Websites Should Be Printable

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The author is a computer science graduate looking for work in the northeastern US and has experience with various programming languages. They're sharing their efforts to improve printability of web content, seeking feedback on their CSS snippet.

Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale

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Ein Minecraft-Mod namens "Swiss World" nutzt offene Geodaten von swisstopo, um eine genaue Darstellung der Schweiz in dem Spiel zu erstellen. Das Mod bietet eine Vielzahl von Funktionen und Details, wie z.B. die Möglichkeit, mit einem Klick auf die Karte einen Teleport-Befehl auszuführen.

Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline

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Birdwatching is being used as therapy for dementia patients, helping them feel more connected to others and experience positive emotions. Research shows that birdwatching can slow brain ageing by keeping the brain more organised and active.

Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997

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Every classic WordArt style, shape and 3-D effect, in your browser.

Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office

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The archive of photographer Douglas Menuez, including over 250,000 photographs documenting the rise of Silicon Valley.

PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP

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PaperPilot is a Rust-based PDF toolkit for local use, offering various features like merging, splitting, and compressing. It provides a consistent API across different interfaces and has an open-source community edition under Apache 2.0 license.

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifts free books to children worldwide, promoting early childhood literacy and inspiring a love of reading. The program, launched in 1995, has expanded to five countries and aims to reach every child with access to quality books.

Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard

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The Keybit and Keyword boards are designed in KiCad, featuring a single key with a Cherry MX switch and CH32V003. They connect to the main board via pogo pins for 3.3V, GND, and I2C, with programming pads on the corners.

Growing Trees

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The author discusses a procedural tree growth method inspired by Palubicki et al.'s 2009 paper, using a voxel grid to simulate light availability and competition among buds. The method produces realistic crown shapes and branching patterns through feedback loops of resource allocation and bud placement control.

Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

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A Chrome extension simulates overgrown plants on neglected tabs, allowing users to "slash" through vines to access them again. The extension features a neglect clock and various plant-clearing tools, making it more enjoyable to return to abandoned tabs.

Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository

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AI coding agents work from your repository, so why keep tasks in Jira? Learn how Tasks as Code stores them as Markdown in Git, next to code and docs. AI coding agents work best when everything they need lives in the repository, since the code is their source of truth. Yet most teams still track tasks and requirements in tools like Jira or Redmine that sit outside it. Storing tasks as simple ...

Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part

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OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, and superhuman AI models are expected to revolutionize hardware engineering by designing parts and assemblies more efficiently. However, the process of building real-world hardware requires much more than just digital design skills.

Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)

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Researchers question the necessity of explicit self-attention in sequence modeling, proposing an attention-free architecture based on Grassmann flows. This approach uses geometric features to propagate information through controlled deformations of low-rank subspaces.

Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria

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Archaeologists have discovered a vast network of Iron Age salt-mining chambers beneath Hallstatt, Austria, offering insights into prehistoric mining techniques. The newly found chambers reveal daily life and technology used by miners 7,300 years ago.

Why I Am a Programmer

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A student named Jonny expresses his desire to create something that will change people's perception of reality through writing demos, inspired by his childhood experiences with pirating games and exploring the digital underground.

Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC

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A Python script reproduces the Steal My Bitcoin challenge, using only standard library functions. The script builds requests, checks for leaks and records HTTP bytes from a new run.

F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS

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The G-Diffuser port to Nintendo 3DS was completed in v1.0.0, featuring native-60 frame pacing and stereoscopic 3D on both Old and New 3DS consoles with the Expansion Kit. The project involved a team of subagents working over several phases, from research to release, with various milestones and challenges along the way.

The State of Context Engineering

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The speaker discussed context fails and fixes in AI, where model makers create challenges that users must overcome. They introduced various context engineering techniques to address these issues, including augmentation, loadout, quarantine, pruning, offloading and strategic forgetting.

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

The author discusses the potential for ambitious software projects, citing examples of successful projects like pgrust and Azul AI. They argue that with advancements in capabilities, it's now possible to build more complex and high-quality software without requiring extensive expertise or resources. The author also notes that while some people may be able to achieve impressive results with ...

One of the Greatest Inventions in the History of Human Transport

Blaise Pascal knew he was dying. He was in his 30s and had been sick most of his life, but at least he didn’t have to worry about being forgotten. He had already made transformative innovations in mathematics, physics, philosophy, and theology, and in his spare time he was assembling a collection of thoughts about God that would become the Pensées, which has been praised as some of the finest ...

IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem

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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna sees open weight models as a viable option for on-prem enterprise use, offering 90% effectiveness at 10% of the cost. IBM is experiencing booming interest in on-prem AI infrastructure and plans to ease deployments with software solutions.

Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers

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Amazon released new tablets for toddlers despite concerns over developmental problems and emotional dysregulation linked to screen time. The company's marketing claims do not align with studies showing increased screen time is associated with poorer learning outcomes in children.

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

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Two AI models, a CNN and two LLMs, were tested on 200 skin lesions with varying accuracy in diagnosing benign or malignant conditions. The CNN outperformed the LLMs in most cases, especially for melanomas and actinic keratoses.

Show HN: ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git

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The ADRs4AI method combines human and AI collaboration to create a record of decision-making processes, allowing for resumable work and compound thinking. It uses templates, seed questions, and AI recommendations to facilitate deliberative programming.

Two Million Hornets

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The author reflects on the decline of mountain communities in northern Spain, where they have moved to escape climate change, and grapples with the impact of modernity and gentrification. They explore alternative futures for these villages through initiatives like ecomuseos that promote local knowledge and traditions.

Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)

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The Roman Wikipedia lists battles from 753-391 BCE, with over 649 entries, including sieges and named land/sea battles. The list includes information on the opposing forces, outcomes, and research estimates of Greek speakers in each battle.

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

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The LLM model prices have significantly decreased over the past few months, with OpenAI cutting GPT-5.6 Luna's price by 80% and GPT-6 Sol's price by around 20%. This trend is attributed to increased competition from open-weight models like DeepSeek Flash V4.1 and Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro, which are catching up in performance while offering lower costs.

Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category

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The author built a blog with perfect Lighthouse scores after removing Next.js and using Hono, a framework that provides fast and simple performance. The blog now has 100 points across all categories, with significant improvements in build time and unused code size.

Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset

DreamHost is resetting passwords for affected email and FTP/SFTP users due to a system issue, with instructions sent via email. Account owners can set new passwords in the DreamHost control panel at panel.dreamhost.com without waiting for an email notification.

Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again

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Susanne Gänsicke, a senior conservator at the Getty Museum, is leading a project to conserve the 5th-6th century CE Buddha head discovered in Turkmenistan. The team aims to restore the head using advanced techniques and technology.