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Cat Gap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_gap
58•Petiver•3d ago

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grubbs•3h ago
Welp. Now I'm in a wikipedia hole of how cats came to be.
Razengan•2h ago
The universe was created to incorporate cats.
exasperaited•1h ago
Ignoring the much more obvious explanation that they simply buggered off to do their own thing and there was nobody around to bang a plate with a fork.
msuniverse2026•1h ago
"We must close the cat gap." - JFK, 1960
corgiorgy•1h ago
I used to run a Twitter bot called @itsavailable that would mine interesting strings that were not registered .com domains and tweet them out at a regular cadence. One of its sources was the most-visited English-language Wikipedia page titles in the past hour.

One of the only domains I ever bothered purchasing for myself was https://catgap.com

felineflock•8m ago
The cat gap is due to the long time it took for the mutant descendants of Noah's cats to get to America.

Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C

https://fil-c.org/seccomp
124•pizlonator•4h ago•30 comments

An Implementation of J

https://www.jsoftware.com/ioj/ioj.htm
25•ofalkaed•3h ago•4 comments

Closures as Win32 Window Procedures

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/12/12/
47•ibobev•3h ago•3 comments

Recovering Anthony Bourdain's (really) lost Li.st's

https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourdain/
133•thecsw•6h ago•45 comments

I tried Gleam for Advent of Code

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/
245•tymscar•10h ago•135 comments

I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model

https://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.html
114•zdw•7h ago•46 comments

Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux

https://alavi.me/blog/e-ink-tablet-as-monitor-linux/
31•yolkedgeek•4d ago•9 comments

Cat Gap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_gap
58•Petiver•3d ago•6 comments

VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits

https://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-report
274•mmaia•7h ago•162 comments

The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure

https://technicshistory.com/2025/12/13/the-rise-of-computer-games-part-i-adventure/
61•cfmcdonald•7h ago•17 comments

Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith

https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/best-practices/goodbye-microservices
187•birdculture•7h ago•141 comments

llamafile: Distribute and Run LLMs with a Single File

https://github.com/mozilla-ai/llamafile
36•stefankuehnel•8h ago•5 comments

Useful patterns for building HTML tools

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/
253•simonw•3d ago•73 comments

Cryptids

https://wiki.bbchallenge.org/wiki/Cryptids
98•frozenseven•1w ago•15 comments

Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

246•lemonlime227•11h ago•277 comments

Awesome-Jj: Jujutsu Things

https://github.com/Necior/awesome-jj
14•n3t•2h ago•1 comments

Go Proposal: Secret Mode

https://antonz.org/accepted/runtime-secret/
169•enz•4d ago•77 comments

From Azure Functions to FreeBSD

https://jmmv.dev/2025/12/from-azure-functions-to-freebsd.html
76•todsacerdoti•5d ago•8 comments

Free Software Awards Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory

https://www.fsf.org/news/2024-free-software-awards-winners
18•pseudolus•2h ago•0 comments

Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo

https://gabrielweinberg.com/p/some-surprising-things-about-duckduckgo
73•ArmageddonIt•5h ago•54 comments

Flat-pack washing machine spins a fairer future

https://www.positive.news/society/flat-pack-washing-machine-spins-a-fairer-future/
67•ohjeez•4h ago•32 comments

Rocket Lab – 'Raise and Shine' Launch for JAXA [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMP328yoUu4
3•schappim•22m ago•0 comments

What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?

https://louplummer.lol/nice-stranger/
319•speckx•2d ago•242 comments

EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring

https://www.easypost.com/careers
1•jstreebin•10h ago

Dhtml Lemmings (2004)

https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/index.php
4•tetris11•5d ago•2 comments

Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost

https://www.science.org/content/article/want-sway-election-here-s-how-much-fake-online-accounts-cost
154•rbanffy•6h ago•101 comments

Using Python for Scripting

https://hypirion.com/musings/use-python-for-scripting
100•birdculture•5d ago•78 comments

A Giant Ball Will Help This Man Survive a Year on an Iceberg

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/how-giant-ball-will-help-man...
44•areoform•12h ago•38 comments

Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder

https://petapixel.com/2025/12/06/this-photographer-built-an-awesome-medium-format-rangefinder-and...
167•shinryuu•1w ago•41 comments

Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03974-w
110•bikenaga•3d ago•31 comments