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RCA VideoDisc's Legacy: Scanning Capacitance Microscope

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rca-videodisc
11•WaitWaitWha•3d ago

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PaulHoule•3d ago
I had a friend who had one of those capacitive video disc players when I was a kid. Those got front of mind for me a few years ago when I noticed that a local fleas market had a lot of the discs but no players. I found out you could probably get a deadstock player on EBay but the belts would need replacing and when the stylus needed replacing… well they don’t make them anymore.

DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms (2024)

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/traditional-dsm-disorders-dissolve?r=2wyot6&triedRedirect=true
74•rendx•3h ago•14 comments

Privacy and Security Risks in the eSIM Ecosystem [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity25-motallebighomi.pdf
13•walterbell•59m ago•0 comments

The US Is Tracking 14 Potential Rabies Outbreaks in 20 States

https://www.accuweather.com/en/health-wellness/the-us-is-tracking-14-potential-rabies-outbreaks-i...
59•treasure2seek•1h ago•21 comments

Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99

https://github.com/rxi/sj.h
366•simonpure•12h ago•180 comments

Simulating a Machine from the 80s

https://rmazur.io/blog/fahivets.html
10•roman-mazur•3d ago•0 comments

Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-venus-hell-and-earth-an-eden-20250915/
88•pseudolus•6h ago•114 comments

South Korea's President says US investment demands would spark financial crisis

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/21/south-koreas-president-lee-trump-investment-financial-crisis.html
106•donsupreme•3h ago•66 comments

Lightweight, highly accurate line and paragraph detection

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09638
91•colonCapitalDee•8h ago•11 comments

How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me

https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-...
134•wonger_•4h ago•69 comments

40k-Year-Old Symbols in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language

https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/40000-year-old-symbols-found-in-caves-worldwide-may-be-the-ea...
128•mdp2021•3d ago•75 comments

Obsidian Note Codes

https://ezhik.jp/obsidian/note-codes/
57•surprisetalk•3d ago•7 comments

Pointer Tagging in C++: The Art of Packing Bits into a Pointer

https://vectrx.substack.com/p/pointer-tagging-in-c-the-art-of-packing
16•signa11•3h ago•8 comments

DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list

https://slugcat.systems/post/25-09-21-dxgi-debugging-microsoft-put-me-on-a-list/
241•todsacerdoti•14h ago•70 comments

How can I influence others without manipulating them?

https://andiroberts.com/leadership-questions/how-to-influence-others-without-manipulating
72•kiyanwang•7h ago•45 comments

Calculator Forensics (2002)

https://www.rskey.org/~mwsebastian/miscprj/results.htm
76•ColinWright•3d ago•32 comments

My new Git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name

https://blog.plover.com/2025/09/21/#what-changed-twice
59•jamesbowman•7h ago•25 comments

Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank

https://www.theverge.com/tech/781387/backpacking-ultralight-haribo-power-bank
195•arnon•17h ago•235 comments

Show HN: I wrote an OS in 1000 lines of Zig

https://github.com/botirk38/OS-1000-lines-zig
137•botirk•3d ago•19 comments

Procedural Island Generation (VI)

https://brashandplucky.com/2025/09/28/procedural-island-generation-vi.html
46•ibobev•8h ago•3 comments

I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

https://www.pixelpusher.club/p/i-forced-myself-to-spend-a-week-in
217•wallflower•15h ago•80 comments

RCA VideoDisc's Legacy: Scanning Capacitance Microscope

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rca-videodisc
11•WaitWaitWha•3d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Tips to stay safe from NPM supply chain attacks

https://github.com/bodadotsh/npm-security-best-practices
32•bodash•8h ago•16 comments

Timesketch: Collaborative forensic timeline analysis

https://github.com/google/timesketch
110•apachepig•12h ago•10 comments

Show HN: Wan-Animate – Unified Character Animation and Replacement

https://www.wananimate.net/
11•laiwuchiyuan•3h ago•0 comments

Node 20 will be deprecated on GitHub Actions runners

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-19-deprecation-of-node-20-on-github-actions-runners/
87•redbell•1d ago•27 comments

How Isaac Newton discovered the binomial power series (2022)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-isaac-newton-discovered-the-binomial-power-series-20220831/
61•FromTheArchives•3d ago•11 comments

Seattle, Tech Boomtown, Grapples with a Future of Fewer Tech Jobs

https://www.wsj.com/tech/seattle-tech-amazon-microsoft-jobs-95f2db27
30•mooreds•3h ago•5 comments

INapGPU: Text-mode graphics card, using only TTL gates

https://github.com/Leoneq/iNapGPU
53•userbinator•4d ago•6 comments

Unified Line and Paragraph Detection by Graph Convolutional Networks (2022)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05136
87•Qision•15h ago•13 comments

Zig got a new ELF linker and it's fast

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/25299
94•Retro_Dev•6h ago•25 comments