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Flipdiscs

(flipdisc.io)

312 points by skogstokig 4 days ago | loading comments

I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

(ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d)

851 points by ca98am79 14 hours ago | loading comments

Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico

(github.com/WeebLabs/DSPi)

17 points by BoingBoomTschak 2 days ago | loading comments

AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it

(www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/)

529 points by koshyjohn 15 hours ago | loading comments

Self-updating screenshots

(interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots)

327 points by bjhess a day ago | loading comments

TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough

(arkaung.github.io/interactive-turboquant/)

171 points by kweezar 9 hours ago | loading comments

The Prompt API

(developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/prompt-api)

146 points by gslin 9 hours ago | loading comments

Bob Odenkirk would like to remind you that life is a meaningless farce

(www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/magazine/bob-odenkirk-interview.html)

68 points by wslh a day ago | loading comments

It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)

(robbowen.digital/wrote-about/abandoned-side-projects/)

94 points by hisamafahri 3 hours ago | loading comments

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Three constraints before I build anything

(jordanlord.co.uk/blog/3-constraints/)

227 points by nervous_north 2 days ago | loading comments

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Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting

(slicker.me/rust/ownership_and_borrowing_vs_reference_counting.html)

26 points by vinhnx 2 days ago | loading comments

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Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet

(www.sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-mystery-shadowbrokers-reference-reveals-high-precision-software-sabotage-5-years-before-stuxnet/)

273 points by dd23 15 hours ago | loading comments

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When the cheap one is the cool one

(arun.is/blog/cheap-cool/)

131 points by ddrmaxgt37 a day ago | loading comments

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A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design

(pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu/epet302/)

36 points by o4c a day ago | loading comments

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Box to save memory in Rust

(dystroy.org/blog/box-to-save-memory/)

137 points by emschwartz 4 days ago | loading comments

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SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities

(openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/)

315 points by kmdupree 21 hours ago | loading comments

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Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race

(www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/crm1m7e0zwzo)

408 points by berkeleyjunk 14 hours ago | loading comments

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FreeBSD Device Drivers Book

(github.com/ebrandi/FDD-book)

93 points by myth_drannon 12 hours ago | loading comments

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Mystery Cpuid Bit

(www.os2museum.com/wp/mystery-cpuid-bit/)

18 points by userbinator 2 days ago | loading comments

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The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination

(www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-mushroom-that-make-people-have-the-exact-same-hallucination/)

52 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | loading comments

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Quirks of Human Anatomy

(www.sdbonline.org/sites/fly/lewheldquirk/figlegq6.htm)

139 points by gurjeet 2 days ago | loading comments

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Electrostatics and High Voltage Links

(amasci.com/static/electrostatic1.html)

7 points by ludicrousdispla 3 days ago | loading comments

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EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code

(github.com/evanklem/evanflow)

74 points by evanklem2004 9 hours ago | loading comments

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Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency

(www.tokyodev.com/articles/how-magic-the-gathering-took-me-from-n2-to-japanese-fluency)

138 points by pwim 3 days ago | loading comments

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An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below

(twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248)

717 points by jeremyccrane 19 hours ago | loading comments

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Chernobyl wildlife forty years on

(www.bbc.com/future/article/20260424-chernobyl-wildlife-forty-years-on)

114 points by reconnecting 15 hours ago | loading comments

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Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch

(www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/butterflies-are-in-dramatic-decline-across-north-america-a-close-look-at-the-western-monarch-shows-why-180988582/)

215 points by 1659447091 14 hours ago | loading comments

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Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core

(tingouw.com/blog/embedded/esp32/run_rust_on_app_core)

78 points by MrBuddyCasino 3 days ago | loading comments

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Revocation of X.509 Certificates

(blog.apnic.net/2026/04/24/revocation-of-x-509-certificates/)

43 points by jandeboevrie 2 days ago | loading comments

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Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics

(thermodynamicsbook.com/)

151 points by 2DcAf 20 hours ago | loading comments