2d ago•18 comments

MCP is eating the world

https://www.stainless.com/blog/mcp-is-eating-the-world--and-its-here-to-stay
242•emschwartz•3d ago•150 comments

Playing First Contact in Eclipse, a 3-Day Sci-Fi Larp

https://mssv.net/2025/06/15/playing-first-contact-in-eclipse-a-spectacular-3-day-sci-fi-larp/
31•adrianhon•2d ago•1 comments

Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

https://starship.rs/
419•benoitg•21h ago•188 comments

PicoEMP – A low-cost Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EMFI) tool

https://github.com/newaetech/chipshouter-picoemp
26•transpute•5h ago•10 comments

The bitter lesson is coming for tokenization

https://lucalp.dev/bitter-lesson-tokenization-and-blt/
255•todsacerdoti•18h ago•110 comments

Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/24/few-americans-pay-for-news-when-they-encounter-paywalls/
60•mooreds•5h ago•92 comments

Basic Facts about GPUs

https://damek.github.io/random/basic-facts-about-gpus/
281•ibobev•20h ago•61 comments

Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-on-device-brings-ai-to-local-robotic-devices/
186•meetpateltech•18h ago•80 comments

Japan Adventures: A Designer's Perspective

https://www.tombihn.com/blogs/main/tokyo-adventures-a-designers-perspective
8•wallflower•2d ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

25•rajkumarsekar•3h ago•31 comments
Open in hackernews

Thnickels

https://thick-coins.net/?_bhlid=8a5736885893b7837e681aa73f890b9805a4673e
157•jxmorris12•8h ago

Comments

kshehab1•8h ago
Sadly I missed the window for thnickle pre orders but hopefully I'll be around for the thennies if the fog doesnt get me by then
bigyabai•8h ago
It's only a matter of Thimes.
PaulHoule•7h ago
It's an urban legend at the very least that you can improve the power of your punch by grasping a coin roll. I'm not so sure it's good for your hands but unlike a knife or brass knuckles you have some deniability. (Reminds me of the time that the store manager of a supermarket wrongly thought I was shoplifting and he followed me out with his clipboard which I'm sure he planned to whack me with and say it was an accident if I gave him any trouble.)
sandworm101•6h ago
A roll of coins, or any other heavy object, will significantly increase your punching power. Short of ninjas or mma fighters, the average person doesnt have the twitch ability to throw a significant punch. By adding mass, you increase power without needing the speed. Hands are very light. Even a small mass increase will make a big difference.
TZubiri•5h ago
Nice, this knowledge will help me grab my keys in some self defense scenario. Will practice on sporting bag to avoid injury and verify force increase.
vunderba•4h ago
Yup. In fact, while boxing gloves are ostensibly for the protection of the fighters hands, the increased mass (approx 10oz for heaver weight classes) significantly ups the chance of a concussive strike and/or knockout.

So... it is kind of a mixed bag in terms of if they actually make fights safer.

bichiliad•4h ago
Relatedly: - The padding in fights is much lighter than in practice or sparring. The added weight is good for conditioning, blunts sharp impacts, and slows down your speed. - If you spar anyone, you're expected to have at _least_ 14oz gloves. If your gym says otherwise, don't spar there (and arguably, don't train anywhere that doesn't take safety seriously). - Luis Resto, a boxer, was jailed for swapping the padding in his gloves with plaster. He ended the career and permanently damaged the eyesight of his opponent, Billy Collins Jr.
globular-toast•1h ago
I thought it was more because they can punch harder without breaking their hands.
com2kid•2h ago
Learning how to throw a punch isn't that much work and gives you a huge multiple on power output.

Also throwing a bare knuckle punch against someone's head has a large likelihood of the puncher breaking multiple bones, though depending on the outcome that may be preferable to other alternatives.

pierrec•4h ago
OK, "urban legend at the very least" is a confusing way of putting things, it's kind of like saying "this is false at the very least, possibly even true!" (in this case it's true)
waltbosz•5h ago
I think this is a joke by Alan Wagner who goes by the handle truewagner. https://truewagner.com/ . You'll have to Google his socials to find his art.
n2d4•3h ago
Almost — it was made by Legboot, who makes similarly weird stuff, but to my knowledge is not the same person https://x.com/LegbootLegit
pierrec•3h ago
I could not find any direct evidence but it's a good theory. Legboot and Wagner sometimes comment on each other's (uniquely similar) stuff. This also seems like an evolution of Wagner's "Williamcoin". Compare:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Killtony/comments/1i9czr5/williamco...

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueWagner/comments/1ld4lix/big_upd...

xnx•5h ago
How does this website load so fast? Must be some advanced framework with JIT edge hydration. /s
eclipticplane•5h ago
> Website proudly built with FrontPage 98
TZubiri•5h ago
You know how antiques have a binomial distribution of value over time? They are valuable when new or very old, but trash when freshly obsolete.

I think classic style websites are going to come around. Not quite space jam whacky era but better mother fucking website for sure

stego-tech•4h ago
The success of NeoCities and static blog sites in general suggests you’re correct. Best of all, AI can’t produce sites that awesomely terrible - it’s a hallmark of authentic human creativity, under construction banners and all.
zxexz•3h ago
I can’t produce a website that is half as endearing and fun as my 8yo self’s first attempt around y2k after earnestly reading my dad’s copy of “HTML For the World Wide Web” by Elizabeth Castro. The excitement of page counters, discovering CGI, even creating a really bad click which didn’t two time with JavaScript.
acheron•3h ago
I like your joke and agree wholeheartedly with your point, but it is awfully difficult to upvote a comment that contains “/s”. Usually that’s an auto-downvote.

Just let your comment stand. You don’t need to call attention to the fact that it’s a joke.

buggy6257•2h ago
you would be both surprised and deeply sad by how many downvotes and comments they would get if they removed the /s
yallpendantools•1h ago
The Paradox of acheron: In order to point out character sequences that are insufferable in a comment, one's comment must also bear the insufferable character sequence.
Chant-I-CRW•5h ago
Dang...sure would like some thnickels of my own. After that tree fell on my house it is really windy here. I could use something heavy to hold down my punch cards.
CoastalCoder•2h ago
I suggest buying a Three Wolves t-shirt.

I once saw a guy in a similar predicament. To address this, he donned his Three Wolves shirt and stood in an empty meadow by his house. Within 15 minutes there were 10-12 attractive women (some single, some not) circling him in a tight formation.

He returned to his house and sat near the pile of punch cards (or coupons, I forget). His ad hoc harem sat as well so they could study his chiseled features, which kept the coupons safe from blowing away.

I've heard that although the coupons have long-since expired, the women happily remain.

IAmGraydon•4h ago
I miss this web.
komali2•1h ago
Apparently it still exists! My friend keeps trying to get me to join his webring, whatever that is, sounds like a potential way to connect together websites like this though.
patates•1h ago
Start something in neocities and join a webring!
gtbcb•4h ago
How much were they?
CSSer•4h ago
The design is ancient, but the dates are current.
theden•4h ago
In the HTML there's a cool comment

      <!-- Hello this is Theo. Yes I know how to do web design. -->
      <!-- You have found my secret message. -->
      <!-- It is a coin emoticon picture. -->
      <!--
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schoen•3h ago
Since there's no specific verb in the Latin motto, perhaps it should be in the nominative ("nummi crassiores omnibus")?
Freak_NL•2h ago
Romanes eunt domus!
photios•2h ago
So, no "thicc" jokes yet? Come on, people!
lqet•1h ago
> Website proudly built with FrontPage 98.
fergie•1h ago
I like the vibe, but is this vibe coded?
jcattle•1h ago
I love where he describes his minting facility:

"My new state of some art facility is equipped with several tools and a powerful workhorse (me)!"