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The Real Story of Troy

https://storica.club/blog/troy-was-real/

11•cemsakarya•2d ago

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ge96•53m ago

I was disappointed the horse wasn't real

readthenotes1•32m ago

How do you know? It was mentioned by Homer, wasn't it?

jsharpe•30m ago

We don't even know if Homer was real. XD

moomin•22m ago

I’ve seen it fairly convincingly argued that he wasn’t!

ge96•27m ago

I don't just online consensus. Need to simulate the universe's particles and rewind time like that show Devs to witness it myself.

huxley•23m ago

At least not in the Iliad though it gets short mentions in the Odyssey.

Most of what we know of it appeared in non-Homeric stories and most famously (nowadays) in Virgil.

moomin•29m ago

Ben Bova hypothesized that Homer was actually describing early siege towers, but given the veracity of many mundane parts of the story it seems unlikely.

Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets

https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/

262•ibobev•4h ago•20 comments

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/

610•rubenbe•2h ago•211 comments

Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/administrative-tech/2026/05/11/instructure-pa...

36•Cider9986•14h ago•20 comments

The Future of Obsidian Plugins

https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/

84•xz18r•1h ago•40 comments

Learning Software Architecture

https://matklad.github.io/2026/05/12/software-architecture.html

417•surprisetalk•8h ago•77 comments

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise

https://www.nair.sh/guides-and-opinions/communicating-your-expertise/why-senior-developers-fail-t...

35•nilirl•2h ago•14 comments

Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents

https://voker.ai

21•ttpost•1h ago•9 comments

Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes

http://www.typewritten.org/Media/

555•adunk•12h ago•271 comments

Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise

https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortem

1013•varunsharma07•20h ago•428 comments

When life gives you lemons, write better error messages

https://wix-ux.com/when-life-gives-you-lemons-write-better-error-messages-46c5223e1a2f

6•luispa•3d ago•0 comments

Profiling.sampling – Statistical Profiler

https://docs.python.org/3.15/library/profiling.sampling.html#module-profiling.sampling

70•djoldman•2d ago•19 comments

The Real Story of Troy

https://storica.club/blog/troy-was-real/

12•cemsakarya•2d ago•7 comments

eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-12/ebay-rejects-gamestop-s-56-billion-takeover-as...

128•voisin•1h ago•117 comments

Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL

https://www.hypercubic.ai/hopper

6•sai18•33m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder

13•namanyayg•1h ago•2 comments

The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-surprisingly-long-life-of-the

34•surprisetalk•1d ago•18 comments

Text Blaze (YC W21) Is Hiring for a No-AI Summer Internship

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/text-blaze/jobs/P4CCN62-the-blaze-no-ai-summer-internship

1•scottfr•5h ago

They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker

486•tokenburner•17h ago•154 comments

If AI writes your code, why use Python?

https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055

783•indigodaddy•20h ago•811 comments

EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-instagram-social-media-addictive-eu-crack-down.html

395•thm•6h ago•344 comments

Chasing Chicago's movable bridges (2014)

https://aresluna.org/seesaws-for-giants/

59•NaOH•2d ago•8 comments

UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)

https://stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-discovers-first-stroke-rehabilitation-drug-repair-brain-damage

415•bookofjoe•23h ago•84 comments

Through the looking glass of benchmark hacking

https://poolside.ai/blog/through-the-looking-glass

20•jxmorris12•20h ago•9 comments

Analysis points to a unexpected cause of reading difficulties

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-years-struggles-obvious-massive-analysis.html

22•wglb•2d ago•36 comments

Docker images are hundreds of MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM

https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/wasm-vs-docker/

57•theanonymousone•3d ago•58 comments

Extremely Low Frequencies

https://computer.rip/2026-05-09-extremely-low-frequencies.html

173•pinewurst•13h ago•14 comments

Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/amazon-employees-are-tokenmaxxing-due-to-pressure-to-use-ai-to...

110•Bender•1h ago•104 comments

UnDUNE II

https://liquidream.itch.io/undune2

124•tosh•5h ago•22 comments

Coursera and Udemy are now one company

https://blog.coursera.org/coursera-and-udemy-are-now-one-company-creating-the-worlds-most-compreh...

163•Anon84•7h ago•69 comments

Software Internals Book Club

https://eatonphil.com/bookclub.html

173•aragonite•15h ago•27 comments