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When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (2006)

https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth.html
26•b112•2h ago

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dredmorbius•38m ago
Previous discussions:

- When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7748292> (2007) (19 comments)

- When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, by Cory Doctorow <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934130> (2010) (15 comments)

The A in AGI Stands for Ads

https://ossa-ma.github.io/blog/openads
13•calcifer•11m ago•0 comments

Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer

https://www.tuned.org.uk/posts/013_the_topological_transformer_training_tauformer
51•tuned•2h ago•12 comments

The guide to real-world EV battery health

https://www.geotab.com/blog/ev-battery-health/
35•giuliomagnifico•1h ago•16 comments

What is Plan 9?

https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.1
48•AlexeyBrin•1h ago•7 comments

Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html
95•tosh•5h ago•61 comments

ThinkNext Design

https://thinknextdesign.com/home.html
149•__patchbit__•8h ago•63 comments

Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills

https://www.qu8n.com/posts/most-important-software-engineering-skill-2026
7•quanwinn•1h ago•1 comments

Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons

https://icon-sets.iconify.design/
366•sea-gold•7h ago•39 comments

Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents

https://github.com/dannote/figma-use
19•dannote•8h ago•5 comments

Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16

https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/12/milk-v-titan-a-329-octa-core-64-bit-risc-v-mini-itx-mothe...
44•fork-bomber•6d ago•22 comments

Keystone (YC S25) Is Hiring

1•pablo24602•2h ago

Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro

https://twitter.com/neelsomani/status/2012695714187325745
232•nl•10h ago•187 comments

Profession by Isaac Asimov

https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php
126•bkudria•12h ago•22 comments

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

https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering
1069•alexharri•1d ago•123 comments

A free and open-source rootkit for Linux

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1053099/19c2e8180aeb0438/
26•jwilk•5h ago•5 comments

jQuery 4

https://blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/jquery-4-0-0/
445•OuterVale•10h ago•141 comments

Show HN: GibRAM an in-memory ephemeral GraphRAG runtime for retrieval

https://github.com/gibram-io/gibram
37•ktyptorio•7h ago•4 comments

The recurring dream of replacing developers

https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html
524•glimshe•1d ago•407 comments

The longest Greek word

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopado%C2%ADtemacho%C2%ADselacho%C2%ADgaleo%C2%ADkranio%C2%ADleipsa...
149•firloop•10h ago•67 comments

Consent-O-Matic

https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
120•throawayonthe•5h ago•69 comments

The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster

https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/11/21/the-grab-list-how-museums-decide-what-to-save-in-a-disa...
35•surprisetalk•4d ago•4 comments

Poking holes into bytecode with peephole optimisations

https://xnacly.me/posts/2026/purple-garden-first-optimisations/
7•ibobev•3d ago•0 comments

We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

https://labs.ramp.com/rct
491•iamwil•6d ago•268 comments

Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish

https://github.com/kip-dili/kip
209•nhatcher•17h ago•62 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...
106•beardyw•5d ago•96 comments

No knives, only cook knives

https://kellykozakandjoshdonald.substack.com/p/no-knives-only-cook-knives
82•firloop•14h ago•39 comments

Play chess via Slack DMs or SMS using an ASCII board

https://github.com/dvelton/dm-chess
19•dustfinger•6d ago•5 comments

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (2006)

https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth.html
27•b112•2h ago•1 comments

Raising money fucked me up

https://blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog/raising-money-fucked-me-up
301•yakkomajuri•20h ago•104 comments

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

https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/115890819509545391
631•lateforwork•14h ago•237 comments