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Hard problems in social media archiving

https://alexwlchan.net/2025/hard-problems-in-social-media-archiving/
9•surprisetalk•3d ago

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zoobab•1h ago
HTTP is not designed for mirroring.

FTP was easy to mirror with "lftp> mirror -p".

Easy mirroring and archive level maintenance (let's say the network always maintain 3 copies at minimum) should be built-in the "social media" protocols.

binarykult•31m ago
Well if only we still can archive Instagram full-profiles, for example ...

MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings

https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg
40•todsacerdoti•1h ago•20 comments

I’m joining OpenAI

https://steipete.me/posts/2026/openclaw
1114•mfiguiere•14h ago•811 comments

I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295
616•novemp•5h ago•430 comments

Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship

https://www.fide.com/magnus-carlsen-wins-2026-fide-freestyle-world-championship/
302•prophylaxis•13h ago•192 comments

picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code

https://github.com/antirez/picol
40•tosh•4h ago•29 comments

Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing

https://github.com/preservim/vim-pencil
15•gurjeet•3d ago•0 comments

Building SQLite with a small swarm

https://kiankyars.github.io/machine_learning/2026/02/12/sqlite.html
72•kyars•6h ago•49 comments

Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015

https://modern-css.com
504•eustoria•18h ago•202 comments

Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/12/arm-wants-a-bigger-slice-of-the-chip-business
95•andsoitis•9h ago•56 comments

Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve

https://blog.exe.dev/expensively-quadratic
49•luu•3d ago•22 comments

1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/1300-year-old-world-chronicle-unearthed-in-sinai/156948
56•telotortium•4d ago•8 comments

LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop

https://github.com/TechPaula/LT6502
361•classichasclass•18h ago•176 comments

Audio is the one area small labs are winning

https://www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/arming-the-rebels-with-gpus-gradium-kyutai-and-audio-ai
219•rocauc•3d ago•57 comments

JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals

https://sgom.es/posts/2026-02-13-js-heavy-approaches-are-not-compatible-with-long-term-performanc...
103•luu•11h ago•117 comments

I gave Claude access to my pen plotter

https://harmonique.one/posts/i-gave-claude-access-to-my-pen-plotter
207•futurecat•2d ago•132 comments

Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser

https://microgpt.boratto.ca
204•b44•17h ago•23 comments

Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/anthropic_claude_ai_edits/
10•beardyw•1h ago•0 comments

Designing a 36-key custom keyboard layout (2021)

https://peterxjang.medium.com/designing-a-36-key-custom-keyboard-layout-24498a0eecd4
19•speckx•2d ago•8 comments

EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear

https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-stop-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-2026...
1033•giuliomagnifico•18h ago•695 comments

Databases should contain their own Metadata – Use SQL Everywhere

https://floedb.ai/blog/databases-should-contain-their-own-metadata-instrumentation-in-floe
31•matheusalmeida•4d ago•22 comments

Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format

https://gwern.net/gwtar
242•theblazehen•20h ago•76 comments

Real-time PathTracing with global illumination in WebGL

https://erichlof.github.io/THREE.js-PathTracing-Renderer/
166•tobr•3d ago•15 comments

Hard problems in social media archiving

https://alexwlchan.net/2025/hard-problems-in-social-media-archiving/
9•surprisetalk•3d ago•2 comments

Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices

https://github.com/pocketblue/pocketblue
113•nikodunk•19h ago•31 comments

Error payloads in Zig

https://srcreigh.ca/posts/error-payloads-in-zig/
77•srcreigh•12h ago•28 comments

Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door

https://knock-knock.net
160•djkurlander•19h ago•69 comments

Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/science/luna-9-moon-lander-soviet.html
62•Brajeshwar•4d ago•43 comments

GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor

https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/pies/
91•smartmic•15h ago•57 comments

Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/amazons-ring-and-googles-nest-unwittingly
854•mikece•23h ago•590 comments

I fixed Windows native development

https://marler8997.github.io/blog/fixed-windows/
755•deevus•1d ago•361 comments