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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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2h ago
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86 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
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Rochus
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3h ago
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13 comments
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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1h ago
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5 comments
There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order
https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html
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gukoff
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8h ago
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20 comments
Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue
https://github.com/uber/submitqueue/
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handfuloflight
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1w ago
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34 comments
My server is a phone now
https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
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seg6
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16h ago
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196 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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5h ago
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25 comments
Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword
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BruceEel
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10h ago
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53 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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16h ago
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143 comments
Honey, I shrunk the embeddings: Matryoshka vs. PCA
https://dylancastillo.co/posts/matryoshka-vs-pca
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dcastm
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6d ago
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1 comments
The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground
https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/8/4/the-grid-that-doubles-the-strength-of-the-ground
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michaefe
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4d ago
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19 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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23h ago
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273 comments
Dithered QR Codes
https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
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jmusall
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16h ago
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32 comments
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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33 comments
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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4h ago
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57 comments
When the apartment listing is too good to be true
https://blog.denv.it/posts/when-the-apartment-listing-is-too-good-to-be-true/
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denysvitali
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5d ago
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11 comments
Protopia
https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/protopia
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surprisetalk
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5d ago
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39 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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17h ago
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189 comments
Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-read...
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evo_9
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27m ago
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0 comments
TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics
https://theoremdb.org/
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frozenseven
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14h ago
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8 comments
The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)
http://longbets.org/601/
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doubletwoyou
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11h ago
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87 comments
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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37m ago
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0 comments
Making difficulty curves in games
http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves
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hakkikonu
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4d ago
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65 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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17h ago
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99 comments
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-025-00171-5
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davidbarker
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6d ago
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25 comments
Stylized GGX Shading
https://alexandrelamure.github.io/graphics-posts/stylized-ggx-shading.html
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ibobev
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5d ago
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0 comments
CSS: The bomb inside your inbox
https://portswigger.net/research/css-the-bomb-inside-your-inbox
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ashurandi
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5h ago
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21 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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20h ago
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57 comments
Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation
https://airy.so
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login588
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6h ago
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11 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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1d ago
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44 comments
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