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My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
98•seg6•3h ago•44 comments

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html
65•bobbiechen•1w ago•10 comments

Fastmail offers EU data region

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/
322•groomlake•9h ago•145 comments

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

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
47•adletbalzhanov•3h ago•11 comments

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

https://os8088.com/
31•jggonz•2h ago•9 comments

_for-sale DNS records

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
349•shaunpud•12h ago•132 comments

The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video]

https://gdcvault.com/play/1024135/The-Sound-and-Music-of
15•hyperific•3d ago•1 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...
90•MarcoDewey•6h ago•18 comments

Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/08/want-energy-efficiency-dude-youre-getting-a-dell/
164•gumby•9h ago•99 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves
59•hakkikonu•3d ago•18 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
22•jmusall•2h ago•3 comments

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/
389•bhavansig•16h ago•116 comments

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/
342•882542F3884314B•15h ago•351 comments

Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack

https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2026/08/05/dnr-closes-additional-areas-of-cunningham-falls-state-pa...
86•bookofjoe•4h ago•52 comments

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
138•electricant•12h ago•25 comments

US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with...
248•rbanffy•15h ago•393 comments

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

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/25-26/12urenloop-uwb/
43•robinpdev•1w ago•3 comments

Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/preventing-misfolding-preventing-folding
43•surprisetalk•4d ago•1 comments

DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler

https://github.com/GrammaTech/ddisasm
20•aboardRat4•5d ago•3 comments

When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense

https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/12/19/when-feature-flags-do-and-dont-make-sense/
3•whack•5d ago•0 comments

Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260807-should-i-stop-cracking-my-knuckles
9•tchalla•3h ago•5 comments

TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

https://classicbits.net/coding-and-software/my-software/monosol/
47•skibz•8h ago•11 comments

Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments

https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/
511•theanonymousone•7h ago•242 comments

Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-part-2/
101•rfarley04•13h ago•76 comments

“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers
584•senko•11h ago•364 comments

The AI Apocalypse Is Here

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-ai-apocalypse-is-already-here/
11•reasonableklout•31m ago•2 comments

Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

https://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805
221•ilamont•1d ago•162 comments

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge
347•epestr•18h ago•94 comments

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf]

https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/The%20Unreasonable%20Effectiveness%20of%20Mathematics%20(EP%2...
25•pseudolus•5h ago•10 comments

Message your other Claude Code sessions

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging
62•mfiguiere•10h ago•32 comments
Open in hackernews

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
22•jmusall•2h ago

Comments

jmusall•2h ago
Coincidentally came across this after reading a comment [1] under the recent post on _for-sale DNS records, visiting milk.com and scrolling through the owner's Mastodon

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224882

Zecc•27m ago
I recognize the domain name from playing some of his daily puzzles, namely Ronin and Cell Tower.

https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/

mentat•20m ago
This made me wonder if you could do it with color and apparently you can: https://1mentat.github.io/qr-code-shenanigans/