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The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/8/4/the-grid-that-doubles-the-strength-of-the-ground
11•michaefe•4d ago

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readthenotes1•48m ago
Interesting concept; horrible writing.
NSUserDefaults•45m ago
It's a transcript of the video, which I enjoyed.
KronisLV•23m ago
I found it okay! With how much AI slop is out there, human writing will usually make me appreciative.

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword
78•BruceEel•4h ago•28 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html
23•gukoff•2h ago•2 comments

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
334•seg6•11h ago•131 comments

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

https://os8088.com/
174•jggonz•10h ago•90 comments

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html
234•bobbiechen•1w ago•22 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
209•jmusall•11h ago•17 comments

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
204•adletbalzhanov•11h ago•118 comments

Fastmail offers EU data region

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/
418•groomlake•18h ago•216 comments

The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)

http://longbets.org/601/
146•doubletwoyou•5h ago•61 comments

Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/46/Supplement_1/A34/7181621
126•bohaska•9h ago•105 comments

Protopia

https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/protopia
16•surprisetalk•4d ago•7 comments

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/8/4/the-grid-that-doubles-the-strength-of-the-ground
12•michaefe•4d ago•3 comments

Stylized GGX Shading

https://alexandrelamure.github.io/graphics-posts/stylized-ggx-shading.html
24•ibobev•4d ago•0 comments

_for-sale DNS records

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
398•shaunpud•20h ago•152 comments

Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-025-00171-5
63•davidbarker•6d ago•19 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves
117•hakkikonu•4d ago•47 comments

TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics

https://theoremdb.org/
42•frozenseven•8h ago•2 comments

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-pro...
150•MarcoDewey•14h ago•36 comments

Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260807-should-i-stop-cracking-my-knuckles
60•tchalla•11h ago•64 comments

How to Survive in a Louisiana Swamp

https://unherd.com/2026/08/how-to-survive-on-a-louisiana-swamp/
3•bookofjoe•3d ago•0 comments

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week
188•minimaxir•6h ago•19 comments

Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age

https://itsfoss.com/news/illinois-age-verification-bill/
101•WaitWaitWha•6h ago•68 comments

Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost

https://www.404media.co/software-giant-sap-stops-most-travel-and-hiring-because-of-ais-soaring-cost/
24•theanonymousone•2h ago•5 comments

Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/25-26/12urenloop-uwb/
85•robinpdev•1w ago•6 comments

Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks

https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/finding-zombies-in-our-systems-a-real-world-story-of-cpu...
52•fagnerbrack•6d ago•9 comments

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
180•electricant•20h ago•38 comments

Assert(): A Modern How To

https://fiberfs.io/blog/assert_a_modern_how_to
10•nyc_pizzadev•5d ago•11 comments

Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake

https://jakearchibald.com/2026/my-tooltip-a11y-mistake/
36•robin_reala•1w ago•3 comments

Incentives are for losers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/incentives-are-for-losers
119•bkudria•8h ago•81 comments

Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g64152v71o
8•1659447091•5h ago•0 comments