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8 hours ago
French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
The gigantic wildfire ravaging southwest France has created an extremely dangerous "pyrocumulonimbus" -- a phenomenon never before seen in the country -- the spokesman for the country's Nati...
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GENETICDRIFTS
How to Write English Prose
2 HOURS AGO
OCTOPOC
Show HN: Port Zero – how I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0
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MOOREDS
The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough
13 HOURS AGO
POMPOMSHEEP
Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper
5 DAYS AGO
SOHKAMYUNG
What's Under Your Feet in New York City?
11 HOURS AGO
AGOTTERER
London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service
4 DAYS AGO
OVENCHIPS
Building the Grace Cathedral experience
3 HOURS AGO
FAIZANRAZA03
Wattage: A token-spend profiler and cost-regression gate for AI agents
4 HOURS AGO
EPATEL99
Show HN: Discrete6502 – one thing led to another
jonbaer
2 hours ago
PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works
An explorable 3D city that shows how PostgreSQL actually works — backends, shared buffers, WAL, checkpoints, autovacuum and replication, all running live in your browser.
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eecc
4 hours ago
US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
The case centers on Tunick's use of GrapheneOS, an open-source operating system that works on Google Pixel phones and lets users enter a passcode to wipe a......
rcy
14 hours ago
Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy
HTMX 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy® platform! Experience the power of HTMX, now on your favorite portable handheld. Four levels of pickle-collectin...
marc__1
5 hours ago
Plasma Tunnels Reveal How Dying Satellites Fall to Earth
Aluminum ash from satellites’ reentry may alter the atmosphere...
rbanffy
4 hours ago
Teaching Kids Forth
Forth is uncommonly used to teach programming to kids. Scripting languages like Python and visual environments like Scratch are far more popular options. But when I got the opportunity to i...
ankitg12
10 hours ago
Design is compromise
Compromise is neither good nor bad, it’s something we do every day. It’s decision making. Prioritizing. It’s finding the right balance between two competing ......
xterminal
6 hours ago
Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg
This project simulates cassette tape audio profiles using ffmpeg - AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation...
NomNew
2 hours ago
I Championed Prediction Markets. Look What They've Become
Marking my prediction-market enthusiasm to market—with Catherine Rampell...
https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/i-championed-prediction-markets-look
open_
2 hours ago
Fonts In Use – Find out where a font is used
r3trohack3r
2 hours ago
How the Atmos clock functions
Das Zuhause der Atmos-Uhren...
lee_ars
4 days ago
I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated
A Raspberry Pi, an Adafruit 7-segment display, a 3D printed case, some vibe coding—and we've got a forever-clock that never needs adjusting....
speckx
5 days ago
Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means
The internet's favorite raccoon has become a symbol of resilience in Seattle. Here's what his condition might mean for his future in the wild....
intrepidsoldier
2 hours ago
Visualizing the Artemis II Mission
In April 2026, four astronauts flew around the Moon for the first time in over fifty years. I built a Foxglove visualization of the Artemis II mission: Orion's real trajectory through inerti...
ndsipa_pomu
7 hours ago
The Strongest El Niño Ever
With all the July runs in, dynamical models give a ~90% chance of a record-setting event...
maxloh
3 hours ago
Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
TypeScript-to-Native Compiler. Contribute to vercel-labs/scriptc development by creating an account on GitHub....
sbulaev
2 hours ago
Open-source 3D-printed portable MRI machine built for under $70k
Can 'DLSS for MRI machines' save more lives?...