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Men with Queer Nerves: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-jumping-frenchmen-of-maine
10•acossta•2d ago

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redmattred•8m ago
The book the article mentions is worth a read if this period of history in the northeast interests you:

Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest

Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/10/waymo-in-toronto/
23•ChrisArchitect•18m ago•22 comments

I Love Software Rendering

https://www.jamesfmackenzie.com/2026/10/13/i-love-software-rendering/
129•speckx•2h ago•88 comments

Gyroscopes Got So Small [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zc_6xB5W3Y
26•surprisetalk•23h ago•2 comments

Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6bMSjPepM
24•zdw•15h ago•5 comments

Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/13/redesigning-source-control-at-anthropic/
9•hn9zmdcaou•28m ago•7 comments

Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD

https://calif.io/research/big-fish
11•rs_rs_rs_rs_rs•18m ago•0 comments

Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses

https://blog.ikaes.de/yet-another-way-to-invoke-functions-without-parentheses/
183•aragonite•2d ago•70 comments

Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft

https://starskirmish.com/bench/v0-2/
11•__cayenne__•44m ago•1 comments

Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/mlx-distributed-inference
11•antipaul•1h ago•0 comments

Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjNpfz4UzqU
625•johnnyApplePRNG•3d ago•201 comments

The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire

https://www.michelecoscia.com/?p=2613
101•mikk14•2d ago•16 comments

How to Formalize All of Mathematics

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/16/how-to-formalize-all-of-mathematics/
5•practal•1h ago•0 comments

Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-site...
411•0in•15h ago•150 comments

Muse Spark Open

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-spark-open
881•bigwheels•21h ago•442 comments

AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10

https://github.com/mixelpixx/Konnect
66•ofrzeta•2d ago•22 comments

MS Paint Adds Freeform Rotation (2026)

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/02/20/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-...
20•telestew•2d ago•13 comments

Bark: The Toll-Free BBS for 90s Teens

https://blog.bityard.net/articles/2026/October/bark-the-toll-free-bbs-for-90s-teens
13•bityard•2h ago•3 comments

How to make System 1 LLMs show System 2 competencies?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aaai.70113
3•porridgeraisin•46m ago•0 comments

What was a Token Ring network?

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-was-a-token-ring-network/
5•ibobev•1h ago•2 comments

RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop

https://anuragbhatia.com/post/2026/06/rfc8950-announce-ipv4-with-ipv6-next-hop/
5•porridgeraisin•1h ago•0 comments

New 'Super Ice' 10 Times Stronger, Bringing It Close to the Strength of Concrete

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-super-ice-is-10-times-stronger-bringing-it-close-to-the-streng...
66•andrewl•2d ago•37 comments

Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation

https://orlp.net/blog/two-stack-sliding-window-aggregation/
93•surprisetalk•3d ago•17 comments

The Folders Programming Language

https://danieltemkin.com/esolangs/folders
156•gurst•9h ago•26 comments

Neural networks are clean

https://already-clean.goodfire.com/
761•themgt•22h ago•297 comments

RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes

https://ipinfo.io/blog/rpki-protects-70-internet-routes
199•emot•14h ago•84 comments

Jev meets the Trolley Problem

https://zachlandes.com/trolley-problem/
571•zlandes86•22h ago•230 comments

Seized server Autistici/Inventati (A/I) in Amsterdam for U.S. authorities

https://nltimes.nl/2026/10/14/amsterdam-server-seized-request-us-authorities-antifa-allegations
27•oriettaxx•1h ago•18 comments

Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design

https://github.com/fyzugx/DEsk
665•FinalDestiny•1d ago•270 comments

Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat

https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-routed-a-graphite-pipe-through-the-iphone-duos-hinge
171•giuliomagnifico•3d ago•127 comments

Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad

https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill
212•chanana•13h ago•54 comments