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In Praise of Useless Robots

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/in-praise-of-useless-robots/
15•pseudolus•3d ago

Anthropic's report smells a lot like bullshit

https://djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s-paper-smells-like-bullshit/
200•vxvxvx•1h ago•78 comments

Why are you (still) using OpenBSD?

https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/why-are-you-still-using-openbsd/
22•akagusu•51m ago•19 comments

Maybe You're Not Actually Trying

https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/maybe-youre-not-actually-trying
93•eatitraw•3h ago•41 comments

Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust

https://github.com/Hans-Halverson/brimstone
21•ivankra•1h ago•3 comments

AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods
860•moonleay•13h ago•231 comments

Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today

https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/archive-today-adguard-dns-block-demand.html
1632•immibis•1d ago•401 comments

IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs

https://codeberg.org/IDEmacs/IDEmacs
232•nogajun•12h ago•84 comments

Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes

https://flox.dev/kubernetes/
44•kelseyhightower•5d ago•7 comments

Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N

https://www.thedrive.com/news/replacing-brake-pads-on-a-hyundai-ioniq-5-n-requires-a-professional...
130•zdw•9h ago•79 comments

Facebook Text Log Between Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom(Instagram Cofounder)

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/0e4qbvj7w8cwxdlpo010c/AHCMfNHmj03nPnJ-VKDYRvA?dl=0&e=1&noscript=1&...
46•Fiveplus•5h ago•2 comments

Things that aren't doing the thing

https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-thing
331•downboots•18h ago•165 comments

In Praise of Useless Robots

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/in-praise-of-useless-robots/
15•pseudolus•3d ago•0 comments

Writing a DOS Clone in 2019

https://medium.com/@andrewimm/writing-a-dos-clone-in-2019-70eac97ec3e1
36•shakna•1w ago•11 comments

libwifi: an 802.11 frame parsing and generation library written in C (2023)

https://libwifi.so/
122•vitalnodo•15h ago•11 comments

UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c051y3d7myzo
63•ksec•2h ago•68 comments

Bypassing the Branch Predictor

https://nicula.xyz/2025/03/10/bypassing-the-branch-predictor.html
26•signa11•6h ago•13 comments

Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust

https://github.com/boa-dev/boa
242•maxloh•1w ago•65 comments

When did people favor composition over inheritance?

https://www.sicpers.info/2025/11/when-did-people-favor-composition-over-inheritance/
190•ingve•1w ago•149 comments

Measuring the doppler shift of WWVB during a flight

https://greatscottgadgets.com/2025/10-31-receiving-wwvb-with-hackrf-pro/
5•Jyaif•1w ago•0 comments

The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024)

https://blog.polybdenum.com/2024/06/07/the-inconceivable-types-of-rust-how-to-make-self-borrows-s...
94•birdculture•13h ago•15 comments

An exposed .git folder let us dox a phishing campaign

34•spirovskib•3h ago•8 comments

AsciiMath

https://asciimath.org/
119•smartmic•15h ago•38 comments

Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance

https://elifesciences.org/articles/109427
152•nabla9•18h ago•90 comments

Blocking LLM crawlers without JavaScript

https://www.owl.is/blogg/blocking-crawlers-without-javascript/
148•todsacerdoti•13h ago•73 comments

Is our death from a hydrogen sulfide event inevitable in climate warming? (2005)

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/global-warming-led-climatic-hydrogen-sulfide-and-permian-...
26•DrierCycle•9h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Unflip – a puzzle game about XOR patterns of squares

https://unflipgame.com/
145•bogdanoff_2•4d ago•34 comments

TCP, the workhorse of the internet

https://cefboud.com/posts/tcp-deep-dive-internals/
327•signa11•1d ago•149 comments

When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/11/when-ups-charged-me-684-tariff-on-355.html
254•goldenskye•13h ago•216 comments

Show HN: Real-time 4D Julia set navigation via gamepad

https://banditcat.github.io/Atlas/Atlas.html
9•BanditCat•4d ago•0 comments

Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering

https://pinetreelabs.github.io/archimedes/blog/2025/introduction.html
94•i_don_t_know•17h ago•12 comments