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Lant – The Forgotten Resource

https://sites.udel.edu/materialmatters/2018/04/11/lant-the-forgotten-resource/
6•kreyenborgi•3d ago

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silverFork•3d ago
Really interesting article. I had no idea that they aged urine and that they used it as nitrogen to make gun powder for centuries! bacteria would convert urine to nitrites!

Linux 7.3 Released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1101143/
134•cjd8•1h ago•49 comments

Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-rabbits-medieval-royal-luxury-england.html
84•samizdis•1d ago•67 comments

Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18861
384•allinonai•12h ago•187 comments

William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace

https://colo.to/cyberspace.html
176•Eric_Gullichsen•9h ago•62 comments

How to Train Your Robot

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-train-your-robot
18•crescit_eundo•3d ago•7 comments

There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKrwhjOI8Nc
364•mdp2021•1d ago•435 comments

If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

https://jrdsgl.com/if-you-dont-run-your-own-llm-proxy-how-the-fuck-do-you-even-know-whats-going-on/
163•amrrs•12h ago•107 comments

Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling

https://crystl.dev/guides/tmux-for-ai-agents/
19•ankitg12•3h ago•8 comments

Someone behind the software

https://karrisaarinen.com/posts/someone-behind-the-software/
439•tosh•16h ago•164 comments

Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers

https://contextfirst.blog/superlite-hand-an-agent-a-spec/
92•iheatuchriswogu•7h ago•35 comments

Flatpak – An Insecurity Nightmare

https://oro.gay/posts/flatpak-an-insecurity-nightmare/
31•jannesan•4h ago•19 comments

Laptop Based on 6502 CPU

https://www.maddox.pro/?p=448
120•nanochess•3d ago•52 comments

Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky

https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-seem-to-agree-with-humans-that-bouba-is-round-and-kiki-is-spiky
233•gmays•1d ago•141 comments

RepRapMicron

https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki
389•RobotToaster•19h ago•64 comments

The DNS Museum

https://dns.museum
68•zdw•2d ago•9 comments

How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?

https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-quickly-can-dod-rebuild-and-recast-munitions-industrial-base
59•gmays•9h ago•64 comments

Lant – The Forgotten Resource

https://sites.udel.edu/materialmatters/2018/04/11/lant-the-forgotten-resource/
6•kreyenborgi•3d ago•1 comments

Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages

https://www.getlazarus.org/dynamic/
161•sysrpl•14h ago•38 comments

Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare

https://github.com/finereli/whatsapp-mcp
107•zoozla•11h ago•53 comments

Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action

https://www.hbsslaw.com/cases/verisign-com-domain-name-registry-consumer-class-action
95•greyface-•4h ago•42 comments

PalmOS Lemmings

https://github.com/ardiri/palmos-lemmings
127•memalign•15h ago•32 comments

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use

https://blog.picheta.me/post/killswitch-lang/
185•dom96•1d ago•126 comments

A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse)

https://verdagon.dev/blog/reverse-borrow-checking
84•verdagon•21h ago•7 comments

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max)

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017
136•theanonymousone•4h ago•45 comments

How Postgres DELETE can actually scale

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/scaling-deletions-in-postgres
15•KraftyOne•3d ago•1 comments

Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching

https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/24/java-sealed-classes-and-exhaustive-pattern-matching/
168•hnisjafx40•18h ago•129 comments

One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux

https://quentinkaiser.be/security/2026/10/16/one-parser-two-bugs/
77•zoobab•2d ago•18 comments

macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL

https://developer.apple.com/forums/verify-human/verify.html?next=/forums/thread/850550
255•Audiophilip•17h ago•286 comments

"I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/math-ai-terence-tao.html
180•vinipolicena•2d ago•355 comments

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

https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper
195•_Microft•22h ago•16 comments