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Remembering the Chicago Pile, the First Nuclear Reactor

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/remembering-chicago-pile-worlds-first-nuclear-reactor
6•conorcleary•1d ago

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xnx•36m ago
(2017)

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf
333•bryan0•5h ago•143 comments

U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

https://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2026/09/26/u-s-postal-inspectors-shut-down-website-selling...
188•ilamont•8h ago•112 comments

PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust

https://github.com/Sparticle62ops/pssa
3•sparticle62•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

https://space.bl2.net/
150•wanick•8h ago•35 comments

America.gov

https://america.gov/
421•plesiv•13h ago•345 comments

Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)

https://mightygodking.com/2008/04/21/fun-from-yesterday/
11•peter_d_sherman•1h ago•3 comments

GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/
827•crorella•10h ago•755 comments

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
457•rbanffy•15h ago•267 comments

PS5 Relapse Exploit

https://github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit
252•therepanic•11h ago•139 comments

Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/classifier-history-and-jev
49•Anon84•16h ago•1 comments

Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2026/
110•HieronymusBosch•14h ago•22 comments

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
267•evakhoury•1d ago•45 comments

Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language

https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/needed-one-plus-one/
46•birdculture•11h ago•14 comments

Remembering the Chicago Pile, the First Nuclear Reactor

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/remembering-chicago-pile-worlds-first-nuclear...
6•conorcleary•1d ago•1 comments

NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates

https://somethingbig.ai/computer
114•rossant•2d ago•62 comments

We’re forgetting what darkness feels like

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/29/night-sky-darkness-city-regulation
84•pseudolus•9h ago•54 comments

Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine

https://enigma.design
46•primitivesuave•10h ago•11 comments

Commodore 64: Mercenary

https://gamesexplained.com/c64/mercenary/
36•a1r•3d ago•6 comments

Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux

https://frostyard.github.io/nsl/
99•bketelsen•12h ago•70 comments

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

https://sujithjay.com/inventing-work
208•amortize•1d ago•44 comments

Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/29/deser/
38•tosh•5h ago•6 comments

Tcl/Tk 9.1

https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.1.html
253•dmux•10h ago•91 comments

Ask HN: What are you reading?

171•dan-bailey•13h ago•419 comments

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves
232•nicowaltz•16h ago•89 comments

Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260928-a-virtual-power-plant-hidden-in-vermont-homes-is-keep...
113•devonnull•9h ago•104 comments

Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host
759•barry-cotter•16h ago•684 comments

Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)

https://cathsenker.co.uk/stuck-in-the-suez-canal-the-short-version/
47•joebig•2d ago•5 comments

Dots: Always-on agents

https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/
479•alvis•10h ago•360 comments

Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)

https://www.withouthotair.com/
140•0sake_rs•15h ago•80 comments

Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-certificate-authority/
37•ewpratten•14h ago•21 comments