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Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2026/09/29/floppy-emu-hardware-failure-analysis-results/
7•zdw•10h ago

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sdcfgy•7m ago
Crystal failures are always a problem. We used to chuck a bag of them in a tumbler for an hour then on a tray on a vibration table for an hour. About 20% would fail on test from being entirely open circuit to being way off frequency.

September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy

https://tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-09-21/september-2026-the-world-today/
198•marjancek•2h ago•91 comments

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf
614•bryan0•11h ago•251 comments

Solving Factorio Quality

https://exyr.org/2026/solving-factorio-quality/
70•laurenth•1d ago•23 comments

Dots: Always-on agents

https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/
621•alvis•16h ago•480 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...
198•devonnull•15h ago•158 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...
230•ilamont•14h ago•135 comments

America.gov

https://america.gov/
560•plesiv•19h ago•471 comments

NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/nasa-asked-several-former-sr-71a-staffers-he...
169•ilamont•23h ago•168 comments

Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet

https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2026-08-23-wgpu-facet/
40•luu•1d ago•0 comments

RSS Feeds for Last.fm

https://lfm.xiffy.nl/
72•Baljhin•6h ago•14 comments

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

https://space.bl2.net/
250•wanick•14h ago•53 comments

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
521•rbanffy•21h ago•293 comments

Raleigh Vektar Restoration (2020)

https://retromash.com/2020/06/26/raleigh-vektar-restoration-part-1-the-arrival/
15•robin_reala•1d ago•3 comments

Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2026/
190•HieronymusBosch•20h ago•56 comments

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

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/
941•crorella•16h ago•826 comments

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
293•evakhoury•1d ago•48 comments

Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language

https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/needed-one-plus-one/
103•birdculture•17h ago•30 comments

Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

https://prospect.org/2026/09/29/artificial-intelligence-agents-openai-microsoft-sam-altman-greg-b...
80•ragall•2h ago•36 comments

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

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/classifier-history-and-jev
119•Anon84•22h ago•5 comments

When oil prices spike, where does the money go?

https://theconversation.com/when-oil-prices-spike-where-does-the-money-go-280763
87•thelastgallon•1d ago•74 comments

Ask HN: What are you reading?

282•dan-bailey•20h ago•568 comments

PS5 Relapse Exploit

https://github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit
310•therepanic•18h ago•186 comments

Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality

https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc
22•seam_carver•1d ago•4 comments

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

https://somethingbig.ai/computer
145•rossant•2d ago•83 comments

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

https://sujithjay.com/inventing-work
267•amortize•1d ago•56 comments

Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2026/09/29/floppy-emu-hardware-failure-analysis-results/
7•zdw•10h ago•1 comments

Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux

https://frostyard.github.io/nsl/
134•bketelsen•19h ago•81 comments

NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor

https://www.gevernova.com/news/press-releases/nrc-issues-first-us-construction-permit-bwrx-300-sm...
38•papa-whisky•10h ago•11 comments

We’re forgetting what darkness feels like

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/29/night-sky-darkness-city-regulation
163•pseudolus•15h ago•82 comments

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

https://enigma.design
72•primitivesuave•16h ago•23 comments