fp.

Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle

214•zdw•3h ago•63 comments

Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation

https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw

144•jimminyx•2h ago•42 comments

Apple I Advertisement (1976)

http://apple1.chez.com/Apple1project/Gallery/Gallery.htm

173•janandonly•7h ago•111 comments

Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93v21q5xdvo

13•breve•3h ago•1 comments

My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math

https://journal.rafaelcosta.me/my-thousand-dollar-iphone-cant-do-math/

128•rafaelcosta•4h ago•53 comments

Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing

https://martinalderson.com/posts/two-kinds-of-ai-users-are-emerging/

17•martinald•1h ago•9 comments

Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking

https://netbird.io/

641•l1am0•15h ago•241 comments

Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/

264•doener•11h ago•49 comments

Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018)

https://samuelhewitt.com/blog/2018-06-05-time-machine-style-backups-with-rsync

13•accrual•1h ago•5 comments

Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems

https://cedardb.com/blog/string_compression/

81•jandrewrogers•2d ago•14 comments

Founding is a snowball

https://blog.bawolf.com/p/founding-is-a-snowball

31•bryantwolf•3d ago•7 comments

I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down

https://idiallo.com/blog/teaching-my-neighbor-to-keep-the-volume-down

511•firefoxd•6h ago•203 comments

Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/149366/MIT-LCS-TR-458.pdf?sequence=6

54•zem•2d ago•29 comments

Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

https://xikipedia.org

5•rebane2001•1h ago•0 comments

What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/

347•SatvikBeri•15h ago•149 comments

MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience

https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/29/micropythonos-graphical-operating-system-delivers-android...

174•mikece•3d ago•50 comments

Troublemaker: The fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/rosemary-hill/one-of-the-worst-things

7•against•4d ago•1 comments

Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clearspace/jobs/GOWiDwp-research-engineer-at-clearspace

1•anteloper•6h ago

Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++

https://solidean.com/blog/2026/building-your-own-u128/

16•PaulHoule•4h ago•1 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...

3•brudgers•1h ago•1 comments

A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words

https://forkingmad.blog/wordle-crisis/

44•cyanbane•7h ago•55 comments

Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt

https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/01/27/tb25/

205•kohlschuetter•5d ago•104 comments

TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe

https://taoofmac.com/space/til/2026/02/01/1630

174•rcarmo•5h ago•96 comments

Amiga Unix (Amix)

https://www.amigaunix.com/doku.php/home

109•donatj•14h ago•39 comments

FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/

179•yannick2k•14h ago•105 comments

Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code

60•CzaxTanmay•2d ago•14 comments

Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work

https://research.google/blog/towards-a-science-of-scaling-agent-systems-when-and-why-agent-system...

39•gmays•7h ago•17 comments

MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260121034130.htm

60•amichail•3h ago•15 comments

The Book of PF, 4th edition

https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition

199•0x54MUR41•17h ago•38 comments

English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings

https://yaledailynews.com/articles/english-professors-double-down-on-requiring-printed-copies-of-...

113•cmsefton•9h ago•149 comments

Open in hackernews

Troublemaker: The fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/rosemary-hill/one-of-the-worst-things

7•against•4d ago

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dang•4d ago

Related: How Jessica Mitford changed our ideas about death - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160721-how-jessica-mitf...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12346671 - Aug 2016 - no comments there, but the article looks good)