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andsoitis
an hour ago
What did you love about VB6?
Two open questions for anyone who shipped real work on Visual Basic 6 and is now writing C# against modern .NET. What specifically did VB6 get right that you miss? And what do you find frust...
16 HOURS AGO
SLEEPINGNOMAD
Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
7 HOURS AGO
ZACHDIVE
Show HN: AI CAD Harness
8 HOURS AGO
TAUBEK
Understand Anything
8 HOURS AGO
SPECKX
Artemis II fault tolerance
2 DAYS AGO
NAOH
Historic Tennessee hotel is also home to the greatest duck tradition (2016)
6 HOURS AGO
RATTLESNAKEJAKE
Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack"
3 DAYS AGO
GIULIOMAGNIFICO
New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome
16 HOURS AGO
LASTDONG
Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs
8 HOURS AGO
INDIGODADDY
DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price
14 HOURS AGO
JILLES
Show HN: Site Mogging
10 HOURS AGO
KEEPAMOVIN
Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier
3 HOURS AGO
LUAFOX
Man dies covered in necrotic lesions after amoebas eat him alive
14 HOURS AGO
JILLES
Show HN: Site Mogging
15 HOURS AGO
TODIENCE
Show HN: Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk
10 HOURS AGO
KEEPAMOVIN
Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier
thatxliner
5 hours ago
Ti-84 Evo
The TI-84 Evo is the most advanced graphing calculator in the TI-84 series. Ideal for algebra, geometry, calculus, and advanced math courses in secondary schools. Learn more.
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geerlingguy
2 days ago
Artemis II Photo Timeline
An interactive photo timeline of NASA's Artemis II mission — scrub through every crew moment, lunar flyby shot, and audio clip from April 1–10, 2026....
wooster
6 hours ago
Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming
Safe(ish) C programming library. Contribute to microsoft/lib0xc development by creating an account on GitHub....
peter_d_sherman
10 hours ago
Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search
Cross-platform software search. Contribute to whohas/whohas development by creating an account on GitHub....
dionysou
2 days ago
The smelly baby problem
Benjamin Spock told mothers in the mid-twentieth century to buy six dozen cloth diapers and a covered pail. Within a decade, both were obsolete....
zdw
2 days ago
Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment
From sorting chicken nuggets to screwing in lightbulbs, Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment for the physical world....
SpyCoder77
6 hours ago
Whimsical Animations Course Open House
Welcome, prospective student! This small collection of lessons is designed to give you a feel for my teaching style, and the way the content is structured. I hope it helps give you a sense o...
XzetaU8
7 hours ago
New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
Learning while sleeping had long been relegated to the realm of quackery, but new studies suggest that we may be able to problem-solve and practice skills in our dreams....
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/its-possible-to-learn-in-our-sleep-should-we
joshcsimmons
7 hours ago
City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo
Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?...
bobsmooth
8 hours ago
The gay jailbreak technique
🌙 ZetaLib - The only AI Library you need. Contribute to Exocija/ZetaLib development by creating an account on GitHub....
hyperific
3 days ago
Tvheadend: Self-Hosted IPTV Server
Tvheadend is the leading TV streaming server for Linux...
reconnecting
9 hours ago
Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
The music streaming platform will review criteria such as artists' live dates and social media presence....
deater
10 hours ago
Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died
Sally A. McKee, 61, a renowned computer science professor and beloved friend, passed away Feb. 12 in Greenville, S.C., after a short illness. She received her bachelor’s degree from Yale Uni...
tvararu
10 hours ago
An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open
Code paid for with public money should, by default, be open to the public....
johnbarron
8 hours ago
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on....
Teever
8 hours ago
The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced
In a time before crypto, Twitter, and AI slop, we had communities, real experiences, and beautiful TV…...