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Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

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

588•zdw•14h ago•179 comments

Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library

https://github.com/rustrum/apate

6•rumatoest•1d ago•1 comments

Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/2/1.html

120•zdw•8h ago•28 comments

My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs

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

317•rafaelcosta•14h ago•139 comments

Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

https://xikipedia.org

243•rebane2001•11h ago•89 comments

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

https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw

398•jimminyx•12h ago•141 comments

Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985)

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA157917.pdf

97•kioku•10h ago•38 comments

Ratchets in Software Development

https://qntm.org/ratchet

39•nvader•3d ago•12 comments

Contracts in Nix

https://sraka.xyz/posts/contracts.html

63•todsacerdoti•1d ago•16 comments

Apple I Advertisement (1976)

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

245•janandonly•18h ago•131 comments

Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games

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

334•doener•21h ago•67 comments

Ian's Shoelace Site

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/

195•righthand•17h ago•33 comments

Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse

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

71•breve•13h ago•36 comments

Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound's Enslaved Workforce

https://www.wired.com/story/the-red-bull-leaks/

144•smurda•6h ago•68 comments

EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push

https://spacenews.com/eu-launches-government-satcom-program-in-sovereignty-push/

33•benkan•2h ago•15 comments

Rev Up the Viral Factories

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/rev-viral-factories

15•etiam•3d ago•0 comments

Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++

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

86•PaulHoule•15h ago•35 comments

Board Games in Ancient Fiction: Egypt, Iran, Greece

https://reference-global.com/article/10.2478/bgs-2022-0016

7•bryanrasmussen•2d ago•1 comments

High performance, open source RAFT clustered database: RooDB

https://github.com/jgarzik/roodb

3•jgarzik•4d ago•0 comments

Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018)

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

83•accrual•11h ago•37 comments

Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems

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

133•jandrewrogers•2d ago•33 comments

Two kinds of AI users are emerging

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

224•martinald•12h ago•200 comments

Show HN: Sklad – Secure, offline-first snippet manager (Rust, Tauri v2)

https://github.com/Rench321/sklad

8•rench321•2h ago•1 comments

MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience

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

224•mikece•3d ago•88 comments

Founding is a snowball

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

88•bryantwolf•3d ago•30 comments

Stop Using Pseudo-Types

https://f2r.github.io/en/stop-using-pseudo-types.html

16•speckx•4d ago•3 comments

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

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

240•yannick2k•1d ago•174 comments

Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking

https://netbird.io/

691•l1am0•1d ago•266 comments

Editor of UploadVR on why he was fired

https://goodvr.substack.com/p/ian-is-typing

4•mellosouls•40m ago•0 comments

Library of Juggling

https://libraryofjuggling.com/

9•tontony•3h ago•1 comments

Open in hackernews

Attilio Berni plays the sub-contrabass saxophone [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BiW2mVKk0w

9•surprisetalk•3d ago

Comments

nubinetwork•1h ago

I see your saxophone, and here's a Subcontrabassoon ;) https://youtu.be/LWQADWh3D8s

p0w3n3d•1h ago

I think it does not reflect the real sound. Those low frequencies can be felt in the stomach. Also video is quite old so the phone mic is weak

divan•1h ago

Not even in the same ballpark, but still fun - sax with a construction cone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygXimpNTMXw