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How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/

172•gavide•2h ago•128 comments

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html

113•shdon•2h ago•54 comments

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera

67•pizzaiolo•2h ago•14 comments

GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13759

152•linggen•6h ago•33 comments

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights

518•ibotty•11h ago•91 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol

68•Topfi•3h ago•14 comments

Incident with Github.com

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx

520•SpyCoder77•11h ago•903 comments

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug

309•galnagli•10h ago•123 comments

Olo (Color)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)

297•inigyou•5d ago•64 comments

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read

560•mooreds•5h ago•347 comments

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/

296•plurby•12h ago•152 comments

Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

https://current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-archival-data/

130•qingcharles•8h ago•52 comments

Sun Clock

https://sunclock.net/

164•Gecko4072•8h ago•54 comments

The Road to MS-DOS 2.0

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-road-to-ms-dos-2

9•whobre•5d ago•1 comments

How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260817-40/?p=112617

19•ingve•3h ago•2 comments

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

https://www.librarian.net/notoai/

248•ColinWright•10h ago•151 comments

Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

https://speko.ai/

89•abdik•9h ago•51 comments

Flock cameras haven't improved Atlanta's crime clearance rates

https://atlpresscollective.com/2026/07/28/flock-cameras-atlanta-clearance-rates/

7•jimt1234•2h ago•0 comments

A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02498-1

96•Brajeshwar•5d ago•14 comments

Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models

https://blog.roboflow.com/roboflow-playground/

42•Bluestein•6h ago•3 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

486•dhruv3006•10h ago•308 comments

Intriguing stories in computer science

https://inventwithpython.com/blog/intriguing-stories-in-cs.html

27•gregsadetsky•5d ago•4 comments

GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform

https://status.cursor.com/incidents/l9h9vrd726jv

18•KGC3D•4h ago•1 comments

A simple fix for LLM tail latency

https://engineering.myhoai.com/posts/a-simple-fix-for-llm-tail-latency/

35•oskrim•3d ago•14 comments

scScript for Linux

https://scapplications.com/

10•OptionOfT•2h ago•2 comments

Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items

https://www.repaircafe.org/

4•rglover•1h ago•1 comments

The oldest bar in every state

https://www.businessinsider.com/oldest-bar-every-state

63•NaOH•4d ago•31 comments

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-27b

297•anana_•7h ago•128 comments

Puppy PPE

http://amosdudley.com/weblog/Designing-PPE-for-Hilde

11•ChadNauseam•1h ago•3 comments

How to put 170 atoms in an atom

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/02/how-to-put-170-atoms-in-an-atom/

100•surprisetalk•10h ago•23 comments

Open in hackernews

The Road to MS-DOS 2.0

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-road-to-ms-dos-2

9•whobre•5d ago

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walrus01•35m ago

I know this is software focused, but as much of the work done in DOS 2.0 was to support the introduction of hard disks, it would be worth mentioning what the hardware was in the PC/XT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST-506/ST-412

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=ST-212+ha...