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Visiting the History of Computing and Play

https://arbesman.substack.com/p/visiting-the-history-of-computing
5•surprisetalk•3d ago

CSSQuake

https://cssquake.com/
116•msalsas•2h ago•22 comments

I Stored a Website in a Favicon

https://www.timwehrle.de/blog/i-stored-a-website-in-a-favicon/
197•theanonymousone•7h ago•77 comments

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-colors-your-screen-cant-show-you/
234•moultano•9h ago•55 comments

16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes, 25x the drive's rating

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/16-year-old-sata-ii-ssd-survives-1-petabyte-of-wr...
44•giuliomagnifico•1h ago•13 comments

The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-cold-wars-accidental-whale-observatory/
25•pseudolus•3d ago•5 comments

Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server

https://bootimus.com
12•car•2h ago•1 comments

Data Compression Explained (2012)

https://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html
155•mtdewcmu•3d ago•21 comments

Can you see three trees?

https://www.not-ship.com/can-you-see-three-trees/
188•Pamar•2d ago•97 comments

There are no instances in ATProto

https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/
473•danabramov•22h ago•247 comments

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

https://arrowtsx.dev/bigger-models/
299•oshrimpton•21h ago•120 comments

The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory

https://www.ibm.com/think/news/discovery-changed-how-scientists-think-about-memory-kavli-prize
84•rbanffy•3d ago•27 comments

Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2965205/lithuanian-startup-launches-open-source-network-...
19•giuliomagnifico•1h ago•10 comments

LLMs Are Complicated Now

https://ianbarber.blog/2026/06/19/llms-are-complicated-now/
71•matt_d•12h ago•16 comments

A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/the-color-strike/
49•ohjeez•3d ago•12 comments

Surprising economics of load-balanced systems

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/08/06/erlang.html
129•KraftyOne•17h ago•30 comments

Human Judgment as a Specification

https://blog.brownplt.org/2026/06/09/pick.html
9•surprisetalk•3d ago•1 comments

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

https://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-32...
874•ck2•21h ago•371 comments

How many of the 170k English words do you know?

https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/
413•abnry•23h ago•503 comments

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a
617•philonoist•1d ago•384 comments

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/
730•ilreb•21h ago•505 comments

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died

https://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lll
417•pgrote•17h ago•49 comments

Soccer Arcade Games Through the Years

https://arcadeheroes.com/2026/06/13/world-cup-2026-soccer-arcade/
29•speckx•3d ago•13 comments

A Perceptron in Age of Empires II

https://adewynter.github.io/notes/aoe2-circuits
94•EvgeniyZh•2d ago•38 comments

Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/its-quite-a-bit-more-than-we-expected-satellit...
131•y1n0•9h ago•61 comments

AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077619/f7b07c5489fdd43a/
100•jwilk•20h ago•69 comments

Egyptian Fractions (2006)

https://blog.plover.com/math/egyptian-fractions.html
100•luu•4d ago•16 comments

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

https://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learning
270•jxmorris12•4d ago•99 comments

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

https://dfdxlabs.com/research/2026/robotics-setup/
162•mplappert•1d ago•57 comments

Court Records Should Be Free

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-free
418•hn_acker•19h ago•97 comments

Telescope Ranchers

https://kottke.org/26/06/telescope-ranchers
133•bookofjoe•4d ago•51 comments