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F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix

https://fosscomics.com/posts/13.%20BSD%20Unix%20Part%203%20-%20The%20Beginning%20of%20BSD%20Unix/
16•joonehur•1h ago

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jolmg•22m ago
> bundling the Pascal system with ex, a line editor developed from em.

What's em? I thought it was from ed.

nagaiaida•19m ago
https://www.coulouris.net/cs_history/em_story/

Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

https://hackerbooks.org
1015•roansh•11h ago•192 comments

F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix

https://fosscomics.com/posts/13.%20BSD%20Unix%20Part%203%20-%20The%20Beginning%20of%20BSD%20Unix/
17•joonehur•1h ago•2 comments

Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html
125•soheilpro•2d ago•81 comments

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
2343•karpathy•1d ago•544 comments

Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

181•LecroJS•7h ago•342 comments

Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed

https://github.com/raphlinus/nibnib
111•raphlinus•2d ago•19 comments

Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved

https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2026/mystery-of-60-second-fluctuations-in...
26•_Microft•1d ago•4 comments

Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/02/05/
88•luu•4d ago•14 comments

Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed

https://trigger.dev/blog/security-incident-nov-2026
14•anurag•2h ago•1 comments

Keeping Up Appearances – The women taking over the funeral industry

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/death-industry-mortuary-programs-women-andie-eisen-quarterly/
29•TMWNN•2d ago•11 comments

OccupySaaS

https://occupysaas.com/
98•misswaterfairy•3h ago•64 comments

Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics

https://tibleiz.net/copper/
141•bogdanoff_2•2d ago•77 comments

Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust

https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff
179•FabCH•14h ago•44 comments

New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261025073051.htm
55•stevenalowe•3d ago•26 comments

Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/01/mathematics-has-changed-lets-act-like-it/
242•smilelamp•9h ago•267 comments

Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39302
119•Anon84•14h ago•63 comments

AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture

https://www.eurogamer.net/ai-fan-wikis-errors-complicating-games-culture
23•rdmuser•1h ago•9 comments

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/
316•luu•21h ago•234 comments

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xl2pr3/lenovos_encrypted_fingerprint_usb_drive_is_j...
414•entryleveljobsc•12h ago•149 comments

One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-02144-0
128•croes•1d ago•44 comments

Bidirectional charging during grid outages

https://www.jefftk.com/p/bidirectional-charging-during-grid-outages
90•luu•1d ago•131 comments

The She-Wolves of Jülich

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/she-wolves-julich
17•Thevet•1d ago•2 comments

Radiation Map of the World

https://radiaverse.com/
139•slater•4d ago•44 comments

Novellas with Groff

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html
115•dverlaeckt80•13h ago•50 comments

Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology

https://outcrop.rocks/
161•headsupernova•3d ago•38 comments

Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2

https://kevs3d.co.uk/phoria2/
78•kevs3d•1d ago•12 comments

Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter

https://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2026/oct/seoul-291026.shtml
146•gmays•11h ago•38 comments

Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019)

https://tedium.co/2019/11/21/nonstick-parchment-paper-history/
43•colinprince•1d ago•21 comments

Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/domain-hacks-with-unusual-unicode-characters/
61•n_plus_1_acc•16h ago•48 comments

An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothi...
776•ecares•1d ago•203 comments