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

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

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bix6•9m ago
What will we lose as we pull more people out of nature to have them watch from a computer? Yes it’s more efficient. But I believe something important is being lost in all of this. Those maps are beautiful.

Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts
304•tosh•4h ago•133 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers
104•mlenhard•2h ago•40 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...
59•toomuchtodo•2h ago•30 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

https://commonreader.wustl.edu/winning-and-losing-at-the-great-game-of-intimacy/
13•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
27•karakoram•2h ago•11 comments

NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers

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

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

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maine-forest-fire-maps/
11•samclemens•3d ago•1 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

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

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios
274•pentagrama•4h ago•109 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...
65•lentil_soup•1h ago•28 comments

Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/before-rightmove-there-was-the-cosmorama-londons-forgotten-p...
5•brod_ie•5d ago•0 comments

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

https://wildstatic.com/
37•adjohu•4h ago•25 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•6 comments

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

https://tasklet.ai/careers/head-of-design-engineering
1•mayop100•3h ago

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08421
54•matt_d•4d ago•17 comments

Kimi Work attaches raw agent sessions to feedback reports

18•ryanmerket•21h ago•3 comments

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

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22kidney+disappointment%22
222•Alifatisk•5h ago•87 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...
100•txrx0000•2d ago•25 comments

Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?

https://brandur.org/fragments/postgres-without-pgbouncer
100•abelanger•3d ago•60 comments

Asus Bike Booster

https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/
556•wiradikusuma•4d ago•384 comments

Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10857-1
49•sbulaev•3d ago•14 comments

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

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

AI Coding Without the Vibes

https://peterbloem.nl/blog/craft-coding
35•riskone•6h ago•11 comments

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

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

A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA4335-1.html
76•thunderbong•4h ago•49 comments

Software Engineering fundamentals matter more

https://rhonabwy.com/2026/08/15/software-engineering-fundamentals-matter-more-than-ever/
266•ingve•18h ago•171 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...
369•dgellow•22h ago•254 comments

Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018)

https://tinkerings.org/2018/03/28/guiding-ships-with-moire-patterns/
101•Eridanus2•15h ago•24 comments

What I Learned Securing Sniffnet with the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund

https://sniffnet.app/news/github-secure-open-source-fund/
13•dmit•3d ago•2 comments

Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk

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