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Blaster Beam (Musical Instrument)

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

10•hyperific•1d ago

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analogpixel•1h ago

I don't get it, all the pictures (2) from https://blasterbeam.com/ only show some metal beams with nothing on them. the wikipedia link shows a small bury photo of something. Does this thing actually exist, or is this some late april fools joke?

ortusdux•1h ago

It looks like a hybrid between a piano and electric guitar

https://www.angelspit.net/blaster-beam-2022-08/

aidenn0•58m ago

More like a giant steel guitar

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

etrautmann•1h ago

This is a more useful link https://youtu.be/CEjew239bUU?si=L-nskdaoGq_24fgt

Zed 1.0

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0

1446•salkahfi•9h ago•456 comments

Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431

https://copy.fail/

471•unsnap_biceps•5h ago•220 comments

Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world

https://prm.ua/en/the-us-is-no-longer-the-leader-germany-has-become-the-largest-ammunition-produc...

91•doener•1h ago•56 comments

HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262

930•homebrewer•5h ago•376 comments

OpenTrafficMap

https://opentrafficmap.org/

122•moooo99•4h ago•26 comments

Cursor Camp

https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/

528•bpierre•8h ago•95 comments

FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxies

220•agwa•7h ago•49 comments

DRAM Crunch: Lessons for System Design

https://www.eetimes.com/what-the-dram-crunch-teaches-us-about-system-design/

16•giuliomagnifico•1d ago•0 comments

Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/why-i-still-reach-for-scheme-instead-of-haskell/...

149•jjba23•15h ago•43 comments

Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gooseworks/jobs/ztgY6bD-founding-growth-engineer

1•shivsak•2h ago

Laws of UX

https://lawsofux.com/

158•bobbiechen•6h ago•27 comments

Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/ramps-sheets-ai-exfiltrates-financials

95•takira•6h ago•30 comments

An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce

https://github.com/GliaX/Stethoscope

175•0x54MUR41•9h ago•73 comments

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https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/third-editor-fired-in-elseviers-citation

228•RigbyTaro•8h ago•73 comments

Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write

https://github.com/aallan/vera

22•unignorant•2h ago•10 comments

Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

https://www.nldigitalgovernment.nl/news/soft-launch-for-government-open-source-code-platform/

516•e12e•14h ago•117 comments

Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years

https://jivx.com/kyoto-bloom

205•momentmaker•4h ago•56 comments

Postgres's lateral joins allow for quite the good eDSL

https://bensimms.moe/postgres-lateral-makes-quite-a-good-dsl/

40•nitros•2d ago•3 comments

We need a federation of forges

https://blog.tangled.org/federation/

507•icy•9h ago•319 comments

> Be Alexandra Elbakyan

https://nitter.space/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/2049057344013881523#m

16•DanielleMolloy•1h ago•1 comments

Online age verification is the hill to die on

https://x.com/GlennMeder/status/2049088498163216560

693•Cider9986•8h ago•435 comments

How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNyuX1zoOgU

73•sandslash•9h ago•37 comments

Blaster Beam (Musical Instrument)

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

10•hyperific•1d ago•4 comments

I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot

https://lina.sh/blog/ddos-honeypot

35•fishgoesblub•2h ago•8 comments

Ghostty is leaving GitHub

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github

3324•WadeGrimridge•1d ago•987 comments

Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/29/virtualisation-on-apple-silicon-macs-is-different/

63•zdw•7h ago•15 comments

I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief."

https://www.maxtaylor.me/articles/i-benchmarked-caveman-against-two-words

13•max-t-dev•2h ago•2 comments

Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/maryland-grocery-stores-ban-surveillance-pricing

219•01-_-•7h ago•155 comments

GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts

https://github.com/DOS-History/Paterson-Listings

115•s2l•12h ago•6 comments

Mistral Medium 3.5

https://mistral.ai/news/vibe-remote-agents-mistral-medium-3-5

408•meetpateltech•8h ago•191 comments