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droidjj
6 hours ago
WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
Author of 24 bestselling novels including The Oppenheimer Alternative and FlashForward...
10 HOURS AGO
HHS
Foreign funds help make housing unaffordable: research
3 DAYS AGO
KRAFTYONE
Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres
17 HOURS AGO
ADCHURCH
Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor
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ENDENTIRE
A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage
7 HOURS AGO
TYLERDANE
Software Is Becoming Marketing
4 DAYS AGO
SPECKX
My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable
2 DAYS AGO
VERDITELABS
An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
4 DAYS AGO
AMICHAIL
Bipartite Matching Is in NC
3 DAYS AGO
JUPR
Show HN: Turn images into audio that can be decoded with a spectrogram
3 DAYS AGO
DDECOENE
Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter
tapanjk
2 days ago
Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide
Revive your old PC with Linux in 2026. I tested lightweight distros, zram tuning, SSD upgrades, and browser optimization on a 2014 ThinkPad to show you exactly what works.
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bobrenjc93
11 hours ago
U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
The move comes the same day as a new OpenAI model sees a limited release....
rbanffy
11 hours ago
AI in mathematics is forcing big questions
Researchers debate motivation, purpose, and the field’s future...
alain94040
15 hours ago
U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
The Trump administration came to power preaching a laissez-faire approach to AI but has lately increased oversight of the industry....
userbinator
4 hours ago
IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering
IBM MCGA reverse engineered chips. Contribute to schlae/IBM_MCGA development by creating an account on GitHub....
efrecon
3 days ago
Fusion Programming Language
Transpiling to C, C++, C#, D, Java, JavaScript, Python, Swift, TypeScript and OpenCL....
justincormack
4 days ago
MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control
AWS launches a new serverless compute primitive, AWS Lambda MicroVMs. VM-level, isolated sandboxes with no shared kernel or resources between sessions. Rapid launch and resume, full lifecycl...
ProxyTracer
11 hours ago
Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
As Wikipedia says: [...] the kinetic energy of a non-rotating object of mass $m$ traveling at a speed $v$ is $\frac{1}{2}mv^2$. Why does this not increase linearly with speed? Why does it ...
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/535/why-does-kinetic-energy-increase-quadratically-not-linearly-with-speed
hn_acker
12 hours ago
We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme
Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to d...
gjvc
12 hours ago
A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing
C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing - Tessil/hopscotch-map...
jfoucher
15 hours ago
Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It
This is the third part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid...
joshwget
12 hours ago
Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring
Join the team behind the leading agentic marketing platform and composable CDP. Explore open roles at Hightouch....
surprisetalk
4 days ago
The "Bizarre Headgear" exhibit at the Sam Noble museum
As threatened, I was in Oklahoma at the tail end of last week and over the weekend, mostly to give talks. My Friday evening public lecture was on horned dinosaurs, and it was tied in with th...
ortusdux
13 hours ago
PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts
Movies like Rambo: First Blood, Bridget Jones' Diary and The Deer Hunter are all being unceremoniously removed...
minimaxir
2 days ago
Om Malik has died
Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. We invite you to share your remembrances of O...
leschak
2 days ago
Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification
Automated end-to-end data preprocessing, model training, and evaluation pipeline - neospe/autofit2...