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Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

https://philo.gay/linecam/
198•otherayden•3h ago•37 comments

Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop

https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/
135•jp_sc•2h ago•58 comments

The Amazon Tax

https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/
306•herbertl•2h ago•235 comments

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/
387•flaburgan•8h ago•152 comments

Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)

https://opensource.posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/polars/
61•jeroenjanssens•2h ago•8 comments

One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime

https://oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/oakland-police-overtime/
54•speckx•34m ago•58 comments

Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD

https://tau.dev/2026/08/07/canon
126•andrewjanke•6d ago•41 comments

How I Under-Engineered My Book

https://chriskiehl.com/article/how-i-under-engineered-my-book
14•goostavos•20h ago•1 comments

Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

https://www.fairphone.com/nl/stories/the-fairphone-gen-6-is-all-about-giving-you-more
183•Vinnl•3h ago•89 comments

Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk

https://theconversation.com/babies-born-under-sugar-rationing-grew-into-adults-with-lower-cancer-...
67•zeristor•1h ago•11 comments

Composable Tests

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/composable-tests
33•vinipolicena•2h ago•24 comments

Splitting a Git Commit

https://blog.gnoack.org/post/git-history-split
20•signa11•3d ago•9 comments

Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/08/17/meta-files-patent-for-facial-recognition-automatic-...
147•DeepLogin•3h ago•96 comments

Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auct...
407•pseudolus•5h ago•283 comments

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/
647•gavide•17h ago•405 comments

Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22738
9•baigy•1h ago•3 comments

What Happens If OpenAI Dies?

https://www.wheresyoured.at/what-happens-if-openai-dies/
23•thelastgallon•26m ago•4 comments

Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine

https://notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io/shoehorn/
6•rhgraysonii•1h ago•2 comments

Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/baking-a-model
22•KentBeck•3d ago•1 comments

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

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html
446•shdon•17h ago•189 comments

Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/its-just-not-as-much-fun-for-me-anymore-deus-ex-creator-...
83•danbolt•2h ago•54 comments

Finger: Social network that never died

https://en.andros.dev/blog/54572bc7/finger-the-1971-social-network-that-never-died/
111•andros•8h ago•36 comments

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/
903•DeepLogin•19h ago•524 comments

Rethinking Database Programming

https://acadia.engineering/blog/rethinking-database-programming
168•honungsburk•8h ago•80 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol
579•Topfi•18h ago•382 comments

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw
19•neom•1h ago•0 comments

Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

https://twitter.com/kuberwastaken/status/2089377982536388964
96•porridgeraisin•3h ago•31 comments

The Size of the World Wide Web

https://www.worldwidewebsize.com/
3•1970-01-01•23h ago•0 comments

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera
267•pizzaiolo•17h ago•67 comments

IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoTFywZpPcc
71•kls0e•2d ago•40 comments
Open in hackernews

An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet

https://pleated-jeans.com/2026/08/15/engineers-forgotten-recipe-hack-viral-divides-internet/
42•alexandrehtrb•1h ago

Comments

alexandrehtrb•1h ago
The engineer's name is Michael Chu, he made a website with cooking recipes structured as tables.

https://www.cookingforengineers.com/

jolt42•7m ago
The recipes are a little bit too clever i think. Turning the text on the actions saves space but it makes the instructions off-putting.
bigfishrunning•34m ago
one of the tweet screenshots censors the word "kosher", which I completely don't understand. Why are screenshots online so agressively censored?
jameslars•32m ago
Did you look at the original? I assumed it was censoring "killer" which also meshes with my perception that "trigger words" get censored in certain social media circles now.
bigfishrunning•27m ago
ok, so i misread the censored word. Maybe i'm old; the concept of "trigger words" doesn't seem to be solved by making it harder to communicate in my opinion.
jameslars•23m ago
Definitely agree. I don't understand how "thinking harder" about what the word MIGHT be solves any problem. I might just be part of this older generation who is hard trained on reading and not skimming, I don't know. I've never found anyone who appreciates this sort of censorship to ask them to help me understand.
smallmancontrov•5m ago
Nobody appreciates it. It's in the Nash Gap -- the difference between the true optimum and the reality that emerges from each involved party optimizing for their incentives.

People: complain to politicians when egregious content starts trending

Politicians: bug Platform to do something about the egregious content

Platform: quickest fix for egregious content is dumb pattern matching

Content Producers: avoid becoming a false positive by using dumb substitutions to dodge the dumb pattern matching

The most direct fix would be the platform getting smarter about censorship, but this would not be without its own tradeoffs.

rtkwe•22m ago
It not /all/ about triggers it's partially driven by the algorithms on some social sites like TikTok or Youtube where there's some evidence and a lot of speculation that mentioning or including certain words can cause the recommendation algorithm to suppress your videos etc. That leads to a lot of homophones etc popping up like "sewer slide" or odder non mentions like unalive popping up. Because the really big channels care about maximizing reach for monetization reasons it shows up strongly in peoples feeds which drives wide adoption.
yuye•24m ago
Not just screenshots. Look at the modern social media trend of using "unalived" as a euphemism for "died", for example.
inasio•30m ago
For another super condensed shorthand system for recipes, see Thermomix cookbooks (requires a Thermomix though)
teiferer•29m ago
Um, friend of mine in her handwritten "my favorite recipes" book has used that layout for decades, using curly braces to group things. I'm doing that too since seeing her book a long time ago. I thought it's standard to do it that way.
piinbinary•25m ago
Some of my pet peeves about regular cookbooks are:

- Steps that actually include many different steps.

- Steps that don't repeat the quantities, making me scroll back and forth between the step and the quantity list.

The diagrams in this post very cleanly solve both.

piinbinary•22m ago
Another pet peeve (which this doesn't solve): Recipes that include "marinate overnight" or some such in the middle (which can be easy to miss), instead of telling you up front that you have to start the day before.
floren•17m ago
You're supposed to read through the recipe before you start. Also, most modern recipe books and websites put prep/cook/total times at the very top, so if you have to marinate overnight it'll say "total: 13h" or something like that.
lazide•15m ago
Yeah except they often don’t.

My favorite is the ‘30 minute recipes’ that involve overnight marinating, carmelizing onions, etc.

gabrielsroka•6m ago
You can caramelize onions in 10 minutes https://youtu.be/yt_0e72fs9M
lazide•
mathgeek•19m ago
Have always loved cookingforengineers. We should really just be linking to it directly instead of whatever this “having to scroll through a life story f other people’s tweets” spam is.
juancn•13m ago
This is not new at all: https://www.cookingforengineers.com/

Look at the site design! It went viral on Digg! That's how old this is.

TheRealPomax•9m ago
Sorry, is there supposed to be an actual article somewhere hiding behind this giant collection of embedded whatever-the-hell-X-calls-posts quotes? Because there does not appear to be one. "Someone said X and then someone else said Y and then even more folks said Z" was slop well before AI existed.
righthand•6m ago
> even though the system had existed the whole time.

But it didn't. Isn't that the point of someone inventing it? If the system existed the whole time then it would most likely be much more realized.

Also people don't use this system because 99% of people don't right things down in tables. I know not many people hand write things anymore but even typing up ingredient lists on a machine I don't begin by creating a table.

Also this article format of numbered tweet responses as images is just terrible. What am I reading Buzzfeed? I had to stop reading.

Also isn't "viral" 100k or more? Not 10's of thousands? This is a clickbait article.

nico•1m ago
Is there something like an abacus but for cooking? A simple device to keep track of the different tasks for a dish that can be used in the kitchen while cooking? I’m guessing there are apps
dawnerd•14m ago
Beenaminute did an experiment about this and found it didn’t really matter. Algospeek would be caught by the same filters people try to avoid anyways.
avalys•24m ago
Most of this is self-censorship by people who believe they are being oppressed by all-powerful dark forces, whose malevolent schemes can nevertheless be foiled by simple character substitutions.

My favorite example of this is people self-censoring “shooter” as “sh**ter”, which I can’t help myself from always parsing as “shitter”.

“The shitter in Virginia has been apprehended”, etc.

lazide•14m ago
To be fair, YouTube (and probably other platforms) used to literally block stuff like that, and the substitutions did get by it.
Cpoll•12m ago
I assume it's just people mimicking/cargo culting content creators, who are indeed being oppressed by the dark forces of the algorithm and the de-mometizer.
antonvs•6m ago
> Most of this is self-censorship by people who believe they are being oppressed by all-powerful dark forces,

What a ridiculous take. Many platforms and games actually prevent you from posting certain words, or flag or otherwise penalize posts if you include them. In some cases, this is completely explicit, i.e. you'll get a message saying "cant' post that."

Instead of playing a guessing game of which platform censors what, it's common just to avoid such words by censoring, euphemisms, or synonyms.

ryandrake•2m ago
How did "kosher" become one of those words?
6m ago
Whew, good thing i have 20 minutes left over to do everything else!

(That is great gaslighting in that vid, lol)

piinbinary•15m ago
Definitely.

But I might not read it super carefully when recipe planning at the start of the week, which can result in scheduling mistakes.

deeg•10m ago
> Steps that don't repeat the quantities, making me scroll back and forth between the step and the quantity list.

Julia Child's cookbook has the recipe in two columns, one for ingredients and the other for directions. As soon as I saw it I wondered why every cookbook doesn't do something similar.

Finnucane•1m ago
Julia Child would also be in favor of doing mise en place--measuring out your ingredients before you start doing anything.

Personally, and I say this as someone who has been trained to do recipe editing, I find this tabular system to be not entirely clear. Consider the first example--the instruction to mix is applied to several ingredients at least twice. The instruction to 'fold in' seems to apply to all the ingredients at once, which makes no sense. Normally, you'd mix the dry ingredients together first. Also, in this case, you'd probably want to whisk the eggs and sugar together first so the sugar starts to dissolve. It also doesn't give you a clue as to what 'done' means.