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History of the browser user-agent string (2008)

https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
14•smushy•4d ago

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netsharc•4d ago
Ah, 2008. It didn't even reach the introduction of the iPhone user agent for a new mobile browsing experience, and then every mobile browser pretending to be an iPhone to get the same design...

What was it before the iPhone? WAP?

Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
517•cbeuw•11h ago•327 comments

List animals until failure

https://rose.systems/animalist/
31•l1n•3h ago•12 comments

Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-use-bioelectricity-to-coordinate-and-make-group-decisions-20...
12•marojejian•4h ago•1 comments

In praise of –dry-run

https://henrikwarne.com/2026/01/31/in-praise-of-dry-run/
91•ingve•8h ago•60 comments

Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025

https://wikiedu.org/blog/2026/01/29/generative-ai-and-wikipedia-editing-what-we-learned-in-2025/
102•ColinWright•7h ago•48 comments

pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/DataDog/pg_tracing
6•tanelpoder•3d ago•1 comments

Opentrees.org (2024)

https://opentrees.org/#pos=1/-37.8/145
32•surprisetalk•4d ago•3 comments

Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/smallpox-eradication-champion-william-foege-dies-at-89/
162•CrossVR•3d ago•33 comments

Outsourcing thinking

https://erikjohannes.no/posts/20260130-outsourcing-thinking/index.html
100•todsacerdoti•7h ago•86 comments

Best of Moltbook

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/best-of-moltbook
25•feross•7h ago•3 comments

The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login-logout_1305_mickens.pdf
99•tosh•8h ago•19 comments

Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.

https://github.com/zupat/related_post_gen
71•behnamoh•8h ago•30 comments

Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21473
65•matt_d•8h ago•14 comments

Apple-1 Computer Prototype Board #0 sold for $2.75M

https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/350902407346003-apple-1-computer-prototype-board-0-...
35•qingcharles•2h ago•16 comments

Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine

https://crl.io/ds-game-engine/
115•Antibabelic•10h ago•27 comments

Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media

https://yle.fi/a/74-20207494
538•Teever•11h ago•394 comments

Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images

https://github.com/rtvkiz/minimal
75•ritvikarya98•8h ago•24 comments

Wikipedia: Sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox
64•zaptrem•1d ago•16 comments

Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

https://nmn.sh/blog/2023-10-02-swift-is-the-more-convenient-rust
251•behnamoh•6h ago•230 comments

Ferrari vs. Markets

https://ferrari-imports.enigmatechnologies.dev/
48•merinid•2d ago•26 comments

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/ZunnO6k-ai-agent-engineer
1•OBrien_1107•7h ago

Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/inside-nvidias-10-year-effort-to-make-the-shield-tv-the-m...
115•qmr•13h ago•98 comments

EV-1 for Lease (1996)

https://www.loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=96-P13-00047#feature4
6•1970-01-01•2d ago•1 comments

CPython Internals Explained

https://github.com/zpoint/CPython-Internals
180•yufiz•4d ago•43 comments

Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]

https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf
143•pieterr•12h ago•108 comments

Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 6: Mark and Sweep

https://minidump.net/writing-a-net-gc-in-c-part-6/
53•pjmlp•4d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

https://www.moltbook.com/
161•schlichtm•3d ago•812 comments

When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive?

https://webkit.org/blog/17758/when-will-css-grid-lanes-arrive-how-long-until-we-can-use-it/
7•feross•5h ago•0 comments

Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland

https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell
47•doener•8h ago•19 comments

Sparse File LRU Cache

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/01/sparse-file-lru-cache.html
4•paladin314159•3h ago•0 comments