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Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71yw
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tobr
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22h ago
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andrehacker
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26m ago
Reproductions are still produced, see the wikipedia page.
rustcleaner
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12m ago
Really cool! Will we ever construct Babbage's Analytical Engine?
Claude: System Prompts
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts
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tosh
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5h ago
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The AI Credit Resale Economy
https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers
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mlenhard
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3h ago
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A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"
https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/
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Narishma
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1h ago
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NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ending-key-grant-budding-clinical-researchers
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brandonb
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2h ago
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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...
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toomuchtodo
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3h ago
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Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life
https://commonreader.wustl.edu/winning-and-losing-at-the-great-game-of-intimacy/
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lermontov
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Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga
https://nnamgreb.de/blog/Clamiga+-+Common+Lisp+for+the+Amiga
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emptybits
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3d ago
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GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/gps-and-the-lost-art-of-getting-lost
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karakoram
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3h ago
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Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios
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pentagrama
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5h ago
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Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maine-forest-fire-maps/
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samclemens
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3d ago
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Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71yw
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tobr
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Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/before-rightmove-there-was-the-cosmorama-londons-forgotten-p...
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brod_ie
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5d ago
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A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator
https://ei3lh.eu/2026/08/16/a-true-telnet-bbs-on-a-casio-calculator/
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austinallegro
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6h ago
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A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08421
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matt_d
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4d ago
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Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering
https://tasklet.ai/careers/head-of-design-engineering
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mayop100
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4h ago
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...
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txrx0000
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2d ago
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Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22kidney+disappointment%22
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Alifatisk
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6h ago
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The weekend is 100 years old
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/aug/16/the-weekend-is-100-years-old-skiveday-fridays-and-h...
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lentil_soup
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2h ago
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The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains
https://www.wunc.org/environment/2026-08-10/road-to-nowhere-great-smoky-mountains
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yareally
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3d ago
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Asus Bike Booster
https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/
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wiradikusuma
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4d ago
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Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work
https://duckdb.org/2026/07/31/asynchronous-io
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pdet
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6d ago
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AI Coding Without the Vibes
https://peterbloem.nl/blog/craft-coding
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riskone
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7h ago
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27 comments
Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10857-1
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sbulaev
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3d ago
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Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users
https://wildstatic.com/
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adjohu
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5h ago
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Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260811052857.htm
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jonbaer
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1h ago
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Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
https://brandur.org/fragments/postgres-without-pgbouncer
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abelanger
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3d ago
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Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas
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felixbraun
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21h ago
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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...
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dgellow
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23h ago
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Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432
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randycupertino
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1d ago
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368 comments
Software Engineering fundamentals matter more
https://rhonabwy.com/2026/08/15/software-engineering-fundamentals-matter-more-than-ever/
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ingve
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19h ago
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181 comments
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