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Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/welcome-to-the-medical-clinic-at-the-interplanetary-relay-station/
19•bucket2015•2h ago

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theoriginaldave•33m ago
This isn't really sci-fi.

This is a normal trip to the emergency room with search and replace for sci-fi terms.

frmersdog•24m ago
I was going to post something along these lines, but from the perspective of sci-fi in-general being palette-swapped commentary on contemporary or historical themes, unless you're reading something by Greg Egan or Vernor Vinge.
ttd•24m ago
I'm not quite sure what I just read, but it was entertaining! Is there no other context for this story?

PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
269•Qision•1d ago•147 comments

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978
78•shenli3514•3h ago•16 comments

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112•jpwalsh234•5h ago•31 comments

LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators on Earth

https://basin.la/articles/ninety-feet-a-minute.html
35•big_toast•2d ago•15 comments

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

https://www.movingimagearchive.com/
75•momentmaker•2d ago•17 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...
19•bucket2015•2h ago•3 comments

Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas

https://tangled.org/yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent
85•parasitid•6h ago•30 comments

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story
318•ksec•13h ago•75 comments

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU

https://jia.je/hardware/2026/09/24/loongson-cpu-erratum-en/
93•jiegec•2d ago•5 comments

Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal
131•birdculture•2d ago•50 comments

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

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347•srcreigh•19h ago•455 comments

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

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92•MC995•1d ago•315 comments

The Rise of Audio AR

https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/04/10/the_rise_of_audio_ar.html
23•dbreunig•2d ago•5 comments

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

https://blog.priyan.in/2026/09/analyzing-frontier-model-progress-with.html
48•msephton•1d ago•33 comments

Show HN: Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first)

https://www.gptbeyond.com/try?home=1
21•kdautaj•1d ago•6 comments

Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners

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52•mikhael•4h ago•106 comments

Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/
608•ezst•11h ago•234 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
121•signa11•12h ago•180 comments

Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/09/10/plunging-test-scores-are-a-slow-moving-catastrophe
152•vinni2•6h ago•283 comments

Reflections on 1,000 Days of Math

https://gmays.com/reflections-on-1000-days-of-math/
76•gmays•3d ago•33 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
99•azhenley•2d ago•99 comments

The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bizarre-murky-history-of-soviet-born-tetris/
99•EA-3167•1d ago•28 comments

OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw62jje658dlo
90•Betelbuddy•8h ago•128 comments

Probing picosecond depairing currents in type-II superconductors

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03469-z
4•PaulHoule•2d ago•1 comments

Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service

https://floci.io
152•theanonymousone•13h ago•29 comments

Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/automattic-has-a-new-board-after-failed-attempt-to-put-ceo-on-l...
108•ilamont•6h ago•125 comments

Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red

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254•pancomplex•1d ago•109 comments

Experiencing writing at our recent Chinese calligraphy workshop

https://viewsproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/chinese-calligraphy-workshop/
29•surprisetalk•2d ago•1 comments

16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade

https://tuckerosman.com/projects/16gb-ipod-nano
135•Ivoah•2d ago•22 comments

What even is an OS now?

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/
289•fratellobigio•1d ago•436 comments