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The Greatest Pun in JavaScript

https://shukla.io/blog/2026-09/pun.html
8•BinRoo•1d ago

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doebler•41m ago
> Rarely can you swap two words to form a correct grammatically sentence, yet he played with words like a magician.

Polish poet Sep-Szarzyński was an absolute master of this. Of course it helps that word order in Slavic languages is flexible, yet still. Hos poems are mind-boggling, to the point of being incomprehensible, yet completely gramatically correct.

quixoticaxolotl•39m ago
Note that the Shakespeare quote in the beginning is an example of antimetabole, not a pun.
hyperhello•35m ago
Good job, I definitely felt punished.
malfist•10m ago
Any joke that takes five screens of text to explain is not the least bit funny

Ember-1

https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1
110•gmays•1h ago•45 comments

Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi

https://loficities.com/
7•safaelmali•22m ago•1 comments

In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html
135•danso•4h ago•49 comments

Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)

https://asawicki.info/articles/writing_efficient_cpp_code.php
107•ibobev•1d ago•45 comments

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/
100•surprisetalk•5h ago•47 comments

Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out

https://tinyaiarena.com/
56•hp6•3h ago•31 comments

The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures

https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html
182•pxx•3h ago•64 comments

SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nvne3LzBls
123•CharlesW•1h ago•33 comments

Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Xn3030IvM
4•Rochus•1h ago•0 comments

On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

https://unsung.aresluna.org/they-had-no-concept-of-a-duty-of-care-to-their-users/
291•jandeboevrie•4h ago•253 comments

There are no "rogue" AI agents

https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents
211•zzzeek•2h ago•155 comments

Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/we-have-found-traces-of-peace-thousands...
19•gmays•4h ago•3 comments

John Coltrane Centenary's – Impulse Records Release the Legendary Tiberi Tapes

https://www.jazzwise.com/content/news/john-coltrane-centenary-celebrations-see-impulse-records-re...
18•gregsadetsky•2d ago•4 comments

Walgit: A Git server that is one binary in front of an object store

https://github.com/rgodha24/walgithub
53•handfuloflight•1d ago•6 comments

Flip Fluid on Flip Dots

https://mitxela.com/projects/flipflip
311•blutack•1d ago•21 comments

Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests

https://fakecloud.dev/
72•theanonymousone•1d ago•40 comments

The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers

https://generalroboticslab.com/cartesian_handv1
13•AareyBaba•1d ago•4 comments

Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp

https://jadidbourbaki.github.io/blog/prompt-lookup-llama-cpp/
29•pptadversary•23h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web

https://www.markdown.beauty/
37•thiagoperes•5h ago•27 comments

Video CDs Break Windows Explorer

https://clydesnotes.blogspot.com/2026/08/video-cds-break-windows-explorer.html
38•ClydeN•23h ago•8 comments

Improving site performance by shipping more CSS

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/improving-site-performance-by-shipping-...
66•torutofu•1d ago•54 comments

PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura

https://nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-rename/
110•HotGarbage•3h ago•15 comments

Show HN: Trail – new kind of logic game

https://trail.franzai.com/
13•franze•12h ago•6 comments

Show HN: A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page

https://3d-retro.com/
59•SouthWestAtlas•3d ago•10 comments

Ten lines of code that changed my world

https://pixelambacht.nl/2026/ten-lines-of-code/
93•dimonomid•5h ago•25 comments

Go Concurrency Distilled

https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/
344•chmaynard•1d ago•146 comments

C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake

https://pikuma.com/blog/c-integer-sizes-not-a-mistake
47•ibobev•2d ago•68 comments

Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/true-blue-rose-pigment-copigment
86•bookofjoe•1d ago•31 comments

PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
475•Qision•2d ago•262 comments

Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate"

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rusty-thoughts-on-parse-dont-validate/
57•ingve•10h ago•25 comments