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"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/marnameh/
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Thevet
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2d ago
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shervinafshar
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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/
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laurentiurad
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5h ago
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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
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berghoffer
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3h ago
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"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/marnameh/
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Thevet
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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours
https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
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satvikpendem
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11h ago
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249 comments
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
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david927
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7h ago
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The tragedy of the commons, AI edition
https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition
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simonpure
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4h ago
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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spa...
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jader201
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9h ago
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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
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Klaster_1
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10h ago
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38 comments
Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS7CxAtV5Ks
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jackdoe
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3d ago
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Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes
https://tuxedono2.com
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smartmic
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3h ago
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10 comments
The Hacker's Renaissance
https://phrack.org/issues/72/19#article
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yu3zhou4
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4h ago
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I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
https://mynoise.net/vlog.php?ep=20260803
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gregsadetsky
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5h ago
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33 comments
OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment
https://openchamber.dev/
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hexomancer
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7h ago
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Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC
https://gitlab.com/Kazade/picophysics
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klaussilveira
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4d ago
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John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)
https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
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Kiboneu
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10h ago
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Everything you do is being recorded
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/
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ike_usawa
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13h ago
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Touring the Consensus, Six Months In
https://theconsensus.dev/blog/2026/08/05/touring-the-consensus-six-months-in.html
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tosh
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3d ago
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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...
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chirau
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3h ago
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How Golden Is Silence, Actually?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/10/silence-kate-mcloughlin-book-review
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tintinnabula
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3d ago
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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...
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akyuu
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9h ago
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Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5
https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32
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Rochus
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11h ago
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Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html
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tremguy
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12h ago
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85 comments
Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win
https://alphabetsoup.club
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johnchinjew
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4h ago
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10 comments
When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8
https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/when-compilers-disagree-about-utf8
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rbanffy
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4d ago
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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
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stared
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2h ago
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To Recruit Teachers, School Districts Are Building Homes
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/affordable-housing-schools-teachers.html
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mooreds
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2h ago
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Crickets as pets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crickets_as_pets
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Michelangelo11
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4d ago
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36 comments
The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)
https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
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Lammy
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14h ago
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Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing
https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them
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eighttrigrams
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9h ago
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Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone
https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/
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Thorondor
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9h ago
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shervinafshar•36m ago
For a while a running joke in Persian Wikipedia community was to call software "bugs", _khrafstar_s.