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bookofjoe
9 hours ago
Dollar-stores overcharge cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes...
3 HOURS AGO
EMBEDDING-SHAPE
Syncthing-Android have had a change of owner/maintainer
2 HOURS AGO
AIRSTRIKE
iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)
4 DAYS AGO
FRAGRANTRIVER
Building a Toast Component
A DAY AGO
MHB
The past was not that cute
7 DAYS AGO
ALEX_HIRNER
The end of the road for Kafka-delta-ingest
9 DAYS AGO
SURPRISETALK
Principles of Slack Maximalism
thecr0w
6 hours ago
I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website with Claude
Can Claude Recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website? No. Or at least not with my prompting skills.
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ntnbr
an hour ago
Bag of words, have mercy on us
OR: Claude will you go to prom with me?...
surprisetalk
5 days ago
Minimum Viable Arduino Project: Aeropress Timer
Okay, okay. I admit. This isn't the minimum viable Arduino project. It's the minimum viable USEFUL Arduino project. It's an Aeropress Timer....
ingve
12 hours ago
Java Hello World, LLVM Edition
After exploring Java bytecode in previous years (2022, 2023, 2024), this year we’ll take an unexpected detour for a Java advent: instead of generating Java bytecode, we’ll use Java to build ...
elashri
11 hours ago
The Anatomy of a macOS App
How Mac applications evolved from a multitude of resources to a bundle formed from a standard layout of directories, and how they have come to be largely self-contained in macOS 26....
doener
10 hours ago
The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source
Schleswig-Holstein saves 15 million euros in license costs by migrating from Microsoft to free software. The conversion is significantly cheaper....
Bender
2 hours ago
Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape
: New ‘Datacenter Manager’ manages VMs across multiple sites or clusters...
nullbyte808
8 days ago
Build a DIY magnetometer with a couple of seasoning bottles
Ever wondered what protons sound like? Learn how to create a circuit that lets you hear them in action....
https://spectrum.ieee.org/listen-to-protons-diy-magnetometer
puttycat
10 hours ago
Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
GPTZero used our Hallucination Check tool to find 50+ hallucinations under review at ICLR, each of which were missed by 3-5 peer reviewers....
gmays
5 days ago
Context Plumbing (Interconnected)
Posted on Saturday 29 Nov 2025. 1,105 words, 3 links. By Matt Webb....
winkywooster
10 days ago
The programmers who live in Flatland
In the book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, a two-dimensional world called “Flatland” is inhabited by polygonal creatures like triangles, squares, and circles. The protaganist, a squ...
toomuchtodo
5 hours ago
Americans Mess Up Their Taxes. A New Law Will Help
How bipartisan lawmakers (and “your voice at the IRS”) helped improve the tax system....
collinboler2
5 hours ago
Show HN: Spotify Wrapped but for LeetCode
See your leetcode year in review! Contribute to collinboler/leetcodewrapped development by creating an account on GitHub....