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The battle for Britain’s first book of the month club

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/battle-britains-first-book-month-club

9•samclemens•2d ago

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tzs•5h ago

All but the opening is behind a paywall, but the author is an Associate Professor in Book and Publishing Studies, University of Reading, and has an article on the university’s research blog that looks like it may cover some of the same material:

https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/2022/10/28/the-...

There is more on the club here, including a list of all their book choices:

https://research.reading.ac.uk/thebooksociety/

Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service

https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in

85•saikatsg•3h ago•36 comments

“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/

178•arbesman•9h ago•69 comments

ESA's Moonlight programme: Pioneering the path for lunar exploration

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Connectivity_and_Secure_Communications/ESA_s_Moonlight_programme_Pioneering_the_path_for_lunar_exploration

8•nullhole•2d ago•0 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/

335•boulos•16h ago•251 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

40•nonvibecoding•3h ago•18 comments

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

https://smallandroidphone.com/

262•asimops•12h ago•358 comments

Original Xbox Hacks: The A20 CPU Gate (2021)

https://connortumbleson.com/2021/07/19/the-xbox-and-a20-line/

59•mattweinberg•6h ago•9 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/

345•Brajeshwar•18h ago•88 comments

I was wrong about robots.txt

https://evgeniipendragon.com/posts/i-was-wrong-about-robots-txt/

91•EPendragon•9h ago•78 comments

Metaflow: Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems

https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow

36•plokker•13h ago•2 comments

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

https://lopespm.com/hardware/2025/07/15/arduino.html

77•lopespm•2d ago•6 comments

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

https://tendollaradventure.com/sample/

120•dskhatri•11h ago•15 comments

Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension

https://github.com/aws/pgactive

304•ForHackernews•1d ago•76 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

157•cbzbc•14h ago•242 comments

Mistakes Microsoft made in the Xbox security system (2005)

https://xboxdevwiki.net/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System

60•davikr•9h ago•27 comments

Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/artisanal-git/

167•drewsberry•14h ago•43 comments

A 1960s schools experiment that created a new alphabet

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/06/1960s-schools-experiment-created-new-alphabet-thousands-children-unable-to-spell

51•Hooke•1d ago•50 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

34•gmays•2d ago•1 comments

Open, free, and ignored: the afterlife of Symbian

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/symbian_forgotten_foss_phone_os/

20•mdp2021•1h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Improving search ranking with chess Elo scores

https://www.zeroentropy.dev/blog/improving-rag-with-elo-scores

156•ghita_•19h ago•52 comments

How and where will agents ship software?

https://www.instantdb.com/essays/agents

128•stopachka•16h ago•59 comments

A Rust shaped hole

https://mnvr.in/rust

94•vishnumohandas•1d ago•220 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

67•bookofjoe•2d ago•106 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/

35•Bluestein•2d ago•9 comments

Scanned piano rolls database

http://www.pianorollmusic.org/rolldatabase.php

56•bookofjoe•4d ago•14 comments

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

https://github.com/bigattichouse/waitlock

30•bigattichouse•4h ago•13 comments

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

https://0xdeadtype.theden.sh/

90•theden•4d ago•23 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11473

119•mfiguiere•19h ago•55 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

132•amichail•15h ago•172 comments

Task Runner Census 2025

https://aleyan.com/blog/2025-task-runners-census/

11•aleyan•2d ago•2 comments