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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering

556•alexharri•8h ago•66 comments

We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

https://labs.ramp.com/rct

202•iamwil•5d ago•111 comments

There's no single best way to store information

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-theres-no-single-best-way-to-store-information-20260116/

40•7777777phil•3h ago•14 comments

An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260116-an-elizabethan-mansions-secrets-for-staying-warm

39•Tachyooon•2h ago•47 comments

The recurring dream of replacing developers

https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html

110•glimshe•5h ago•110 comments

Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/counterfactual-evaluation/

34•kurinikku•14h ago•1 comments

The Olivetti Company – By Bradford Morgan White

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-olivetti-company

18•rbanffy•6d ago•6 comments

M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer)

https://maniek86.xyz/projects/m8sbc_486.php

25•rasz•6d ago•4 comments

The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260113-hello-hiya-aloha-what-our-greetings-reveal

78•1659447091•7h ago•43 comments

East Germany balloon escape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany_balloon_escape

638•robertvc•1d ago•274 comments

The Dilbert Afterlife

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-dilbert-afterlife

341•rendall•1d ago•214 comments

16 Best Practices for Reducing Dependabot Noise

https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/10/16-best-practices-for-reducing-dependabot-noise.html

23•zdw•5d ago•15 comments

ClickHouse acquires Langfuse

https://langfuse.com/blog/joining-clickhouse

168•tin7in•10h ago•74 comments

Apples, Trees, and Quasimodes

https://systemstack.dev/2025/09/humane-computing/

11•entaloneralie•2h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them

https://github.com/PABannier/WSIStreamer

113•el_pa_b•10h ago•41 comments

Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city

https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter

168•originalankur•9h ago•50 comments

The Resonant Computing Manifesto

https://resonantcomputing.org/

26•sinak•3h ago•8 comments

Cloudflare acquires Astro

https://astro.build/blog/joining-cloudflare/

914•todotask2•1d ago•382 comments

The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/17/vastaamo-hack-finland-therapy-notes

120•c420•12h ago•118 comments

2025 was the third hottest year on record

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/01/14/2025-was-the-third-hottest-year-on-re...

127•andsoitis•2h ago•104 comments

Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

https://embedding-shapes.github.io/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/

665•embedding-shape•1d ago•290 comments

US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it

https://electrek.co/2026/01/16/us-electricity-demand-surged-in-2025-solar-handled-61-percent/

287•doener•9h ago•263 comments

Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm24k6kk1rko

7•breve•15m ago•0 comments

High-Level Is the Goal

https://bvisness.me/high-level/

217•tobr•2d ago•104 comments

6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability

466•jaas•1d ago•256 comments

Show HN: What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center?

https://extrabar.app/

34•pugdogdev•2h ago•17 comments

Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/italy-investigates-activision-blizzard-for-pushing-in-game-purc...

89•7777777phil•6h ago•31 comments

PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/patch_tuesday_secure_launch_bug_no_shutdown/

192•smurda•8h ago•207 comments

FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux2-klein-towards-interactive-visual-intelligence

199•GaggiX•19h ago•55 comments

LLM Structured Outputs Handbook

https://nanonets.com/cookbooks/structured-llm-outputs

336•vitaelabitur•2d ago•58 comments

Open in hackernews

M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer)

https://maniek86.xyz/projects/m8sbc_486.php

25•rasz•6d ago

Comments

fecal_henge•1h ago

Is that hard soldered RAM? Very modern!

You mentioned something about custom holes. What does that mean?

blacklion•44m ago

I think, it means that it cannot be mounted in any standard case, like AT (I know, there is no official AT standard formally), ATX, µATX or ITX.

reactordev•50m ago

HN hug?

webdevver•25m ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20260117185107/https://maniek86....