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Creepy Crawlies

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies
245•zdw•22h ago•88 comments

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6
26•metrofun•29m ago•3 comments

Hacking IKEA Furniture

https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/
139•greenlightning•4h ago•75 comments

Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpj6r6CjJf8
180•surprisetalk•3d ago•80 comments

Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/
5•rzk•27m ago•0 comments

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/
7•trap0xcc•30m ago•0 comments

European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-protecteu-strategy-encryption-backdoor-law-enforcement
63•nickslaughter02•1h ago•14 comments

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
145•vntok•7h ago•60 comments

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389
161•joebig•8h ago•48 comments

Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

https://fortune.com/2026/08/29/europe-summer-drought-desertification-threat-rivers-fish/
72•Brajeshwar•2h ago•61 comments

Dad's Custom Atari Peripherals – By Jim Trageser

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/dads-custom-atari-peripherals
20•rbanffy•2d ago•5 comments

When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-fruit-is-scarce-these-monkeys-hunt-animals-the-beh...
25•cisc•1d ago•3 comments

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/windows.html
32•Bluestein•4h ago•4 comments

Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/66504
103•sparsesignal•3h ago•127 comments

Bug Blindness

https://danluu.com/bug-blind/
338•davidmckenna•16h ago•211 comments

What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s

https://askmike.org/articles/ai-coding-lessons-in-the-90s-from-my-dad/
75•askmike•6d ago•39 comments

RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython

https://blog.python.org/2026/08/riscv-now-officially-supported/
255•lumpa•5d ago•45 comments

Electric rain can eat through metal

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electric-rain-can-eat-through-metal/
3•sohkamyung•3d ago•0 comments

Automating Immersive Reading

https://smoores.dev/post/automating_immersive_reading/
46•smoores•4h ago•16 comments

monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter

https://github.com/fugue-labs/monty-go
31•networked•4h ago•5 comments

Building my own network stack

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/dn42-2-dnet/
63•uneven9434•6h ago•58 comments

Hy4 preview

https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/
360•shenli3514•20h ago•221 comments

JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps

https://blog.jupyter.org/jupytergis-0-16-new-visualization-capabilities-collaborative-story-maps-...
74•arjxn-py•5d ago•9 comments

The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020)

https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/einstein-szilard-refrigerator
86•EndXA•3d ago•38 comments

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption...
560•shscs911•13h ago•248 comments

Orbs

https://ampcode.com/notes/orbs-explained
63•tosh•4d ago•25 comments

One Nix flake to rule them all

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/28/one-flake-to-rule-them-all
52•ingve•5h ago•5 comments

No AI Fridays

https://noaifridays.com/
224•xendo•3h ago•120 comments

FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued

https://freecore.org/
152•sashk•14h ago•82 comments

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

https://zackbartel.com/blog/2026/08/tether/
514•zackb•6d ago•206 comments
Open in hackernews

Dad's Custom Atari Peripherals – By Jim Trageser

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/dads-custom-atari-peripherals
20•rbanffy•2d ago

Comments

jamesgill•2d ago
A fun story, but what really grabbed me was the story he linked to about the author's father, the engineer: https://lostincyberspace.substack.com/p/son-of-a-son-of-a
throwawayk7h•2d ago
Sadly this kind of thing is not possible anymore on modern consoles, due to the highly locked-down protocols they use.
blightful•58m ago
Have you seen the xbox adaptive controller?
toast0•6m ago
All the recent generations accept USB controllers, is there really much locked down in there?