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William Cecil's Succession Plan

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/william-cecils-succession-plan
8•Petiver•4d ago

Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09
46•DamnInteresting•1d ago•11 comments

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17-paper-guri.pdf
69•Eridanus2•2h ago•27 comments

Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game

https://kotaku.com/video-game-devs-explain-how-pausing-works-and-sometimes-it-gets-weird-2000686339
155•speckx•2d ago•99 comments

What are skiplists good for?

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/skiptrees/
115•mfiguiere•1d ago•22 comments

NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/any-color-you-nist-scientists-create-any-wavelength...
325•rbanffy•14h ago•140 comments

Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7

https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard
531•anabranch•19h ago•519 comments

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work

https://sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorized/a-college-instructor-turns-to-typewriters-to-curb-ai-w...
304•gnabgib•16h ago•297 comments

Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

40•modelcroissant•2h ago•16 comments

The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

https://www.righto.com/2026/04/B-52-star-tracker-angle-computer.html
347•NelsonMinar•19h ago•92 comments

Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine

https://jackpritz.com/blog/updating-gun-rocket-through-10-years-of-unity-engine
89•tyleo•2d ago•38 comments

Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On

https://vlad.website/binary-dependencies-identifying-the-hidden-packages-we-all-depend-on/
30•PaulHoule•2d ago•2 comments

Why Japan has such good railways

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/
428•RickJWagner•23h ago•408 comments

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/18/opus-system-prompt/
14•pretext•1h ago•0 comments

The seven programming ur-languages

https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html
14•helloplanets•3h ago•2 comments

The world in which IPv6 was a good design

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810
77•signa11•8h ago•22 comments

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/keep-pushing-we-get-10-more-days-reform-section-702
83•nobody9999•4h ago•8 comments

It's cool to care (2025)

https://alexwlchan.net/2025/cool-to-care/
23•surprisetalk•3d ago•10 comments

State of Kdenlive

https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/
411•f_r_d•23h ago•124 comments

Modern Common Lisp with FSet

https://fset.common-lisp.dev/Modern-CL/Top_html/index.html
162•larve•3d ago•19 comments

Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/
795•yusufusta•22h ago•401 comments

Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

https://www.xda-developers.com/zip-drives-dominated-90s-vanished-almost-overnight/
7•naves•41m ago•0 comments

Metatextual Literacy

https://www.jenn.site/metatextual-literacy/
37•dado3212•3d ago•3 comments

Optimizing Ruby Path Methods

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/04/18/faster-paths.html
106•weaksauce•14h ago•38 comments

Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-dizzying-spiral-staircase-with-a-single-guardrail-onc...
29•bookofjoe•2d ago•14 comments

Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups

https://www.sumida-aquarium.com/special/sokanzu/en/2026/
221•Lwrless•3d ago•12 comments

Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260418-claude-design/
325•cdrnsf•16h ago•202 comments

Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon

https://abacusnoir.com/2026/04/18/zero-copy-gpu-inference-from-webassembly-on-apple-silicon/
91•agambrahma•12h ago•36 comments

Binary GCD

https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/algorithms/gcd/#binary-gcd
6•tosh•3h ago•0 comments

My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo

https://blog.marcoinacio.com/posts/my-first-impressions-rocm-strix-halo/
50•random_•13h ago•39 comments

Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC

https://github.com/riyaneel/Tachyon/tree/main/docs/adr
49•riyaneel•2d ago•23 comments