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Does Georgism work? Five years later

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-five-years-later
75•silveraxe93•1d ago•36 comments

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978
147•shenli3514•6h ago•41 comments

PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
312•Qision•1d ago•166 comments

An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot

https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-used-dns-to-reach-an-external-chatbot/
37•apsec112•20h ago•33 comments

Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things

https://github.com/reladraw/reladraw
169•jpwalsh234•7h ago•50 comments

Evolving programming languages in the AI era

https://dashbit.co/blog/evolving-ai-era
22•pjm331•1d ago•9 comments

A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward

https://www.movingimagearchive.com/
104•momentmaker•2d ago•23 comments

Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas

https://tangled.org/yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent
103•parasitid•9h ago•32 comments

Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/welcome-to-the-medical-clinic-at-the-interplanetary-re...
41•bucket2015•4h ago•7 comments

Go Concurrency Distilled

https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/
17•chmaynard•10h ago•2 comments

LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators on Earth

https://basin.la/articles/ninety-feet-a-minute.html
73•big_toast•2d ago•52 comments

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story
338•ksec•15h ago•86 comments

Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC

https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-tangent-cordic.html
19•pwg•7h ago•3 comments

How one Twitch chat message became code execution on a streamer’s PC

https://blog.scrt.ch/2026/09/22/how-one-twitch-chat-message-became-code-execution-on-a-streamers-pc/
23•tau255•23h ago•4 comments

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU

https://jia.je/hardware/2026/09/24/loongson-cpu-erratum-en/
109•jiegec•2d ago•6 comments

Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal
144•birdculture•2d ago•58 comments

ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/asml-says-its-sells-absolutely-nothing-...
138•MC995•1d ago•376 comments

HomeBody: A humanoid that explores, remembers, and acts on its own

https://tml.stanford.edu/homebody/
11•famouswaffles•6h ago•2 comments

The Evolution of Vending Machines

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/09/from-holy-water-to-frozen-meals-the-evolution-of-vend...
10•ohjeez•7h ago•1 comments

Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width

https://ampdot.mesh.host/token-space-fonts.html
22•z-mach9•1d ago•5 comments

Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model

https://www.privatemode.ai/blog/system-one-from-glm-flash
11•flxflx•9h ago•5 comments

How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments

https://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/how-i-changed-teaching-after-ai-managed
125•azhenley•2d ago•129 comments

Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/09/readings-bayeux-tapestry.html
12•zeristor•14h ago•1 comments

Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons

https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2026/fup_26_116-enceladus-cassini-mikroben-s...
12•geox•21h ago•6 comments

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705
150•signa11•15h ago•208 comments

Dutch designer made DE9: Closer to the Edit into a playable web-based instrument

https://www.creativeboom.com/work/why-merijn-straathof-turned-a-landmark-techno-album-into-a-play...
6•ChrisArchitect•2d ago•1 comments

Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia

https://blog.priyan.in/2026/09/analyzing-frontier-model-progress-with.html
55•msephton•1d ago•38 comments

Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/
634•ezst•14h ago•249 comments

The Rise of Audio AR

https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/04/10/the_rise_of_audio_ar.html
28•dbreunig•2d ago•10 comments

Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/25/japan-moves-to-tighten-rules-for-foreigners-throwing-...
122•mikhael•7h ago•337 comments
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The Evolution of Vending Machines

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/09/from-holy-water-to-frozen-meals-the-evolution-of-vending-machines/
10•ohjeez•7h ago

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skyberrys•18m ago
By the end of the read I was wondering why I can't setup a few vending machines, sit back and watch the profits roll in. I know it's likely more complicated that I imagine, but it seems like such a hands off way to manage commerce. It wraps up inventory management and sales into one convenient package and takes out the daily responsibilities.