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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71yw
8•tobr•22h ago

Comments

andrehacker•26m ago
Reproductions are still produced, see the wikipedia page.
rustcleaner•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
348•tosh•5h ago•147 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers
138•mlenhard•3h ago•54 comments

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

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/
36•Narishma•1h ago•16 comments

NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ending-key-grant-budding-clinical-researchers
46•brandonb•2h ago•11 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...
84•toomuchtodo•3h ago•52 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

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

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

https://nnamgreb.de/blog/Clamiga+-+Common+Lisp+for+the+Amiga
38•emptybits•3d ago•2 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
37•karakoram•3h ago•23 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios
328•pentagrama•5h ago•128 comments

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

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71yw
8•tobr•22h ago•2 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

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

https://ei3lh.eu/2026/08/16/a-true-telnet-bbs-on-a-casio-calculator/
56•austinallegro•6h ago•7 comments

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08421
62•matt_d•4d ago•21 comments

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

https://tasklet.ai/careers/head-of-design-engineering
1•mayop100•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...
111•txrx0000•2d ago•28 comments

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

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22kidney+disappointment%22
255•Alifatisk•6h ago•97 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...
90•lentil_soup•2h ago•54 comments

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
6•yareally•3d ago•0 comments

Asus Bike Booster

https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/
565•wiradikusuma•4d ago•391 comments

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

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

AI Coding Without the Vibes

https://peterbloem.nl/blog/craft-coding
51•riskone•7h ago•27 comments

Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane

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

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

https://wildstatic.com/
43•adjohu•5h ago•30 comments

Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260811052857.htm
22•jonbaer•1h ago•33 comments

Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?

https://brandur.org/fragments/postgres-without-pgbouncer
108•abelanger•3d ago•71 comments

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

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas
242•felixbraun•21h ago•58 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...
382•dgellow•23h ago•267 comments

Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432
468•randycupertino•1d ago•368 comments

Software Engineering fundamentals matter more

https://rhonabwy.com/2026/08/15/software-engineering-fundamentals-matter-more-than-ever/
273•ingve•19h ago•181 comments