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The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2026/01/09/bennett-cerf-biography-nothing-random-feldman-book-review/
7•benbreen•5h ago

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quuxplusone•1h ago
Stop clickbait: Title should be "Bennett Cerf, a..."

I highly recommend the panel show "What's My Line," on which he was a regular panelist from 1951 to 1967.

Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro

https://twitter.com/neelsomani/status/2012695714187325745
127•nl•2h ago•71 comments

Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karab

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopado%C2%ADtemacho%C2%ADselacho%C2%ADgaleo%C2%ADkranio%C2%ADleipsa...
61•firloop•2h ago•23 comments

How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery

https://www.anthropic.com/news/accelerating-scientific-research
42•gmays•3h ago•28 comments

Profession by Isaac Asimov

https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php
29•bkudria•4h ago•4 comments

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

https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering
942•alexharri•19h ago•112 comments

jQuery 4.0.0 Released

https://blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/jquery-4-0-0/
93•OuterVale•2h ago•25 comments

No knives, only cook knives

https://kellykozakandjoshdonald.substack.com/p/no-knives-only-cook-knives
29•firloop•6h ago•2 comments

Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/dark-mode/
24•seanwilson•4h ago•16 comments

Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish

https://github.com/kip-dili/kip
159•nhatcher•9h ago•50 comments

The recurring dream of replacing developers

https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html
382•glimshe•16h ago•307 comments

Podcasting Could Use a Good Asteroid

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/podcasting-could-use-a-good-asteroid/
18•zdw•2d ago•7 comments

Claude Shannon's randomness-guessing machine

https://www.loper-os.org/bad-at-entropy/manmach.html
9•Kotlopou•5d ago•1 comments

We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

https://labs.ramp.com/rct
414•iamwil•5d ago•230 comments

If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design

https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/115890819509545391
383•lateforwork•6h ago•164 comments

Computer Systems Security 6.566 / Spring 2024

https://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2024/
66•barishnamazov•6h ago•9 comments

Xous Operating System

https://xous.dev/
112•eustoria•3d ago•32 comments

Why Object of Arrays beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance issue

https://www.royalbhati.com/posts/js-array-vs-typedarray
21•howToTestFE•6d ago•7 comments

Raising money fucked me up

https://blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog/raising-money-fucked-me-up
204•yakkomajuri•12h ago•67 comments

How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how-london-finally-cracked-mobile-phone-coverage-on-the-unde...
43•beardyw•4d ago•12 comments

Show HN: ChunkHound, a local-first tool for understanding large codebases

https://github.com/chunkhound/chunkhound
70•NadavBenItzhak•9h ago•23 comments

IRISC: An ARMv7 assembly interpreter and computer architecture simulator

https://polysoftit.co.uk/irisc-web/
27•rtybanana•6h ago•2 comments

The Olivetti Company

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-olivetti-company
153•rbanffy•6d ago•33 comments

The relentless rule of my fitness tracker

https://timharford.com/2025/10/the-relentless-rule-of-my-fitness-tracker/
12•Arnt•2h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Speed Miners – A tiny RTS resource mini-game

https://speedminers.fun/
22•nickponline•8h ago•2 comments

The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2026/01/09/bennett-cerf-biography-nothing-random-feldman-boo...
7•benbreen•5h ago•1 comments

Below the Surface: Archeological Finds from the Amsterdam Noord/Zuid Metro Line

https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten
77•stefanvdw1•6d ago•10 comments

An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260116-an-elizabethan-mansions-secrets-for-staying-warm
130•Tachyooon•13h ago•147 comments

Light Mode InFFFFFFlation

https://willhbr.net/2025/10/20/light-mode-infffffflation/
182•Fudgel•8h ago•134 comments

U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site

https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-court-order-against-annas-archive-spells-more-trouble-for-the-site/
36•t-3•2h ago•17 comments

M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer)

https://maniek86.xyz/projects/m8sbc_486.php
105•rasz•6d ago•8 comments