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Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future

https://douwe.com/projects/tectonic_globe
7•dosinga•2h ago

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
321•satvikpendem•4h ago•135 comments

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981
58•iamnothere•2h ago•15 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
44•Klaster_1•2h ago•3 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
65•Rochus•4h ago•15 comments

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
50•Kiboneu•3h ago•21 comments

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them
10•eighttrigrams•2h ago•1 comments

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/
15•shayonj•1h ago•2 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html
146•gukoff•10h ago•20 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...
121•evo_9•2h ago•84 comments

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
455•seg6•18h ago•215 comments

Crickets as Pets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crickets_as_pets
7•Michelangelo11•4d ago•0 comments

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...
85•akyuu•2h ago•66 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword
134•BruceEel•12h ago•59 comments

Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/
65•Thorondor•2h ago•18 comments

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

https://os8088.com/
230•jggonz•17h ago•149 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
101•michaefe•4d ago•29 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
330•jmusall•18h ago•36 comments

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spa...
31•jader201•2h ago•24 comments

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
58•Lammy•7h ago•41 comments

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/a-partial-digestion-of-the-hrt-counterexample/
7•ijustlovemath•3h ago•1 comments

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/fcc-moves-to-ban-lidar-equipped-foreign-drones-...
18•f-serif•1h ago•1 comments

Banksy works cost public almost £150k

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2vnny7j5zo
10•alvis•54m ago•15 comments

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
310•adletbalzhanov•18h ago•207 comments

Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation

https://airy.so
24•login588•7h ago•12 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves
155•hakkikonu•4d ago•75 comments

Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future

https://douwe.com/projects/tectonic_globe
7•dosinga•2h ago•0 comments

TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics

https://theoremdb.org/
79•frozenseven•16h ago•12 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...
189•MarcoDewey•21h ago•61 comments

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html
85•tremguy•5h ago•67 comments

Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260807-should-i-stop-cracking-my-knuckles
97•tchalla•18h ago•101 comments