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“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/to-combat-summer-reading-slumps-this-timeless-childrens-television-show-tried-to-bridge-the-literacy-gap-with-the-magic-of-stories-180986984/
159•arbesman•6h ago•54 comments

Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service

https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
23•saikatsg•1h ago•5 comments

Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/ex-waymo-engineers-launch-bedrock-robotics-with-80m-to-automate-construction/
304•boulos•14h ago•238 comments

Original Xbox Hacks: The A20 CPU Gate (2021)

https://connortumbleson.com/2021/07/19/the-xbox-and-a20-line/
48•mattweinberg•4h ago•6 comments

I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)

https://smallandroidphone.com/
212•asimops•10h ago•293 comments

Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2487013-weve-discovered-a-new-kind-of-magnetism-what-can-we-do-with-it/
331•Brajeshwar•16h ago•84 comments

I was wrong about robots.txt

https://evgeniipendragon.com/posts/i-was-wrong-about-robots-txt/
74•EPendragon•7h ago•58 comments

Code Execution Through Email: How I Used Claude to Hack Itself

https://www.pynt.io/blog/llm-security-blogs/code-execution-through-email-how-i-used-claude-mcp-to-hack-itself
12•nonvibecoding•1h ago•5 comments

Metaflow: Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems

https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow
20•plokker•11h ago•1 comments

Show HN: A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' written in Emacs Org Mode

https://tendollaradventure.com/sample/
102•dskhatri•9h ago•12 comments

Inside the box: Everything I did with an Arduino starter kit

https://lopespm.com/hardware/2025/07/15/arduino.html
52•lopespm•1d ago•4 comments

Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2025/07/intels-retreat-is-unlike-anything-its-done-before-in-oregon.html
134•cbzbc•12h ago•201 comments

Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/artisanal-git/
157•drewsberry•11h ago•38 comments

Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension

https://github.com/aws/pgactive
292•ForHackernews•22h ago•72 comments

Show HN: Linux CLI tool to provide mutex locks for long running bash ops

https://github.com/bigattichouse/waitlock
24•bigattichouse•2h ago•10 comments

Show HN: Improving search ranking with chess Elo scores

https://www.zeroentropy.dev/blog/improving-rag-with-elo-scores
149•ghita_•17h ago•51 comments

A bionic knee integrated into tissue can restore natural movement

https://news.mit.edu/2025/bionic-knee-integrated-into-tissue-can-restore-natural-movement-0710
18•gmays•2d ago•0 comments

How and where will agents ship software?

https://www.instantdb.com/essays/agents
120•stopachka•13h ago•58 comments

Mistakes Microsoft made in the Xbox security system (2005)

https://xboxdevwiki.net/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
50•davikr•7h ago•19 comments

Blue Pencil no. 18–Some history about Arial

https://www.paulshawletterdesign.com/2011/09/blue-pencil-no-18%e2%80%94some-history-about-arial/
28•Bluestein•2d ago•8 comments

A Rust shaped hole

https://mnvr.in/rust
83•vishnumohandas•1d ago•167 comments

Roman dodecahedron: 12-sided object has baffled archaeologists for centuries

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/roman-dodecahedron-a-mysterious-12-sided-object-that-has-baffled-archaeologists-for-centuries
60•bookofjoe•2d ago•91 comments

Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11473
115•mfiguiere•16h ago•53 comments

Signs of autism could be encoded in the way you walk

https://www.sciencealert.com/signs-of-autism-could-be-encoded-in-the-way-you-walk
122•amichail•12h ago•132 comments

Scanned piano rolls database

http://www.pianorollmusic.org/rolldatabase.php
45•bookofjoe•4d ago•11 comments

Show HN: 0xDEAD//TYPE – A fast-paced typing shooter with retro vibes

https://0xdeadtype.theden.sh/
75•theden•4d ago•21 comments

Show HN: Cobble – A hard daily word game

https://wilf.live/cobble/
19•wolfred•6h ago•13 comments

TikTok, AliExpress and WeChat ignore your GDPR rights

https://noyb.eu/en/how-tiktok-aliexpress-wechat-ignore-your-gdpr-rights
5•robin_reala•20m ago•1 comments

Task Runner Census 2025

https://aleyan.com/blog/2025-task-runners-census/
4•aleyan•2d ago•0 comments

Remembrance of Scents Past

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/onward-and-upward-with-the-arts/remembrance-of-scents-past
13•prismatic•2d ago•1 comments
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In-depth system walkthrough: cloud-based VOD

https://app.ilograph.com/demo.ilograph.AWS%2520Video-On-Demand/Workflow
13•billyp-rva•3d ago

Comments

kqgnkqgn•13h ago
I have no strong opinions on the architecture itself, but this "moving diagram" format, that changes shape when you try to zoom in and out is unusable.
pavlov•12h ago
It's terrible. Scrolling and zooming gestures on a MacBook trackpad seem to do completely random things depending on where the mouse cursor happens to be.

Web UI developers: if you expect people to zoom in on your infinite canvas thingy, it needs to work like Figma. There's no other option if you don't want to frustrate your users.

billyp-rva•11h ago
Thanks for this feedback. I just tried with a trackpad, and was surprised to see pinch gestures were triggering "wheel" (i.e. mouse wheel) events. This wasn't intended behavior, and should now be fixed. I'll have a think on how native gestures like these could be handled better.