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Frank Dudley Beane's Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experience-with-ergot-and-cannabis/
12•apollinaire•2d ago

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functionmouse•2d ago
we don't party like we used to
balamatom•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
167•DamnInteresting•1d ago•38 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
85•Eridanus2•4h ago•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
199•speckx•2d ago•126 comments

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)

https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html
65•helloplanets•5h ago•24 comments

Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders

https://eng.basement.studio/tools/shader-lab
19•ragojose•2d ago•1 comments

What are skiplists good for?

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/skiptrees/
150•mfiguiere•1d ago•29 comments

NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/any-color-you-nist-scientists-create-any-wavelength...
345•rbanffy•16h ago•150 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...
331•gnabgib•18h ago•327 comments

Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7

https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard
553•anabranch•21h ago•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
361•NelsonMinar•21h ago•94 comments

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

81•modelcroissant•4h ago•39 comments

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/18/opus-system-prompt/
53•pretext•2h ago•25 comments

Why Japan has such good railways

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/
447•RickJWagner•1d ago•423 comments

Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine

https://jackpritz.com/blog/updating-gun-rocket-through-10-years-of-unity-engine
92•tyleo•3d ago•39 comments

The world in which IPv6 was a good design

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810
99•signa11•10h ago•29 comments

It's cool to care (2025)

https://alexwlchan.net/2025/cool-to-care/
32•surprisetalk•3d ago•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/
37•PaulHoule•2d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)

https://teamchong.github.io/turboquant-wasm/draw.html
6•teamchong•2h ago•5 comments

State of Kdenlive

https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/
423•f_r_d•1d ago•130 comments

Modern Common Lisp with FSet

https://fset.common-lisp.dev/Modern-CL/Top_html/index.html
168•larve•3d ago•21 comments

Binary GCD

https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/algorithms/gcd/#binary-gcd
12•tosh•4h ago•0 comments

Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/
815•yusufusta•23h ago•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
109•nobody9999•6h ago•21 comments

Optimizing Ruby Path Methods

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/04/18/faster-paths.html
112•weaksauce•16h ago•40 comments

Metatextual Literacy

https://www.jenn.site/metatextual-literacy/
44•dado3212•3d ago•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...
34•bookofjoe•2d ago•17 comments

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

https://www.sumida-aquarium.com/special/sokanzu/en/2026/
227•Lwrless•3d ago•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/
95•agambrahma•14h ago•37 comments

Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC

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

Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260418-claude-design/
338•cdrnsf•18h ago•213 comments