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The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal

https://negroniventurestudios.com/2026/07/18/the-computer-at-the-bottom-of-a-canal/

22•Kudos•3h ago

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inigyou•1h ago

I wonder if you could throw a small microcontroller at the bottom of a canal, powered by water passing through a fan, to hide it. And why you would want to do that.

ErroneousBosh•48m ago

Water quality monitoring. Communicate back to the surface with ultrasonic pulses.

What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1953768#graph

21•secretslol•43m ago•3 comments

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

98•miniBill•49m ago•20 comments

Regressive JPEGs

https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/

419•vitaut•8h ago•42 comments

LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

https://videocardz.com/newz/lg-monitors-silently-install-software-through-windows-update-without-...

134•baranul•1h ago•64 comments

Qubes OS Security in the Public Record

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14587

25•sciences44•3h ago•2 comments

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

1213•nprateem•1d ago•716 comments

The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal

https://negroniventurestudios.com/2026/07/18/the-computer-at-the-bottom-of-a-canal/

22•Kudos•3h ago•2 comments

Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work

645•nicholasjbs•18h ago•73 comments

Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders

https://rogerdickey.com/funny-item-co-occurrences-in-3-million-instacart-orders/

26•rogerdickey•2d ago•34 comments

Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux

https://parksb.github.io/en/article/41.html

129•parksb•3d ago•85 comments

Porting nanochat to a TPU: what carries over from PyTorch, and what breaks

https://github.com/tucan9389/nanochat-jax/discussions/1

44•tucan9389•3d ago•9 comments

First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4kdd1e0ejo

469•neversaydie•21h ago•276 comments

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

https://goliath32.com/blog/z80.html

238•st_goliath•16h ago•95 comments

In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains

https://in-toto.io/

44•Erenay09•1d ago•3 comments

Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index

https://ikea.greg.technology/

72•gregsadetsky•8h ago•38 comments

TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years

https://github.com/BadChemical/IoT-Vulnerability-Research-Public/blob/main/TP-Link_Kasa_EC71/Kasa...

150•BadChemical•14h ago•51 comments

Waldi: A quiet place to write, and to be read

https://github.com/waaldev/waldi

18•waaldev•6d ago•10 comments

Learning a few things about running SQLite

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/17/learning-about-running-sqlite/

268•surprisetalk•18h ago•69 comments

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/

356•droidjj•21h ago•188 comments

I started a “dirt notebook”

https://pinewind.bearblog.dev/i-started-a-dirt-notebook/

77•herbertl•10h ago•62 comments

Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator

https://www.stenchill.com/en/

59•radeeyate•11h ago•17 comments

Revisiting Yliluoma's ordered dither algorithm

https://30fps.net/pages/revisiting-yliluoma-2/

10•ibobev•4d ago•0 comments

Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)

https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/static-search-tree/

143•lalitmaganti•15h ago•8 comments

Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby

https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/07/15/battery-packs/

28•MeetingsBrowser•1d ago•14 comments

Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System

https://prathosh.in/vagdhenu/

187•subinalex•4d ago•47 comments

DrDroid (YC W23) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/drdroid/jobs/w45QcNV-product-engineer-assignment-mandatory

1•TheBengaluruGuy•10h ago

An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead)

https://blogs.igalia.com/nzimmermann/posts/2026-07-14-lbse-conditional-layers/

52•bkardell•3d ago•3 comments

Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment

https://www.up.com/news/safety/Tracking-Rail-Heat-260608

112•zdw•15h ago•66 comments

Lego building instructions through time

https://www.lego.com/en-us/history/articles/d-lego-building-instructions-through-time

137•NaOH•17h ago•36 comments

Steam Machine: Between 12k and 15k Units Sold per week

https://boilingsteam.com/steam-machine-between-10k-and-15k-sold-per-week/

6•ekianjo•1h ago•0 comments