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Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer 2024

https://aschmelyun.com/blog/getting-my-daily-news-from-a-dot-matrix-printer/
30•xupybd•2d ago

Comments

brudgers•1d ago
Some past comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41742210
crims0n•55m ago
Been thinking of doing something similar, I have an Apple ImageWriter and Atari 1025 sitting in my basement. Does anyone know how long dot matrix ink ribbons last new?
bombcar•50m ago
Do you mean last as in how long until they dry out or last in how much you can print?

It's usually linear inches of text - which depends on how much you're printing.

crims0n•43s ago
Yeah print… reading anything from a few months to a year. Not bad for how cheap the ribbons are.
LtWorf•12m ago
I feel like the author cannot tell a serial and a parallel port apart?

Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained

https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest
221•c0l0•3h ago•100 comments

Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview

https://github.com/dirac-run/dirac
75•GodelNumbering•1h ago•26 comments

Men Who Stare at Walls

https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/men_who_stare_at_walls/
85•aselimov3•3h ago•41 comments

Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico

https://github.com/WeebLabs/DSPi
125•BoingBoomTschak•2d ago•27 comments

Flipdiscs

https://flipdisc.io
391•skogstokig•4d ago•68 comments

4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor

https://app.oravys.com/blog/mercor-breach-2026
62•Oravys•4h ago•16 comments

I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
945•ca98am79•17h ago•480 comments

FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy for Treatment of Genetic Hearing Loss

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-ever-gene-therapy-treatmen...
41•JeanKage•4h ago•10 comments

Understanding the short circuit in solid-state batteries

https://www.mpie.de/5151287/short-circuit-solid-state-batteries
10•hhs•1d ago•0 comments

AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it

https://www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/
669•koshyjohn•18h ago•477 comments

Microsoft to Stop Sharing Revenue with Main AI Partner OpenAI

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/microsoft-to-stop-sharing-revenue-with-main-ai...
36•helsinkiandrew•53m ago•5 comments

Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

https://quarkdown.com/
64•amai•5h ago•10 comments

TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough

https://arkaung.github.io/interactive-turboquant/
231•kweezar•12h ago•49 comments

The next phase of the Microsoft OpenAI partnership – OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/next-phase-of-microsoft-partnership/
51•helsinkiandrew•52m ago•56 comments

Self-updating screenshots

https://interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots
382•bjhess•1d ago•61 comments

Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings

https://github.com/garritfra/cell
27•garritfra•2h ago•10 comments

The Prompt API

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/prompt-api
195•gslin•11h ago•102 comments

France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/04/16/how-frances-mistral-built-a-14-billion-ai-empi...
127•rzk•4h ago•73 comments

Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer 2024

https://aschmelyun.com/blog/getting-my-daily-news-from-a-dot-matrix-printer/
30•xupybd•2d ago•5 comments

Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/04/26/branimir-lambov-from-ibm-on-cassandra.html
30•eatonphil•1d ago•2 comments

It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)

https://robbowen.digital/wrote-about/abandoned-side-projects/
140•hisamafahri•6h ago•65 comments

Electrostatics and High Voltage Links

http://amasci.com/static/electrostatic1.html
22•ludicrousdispla•3d ago•3 comments

Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet

https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-mystery-shadowbrokers-reference-reveals-high-precision-so...
296•dd23•17h ago•72 comments

Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/26/windows_second_chance_setup/
27•geekinchief•1h ago•12 comments

Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting

https://slicker.me/rust/ownership_and_borrowing_vs_reference_counting.html
46•vinhnx•2d ago•36 comments

Three constraints before I build anything

https://jordanlord.co.uk/blog/3-constraints/
272•nervous_north•1d ago•44 comments

A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design

https://pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu/epet302/
57•o4c•1d ago•3 comments

SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities

https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/
330•kmdupree•1d ago•172 comments

Box to save memory in Rust

https://dystroy.org/blog/box-to-save-memory/
155•emschwartz•3d ago•47 comments

Mystery Cpuid Bit

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mystery-cpuid-bit/
27•userbinator•2d ago•3 comments