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Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
215•mysterydip•1h ago•78 comments

Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle
272•zdw•5h ago•78 comments

Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf]

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA157917.pdf
21•kioku•1h ago•3 comments

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

https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw
198•jimminyx•4h ago•59 comments

Apple I Advertisement (1976)

http://apple1.chez.com/Apple1project/Gallery/Gallery.htm
183•janandonly•9h ago•119 comments

Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93v21q5xdvo
33•breve•4h ago•11 comments

Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

https://xikipedia.org
32•rebane2001•2h ago•18 comments

Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
276•doener•13h ago•51 comments

Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018)

https://samuelhewitt.com/blog/2018-06-05-time-machine-style-backups-with-rsync
30•accrual•3h ago•12 comments

My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math

https://journal.rafaelcosta.me/my-thousand-dollar-iphone-cant-do-math/
162•rafaelcosta•6h ago•85 comments

Founding is a snowball

https://blog.bawolf.com/p/founding-is-a-snowball
40•bryantwolf•3d ago•15 comments

Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems

https://cedardb.com/blog/string_compression/
88•jandrewrogers•2d ago•18 comments

Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

https://idiallo.com/blog/teaching-my-neighbor-to-keep-the-volume-down
562•firefoxd•8h ago•252 comments

Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++

https://solidean.com/blog/2026/building-your-own-u128/
32•PaulHoule•6h ago•4 comments

In the Lab – Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2020/02/22/In-The-Lab-Magnet-Wire-Soldering.html
7•hasheddan•2d ago•2 comments

MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience

https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/29/micropythonos-graphical-operating-system-delivers-android...
179•mikece•3d ago•57 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
58•zem•2d ago•33 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
6•brudgers•3h ago•2 comments

Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt

https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/01/27/tb25/
215•kohlschuetter•5d ago•113 comments

Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking

https://netbird.io/
649•l1am0•17h ago•247 comments

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

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clearspace/jobs/GOWiDwp-research-engineer-at-clearspace
1•anteloper•8h ago

A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words

https://forkingmad.blog/wordle-crisis/
55•cyanbane•9h ago•70 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
8•against•4d ago•1 comments

Amiga Unix (Amix)

https://www.amigaunix.com/doku.php/home
114•donatj•16h ago•41 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...
48•gmays•9h ago•21 comments

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

https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/
189•yannick2k•16h ago•107 comments

Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code

63•CzaxTanmay•2d ago•14 comments

Ian's Shoelace Site

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
36•righthand•8h ago•2 comments

VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code

https://www.visualjj.com/
156•demail•4d ago•67 comments

MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260121034130.htm
80•amichail•5h ago•28 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

https://xikipedia.org
32•rebane2001•2h ago

Comments

esperent•1h ago
> Xikipedia is loading... (3% of 40MB loaded)

I gave up after about a minute.

mathieudombrock•1h ago
This is unfortunately loading very, very slowly for me.
strich•1h ago
I was genuinely excited to try this and it sounded in theory like a lot of fun! Unfortunately yeah too slow to load.
pinkmuffinere•1h ago
Please fix the loading issue and I’ll return! I think you don’t need to pull all the data at initialization, you could lazily grab a couple from each category and just keep doing it as people scroll.
rebane2001•21m ago
The loading issue is just a hug of death, the site's currently getting multiple visitors per second, and that requires more than a gigabit of bandwidth to handle.

I sort of need to pull all the data at the initialization because I need to map out how every post affects every other - the links between posts are what take up majority of the storage, not the text inside the posts. It's also kind of the only way to preserve privacy.

goodmythical•13m ago
I feel very strongly that you should be able to serve hundreds or thousands of requests at gbps speeds.

Why are you serving so much data personally instead of just reformatting theirs?

Even if you're serving it locally...I mean a regular 100mbit line should easily support tens or hundreds of text users...

What am I missing?

rebane2001•7m ago
> Why are you serving so much data personally instead of just reformatting theirs?

Because then you only need to download 40MB of data and do minimal processing. If you were to take the dumps off of Wikimedia, you would need to download 400MB of data and do processing on that data that would take minutes of time.

And also it's kind of rude to hotlink a half a gig of data on someone else's site.

> What am I missing?

40MB per second is 320mbps, so even 3 visitors per second maxes out a gigabit connection.

hamburglar•1h ago
Took several minutes to load for me, and when my download got to 100%, the browser (safari on ios) refreshed the page and started at 0% again.
RiceNBananas•1h ago
Cool story bro

WP is already shit, why should anyone doomscroll it?

with•58m ago
It's ironic that doomscrollable social media feeds are built for low attention spans, because this website is the opposite. Gave up after 20 seconds.
barcodehorse•54m ago
An issue I have with these apps that claim to be for doomscrolling is that you don't open apps like Instagram or Facebook to doomscroll, you open them to check messages or stories. The doomscrolling is an afterthought. These things assume you can realize you're doomscrolling and not only break out of it, but choose to hypnotize yourself in their app.
forgetbook•18m ago
This could be a product. I'd pay for an app that fwd'd messages from other apps and gave me a wikipedia feed to scroll on the elevator / other places where the phone is a social respite
kachapopopow•53m ago
surprisingly... boring?
singpolyma3•48m ago
Please only continue if you are an adult? You realize Wikipedia has no age restrictions right...
reader9274•28m ago
Man wikipedia is full of trash
senectus1•25m ago
human history*
sputknick•15m ago
If you load it in Chrome, it loads MUCH faster
abhinai•14m ago
This is a very neat idea. I am not sure why the page needs to load 40mb of data and make me wait 5 mins before the first view. I'd probably also add some ranking criteria to surface good quality articles that maximize the "I learnt something new today" factor. Overall kudos to the developer for original thinking.