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Chain Flinger

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/kdk-kinetik-der-kontinua-part-1-introduction
23•roomey•5d ago

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lukebechtel•2h ago
The chain robot subplot of Seveneves makes a lot more sense now :)
FrameworkFred•28m ago
the chain link tech in Seveneves was wild.

as a nearly perfectly uninformed occasional consumer of space-related articles, I can say it makes a lot of sense (to me) why we'd use something like that to move things around the solar system.

jaggederest•1h ago
Doesn't even need to be an actual chain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain
skybrian•7m ago
It's like you keep shooting ammo upward at it and it catches it and throws it down again, hard.
JKCalhoun•1h ago
Related (Steve Mould has been fascinated with the centripetal physics of the chain): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcqX4UMXNKEdNBKABT3ZF...

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/year-linux-desktop/
213•todsacerdoti•1h ago•157 comments

Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

https://indieweb.org/POSSE#
356•47thpresident•6h ago•90 comments

Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?

https://www.madebywindmill.com/tempi/blog/hbfs-bpm/
234•simonw•4h ago•44 comments

Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second

https://lotteryeverysecond.lffl.me/
25•Loeffelmann•1h ago•9 comments

A Basic Just-in-Time Compiler

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2015/03/19/
8•ibobev•42m ago•0 comments

Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal

https://unixv4.dev/
125•pjmlp•6h ago•53 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

253•whoishiring•9h ago•160 comments

FracturedJson

https://github.com/j-brooke/FracturedJson/wiki
506•PretzelFisch•13h ago•138 comments

Clicks Communicator

https://www.clicksphone.com/en/communicator
256•microflash•8h ago•186 comments

IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/ipv6_at_30/
257•Brajeshwar•11h ago•541 comments

Blob Opera, Community Edition

https://opera.addy.ie
7•padolsey•1w ago•0 comments

Linux kernel security work

http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2026/01/02/linux-kernel-security-work/
52•chmaynard•4h ago•23 comments

The PGP Problem (2019)

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/#the-answers
11•croemer•5d ago•4 comments

Global software engineering job postings outlook – 2026

https://jobswithgpt.com/blog/global_software-engineering_jobs_january_2026/
39•sp1982•4h ago•11 comments

TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA

https://github.com/Alanma23/tinytinyTPU-co
84•Xenograph•6h ago•35 comments

Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet

https://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsoft-quietly-kills-official-way-to-activate-windows-1110-...
69•josephcsible•1h ago•10 comments

Chain Flinger

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/kdk-kinetik-der-kontinua-part-1-introduction
23•roomey•5d ago•5 comments

Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams

https://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/fighting-fire-with-fire-scalable-oral.html
120•sethbannon•7h ago•169 comments

10 years of personal finances in plain text files

https://sgoel.dev/posts/10-years-of-personal-finances-in-plain-text-files/
437•wrxd•14h ago•166 comments

Jank Lang Hit Alpha

https://github.com/jank-lang/jank
105•makemethrowaway•6h ago•18 comments

Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone

https://www.punkt.ch/blogs/news/punkt-unveils-mc03
127•ChrisArchitect•9h ago•114 comments

What you need to know before touching a video file

https://gist.github.com/arch1t3cht/b5b9552633567fa7658deee5aec60453/
283•qbow883•6d ago•186 comments

Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-computer-scientists.html
69•tosh•7h ago•22 comments

Uxn32: Uxn Emulator for Windows and Wine

https://github.com/randrew/uxn32
36•ibobev•5d ago•3 comments

Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature

https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
346•WithinReason•17h ago•54 comments

Blaze: A Dec VT420 (and More) Emulator

https://mmastrac.github.io/blaze/
4•doener•58m ago•1 comments

The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf]

https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-749/READINGS/required/cas/tridgell96.pdf
84•vortex_ape•9h ago•4 comments

Assorted less(1) tips

https://blog.thechases.com/posts/assorted-less-tips/
177•todsacerdoti•13h ago•39 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)

89•whoishiring•9h ago•168 comments

I wrote a batch script to keep my 2011 ThinkPad alive for 24/7 streaming

https://github.com/patrick48001/ThinkPad-Stream-Sentinel-VLC-Video-Source-reset-disable-stream-sh...
28•techenthuziast•6h ago•4 comments