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Frank Dudley Beane's Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experience-with-ergot-and-cannabis/
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apollinaire
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2d ago
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functionmouse
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2d ago
we don't party like we used to
balamatom
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1h ago
150 years later normies still risk being put in the grapecage for ingesting substances into
their own
bodies which serve to alter
their own
minds.
Whose mind is it anyway, Dudley?
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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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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4h ago
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36 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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The seven programming ur-languages (2022)
https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html
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helloplanets
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5h ago
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24 comments
Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders
https://eng.basement.studio/tools/shader-lab
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ragojose
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2d ago
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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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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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16h ago
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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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18h ago
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327 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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21h ago
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537 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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21h ago
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94 comments
Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
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modelcroissant
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4h ago
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39 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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2h ago
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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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1d ago
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423 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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3d ago
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39 comments
The world in which IPv6 was a good design
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810
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signa11
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10h ago
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29 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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14 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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Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)
https://teamchong.github.io/turboquant-wasm/draw.html
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teamchong
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2h ago
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5 comments
State of Kdenlive
https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/
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f_r_d
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1d ago
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130 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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21 comments
Binary GCD
https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/algorithms/gcd/#binary-gcd
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tosh
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4h ago
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Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/
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yusufusta
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23h ago
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408 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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6h ago
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21 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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16h ago
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40 comments
Metatextual Literacy
https://www.jenn.site/metatextual-literacy/
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dado3212
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3d ago
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4 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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17 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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13 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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14h ago
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37 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
Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260418-claude-design/
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cdrnsf
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18h ago
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213 comments
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