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Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/before-rightmove-there-was-the-cosmorama-londons-forgotten-property-innovation-91687/
8•brod_ie•5d ago

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tehnoslow•20m ago
Pretty much Victorian Photoshop. The artist painted from the most flattering angle, with perfect lighting and the lenses made the image look three‑dimensional. Funny how in 2026 we’re doing exactly the same thing just with more advanced tech, and now it’s not only premium properties that get sold that way...

Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts
330•tosh•5h ago•144 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers
124•mlenhard•3h ago•49 comments

NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ending-key-grant-budding-clinical-researchers
34•brandonb•1h ago•6 comments

St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

https://www.wptv.com/news/treasure-coast/region-st-lucie-county/saint-lucie-nuclear-power-plant-u...
73•toomuchtodo•2h ago•38 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

https://commonreader.wustl.edu/winning-and-losing-at-the-great-game-of-intimacy/
20•lermontov•1d ago•1 comments

GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/gps-and-the-lost-art-of-getting-lost
30•karakoram•2h ago•19 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

https://nnamgreb.de/blog/Clamiga+-+Common+Lisp+for+the+Amiga
34•emptybits•3d ago•2 comments

Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maine-forest-fire-maps/
11•samclemens•3d ago•2 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios
298•pentagrama•4h ago•119 comments

A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/
9•Narishma•52m ago•3 comments

Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/before-rightmove-there-was-the-cosmorama-londons-forgotten-p...
9•brod_ie•5d ago•1 comments

Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71yw
6•tobr•21h ago•0 comments

The weekend is 100 years old

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/aug/16/the-weekend-is-100-years-old-skiveday-fridays-and-h...
75•lentil_soup•2h ago•42 comments

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

https://ei3lh.eu/2026/08/16/a-true-telnet-bbs-on-a-casio-calculator/
52•austinallegro•5h ago•7 comments

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering

https://tasklet.ai/careers/head-of-design-engineering
1•mayop100•4h ago

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08421
58•matt_d•4d ago•19 comments

Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22kidney+disappointment%22
246•Alifatisk•5h ago•96 comments

Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware

https://hwbusters.com/news/comma-ai-egpu-dock-runs-open-source-firmware-249-bare-799-with-an-rx-9...
105•txrx0000•2d ago•26 comments

Asus Bike Booster

https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/
560•wiradikusuma•4d ago•389 comments

Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10857-1
50•sbulaev•3d ago•13 comments

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work

https://duckdb.org/2026/07/31/asynchronous-io
246•pdet•6d ago•27 comments

AI Coding Without the Vibes

https://peterbloem.nl/blog/craft-coding
42•riskone•7h ago•18 comments

Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users

https://wildstatic.com/
39•adjohu•4h ago•28 comments

Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?

https://brandur.org/fragments/postgres-without-pgbouncer
105•abelanger•3d ago•68 comments

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas
241•felixbraun•20h ago•58 comments

Software Engineering fundamentals matter more

https://rhonabwy.com/2026/08/15/software-engineering-fundamentals-matter-more-than-ever/
269•ingve•19h ago•175 comments

Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260811052857.htm
13•jonbaer•43m ago•8 comments

Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-growth-accelerating-to-record-strength-f...
377•dgellow•22h ago•263 comments

Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018)

https://tinkerings.org/2018/03/28/guiding-ships-with-moire-patterns/
101•Eridanus2•16h ago•24 comments

Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432
463•randycupertino•1d ago•364 comments