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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 6m
EDG C++ front-end goes public | Discussion
edgcpp.org
Open Source Transition
On September 30, 2026, EDG's C++ front end goes open source with The C++ Alliance as its nonprofit home. What changes for EDG users, how to contribute, and where to follow the work.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 26m
5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs | Discussion
netlify.com
5x faster Edge Functions: How we replaced v8 isolates with Firecracker MicroVMs
See how Netlify rebuilt Edge Functions on MicroVMs to deliver lower latency, greater reliability, and faster log delivery.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 46m
SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 | Discussion
sdf.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - Free Shell Account and Shell Access
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 1h
What TLA+ can and can't check | Discussion
buttondown.com
What TLA+ can and can't check
Let's chill just a little bit on the "TLA+ will save AI from itself" narrative
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 1h
Commit Description as a Thinking Tool | Discussion
yedhu.me
Commit Description as a Thinking Tool
Before the AI era, I wrote pretty long commit descriptions (or commit bodies) for major changes. It took me about five to ten minutes to draft and reread them to make sure I didn’t miss anything important. I did that for several reasons.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 2h
Burning Man Death Rates – A Short Lesson in Statistics | Discussion
ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com
Burning Man Death Rates - A Short Lesson in Statistics
What statistics can teach us about observing 3 deaths at Burning Man in 2026.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 2h
Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management | Discussion
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 3h
Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A) | Discussion
github.com
GitHub - mogrinz/AMT630A: An Arduino Library for working with the AMT630A chip
An Arduino Library for working with the AMT630A chip - mogrinz/AMT630A
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 3h
The AI Race Just Got Awkward | Discussion
insufferable.dev
The AI Race Just Got Awkward | insufferable.dev
Funny how quiet everyone got.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 3h
A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal | Discussion
spectrum.ieee.org
A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal
It gave Wall Street traders and analysts an unprecedented window on global markets
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 4h
I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records | Discussion
blog.faav.net
How I Could’ve Accessed 17 Trillion Microsoft Records
How one unchecked login token put 17 trillion rows in a Microsoft internal analytics service within reach.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 4h
Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course | Discussion
thisismypersonalblog.com
Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 5h
SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering | Discussion
alphapixeldev.com
SDF vs MSDF vs Slug: GPU Text Rendering | AlphaPixel
The real difference between texture-atlas, SDF, MSDF, and Slug glyph rendering on the GPU: how each works, where each breaks, and when to use which.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 5h
Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available | Discussion
ubuntu.com
Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available | Ubuntu
Whether you’re a first-time Linux user, experienced developer, academic researcher, or enterprise administrator, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is the best way to benefit from the latest advancements in the Linux ecosystem on a stable foundation. As with all LTS releases of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS represents the consolidation of fix […]
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 6h
The last time my family was replaced by technology | Discussion
manuel.darcemont.fr
The last time my family was replaced by technology
My great-great-grandfather thought he’d be replaced by technology too. He was a farrier in Mandres-en-Barrois, the small village in rural France where I grew up.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 6h
Wavelets in 3D Graphics | Discussion
comonad.com
Wavelets in 3D Graphics
Wavelets have become a hot topic in mathematics in general and computer graphics in particular. They are a useful tool for multiresolution analysis of a data set and for data compression. There are several popular wavelet basis and scaling
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 7h
Mathematical Origami | Discussion
mathigon.org
Mathematical Origami – Mathigon
Explore the beautiful world of Origami and mathematics. Be amazed by stunning photographs, try our folding instructions, or learn about the mathematical background.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 7h
Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use | Discussion
nltimes.nl
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 8h
Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results | Discussion
bigmessowires.com
Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results | Big Mess o' Wires
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 8h
Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot | Discussion
projecthub.arduino.cc
JBR-001: A Desktop Companion Robot Powered by Arduino UNO Q
JBR-001 is an open-source desktop companion robot powered by the Arduino® UNO™ Q and built to make robotics, computer vision, edge AI, and physical AI fun to explore.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 8h
GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence | Discussion
artificialanalysis.ai
GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence
GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days. It scores 1 point below GPT-6 Astra in the Intelligence Index at less than one quarter of the Cost per Task
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 9h
Built Dental Scope | Discussion
dental-scope.com
Dental Scope – Interactive 3D dental anatomy
Free interactive 3D dental anatomy: all 32 permanent teeth with FDI, Universal and Palmer numbers, enamel to root canals, jaws and nerves. Educational tool.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 9h
Pi.dev: You Said No MCP | Discussion
earendil.com
“You Said No MCP!” | Earendil
Pi now supports MCP. Why we changed our minds, what changed in MCP and in Pi, and what Codemode is.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 10h
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? | Discussion
prospect.org
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect
OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 11h
Raleigh Vektar Restoration (2020) | Discussion
retromash.com
Raleigh Vektar Restoration – Part 1 – The arrival | Retromash
As of the time of writing this, I have few retro holy grails left. I have acquired or re-acquired a lot of the retro things from my youth that I had or that I had always wanted. Sure, I still have a list of Most Wanted items, but that list has been getting smaller and
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 11h
September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy | Discussion
tomwojcik.com
September 2026: the world today, as seen by one Polish guy
How a Pole sees the world in September 2026: a scrolling essay that follows one closed strait into fuel, food, bonds, defence and demography.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 12h
Solving Factorio Quality | Discussion
exyr.org
Solving Factorio Quality − Exyr.org
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 12h
Postgres with QUIC | Discussion
blogs.lupyd.com
Postgres with QUIC: Breaking the Client-Side Connection Bottleneck | Lupyd
Why Postgres connection poolers still choke on client-side TCP bottlenecks, how QUIC stream multiplexing solves the 30ms latency wall, and real benchmark numbers.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 13h
Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet | Discussion
mattkeeter.com
Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet
Using Facet's run-time reflection to check the layout of structs against their definitions in WebGPU shaders
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 14h
Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability | Discussion
electrek.co
Tesla takes on $30 billion in credit as it approaches unprofitability
Tesla's profits keep falling, but it has guided for higher CapEx in the coming year. To fill the gap, it just opened a $30B credit line.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 14h
Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics | Discussion
agmai.org
general-sep29
Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics September 29, 2026 Back to main page Download PDF At present, some frontier AI labs are testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models …
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 14h
LinkedIn Larpmaxxing | Discussion
hereticpleb.vercel.app
LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
rant and building of the slop YOLO project to detect other slop YOLO projects
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 15h
RSS Feeds for Last.fm | Discussion
lfm.xiffy.nl
RSS Feeds for Last.fm
RSS Feed for your last.fm recent tracks and loved tracks. all you have to do is tell me your username and i'll give you four URLs, one for you recent tracks, one for your loved ones, one for your top tracks and one for your top artists
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 15h
PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust | Discussion
github.com
GitHub - Sparticle62ops/pssa: A custom AI architecture being developed in rust
A custom AI architecture being developed in rust . Contribute to Sparticle62ops/pssa development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 16h
Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008) | Discussion
mightygodking.com
Mightygodking dot com » Post Topic » Fun From Yesterday!
So I hit up a garage sale over the weekend and bought a genuine, working-condition Atari 2600, with a huge stack of games nearly mint in their boxes, for a
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 16h
Commodore 64: Mercenary | Discussion
gamesexplained.com
Mercenary
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 17h
I Turned a DirecTV HR54-700 into a Standalone Jellyfin Box | Discussion
voidnullvalue.github.io
I Turned a DIRECTV HR54-700 Into a Standalone Jellyfin Box
A free HR54 on Saturday, Jellyfin playback by Sunday night, and eventually no helper PC left in the final architecture.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 17h
Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026 | Discussion
backblaze.com
Q2 2026 Drive Stats: Hard Drive Failure Rates
Explore Q2 2026 failure rates across 354,415 Backblaze drives, plus standout models and emerging CMR, SMR, and HAMR storage technologies.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 18h
When oil prices spike, where does the money go? | Discussion
theconversation.com
When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
Who gets all that cash, and what do they do with it?
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 18h
Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev | Discussion
magazine.sebastianraschka.com
Language Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to Jev
A Visual Guide to RNNs, CNNs, Transformers, and Calibration, with Hands-On Experiments on Accuracy and Efficiency
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 18h
We’re forgetting what darkness feels like | Discussion
theguardian.com
The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
If more cities start regulating outdoor lighting, we humans could make the environment better for all living creatures
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 19h
Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language | Discussion
hereticpleb.vercel.app
Needed 1+1, Built a Functional Programming Language
A deep dive into converting a simple arithmetic expression into a binary tree, leading to a custom language in C.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 19h
NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart | Discussion
aviationweek.com
NASA Asked Several Former SR-71A Staffers To Help Secret Restart | Aviation Week
Nearly 27 years after the final Blackbird flight, NASA quietly launched a project last summer to return an SR-71A to flight.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 19h
Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine | Discussion
enigma.design
Enigma — The machine and its history
Explore 3D Enigma models, follow their electrical circuits and rotor mechanisms, and learn how the machines were used.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 20h
Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries | Discussion
bbc.com
The US state replacing power plants with home batteries
Spread across thousands of ordinary homes, Vermont's virtual power plant has become its largest power source. It's protecting owners from outages and providing cheaper, cleaner energy.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 20h
Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? | Discussion
github.com
GitHub - ninjahawk/livenerf: Benchmark for tracking model capability after release.
Benchmark for tracking model capability after release. - ninjahawk/livenerf
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 20h
UnoDOS | Discussion
github.com
GitHub - hmofet/unodos: UnoDOS — active development (the forward, contract-driven line; master carries the pc64 x86-64/UEFI world). Frozen legacy (archived): hmofet/unodos-3-legacy.
UnoDOS — active development (the forward, contract-driven line; master carries the pc64 x86-64/UEFI world). Frozen legacy (archived): hmofet/unodos-3-legacy. - hmofet/unodos
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 21h
Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites | Discussion
space.bl2.net
Космос сейчас · Belle Lune 2
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 22h
Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021) | Discussion
cathsenker.co.uk
Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version - Cath Senker
Never got round to reading Stranded in the Suez Canal? Don't worry - here's the short version.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 22h
Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s | Discussion
github.com
GitHub - lostmsu/TurboGPT: Train a tiny GPT in under a minute (CUDA only)
Train a tiny GPT in under a minute (CUDA only). Contribute to lostmsu/TurboGPT development by creating an account on GitHub.
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