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My server is a phone now
https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
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seg6
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3h ago
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Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding
https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html
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bobbiechen
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1w ago
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10 comments
Fastmail offers EU data region
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/
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groomlake
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9h ago
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145 comments
Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled
https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
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adletbalzhanov
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3h ago
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11 comments
Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
https://os8088.com/
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jggonz
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2h ago
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9 comments
_for-sale DNS records
https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
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shaunpud
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12h ago
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132 comments
The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video]
https://gdcvault.com/play/1024135/The-Sound-and-Music-of
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hyperific
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3d ago
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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...
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MarcoDewey
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6h ago
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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/
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gumby
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9h ago
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99 comments
Making difficulty curves in games
http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves
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hakkikonu
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3d ago
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18 comments
Dithered QR Codes
https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
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jmusall
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2h ago
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3 comments
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/
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bhavansig
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16h ago
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116 comments
Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/
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882542F3884314B
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15h ago
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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...
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bookofjoe
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4h ago
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52 comments
Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU
https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
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electricant
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12h ago
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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...
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rbanffy
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15h ago
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393 comments
Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband
https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/25-26/12urenloop-uwb/
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robinpdev
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1w ago
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3 comments
Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/preventing-misfolding-preventing-folding
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surprisetalk
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4d ago
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1 comments
DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler
https://github.com/GrammaTech/ddisasm
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aboardRat4
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5d ago
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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/
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whack
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5d ago
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0 comments
Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260807-should-i-stop-cracking-my-knuckles
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tchalla
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3h ago
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5 comments
TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS
https://classicbits.net/coding-and-software/my-software/monosol/
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skibz
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8h ago
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11 comments
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments
https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/
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theanonymousone
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7h ago
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242 comments
Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)
https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-part-2/
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rfarley04
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13h ago
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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
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senko
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11h ago
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364 comments
The AI Apocalypse Is Here
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-ai-apocalypse-is-already-here/
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reasonableklout
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31m ago
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2 comments
Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
https://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805
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ilamont
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1d ago
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162 comments
Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs
https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge
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epestr
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18h ago
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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...
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pseudolus
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5h ago
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10 comments
Message your other Claude Code sessions
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging
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mfiguiere
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10h ago
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32 comments
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Dithered QR Codes
https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
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jmusall
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2h ago
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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
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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
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20m ago
This made me wonder if you could do it with color and apparently you can:
https://1mentat.github.io/qr-code-shenanigans/
jmusall•2h ago
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224882