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verditelabs
14 hours ago
An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end — without ever being opened....
5 DAYS AGO
JMWARD01
Experiments in Sports Seismology for the World Cup
3 DAYS AGO
G0XA52A2A
Record type inference for dummies
18 HOURS AGO
MMUNJ
Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark
17 HOURS AGO
MEKTRIK
Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand
2 DAYS AGO
ZDW
Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System (ANES) – NES Modded to Use 2 PPUs
4 DAYS AGO
PETEKP
Tw-fade: pure CSS scroll-driven edge masking
A DAY AGO
DOPPIOANDANTE
Mixing Visual and Textual Code
20 HOURS AGO
MOOREDS
LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach
minimaxir
10 hours ago
Om Malik has died
Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. We invite you to share your remembrances of Om in th…
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exploraz
3 days ago
A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
A game where you are a computer's OS and you have to manage processes, memory and I/O events. - plbrault/youre-the-os...
babelfish
9 hours ago
Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators
We built Un-0, an image generator powered by a simulated system of coupled oscillators, an example of an emerging physical computing substrate. On ImageNet 64×64 it reaches FID 6.74, matchin...
tosh
10 hours ago
An oral history of Bank Python (2021)
The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks...
bilsbie
8 hours ago
The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
Americans, be warned: Age verification is identity verification....
darthcloud
4 days ago
Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour
Explore the Oxide Cloud Computer in 3D. Navigate from rack to sleds to CPUs with guided tours of the components that make up the Cloud Computer....
engomez
14 hours ago
Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion
Beautiful, AI-native markdown editor and LLM Wiki. Contribute to inkeep/open-knowledge development by creating an account on GitHub....
Alupis
5 hours ago
Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity
I've been following WisdPi's development of various 5 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet adapters for the past couple years. They use newer Realtek Ethernet chips, which sometimes have performance qu...
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/framework-10g-ethernet-module-usb-c-complexity/
surprisetalk
4 days ago
The last Romans are still around
For some of us, our Roman Empire actually is the Roman Empire. As far as pre-modern states go, the Roman Empire was incredibly powerful, culturally influential, and well documented. Rome’s e...
yzhong94
13 hours ago
Besimple AI (YC P25) Is Hiring
About Besimple AI Besimple AI is building the data and benchmark infrastructure for the next generation of voice AI. We help AI understand people from all languages and accents. The founde...
d3Xt3r
2 days ago
GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11
The long awaited video rework and Proton 11 rebase is finally done! GE-Proton11-1 is now available! Proton updates: d7vk added (not enabled by default). Use PROTON_USE_D7VK=1 to enable. It ...
smaddrellmander
3 days ago
The annotated PyTorch training loop
What every line of a PyTorch training loop does, why it belongs where it is, and what breaks if you move it....
ytkimirti
16 hours ago
Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
Search 18 years of Hacker News and chart how any topic, tool, or person trended. Overlay terms to compare their rise and fall across 45M posts and comments....
andros
3 days ago
I built a GPU back end for Emacs
A few months ago I became obsessed with a silly question: why does my Emacs, on a laptop with a perfectly capable GPU, draw all of its text using the ...
wasting_time
9 hours ago
Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus
After years of running a Proxmox cluster, I migrated my entire homelab to NixOS with Incus. I explain the philosophical friction of imperative 'appliance' OSs vs declarative hosts, share how...