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Pen pal programs endure in a digital age

https://apnews.com/article/pen-pals-letters-comeback-bc87e1b9c229665bafd368e19751d6ca
22•petethomas•1d ago

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whiteleopard•10m ago
I met my wife in Slowly. I can't reccomend it enough for a Pen pal experience.

Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creat...
1181•haunter•12h ago•374 comments

Permacomputing Principles

https://permacomputing.net/principles/
48•andsoitis•2h ago•1 comments

Appearing productive in the workplace

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/
841•diebillionaires•12h ago•318 comments

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/
469•e12e•13h ago•512 comments

SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format

https://sqlite.org/locrsf.html
75•whatisabcdefgh•6h ago•18 comments

The Vatican's Website in Latin

https://www.vatican.va/latin/latin_index.html
78•ks2048•3h ago•50 comments

Finding the differences in a series of power supplies

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/05/05/testing-psu-series
30•LabsLucas•1d ago•2 comments

Pen pal programs endure in a digital age

https://apnews.com/article/pen-pals-letters-comeback-bc87e1b9c229665bafd368e19751d6ca
22•petethomas•1d ago•1 comments

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

https://blog.val.town/better-auth
229•stevekrouse•11h ago•154 comments

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-t...
243•unforgivenpasta•10h ago•227 comments

How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260504-00/?p=112296
44•ingve•1d ago•37 comments

Programming Still Sucks

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
194•jeromechoo•9h ago•45 comments

What I Learned Making an App for My Family

https://mendelgreenberg.com/posts/ourcar/
10•chabad360•14h ago•1 comments

The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-mathematical-dance-inside-plant-cells-20260504/
5•isaacfrond•1d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hallucinopedia

http://halupedia.com/
176•bstrama•12h ago•164 comments

Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC

https://leetusman.com/nosebook/yvi
35•zeech•1d ago•17 comments

Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

https://tilde.run/
134•ozkatz•12h ago•102 comments

Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model

https://sander.ai/2026/05/06/flow-maps.html
118•benanne•9h ago•19 comments

A Theory of Deep Learning

https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/
149•elonlit•1d ago•31 comments

Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader

https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader
64•dmos62•1d ago•20 comments

What British people mean when they say 'sorry'

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260506-what-british-people-really-mean-when-they-say-sorry
33•BiraIgnacio•5h ago•18 comments

Ted Turner has died

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death
250•pseudolus•13h ago•201 comments

Inkscape 1.4.4

https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inkscape_1.4.4.html
247•s1291•9h ago•71 comments

Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer

https://play.templatical.com
113•oahmadov•12h ago•29 comments

SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags

https://yibo-fu.com/SoundOff-Low-cost-Passive-Ultrasound-Tags-for-Non-invasive-and-Non
50•jonbaer•11h ago•1 comments

Perturb-MARS: Reading mouse experiments through a human lens

https://www.noetik.blog/p/perturb-mars-reading-mouse-experiments
9•crescit_eundo•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions

https://github.com/olivier-ls/php-fts
43•asmodios•8h ago•9 comments

We programmed a program to program new programs (2011)

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-09-08
11•Georgelemental•1h ago•1 comments

RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/rss-feeds-send-me-more-traffic-than-google/
10•SpyCoder77•3h ago•1 comments

Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10

https://catstret.ch/202605/srss-hipster202510/
131•jandeboevrie•17h ago•46 comments