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How to Survive in a Louisiana Swamp

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

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dsab•5m ago
Shot up a horde of zombies

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html
43•gukoff•3h ago•7 comments

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
344•seg6•12h ago•136 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword
83•BruceEel•5h ago•36 comments

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

https://os8088.com/
181•jggonz•11h ago•98 comments

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

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
220•adletbalzhanov•12h ago•131 comments

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html
254•bobbiechen•1w ago•25 comments

Fastmail offers EU data region

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/
430•groomlake•19h ago•226 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
225•jmusall•12h ago•17 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
21•michaefe•4d ago•3 comments

Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/46/Supplement_1/A34/7181621
135•bohaska•10h ago•111 comments

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
6•Lammy•1h ago•2 comments

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

http://longbets.org/601/
152•doubletwoyou•6h ago•70 comments

Protopia

https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/protopia
17•surprisetalk•4d ago•10 comments

_for-sale DNS records

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
401•shaunpud•21h ago•156 comments

Stylized GGX Shading

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

CSS: The bomb inside your inbox

https://portswigger.net/research/css-the-bomb-inside-your-inbox
10•ashurandi•51m ago•0 comments

How to Survive in a Louisiana Swamp

https://unherd.com/2026/08/how-to-survive-on-a-louisiana-swamp/
6•bookofjoe•3d ago•1 comments

You might want to build your WebApp in Canvas instead of HTML

https://hivekit.io/blog/why-you-might-want-to-build-your-webapp-in-canvas-instead-of-html/
6•wolframhempel•5d ago•1 comments

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

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-025-00171-5
65•davidbarker•6d ago•20 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves
123•hakkikonu•4d ago•49 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...
155•MarcoDewey•15h ago•40 comments

Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260807-should-i-stop-cracking-my-knuckles
64•tchalla•12h ago•73 comments

TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics

https://theoremdb.org/
44•frozenseven•9h ago•2 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/
35•theanonymousone•3h ago•11 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
208•minimaxir•7h ago•25 comments

Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g64152v71o
17•1659447091•6h ago•12 comments

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

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/25-26/12urenloop-uwb/
90•robinpdev•1w ago•7 comments

Assert(): A Modern How To

https://fiberfs.io/blog/assert_a_modern_how_to
13•nyc_pizzadev•5d ago•15 comments

Incentives are for losers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/incentives-are-for-losers
127•bkudria•9h ago•85 comments

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
185•electricant•21h ago•39 comments