“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/

62•arbesman•2h ago•8 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/

236•boulos•10h ago•188 comments

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

https://smallandroidphone.com/

138•asimops•6h ago•187 comments

Gaslight-driven development

https://tonsky.me/blog/gaslight-driven-development/

83•theodorejb•3h ago•47 comments

I was wrong about robots.txt

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

30•EPendragon•3h ago•12 comments

The 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet

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

18•Hooke•1d ago•15 comments

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

https://tendollaradventure.com/sample/

81•dskhatri•5h ago•6 comments

Mistakes Microsoft made in the Xbox security system

https://xboxdevwiki.net/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System

29•davikr•3h ago•5 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/

297•Brajeshwar•12h ago•70 comments

AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/ai-therapy-bots-fuel-delusions-and-give-dangerous-advice-stanford-study-finds/

140•pseudolus•3d ago•67 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

93•cbzbc•8h ago•139 comments

How and where will agents ship software?

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

111•stopachka•9h ago•56 comments

Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension

https://github.com/aws/pgactive

268•ForHackernews•18h ago•71 comments

Show HN: Improving search ranking with chess Elo scores

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

140•ghita_•13h ago•45 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

101•amichail•8h ago•94 comments

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

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

9•lopespm•1d ago•1 comments

Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

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

119•drewsberry•7h ago•29 comments

I'm switching to Python and actually liking it

https://www.cesarsotovalero.net/blog/i-am-switching-to-python-and-actually-liking-it.html

361•cesarsotovalero•19h ago•546 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/

12•Bluestein•2d ago•2 comments

Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/shipping-webgpu-on-windows-in-firefox-141/

354•Bogdanp•21h ago•145 comments

Remembrance of Scents Past

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/onward-and-upward-with-the-arts/remembrance-of-scents-past

7•prismatic•2d ago•1 comments

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

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

5•samclemens•2d ago•0 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

44•bookofjoe•2d ago•75 comments

Show HN: Cobble – A hard daily word game

https://wilf.live/cobble/

8•wolfred•2h ago•3 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11473

104•mfiguiere•13h ago•48 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring an AI engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/weave-3/jobs/SqFnIFE-founding-ai-engineer

1•adchurch•10h ago

A Rust shaped hole

https://mnvr.in/rust

55•vishnumohandas•1d ago•109 comments

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

https://0xdeadtype.theden.sh/

64•theden•4d ago•18 comments

Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids

https://tincan.kids/

154•derwiki•6h ago•111 comments

Pull Interactions from POSSEd Content

https://ggirelli.info/blog/2025/07/13/inter-pull

6•ggirelli•3d ago•0 comments