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  1. My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
    151 points • by seg6 • yesterday at 10:49 PM • 62 comments
  2. Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
    75 points • by jggonz • yesterday at 11:37 PM • 26 comments
  3. The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding (www.bbc.com)
    23 points • by cwwc • today at 1:55 AM • 4 comments
  4. Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (www.redblobgames.com)
    108 points • by bobbiechen • 07/28/2026 • 12 comments
  5. Fastmail offers EU data region (www.fastmail.com)
    333 points • by groomlake • yesterday at 4:04 PM • 162 comments
  6. Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (shopify.engineering)
    73 points • by adletbalzhanov • yesterday at 10:32 PM • 35 comments
  7. Dithered QR Codes (www.andrewt.net)
    53 points • by jmusall • yesterday at 11:05 PM • 11 comments
  8. _for-sale DNS records (specification.website)
    363 points • by shaunpud • yesterday at 1:26 PM • 134 comments
  9. Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
    97 points • by MarcoDewey • yesterday at 7:38 PM • 20 comments
  10. Making difficulty curves in games (www.davetech.co.uk)
    72 points • by hakkikonu • last Wednesday at 9:59 AM • 26 comments
  11. The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video] (gdcvault.com)
    31 points • by hyperific • last Wednesday at 6:42 AM • 4 comments
  12. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
    360 points • by 882542F3884314B • yesterday at 10:57 AM • 358 comments
  13. Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (www.nature.com)
    11 points • by davidbarker • 08/02/2026 • 0 comments
  14. TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
    7 points • by frozenseven • today at 1:23 AM • 0 comments
  15. Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)
    174 points • by gumby • yesterday at 4:04 PM • 126 comments
  16. Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (blog.getutm.app)
    145 points • by electricant • yesterday at 1:33 PM • 27 comments
  17. US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (www.bloomberg.com)
    262 points • by rbanffy • yesterday at 10:04 AM • 411 comments
  18. Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (zeus.ugent.be)
    50 points • by robinpdev • 08/01/2026 • 3 comments
  19. Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding (www.science.org)
    49 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 3:03 PM • 3 comments
  20. DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler (github.com)
    24 points • by aboardRat4 • last Monday at 4:13 AM • 4 comments
  21. Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (news.maryland.gov)
    99 points • by bookofjoe • yesterday at 9:07 PM • 61 comments
  22. TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
    50 points • by skibz • yesterday at 5:42 PM • 14 comments
  23. Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)
    528 points • by theanonymousone • yesterday at 6:09 PM • 248 comments
  24. Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com)
    232 points • by ilamont • last Friday at 8:25 PM • 168 comments
  25. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (blog.senko.net)
    609 points • by senko • yesterday at 2:32 PM • 380 comments
  26. Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)
    108 points • by rfarley04 • yesterday at 12:31 PM • 84 comments
  27. Message your other Claude Code sessions (code.claude.com)
    72 points • by mfiguiere • yesterday at 3:34 PM • 35 comments
  28. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
    395 points • by bhavansig • yesterday at 9:18 AM • 121 comments
  29. Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
    79 points • by rahen • yesterday at 1:28 PM • 13 comments
  30. ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style (arstechnica.com)
    8 points • by Eloissssss • today at 2:01 AM • 0 comments
  31. When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense (software.rajivprab.com)
    10 points • by whack • last Monday at 7:35 PM • 5 comments
  32. Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (www.bbc.com)
    20 points • by tchalla • yesterday at 10:36 PM • 20 comments
  33. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (1960) (web.njit.edu)
    30 points • by pseudolus • yesterday at 8:37 PM • 12 comments
  34. BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments (omnistrate.com)
    69 points • by kkgupta • last Tuesday at 1:37 AM • 11 comments
  35. From your doorbell to your home network (adepts.of0x.cc)
    80 points • by mmoogle • last Wednesday at 12:43 AM • 10 comments
  36. A viral mosquito-killing laser device could be coming to the U.S. (www.npr.org)
    9 points • by toomuchtodo • today at 1:35 AM • 3 comments
  37. The AI Apocalypse Is Here (www.compactmag.com)
    28 points • by reasonableklout • today at 1:28 AM • 21 comments
  38. ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com)
    69 points • by csmantle • 08/02/2026 • 9 comments
  39. A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava (www.runnersworld.com)
    425 points • by aanet • last Wednesday at 9:44 PM • 97 comments
  40. Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500 (arstechnica.com)
    9 points • by Eloissssss • today at 1:25 AM • 1 comment
  41. Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (social.treehouse.systems)
    155 points • by happosai • yesterday at 1:55 PM • 106 comments
  42. You can build an AI agent's memory layer with only Go's standard library (towardsdev.com)
    4 points • by cheikhdev • yesterday at 10:50 PM • 2 comments
  43. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
    765 points • by tosh • last Friday at 5:56 PM • 458 comments
  44. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (www.noemamag.com)
    989 points • by RickJWagner • last Friday at 12:42 PM • 1195 comments
  45. Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale (www.databricks.com)
    300 points • by moonikakiss • last Friday at 6:25 PM • 261 comments
  46. As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program (unsung.aresluna.org)
    207 points • by allenc • last Tuesday at 3:46 AM • 166 comments
  47. Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)
    212 points • by geox • yesterday at 5:27 PM • 137 comments
  48. Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP (toonk.io)
    33 points • by bgpdude • yesterday at 4:07 PM • 13 comments
  49. k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number (arxiv.org)
    68 points • by matt_d • 07/31/2026 • 15 comments
  50. Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com)
    352 points • by epestr • yesterday at 7:04 AM • 97 comments