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Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/

42•adunk•5h ago

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dtagames•2h ago

An ancient Easter egg is revealed at the end of this interesting article. The "all free" code was `1337` or "leet" in leet!

tclancy•1h ago

Not quite. The T is silent.

amiga386•1h ago

Interesting! Over in the UK we had https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCrypt

https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/reports/1995-11.pdf

kotaKat•1h ago

Asking for "TBA 970" delay chips in electronic stores prompted employees to offer the full list required to build a "decodeur pirate"

Good ol' civil disobedience. Love it.

breakingcups•1h ago

[2020]

eloisant•1h ago

My father was in electronics and schematics of pirate decoders were being passed around between friends/colleagues (this was before the web!) He got the schematics and built one.

Later in the 90's, when TV cards became cheap enough I got one for my computer then there were software to decode the signal.

1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

https://www.hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/

275•stephen-hill•3d ago•53 comments

GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-bio-bug-bounty/

46•Murfalo•2h ago•38 comments

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/

412•calcifer•11h ago•242 comments

Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games

https://github.com/MartinGalway/C64_music

94•ingve•6h ago•13 comments

Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-ant...

723•elffjs•1d ago•708 comments

Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001824

16•wslh•2d ago•2 comments

Commenting and Approving Pull Requests

https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/on-commenting-and-approving-pull-requests/

50•jwworth•2d ago•32 comments

What's Missing in the 'Agentic' Story

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/04/24/agents_as_collective_bargains

27•ingve•1h ago•3 comments

Desmond Morris, 98, Dies; Zoologist Saw Links Between Humans and Apes

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/science/desmond-morris-dead.html

24•bookofjoe•2d ago•2 comments

Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI

https://victortaelin.github.io/lambench/

78•marvinborner•5h ago•26 comments

Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021)

https://parl.ai/projects/params_vs_compute/

11•jxmorris12•1d ago•0 comments

A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp

https://github.com/nakagami/grdpwasm

62•mariuz•5h ago•28 comments

Niri 26.04 was just released (scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor)

https://github.com/niri-wm/niri/releases/tag/v26.04

3•nickjj•58m ago•0 comments

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/

42•adunk•5h ago•6 comments

HEALPix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEALPix

20•hyperific•3h ago•3 comments

Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay

https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/

205•rbanffy•15h ago•94 comments

A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf]

https://allbrainsbelong.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CLINICIAN-GUIDE-Everything-is-Connected-to...

17•AndrewDucker•3h ago•3 comments

A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU

https://clad.you/blog/posts/questionnaire-mlp/

119•arkadiuss•3d ago•21 comments

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

https://github.com/yuvadm/quantumslop/blob/25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5/URANDOM_DEMO.md

261•pigeons•15h ago•40 comments

Paraloid B-72

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraloid_B-72

250•Ariarule•3d ago•46 comments

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/

488•alcazar•1d ago•120 comments

How to Implement an FPS Counter

https://vplesko.com/posts/how_to_implement_an_fps_counter.html

101•vplesko•3d ago•18 comments

Only One Side Will Be the True Successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x

https://blisscast.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/windows-2-gui-wonderland-12a/

36•keepamovin•5h ago•27 comments

My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/

287•hhh•21h ago•86 comments

Humpback whales are forming super-groups

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260416-the-humpback-super-groups-swarming-the-seas

172•andsoitis•3d ago•89 comments

Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75877

225•wise_blood•3d ago•75 comments

The mail sent to a video game publisher

https://www.gamefile.news/p/panic-mail-arco-despelote-time-flies-thank-goodness-teeth

94•colinprince•4d ago•2 comments

Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

https://github.com/nex-crm/wuphf

167•najmuzzaman•8h ago•85 comments

Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do

https://alash3al.github.io/stash?_v01

133•alash3al•15h ago•56 comments

Education must go beyond the mere production of words

https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/schnell-repairing-the-ruins

115•signor_bosco•16h ago•64 comments