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The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyrzn8p94o

23•cwwc•1h ago

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duxup•43m ago

I always wonder how reporters get folks who have these tangential connections to powerful / terrible people to talk after they refuse. It's an impressive skill.

mhh__•38m ago

I assume it's often parallel construction

chneu•38m ago

They just keep trying. It's not uncommon for people to talk after 3 or so attempts. Humans want to talk.

mingus88•28m ago

I block numbers at that point. I don’t get how anyone would decide to open up after repeated attempts on their number.

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/

156•seg6•4h ago•62 comments

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

https://os8088.com/

79•jggonz•4h ago•28 comments

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html

109•bobbiechen•1w ago•12 comments

The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyrzn8p94o

24•cwwc•1h ago•5 comments

Fastmail offers EU data region

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/

334•groomlake•11h ago•167 comments

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

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations

76•adletbalzhanov•5h ago•37 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/

56•jmusall•4h ago•11 comments

_for-sale DNS records

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/

364•shaunpud•14h ago•134 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...

99•MarcoDewey•7h ago•20 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves

73•hakkikonu•3d ago•26 comments

Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-025-00171-5

14•davidbarker•6d ago•0 comments

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

https://gdcvault.com/play/1024135/The-Sound-and-Music-of

31•hyperific•3d ago•4 comments

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/

360•882542F3884314B•16h ago•359 comments

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/

146•electricant•14h ago•27 comments

TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics

https://theoremdb.org/

7•frozenseven•2h ago•0 comments

Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/08/want-energy-efficiency-dude-youre-getting-a-dell/

175•gumby•11h ago•127 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...

262•rbanffy•17h ago•412 comments

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

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/25-26/12urenloop-uwb/

51•robinpdev•1w ago•3 comments

Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/preventing-misfolding-preventing-folding

49•surprisetalk•4d ago•3 comments

DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler

https://github.com/GrammaTech/ddisasm

26•aboardRat4•5d ago•5 comments

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/chatgpt-stops-cloning-famous-writers-voices-but-may-capture-a-...

13•Eloissssss•1h ago•0 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...

100•bookofjoe•6h ago•62 comments

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

https://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805

233•ilamont•1d ago•170 comments

TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

https://classicbits.net/coding-and-software/my-software/monosol/

50•skibz•9h ago•14 comments

Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments

https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/

530•theanonymousone•9h ago•248 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

612•senko•13h ago•384 comments

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

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-part-2/

108•rfarley04•15h ago•84 comments

Message your other Claude Code sessions

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging

75•mfiguiere•12h ago•35 comments

Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260807-should-i-stop-cracking-my-knuckles

21•tchalla•5h ago•20 comments

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/

396•bhavansig•18h ago•121 comments