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The Useful Personal Computer

https://technicshistory.com/2025/11/02/the-useful-personal-computer/
10•cfmcdonald•3d ago

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speerer•19m ago
> To market their new products to people who had not already spent years pining for a computer of their own, the creators of the second wave of microcomputers had to face head on the question of what the microcomputer was actually good for.

This is exactly the task of ChatGPT's current consumer advertising campaign in the UK. Lots of small use cases.

Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation

https://minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano-banana-prompts/
616•minimaxir•13h ago•157 comments

Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/science-of-sound/
8•Hooke•1h ago•0 comments

Why I'm Learning Sumerian

https://mindthenerd.com/why-im-learning-sumerian-and-what-it-taught-me-about-hard-work-burnout-an...
74•surprisetalk•1w ago•28 comments

What Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/11/what-really-happened-with-the-cia-and-the-paris-re...
18•benbreen•6h ago•2 comments

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign

https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage
231•koakuma-chan•12h ago•153 comments

Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web

https://www.tweeks.io/onboarding
216•jmadeano•15h ago•155 comments

How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/asn-5-worldwide-servers/
71•uneven9434•5h ago•20 comments

OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios

https://openmanet.net/
103•hexmiles•9h ago•25 comments

'The Dream Factory' Review: A Building and Its Bard

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-dream-factory-review-a-building-and-its-bard-6d79ce43
7•pepys•4d ago•0 comments

650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark

https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/650gb-of-data-delta-lake-on-s3-polars
160•tanelpoder•9h ago•44 comments

A Brutal Look at Balanced Parentheses, Computing Machines, and Pushdown Automata

https://raganwald.com/2019/02/14/i-love-programming-and-programmers.html
22•warrenm•1w ago•5 comments

Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring

https://www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2025/11/12/ingress-nginx-retirement/
110•TheApplicant•8h ago•54 comments

Think in math, write in code (2019)

https://www.jmeiners.com/think-in-math/
141•alabhyajindal•4d ago•55 comments

Blender Lab

https://www.blender.org/news/introducing-blender-lab/
227•radeeyate•17h ago•45 comments

Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/blue-origin-lands-new-glenn-rocket-booster-on-second-try/
322•perihelions•9h ago•166 comments

SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search

https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop
403•msub2•12h ago•186 comments

Why do we need dithering?

https://typefully.com/DanHollick/why-do-we-need-dithering-Ut7oD4k
68•ibobev•1w ago•57 comments

Codables – Swift-inspired, declarative JSON serialization

https://github.com/pie6k/codables
9•pie6k•1w ago•3 comments

Show HN: DBOS Java – Postgres-Backed Durable Workflows

https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-java
72•KraftyOne•10h ago•37 comments

Itiner-E – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads

https://itiner-e.org/
34•beatthatflight•1w ago•1 comments

SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds

https://deepmind.google/blog/sima-2-an-agent-that-plays-reasons-and-learns-with-you-in-virtual-3d...
191•meetpateltech•15h ago•77 comments

Steam Machine

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
2700•davikr•1d ago•1319 comments

Piramidal (YC W24) Hiring: Front End Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/piramidal/jobs/i9yNX5s-front-end-engineer-user-interface
1•dsacellarius•10h ago

Android developer verification: Early access starts

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html
1303•erohead•1d ago•617 comments

Zed is our office

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-is-our-office
530•sagacity•15h ago•268 comments

I Built a One File Edge Probe to Tell Me When Time Is Lying

https://physical-ai.ghost.io/a-one-file-pwa-to-tell-you-when-time-is-lying/
36•boulevard•1w ago•2 comments

The Eggstraordinary Fortress

https://ahmed1011001.github.io/Notes/stories/eggstrodinary.html
59•tippa123•13h ago•19 comments

Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs

https://www.checkout.com/blog/protecting-our-merchants-standing-up-to-extortion
577•StrangeSound•21h ago•254 comments

The Useful Personal Computer

https://technicshistory.com/2025/11/02/the-useful-personal-computer/
10•cfmcdonald•3d ago•1 comments

Heartbeats in Distributed Systems

https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/heartbeats-in-distributed-systems/
130•sebg•17h ago•44 comments