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Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novo-nordisk-s-canadian-mistake
196•jbm•3h ago•87 comments

Original C64 Lode Runner Source Code

https://github.com/Piddewitt/Loderunner
44•indigodaddy•2h ago•14 comments

QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer
13•ibobev•58m ago•1 comments

Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%

https://github.com/Gillou68310/DukeNukemZeroHour
65•birdculture•3h ago•20 comments

Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/advice.html
343•peterkshultz•8h ago•120 comments

Airliner hit by possible space debris

https://avbrief.com/united-max-hit-by-falling-object-at-36000-feet/
175•d_silin•6h ago•93 comments

Dosbian: Boot to DOSBox on Raspberry Pi

https://cmaiolino.wordpress.com/dosbian/
94•indigodaddy•5h ago•34 comments

Deterministic multithreading is hard (2024)

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-415
38•adtac•15h ago•5 comments

Compare Single Board Computers

https://sbc.compare/
101•todsacerdoti•6h ago•41 comments

Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices?

https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/xz-backdoor-debian-git-detection/
62•ottoke•6h ago•46 comments

GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime

https://blog.jupyter.org/gnu-octave-meets-jupyterlite-compute-anywhere-anytime-8b033afbbcdc
101•bauta-steen•8h ago•19 comments

The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish

https://southernwoodenboatsailing.com/news/the-spilhaus-projection-a-world-map-according-to-fish
91•zynovex•1w ago•10 comments

Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/10/14/fridge-power-consumption/
103•furkansahin•5d ago•137 comments

What's Behind the Mysterious Ancient Wall in the Gobi Desert?

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-hunt-gobi-wall-mongolia-2674588
5•derbOac•1w ago•0 comments

Gleam OTP – Fault Tolerant Multicore Programs with Actors

https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp
9•TheWiggles•2h ago•0 comments

The working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn't see in the movies

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/12/move-over-alan-turing-meet-the-working-class-hero-o...
78•hansmayer•1w ago•30 comments

The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA)

https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/
20•1970-01-01•6d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB

https://demo.duckui.com
175•caioricciuti•13h ago•54 comments

Replua.nvim – an Emacs-style scratch buffer for executing Lua

https://github.com/mghaight/replua.nvim
3•mghaig•1h ago•0 comments

Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infisical/jobs/0gY2Da1-full-stack-engineer-global
1•vmatsiiako•7h ago

The macOS LC_COLLATE hunt: Or why does sort order differently on macOS and Linux (2020)

https://blog.zhimingwang.org/macos-lc_collate-hunt
74•g0xA52A2A•11h ago•15 comments

Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, study finds

https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2025/10/07/abandoned-land-drives-dangerous-heat-in-houston-texas-am...
124•PaulHoule•10h ago•121 comments

Redis Backplane for Hubots

https://github.com/hubot-friends/hubot-redis-backplane
10•gijoeyguerra•5d ago•5 comments

Show HN: Pyversity – Fast Result Diversification for Retrieval and RAG

https://github.com/Pringled/pyversity
66•Tananon•10h ago•7 comments

How to Assemble an Electric Heating Element from Scratch

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/10/how-to-build-an-electric-heating-element-from-scratch/
86•surprisetalk•11h ago•52 comments

The case for the return of fine-tuning

https://welovesota.com/article/the-case-for-the-return-of-fine-tuning
137•nanark•14h ago•72 comments

Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?

119•jwithington•7h ago•80 comments

Enchanting Imposters

https://daily.jstor.org/enchanting-imposters/
5•Petiver•2d ago•0 comments

The Trinary Dream Endures

https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/trinary-dream/
39•FromTheArchives•7h ago•52 comments

Designing EventQL, an Event Query Language

https://docs.eventsourcingdb.io/blog/2025/10/20/designing-eventql-an-event-query-language/
10•goloroden•4h ago•5 comments
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Show HN: 18yo first iOS app: blocks distracting apps and unlocks with QR/barcode

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/recode-screen-time-control/id6752352978
30•alhart•3h ago
I built Recode because I realized I was spending 8-10 hours a day on my phone pretty consistently. I tried other screen time apps but I found them too easy to bypass and end my blocks whenever I wanted to use an app.

My solution was to build an app blocker app that makes users have to scan a physical QR/barcode to take a break from their app blocks. This helped me be able to get my screen time down to just a few hours everyday since I didn't want to physically get up and go across the house to get my barcode.

Anyways, since it worked for me I felt like sharing it.

App store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/recode-screen-time-control/id6...

Comments

ubanholzer•2h ago
Great idea!
Our_Benefactors•2h ago
What is the failsafe if mom donates that book (you no longer have access to that barcode)? Are you locked out of TikTok forever? It might be good to cover this in the description somewhere.
travbrack•2h ago
You can just uninstall the app
frereubu•2h ago
If true, this seems like a serious problem for something that's supposed to stop circumvention. Uninstalling an app is trivial on iOS, even easier than unlocking Screen Time.

If not - e.g. if you have to scan the barcode / QR code to uninstall the app (a block that I don't think Apple would allow) - then presumably you'd need to reinstall iOS from scratch.

ghiculescu•2h ago
I like the QR code idea a lot more than the physical devices you can buy for this. Cool concept.

Did Apple recently make an API for app blocking or something? There seems to have been an explosion in apps for this over the last few years.

wojtek1942•2h ago
The API was released in 2020. It amazes me how many of these kinds of apps are successful simultaneously, while doing nearly the exact same thing.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/screentime

huflungdung•2h ago
Can we remove the 18yo from the title. It is completely unnecessary.
dudewhocodes•2h ago
Very nice! I've found that the default iOS screen time feature is easily skippable. Barcode scanning is an interesting real-world "lock".
parallax_error•1h ago
Reminds me of Foqos, which is definitely one of my favourite apps