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spike021
8 hours ago
Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links
The loophole allows spammers and scammers to send emails from a legitimate Microsoft email address typically used for sending genuine account alerts....
4 DAYS AGO
ANOTHEREVAN
Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization
3 DAYS AGO
NAOH
Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah
11 HOURS AGO
LAYER8
Byrne's Euclid
2 DAYS AGO
INGVE
.NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types
A DAY AGO
BUSYMOM0
SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket
9 HOURS AGO
CDRNSF
ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies
14 HOURS AGO
HYPERIFIC
NeuralNote
2 DAYS AGO
GNABGIB
A scoping review of bicycling interventions’ impacts on well-being
DamnInteresting
8 hours ago
Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"
Old 86-DOS source code dates back to the time before Microsoft bought it.
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hggh
14 hours ago
Time to talk about my writerdeck
tldr: * I installed console-only Debian on an old laptop (no desktop OS at all) * I added some packages to make it work better for writing: * network-manager for connecting to hotspo...
RyeCombinator
4 hours ago
Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out
Today marks four years since I joined AWS. My last day will be Friday.\nI have to say being fired from AWS is actually a relief. There have been a lot of changes to the company since I joine...
ibobev
2 days ago
Neoclassical C++: segmented iterators revisited
Introduction to segmented iterators The legendary STL library has been an inspiration in the development of the C++ language and libraries. The understanding of the concepts and code develop...
anujbans
6 hours ago
Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics
Grothendieck is revered in the world of math; outside of it, he’s known for his unusual life, if he’s known at all. But what were his actual mathematical contributions?...
ravenical
20 hours ago
On The <dl> (2021)
The semantics you didn’t know you needed....
James72689
3 days ago
My two-part desk setup (2025)
How I turned a single long desk into a digital side for work and an analog side for reading, writing, and building LEGO with the kids....
masswerk
5 hours ago
The C64 Dead Test Font
A deep dive into the font of the “Dead Test” diagnostic cartridge of the C64, including an Easter egg, a look into the implementation, and, finally, some Commodore 8-bit character ROMs for d...
https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2026/c64-dead-test-font
baal80spam
13 hours ago
Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash
The companies were found guilty by a French court over an air disaster which killed 228 people. ...
elpocko
17 hours ago
Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle, providing lab space for astronauts and exper......
sohkamyung
4 days ago
New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire
A massive digitization project has nearly doubled the known extent of the first continent-scale road network...
thejoeflow
5 days ago
PHP's Oddities
flow2 | Blog post: 'PHP's Oddities' in Tech...
soheilpro
3 days ago
Improving C# Memory Safety
The `unsafe` keyword is being redesigned to mark caller-facing contracts rather than just syntax. Safety obligations between callers and callees become visible and reviewable. The model is m...
embedding-shape
17 hours ago
Italy moves to Airbus A330 tankers
Rome shifts course: six Airbus A330 MRTT tanker aircraft, worth around €1.39 billion in total, to bolster the European pillar in NATO. #EuropeNews...
shintoist
3 days ago
Highest Random Weight in Elixir
A description of HRW/rendezvous hashing and the HRW elixir library....
unseen_forms
3 days ago
Show HN: Twixt – transform one word into another in four moves
A free daily word puzzle. Transform the start word into the end word in four moves: anagram, verb, homophone, compound....