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William Cecil's Succession Plan
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/william-cecils-succession-plan
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Petiver
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4d ago
Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09
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DamnInteresting
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1d ago
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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
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Eridanus2
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2h ago
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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
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speckx
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2d ago
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99 comments
What are skiplists good for?
https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/skiptrees/
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mfiguiere
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1d ago
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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...
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rbanffy
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14h ago
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140 comments
Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard
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anabranch
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19h ago
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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...
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gnabgib
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16h ago
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297 comments
Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
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modelcroissant
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2h ago
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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
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NelsonMinar
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19h ago
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92 comments
Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine
https://jackpritz.com/blog/updating-gun-rocket-through-10-years-of-unity-engine
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tyleo
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2d ago
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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/
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PaulHoule
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2d ago
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2 comments
Why Japan has such good railways
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/
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RickJWagner
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23h ago
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408 comments
Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/18/opus-system-prompt/
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pretext
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1h ago
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0 comments
The seven programming ur-languages
https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html
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helloplanets
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3h ago
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2 comments
The world in which IPv6 was a good design
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810
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signa11
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8h ago
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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
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nobody9999
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4h ago
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8 comments
It's cool to care (2025)
https://alexwlchan.net/2025/cool-to-care/
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surprisetalk
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3d ago
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10 comments
State of Kdenlive
https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/
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f_r_d
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23h ago
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124 comments
Modern Common Lisp with FSet
https://fset.common-lisp.dev/Modern-CL/Top_html/index.html
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larve
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3d ago
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19 comments
Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/
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yusufusta
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22h ago
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401 comments
Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight
https://www.xda-developers.com/zip-drives-dominated-90s-vanished-almost-overnight/
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naves
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41m ago
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0 comments
Metatextual Literacy
https://www.jenn.site/metatextual-literacy/
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dado3212
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3d ago
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3 comments
Optimizing Ruby Path Methods
https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/04/18/faster-paths.html
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weaksauce
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14h ago
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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...
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bookofjoe
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2d ago
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14 comments
Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups
https://www.sumida-aquarium.com/special/sokanzu/en/2026/
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Lwrless
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3d ago
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12 comments
Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260418-claude-design/
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cdrnsf
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16h ago
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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/
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agambrahma
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12h ago
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36 comments
Binary GCD
https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/algorithms/gcd/#binary-gcd
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tosh
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3h ago
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0 comments
My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo
https://blog.marcoinacio.com/posts/my-first-impressions-rocm-strix-halo/
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random_
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13h ago
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39 comments
Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC
https://github.com/riyaneel/Tachyon/tree/main/docs/adr
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riyaneel
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2d ago
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23 comments
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