“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/

110•arbesman•4h ago•21 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/

257•boulos•12h ago•210 comments

Original Xbox Hacks: The A20 CPU Gate

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

19•mattweinberg•1h ago•0 comments

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

https://smallandroidphone.com/

161•asimops•8h ago•207 comments

I was wrong about robots.txt

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

51•EPendragon•4h ago•35 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/

183•pseudolus•3d ago•86 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/

304•Brajeshwar•13h ago•74 comments

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

https://tendollaradventure.com/sample/

91•dskhatri•7h ago•8 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

28•Hooke•1d ago•23 comments

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

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

24•lopespm•1d ago•2 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

110•cbzbc•9h ago•161 comments

Gaslight-driven development

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

102•theodorejb•4h ago•63 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/

21•Bluestein•2d ago•4 comments

Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension

https://github.com/aws/pgactive

275•ForHackernews•19h ago•71 comments

Mistakes Microsoft made in the Xbox security system (2005)

https://xboxdevwiki.net/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System

43•davikr•4h ago•12 comments

Show HN: Improving search ranking with chess Elo scores

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

144•ghita_•14h ago•45 comments

How and where will agents ship software?

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

114•stopachka•11h ago•56 comments

Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

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

129•drewsberry•9h ago•31 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

379•cesarsotovalero•21h ago•570 comments

Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141

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

358•Bogdanp•22h ago•145 comments

Remembrance of Scents Past

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

9•prismatic•2d ago•1 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

112•amichail•10h ago•107 comments

Show HN: Cobble – A hard daily word game

https://wilf.live/cobble/

15•wolfred•3h ago•7 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

54•bookofjoe•2d ago•84 comments

A Rust shaped hole

https://mnvr.in/rust

65•vishnumohandas•1d ago•116 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11473

109•mfiguiere•14h ago•50 comments

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

https://0xdeadtype.theden.sh/

70•theden•4d ago•19 comments

Scanned piano rolls database

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

37•bookofjoe•4d ago•9 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring an AI engineer

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

1•adchurch•12h ago

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•1 comments