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hexa555
7 hours ago
AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
Last updated: 2026-08-29; Google Ticket Number: #9-2777000041594 TL;DR: What we need From Google: clarification on whether an IRS 501(c)(6) determination satisfies "tax exempt donations". Fr...
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LIMB
Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI
38 MINUTES AGO
REAPERDUCER
Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
14 HOURS AGO
SIMONPURE
GPU World
5 DAYS AGO
TOMTE
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
A DAY AGO
THM
Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
3 DAYS AGO
CON
Show HN: Laser Graffiti
2 HOURS AGO
MDP2021
EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709
7 DAYS AGO
AALSANIE
Codes – typed application outcomes for Kotlin and Java
17 HOURS AGO
ANON84
Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
erikvanoosten
an hour ago
Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
Description Currently, Aurora Store, including Nightly (2026-08-31), returns a “&$Server busy, please try again later.” error when attempting...
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NaOH
3 days ago
American Airlines' Legendary Mechanic Passes Away at 100 After 80-Year Career
American Airlines legend Al Blackman has died aged 100 after an unmatched 80-year career, leaving behind a remarkable aviation maintenance legacy....
nreece
14 hours ago
Fastpotify
A fast, native Spotify client for Linux, macOS, and Windows, written in Rust....
phoenix120
an hour ago
Keenable SELECT: an agent that searches the web in SQL
Research reports built by Keenable SELECT, an agent that searches the web in SQL. Each report is published with the full run behind it: every query, every tool result, every result set....
carloslfu
20 minutes ago
Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s
Run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B MoE, 104 GB at 4-bit) on Macs with a fraction of that RAM by streaming experts from SSD. MLX + Swift, Ollama-compatible API. - carloslfu/slotstream...
robinhood
a day ago
We Are Rebuilding Monica
We are rebuilding Monica from scratch, and this new series will document how....
HieronymusBosch
3 hours ago
Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
There’s only so much room on your screen. Pop-ups, overlays, and ads can take over fast, getting between you and what you came to do. That’s where...
kikkupico
an hour ago
Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS
Define a light source, and every shadow, highlight and surface gradient follows from it. Calibrated against Blender raytraces — rendered with box-shadow....
https://ambientcss.vercel.app/
jcalx
14 hours ago
Restroom Archive
The Restroom Archive is an ongoing repository of publicly accessible restrooms....
speckx
a day ago
I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
I turned three security cameras into an automatic bird identification system using BirdNet-Go. Now my wife and I can track every bird species that visits our yard in real-time....
ilamont
17 hours ago
Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers?
I still see the Scratch “visual programming” environment positioned as an introductory path to programming for kids, but unlike game modding, I have never heard a “success story”, where some...
jombib
15 hours ago
RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3
A portable, battery-powered cellular conversion for classic rotary telephones—fully reversible, with no modification to the original phone. - fregacmols/RotaryCell...
gmays
2 hours ago
State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science....
akkartik
17 hours ago
A Genealogy of Freudenthal's Lincos
This article is the first part of a two-part series, aiming to provide a short introduction to the intellectual history and genealogy of Hans Freudenthal’s Lingua Cosmica. This first part ai...
geox
2 days ago
Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI
Smartphone LED and AI Detect Hidden Cameras KAISTs SweepLED achieves 94% accuracy with 10,000 won LED device...
gone35
4 days ago
Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public
The Labirinto Borges, part of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, reopens in Venice this week after an extensive renovation...