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Benjamin Franklin's Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/among-all-great-things-benjamin-franklin-invented-discovered-alter-egos-gave-him-most-freedom-180988824/

20•cisc•3h ago

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alexcnwy•37m ago

alts are underrated

i know some very very interesting people whose x is anon

inigyou•23m ago

If I had a stormfront or pornhub account I'd be sure to make them anon too

storywatch•19m ago

Isn't PornHub Canada's biggest tech company by traffic? They are hardly anonymous.

inigyou•17m ago

I don't see the relevance. Their users want to be.

HawtAds•17m ago

Maybe by traffic but I think Shopify has them beat on valuation (well, it's hard to say since one is a public listed company).

clumsysmurf•5m ago

One thing I like about bluesky is how easy it makes switching alts - you just click your avatar. You can have one for professional and one for politics, etc.

Some sights like reddit makes this such a pain, unless you use old reddit with browser extensions.

Bug Blindness

https://danluu.com/bug-blind/

135•davidmckenna•4h ago•54 comments

Algorithmic Rent-Pricing Litigation Expands Under New State and Local Laws

https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2026/08/algorithmic-rent-pricing-litigation-expands-under-new-st...

27•toomuchtodo•2h ago•11 comments

Hy4 preview

https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/

232•shenli3514•9h ago•139 comments

RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython

https://blog.python.org/2026/08/riscv-now-officially-supported/

64•lumpa•5d ago•8 comments

FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued

https://freecore.org/

54•sashk•3h ago•31 comments

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

https://zackbartel.com/blog/2026/08/tether/

400•zackb•5d ago•165 comments

Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter

https://github.com/gbin/defragger

30•gbin•4d ago•23 comments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/

165•JumpCrisscross•13h ago•69 comments

Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything")

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html

9•Bluestein•4d ago•0 comments

Benjamin Franklin's Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/among-all-great-things-benjamin-franklin-invented-discover...

22•cisc•3h ago•6 comments

Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/28/texas-flock-cameras-auto-insurance-fee-mvcpa-grants/

198•DeepLogin•5h ago•92 comments

Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference

https://artificialanalysis.ai/hardware-inference-stack/mobile-phones

11•sys42590•2d ago•0 comments

SQLite as a Document Database (2020)

https://dgl.cx/2020/06/sqlite-json-support

190•lioeters•5d ago•47 comments

Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler?

https://iafisher.com/2026/08/sigprint

29•hellerve•3d ago•10 comments

Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3830438.3830958

65•matt_d•9h ago•27 comments

Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role

https://tucker.wales/writing/bias-towards-action/

133•tuckerwales•11h ago•55 comments

Open Oscar Server: open-source server compatible with AIM and ICQ clients

https://github.com/mk6i/open-oscar-server

13•gregsadetsky•4h ago•5 comments

EVE Online moves to Python 3

https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins

329•TylerJaacks•4d ago•175 comments

Glacier Mice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_mice

274•ostacke•5d ago•52 comments

Domain-Driven Agents

https://coldtake.dev/blog/domain-driven-agents

69•AlarQ•9h ago•12 comments

DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/trump-dhs-1509-summons-records-journalists-nonpro...

360•firefax•10h ago•63 comments

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-samsungs-processing

252•ingve•22h ago•96 comments

Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI

https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/good-culture-is-the-biggest-productivity

301•gpi•11h ago•72 comments

Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework

https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli

392•hentrep•1d ago•104 comments

Trees for a Changing Climate and Resilient Urban Forest (2022)

https://www.coolboulder.org/news/trees-for-a-changing-climate-resilient-urban-forest

42•mooreds•12h ago•5 comments

Sleepwalker: Passive Backdoor with Its Own Command Language

https://r136a1.dev/2026/08/24/sleepwalker-a-passive-backdoor-with-its-own-command-language/

61•defrost•5d ago•9 comments

Recovering Corrupt Zip Files

https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/recovering-corrupt-zip-files-1895

40•AshleysBrain•3d ago•20 comments

Quantifying Colour

https://ekunazanu.foo/lab/quantifying-colour/

82•vismit2000•13h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript

https://typebase.io

103•andrewww-dev•3d ago•29 comments

Creating the Aetheryte Radio

https://haz.ee/posts/aetheryte-radio.html

72•wonger_•1d ago•15 comments