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Voyage of the Paper Canoe: 2500 Miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, 1874-5

http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nhb/paperc/intro.html
8•Eridanus2•2d ago

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brudgers•16h ago
I was reminded of this children's book, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddle-to-the-Sea

I have not thought of it for many many years.

RepRapMicron

https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki
181•RobotToaster•2h ago•25 comments

macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL

https://developer.apple.com/forums/verify-human/verify.html?next=/forums/thread/850550
80•Audiophilip•1h ago•40 comments

Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/legal-experts-warn-metas-new-terms-still-grant-broad-scraping-p...
151•DeepLogin•6h ago•40 comments

DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
410•fagnerbrack•9h ago•202 comments

Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching

https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/24/java-sealed-classes-and-exhaustive-pattern-matching/
23•hnisjafx40•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake

https://legendofhyrule.com/
68•jsomau•3h ago•22 comments

Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform

https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper
115•_Microft•5h ago•10 comments

Sigsaly: Churchill's top secret hotline to the President

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/iwm/cwr/telephone
9•stmw•3d ago•0 comments

Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013195/ai-agents-blocked-web
81•evolve2k•1h ago•57 comments

Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/18/will-it-be-a-golden-age-or-a-dark-age-for-mathematics-a...
60•smilelamp•1h ago•70 comments

Parser Combinators

https://t3.at/blog/2026-10-17-parser-combinators/
146•schindlabua•8h ago•59 comments

How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/elizabeth-holmes-documentary-you-can-see-everything
263•MaysonL•13h ago•337 comments

How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/impossible-refund
28•DeepLogin•4h ago•11 comments

The Electronic Disturbance Theater and Electronic Civil Disobedience

https://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/EDTECD.html
15•jruohonen•2h ago•3 comments

Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03266-x
521•alkyon•1d ago•111 comments

Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua

https://teal-language.org/
113•Lyngbakr•1d ago•46 comments

Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping

https://sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app/
209•critiquebrowser•12h ago•68 comments

Hatching (Heraldry)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching_(heraldry)
52•theanonymousone•3d ago•10 comments

The Brain Sandwich

https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/10/02/the-brain-sandwich/
32•keyle•5h ago•10 comments

Voyage of the Paper Canoe: 2500 Miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, 1874-5

http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nhb/paperc/intro.html
8•Eridanus2•2d ago•1 comments

Regex visualized as 3D marble run

https://www.regexmarblerun.com/
63•seizethecheese•1d ago•22 comments

Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-proposed-ai-safety-...
89•f-serif•2h ago•93 comments

Lean now ships with verified kernels

https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-10-15-lean-now-ships-with-verified-kernels/
179•matt_d•2d ago•62 comments

A History of Curves and Surfaces in Computer Aided Geometric Design [pdf]

https://math.pku.edu.cn/teachers/jiangm/courses/CG/Lectures/spline-history.pdf
24•mbustamanter•3d ago•3 comments

Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dam-removals-are-bringing-fish-back-across-the-nort...
329•sohkamyung•1d ago•82 comments

Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG

https://pele.run/
525•dchest•1d ago•50 comments

High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN

https://ranet3.com/
5•StepBroBD•2h ago•1 comments

Chirp Pong – uses microphones and audio for networked game play

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/15/chirp-pong/
16•havaloc•2d ago•8 comments

Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana

https://furifont.antfu.me/
387•plaguna•3d ago•81 comments

Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost?

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/07/29/lorenz-and-little.html
25•porridgeraisin•3d ago•2 comments