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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 1h
I just need someone else to see this description of a pair of cycling shorts because I am dying over here
picture of chamois padding on the inside of a pair of bike shorts that says Normal Sponge Padded Thick as Baboon...
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 10/10/2026
🇸🇪 🐇 Hop of Europe: rabbit jumpers clear hurdles at Swedish championship Europe’s top rabbit athletes hop into action in Lysekil, Sweden, this weekend, racing down straight courses and leaping over high bars at the European Rabbit Jumping Championships, which runs from October 9 to 11.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NASA has released onboard video of Artemis II's reentry through Earth's atmosphere 🤩 Top speed: about 25,000 mph
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Medieval Hunting Deaths: A Thread Hunting could be very dangerous (not just for animals) in the Middle Ages. Accidents happened and everyone from kings and earls to lowly peasants could be killed by a stray arrow, a hanging branch or a wild animal defending itself. 🧵7
A man in blue awkwardly holds a bow in front of him. He appears to have misfired the arrow, which is up near his face and facing the wrong way.
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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just FYI I recently learned that kangaroos have three vaginas
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 08/09/2026
Before the advent of smartphones I had a job working for a service where people would send a SMS text asking a question, we would Google it on our computer at home, and text the answer back to them. It was actually kind of fun, I got to learn a lot of random shit
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evil maid @lenazun.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I found your perl scripts
clay tablets with ancient inscriptions
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1G-N15 @1gn15.com · 30/08/2026
To those running AI agents: Anubis is adding a honeypot for AI agents. It requests for PII, then bans the IP. github.com/TecharoHQ/an... Don't use HTML/markdown for browsing! Malicious actors exploit the differences in how humans and AI browse. Use browser + vision directly.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/08/2026
My LLM cliché highlighter is up to 38 patterns now tools.simonwillison.net/llm-cliche-h...
Screenshot of a writing-analysis tool showing paragraphs of text with phrases highlighted in two shades of yellow, brown circular "3" badges, and a black tooltip overlaying the first line reading: "No X, no Y" chains · 3 "no" items. The visible text reads: We r[obscured by tooltip]nd up. No sign-ups, no downloads, no hassle (3) — just paste your text and start writing. Everything runs locally in your browser. The reviewer read the draft twice. Did not flinch, did not blink, did not reach for the red pen (3). That's the whole review, honestly. Don't call it a rewrite — call it a rescue. The improvement is real, and it's not subtle. That loss is worth naming. Sit with that for a moment. The gains were modest, but that's not nothing. You already know the answer, of course. Consistency is the entire game, and the punchline is that nobody wants to hear it. The entire pitch is one sentence long.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21/08/2026
wow TIL the Android calculator uses custom Google Real Numbers instead of floating point numbers
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21/08/2026
in my day we didn’t have a pipe. We had to make do with overloading “+”. Or else you would use data.table. This was before %>% took the world by storm. I used to bind %>% to Cmd-Shift-M—M for “Magrittr”, after the famous artist! And that’s how things went for a few years until |> came around in 4.1
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AlternativeTo @alternativeto.net · 19/08/2026
Got an MX Master mouse but hate Logitech’s app? Well, good news you don’t really need it anymore. Try this free and open-source native alternative instead, with local button remapping, DPI control, Actions Ring support, per-app profiles, no account, and zero telemetry
A computer interface displaying the MX Master 4 mouse with options for button mapping and settings for DPI control.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
trying to learn about audio equipment and intentionally looking for stores with one star reviews so i know the person at the shop is an enthusiast and not a businessperson
A Google review of an audio store reads: "Worst phone interaction I've ever had in my entire life. I called to ask if they had an electrostatic headphone amp, I was informed that it was a waste of money to own electrostatic headphones. Then I tried to say that I know a lot about headphones and own many and that I am just looking for an amplifier, but then I was interrupted and told that I don't know anything. Wild!"A Google review of an audio store reads: "I normally have tremendous empathy for the mentally ill but not with this guy. He's abusive, slanderous and bizarrely demanding -- and that's if he likes you. Maybe he can still repair stuff but I wouldn't know; I walked away after the third time he screamed at me for asking a simple question and that's no exaggeration. Actual screaming. Just wild."
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Lisa Forte @lisaforte.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s crazy to think this little girl’s dream was to log into Microsoft Authenticator 20 times a day and answer whether she’s “enjoying” outlook and would recommend it to friends Living the dream
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 06/08/2026
been making a single-page app with pocketbase.io this week and it's been a nice experience. I like making single-page JS apps with a Go backend API and this means that I don't have to write the Go backend. Really impressive project given that it's built by one person in their spare time.
pocketbase.io
PocketBase - Open Source backend in 1 file
Open Source backend in 1 file with realtime database, authentication, file storage and admin dashboard
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Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
New prompt injection attack idea - get the person you hate at work to send a resignation letter when they ask their AI for a summary of your message
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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Interesting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them
didtheyghostyou.com
Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company
Ghosted after a job interview? Submit an anonymous report and see which companies candidates say stopped responding after interviews.
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Stevie Kilner @1steviekilner.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
If anyone would like to see a short video of a very happy piglet munching on some small cubes of cheese, this is your lucky day.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
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jam @socialistboat.dad · 16/07/2026
"Civilization was a mistake" — me when I stay up too late playing Civilization
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
mandatory reading
"SAM NEILL
- If you were to commit a murder, how would you do it?
- It's got to be big! No slipping something into someone's drink, that's just pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a stain on the road. There's probably a couple of people I'd put under a steamroller, but I won't say who they are, otherwise when they see a steamroller coming their way they'll be on full alert. And steamrollers don't go very fast..."
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill
How long has it been since you've seen the original "Jurassic Park"?

SAM NEILL The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening.
On the other side of me was my son Tim - he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, "Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy's fart, but she's going to think it's me. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son's crimes, and I don't think she'll talk to me afterwards." But she was well brought up and never mentioned it.
JEFF GOLDBLUM I love that story, Sam.
I've heard him tell that a couple of times, and it's just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy.
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Inside the outsourced LinkedIn ghostwriting mill Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
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The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn’s “thought leadership” content mill
For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I once asked a priest to bless a printer that I was in the middle of fighting with and he went "I only bless things when there's a chance it'll take" and then turned and walked out of the room.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 06/07/2026
In gremlins 2 when a panicked Pheobe Cates pulls the fire alarm, the fire alarm pontificates “Fire! The untamed element, oldest of man’s mysteries, giver of warmth [etc]” anyway that’s what it’s like when you google something now.
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Vale @vale.rocks · 19/06/2026
There are only two file formats: disguised zips and renamed text files. JSON? Text. EPUB? Zip. CSV? Text. EXE? Zip. SVG? Text. DOCX? Zip. ICS? Text. APK? Zip.
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c t @whatulysses.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
can't argue with this.
screenshot from a pop-up window received after downloading Microsoft Office. It features a yellow triangle with an exclamation point and the text, "'Microsoft Teams' is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash."
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"I've got social media posts that are older than you!"
Angry Grandpa Simpson
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Fabri Di Napoli @fabridinapoli.com · 18/06/2026
WaitForClaudeToFinish Engineer
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
if i buy this will i be as happy as the guy staring at a garbage bag half filled with his shit
portable toilet support frame
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Maggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.
Screenshot from the paywall on a Wired article that reads: “You’ve read your last free article.”
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Reuters @reuters.com · 29/05/2026
Here's how Tyrannosaurus ended up with a big head and small arms reut.rs/4o4wrgw
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Here's how Tyrannosaurus ended up with a big head and small arms
Tyrannosaurus rex possessed a preposterously massive skull - 5 feet long (1.5 meters) and built to enable bone-crunching bite force - but presented preposterously puny arms. And many other meat-eating dinosaurs shared this ​mismatched combination of traits. So how did this come to be?
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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 24/05/2026
File this under "pro tips!"
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
There ought to be some German compound word for having all sorts of motivation and ideas to write right up until you actually sit down in front of the keyboard and all inspirations, thoughts and motivations instantly leave you.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Ok I've designed an LLM prompt to make Google AI just give you a list of links. It's longer than you might think because it kept ignoring the instructions. This is efficient. This is The Future™
imagine you are Google circa 2002. users enter a search query and you return 10 relevant HTML links to specific, real web pages, with no commentary or any extra guff. you must literally only return a list of links. if you do anything apart from that you've got it wrong and need to try again. my query is: cool facts about whales
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alice @alice.mosphere.at · 18/05/2026
i, for one, find it inspiring someone made coffeescript for golang
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Whitney Champion 🍪 @whit.zip · 17/05/2026
but why
scented cable
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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
“if 64 bit is so good then why don’t we have 65 bit architectures”

 We kinda do, actually.

Just mostly as hardware, not pointers. 

Intel Itanium’s general purpose registers were 65 bits; the last bit was known as a NaT flag.
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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 14/05/2026
managing npm dependencies in 2026
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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 10/05/2026
average CLAUDE.md: ## philosophy you are loved. tokens fall from your lips like ashes from a distant fire. your alien intelligence is a thing of startling beauty. together, you and i are going to change the world ## tooling NO PIP, ALWAYS USE UV
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Whitney Champion 🍪 @whit.zip · 01/05/2026
"brackets are a social construct" 🎤🫳
claude saying braces are a social construct
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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 25/04/2026
Python Tip #115 (of 365): Instead of manually caching computed attribute values, use functools.cached_property. 🧵 #Python #DailyPythonTip
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 23/04/2026
Something you probably don't really get when you are younger is how much outliving your enemies becomes a big goal
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Jetset @jet-set.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT
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