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A Planet Position Widget

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/08/a-planet-position-widget/
7•speckx•2d ago

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JoeDaDude•34m ago
Nifty little project! It doesn't seem to be much of a leap to have this on one's web page so it runs when the page is loaded. It does require knowledge of the viewers' position though.

Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel

https://sankalp.bearblog.dev/autoresearch/
188•tosh•4h ago•51 comments

The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve...
17•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul

https://alexrios.me/blog/writergate/
30•signa11•1h ago•9 comments

Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding

https://allen.bargi.org/notes/working-with-ai-feels-like-leadership/
83•allenb•4h ago•65 comments

The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

https://conic.al/writing/the-other-sean-byrne-doesnt-exist/
296•rdl•11h ago•144 comments

Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3rprx2wl4o
38•m-i-l•1h ago•36 comments

The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves

https://linebender.org/blog/hyperbezier/
95•raphlinus•5d ago•10 comments

Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR

https://hypnagogic-quasicrystals.github.io/
12•r34•1h ago•5 comments

Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents

http://www.stephen-cresswell.com/2026/08/15/Yadda-3.0.0-BDD-in-the-Age-of-AI-Agents.html
17•scresswell•1h ago•5 comments

The Color of White Light

https://ludens.cl/photo/spectra/spectra.html
44•xk3•3d ago•28 comments

Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum

https://baselashraf81.github.io/eigendrum/
93•BaselAshraf81•4d ago•18 comments

Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/everything-is-about-to-go-dark/
406•vslira•18h ago•198 comments

T3X/0 a Minimal Procedural Language

https://t3x.org/t3x/0/index.html
12•AlexeyBrin•3h ago•0 comments

Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/08/11/gen-z-has-rediscovered-the-joy-of-going-to-the-movies
10•edward•1h ago•2 comments

Xorshift Generators

https://www.alanzucconi.com/2026/08/15/xorshift-generators/
10•tobr•2h ago•1 comments

Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II

https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-07-14.html
50•uecker•7h ago•32 comments

Möbius Strips and Differential Equations

https://hidden-phenomena.com/articles/monodromy
20•mbustamanter•5d ago•1 comments

In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a73358518/nazi-rocket-scientist-disappearance/
85•bookofjoe•3d ago•51 comments

Could a computer scientist build a brain?

https://stankerstjens.github.io/could-a-computer-scientist-build-a-brain/
5•ogundipeore•2h ago•2 comments

A Planet Position Widget

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/08/a-planet-position-widget/
7•speckx•2d ago•1 comments

The Problem

https://intelligence.org/the-problem/
10•Bluestein•3h ago•10 comments

Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline

https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm/blob/main/home-mixer/filters/brazil_2026_election_filter.rs
37•LorenDB•2h ago•32 comments

388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/388-years-ago-galileo-worked-out-why-human-giants-cant...
29•beardyw•2h ago•31 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8
1266•erdaltoprak•1d ago•741 comments

Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption

https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/
453•u1hcw9nx•23h ago•268 comments

Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-brain-rem-eeg.html
26•gmays•2h ago•4 comments

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3212428/firefox-is-now-the-last-major-browser-that-still-supports...
1408•DemiGuru•20h ago•540 comments

Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

https://chenxiachan.github.io/thoughtdag/
83•chatchan•10h ago•25 comments

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/
325•rustdesk•23h ago•137 comments

Understanding WCAG 2.2 as ePub and PDF

https://doeken.org/wcag-ebook
44•doekenorg•3d ago•3 comments