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The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code

(techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things)

222 points by milkglass 2 hours ago | loading comments

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

(www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-problem/)

344 points by pr337h4m 15 hours ago | loading comments

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?

(freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/)

210 points by chiefalchemist 9 hours ago | loading comments

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019)

(ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/)

15 points by subset an hour ago | loading comments

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

(fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html)

295 points by gwerbret 11 hours ago | loading comments

GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline

(lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2026q2/000504.html)

55 points by zdkaster 5 hours ago | loading comments

Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

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243 points by _-x-_ 8 hours ago | loading comments

Mahjong: A Visual Guide

(themahjong.guide/)

80 points by iamwil 2 days ago | loading comments

Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist(Health Intelligence)

(www.ycombinator.com/companies/terra-api/jobs/DY7BCZU-applied-ai-strategist-market-intelligence-health)

1 points by kyriakosel 2 hours ago | loading comments

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The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement

(asteriskmag.com/issues/14/shall-we-play-a-game)

30 points by jger15 3 days ago | loading comments

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Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz]

(mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@sophie/116467789133733136)

5 points by robin_reala 2 hours ago | loading comments

12.

Quirks of Human Anatomy

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

22 points by gurjeet a day ago | loading comments

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Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

(petapixel.com/2026/04/22/flickr-the-first-and-last-great-photo-platform/)

159 points by Nrbelex 4 days ago | loading comments

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EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs

(juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/04/17/eu-age-control-the-trojan-horse-for-digital-ids/)

157 points by gasull 5 hours ago | loading comments

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OpenAI Privacy Filter

(openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/)

200 points by tanelpoder 3 days ago | loading comments

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1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

(www.hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/)

577 points by stephen-hill 4 days ago | loading comments

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The Free Universal Construction Kit

(fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/)

312 points by robinhouston 4 days ago | loading comments

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Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

(blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you-never-were-going-to-finish/)

268 points by speckx 17 hours ago | loading comments

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The Joy of Folding Bikes

(blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes)

167 points by pavel_lishin 4 days ago | loading comments

20.

APL is more French than English

(www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis78.htm)

8 points by tosh an hour ago | loading comments

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America's Geothermal Breakthrough

(oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Americas-Geothermal-Breakthrough-Could-Unlock-a-150-Gigawatt-Energy-Revolution.html)

108 points by sleepyguy 13 hours ago | loading comments

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Tushonka: Cultivating Soviet Postwar Taste (2010)

(www.journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/299)

4 points by theletterf 3 days ago | loading comments

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Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games

(github.com/MartinGalway/C64_music)

174 points by ingve a day ago | loading comments

24.

Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories

(miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/vaxfp.html)

98 points by signa11 3 days ago | loading comments

25.

Reviving BrowserID in 2026

(wakamoleguy.com/p/reviving-browserid-in-2026)

22 points by wakamoleguy 6 hours ago | loading comments

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Rediscovering the Handcart

(solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2026/04/rediscovering-the-handcart/)

21 points by jgrodziski 3 days ago | loading comments

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The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024)

(fabiensanglard.net/snes_carts/)

49 points by offbyone42 8 hours ago | loading comments

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Optimizing Datalog for the GPU

(dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3669940.3707274)

49 points by tosh 3 days ago | loading comments

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Hokusai and Tesselations

(dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/)

106 points by srean 15 hours ago | loading comments

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AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice

(sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/16/badgeware-onlyoffice-nextcloud-affero-gpl/)

61 points by pabs3 4 hours ago | loading comments