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"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/marnameh/
17•Thevet•2d ago

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shervinafshar•36m ago
> How, one should rightly ask, could a khrafstar like the snake possibly be associated with good fortune?

For a while a running joke in Persian Wikipedia community was to call software "bugs", _khrafstar_s.

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/blog/articles/how-i-use-llms-to-learn/
352•laurentiurad•5h ago•198 comments

New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

https://propelmusic.co.nz/articles/the-sound-went-quiet-nz-music-media
63•berghoffer•3h ago•30 comments

"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/marnameh/
18•Thevet•2d ago•1 comments

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
545•satvikpendem•11h ago•249 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

155•david927•7h ago•592 comments

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition
66•simonpure•4h ago•32 comments

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spa...
168•jader201•9h ago•123 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
177•Klaster_1•10h ago•38 comments

Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS7CxAtV5Ks
30•jackdoe•3d ago•15 comments

Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

https://tuxedono2.com
30•smartmic•3h ago•10 comments

The Hacker's Renaissance

https://phrack.org/issues/72/19#article
85•yu3zhou4•4h ago•56 comments

I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

https://mynoise.net/vlog.php?ep=20260803
65•gregsadetsky•5h ago•33 comments

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

https://openchamber.dev/
99•hexomancer•7h ago•53 comments

Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC

https://gitlab.com/Kazade/picophysics
4•klaussilveira•4d ago•0 comments

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
122•Kiboneu•10h ago•75 comments

Everything you do is being recorded

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/
192•ike_usawa•13h ago•152 comments

Touring the Consensus, Six Months In

https://theconsensus.dev/blog/2026/08/05/touring-the-consensus-six-months-in.html
9•tosh•3d ago•0 comments

Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse

https://www.wtoc.com/2026/08/07/savannah-police-department-fires-6-employees-over-flock-safety-sy...
66•chirau•3h ago•39 comments

How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/10/silence-kate-mcloughlin-book-review
34•tintinnabula•3d ago•18 comments

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364...
343•akyuu•9h ago•290 comments

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32
103•Rochus•11h ago•16 comments

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html
116•tremguy•12h ago•85 comments

Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win

https://alphabetsoup.club
19•johnchinjew•4h ago•10 comments

When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/when-compilers-disagree-about-utf8
31•rbanffy•4d ago•6 comments

AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986
29•stared•2h ago•12 comments

To Recruit Teachers, School Districts Are Building Homes

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/affordable-housing-schools-teachers.html
26•mooreds•2h ago•21 comments

Crickets as pets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crickets_as_pets
76•Michelangelo11•4d ago•36 comments

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

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
82•Lammy•14h ago•67 comments

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them
44•eighttrigrams•9h ago•10 comments

Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/
208•Thorondor•9h ago•69 comments