5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)

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What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?

GitHub – librepods-org/librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem

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LibrePods is a project that allows non-Apple devices to use AirPods features. It implements the proprietary protocol used by Apple devices to exchange data with AirPods.

I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

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The author used Opus 4.8 to analyze an MRI and got a second opinion on their diagnosis, which disagreed with the original doctor's report. The AI analysis found no partial-thickness tear, contradicting the doctor's diagnosis and making the author question the treatment plan.

Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing

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The concept of tokenmaxxing, where companies spend large amounts of money on AI tokens without expecting a return, is not dead but rather evolving as companies realize the benefits of compounding correctness, where more tokens spent lead to better results. The shift towards open model platforms and generalist agents will lead to another rise in tokenmaxxing behavior, ultimately resulting in ...

The Boeing 747 begins its final descent

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The author visits Pinal Airpark in Arizona to see retired Boeing 747s, once the principal host of important journeys, now a symbol of American decline. The 747 was a technological innovation that embodied American might, invention, and progress, but its accidental longevity defined an era of decline.

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

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The Loongson processor is a Chinese-developed CPU that emerged in 2001, initially based on MIPS architecture, and was later developed into a 64-bit processor. The Loongson processor was used in the Lemote Yeeloong laptop, a low-cost netbook that was released in 2008.

Semgrep: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our Cyber Benchmarks

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GLM 5.2, an open-weight model, beat Claude Code at IDOR detection with 39% F1, costing $0.17 per vulnerability found. The harness still matters more than the model, but open-weight models have crossed a threshold worth watching for security tasks.

Computer-Aided Language Development in Nonspeaking Children (1968) [pdf]

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The cost YAGNI was never about

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YAGNI is about timing, not thrift, and warns against building speculative structure before a feature is needed. It's about preserving optionality and not committing to costly changes when the future is uncertain.

Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor

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The Space Shuttle's I/O Processor had 24 network connections and 25 virtual processors, implementing two different instruction sets. It used microcode to run the virtual processors on one physical processor.

TOP500 at ISC'26: We Have a New Number 1 – By George Cozma

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Here at ISC 2026 in Hamburg, Germany, we got the 67th TOP500 list where there was a surprise awaiting us. That surprise being a new Number 1 Supercomputer on the TOP500. The new number one Supercomputer on the TOP500 list is the LineShine Supercomputer in Shenzhen, China. This is the first Chinese submission to the TOP500 in 9 years and they came in swinging with a massive CPU-only system. ...

Show HN: Zanagrams

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Zanagrams is a free daily word puzzle. Drag across the letters to find the hidden words and watch the grid shrink as you solve it. A new Zanagrams puzzle every day.

Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)

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Daisugi, a Japanese technique, involves growing multiple trees from a single tree, creating a giant bonsai-like structure, but it's actually a form of coppicing, a common woodland management technique practiced for centuries. This method produces straight, usable timber without harming the original tree, and it's being re-emphasized as a sustainable way to manage woodlands.

Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short

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Ford is reviving its quality control by rehiring technical specialists to train younger staff and reprogram AI tools. This move is expected to save the company $1 billion in costs this year.

A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex

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What feature would you like to see? A mechanism to explicitly mark files/paths that the agent must not read or send to the model, at both repository and global levels (e.g., a repo-local .codexignore plus a global ignore file). Example: ...

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

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A Polish user reported a bug on Medium where Ś wouldn't appear when typed. The issue was caused by Medium blocking CtrlS to prevent browser save dialogs, but Polish users use AltS to type Ś.

The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition

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MUMPS is a programming language and database system created in 1966 for hospital information systems. It has a built-in hierarchical database with a schema-free, ordered key-value store.

Show HN: Appaca – AI Workspace for Operators

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Reps spend nearly half their week on follow-ups and admin instead of selling. Build internal sales tools that surface the right lead, draft the next message, and keep deals moving - so your team spends its time closing. Never let a lead go cold. Drafts personalised follow-ups from each lead's CRM activity and pipeline stage, ready for your reps to review and send. Get started free Score ...

Historical memory prices 1960-2026

The interactive dataset tracks historic and current memory and storage prices, including DRAM, NAND flash, and HBM, with modeled estimates from Epoch AI for AI-accelerator costs. The data is downloadable and includes quarterly updates for HBM and monthly updates for DRAM and NAND prices from 1957 to the present.

Show HN: DRM-Free Books

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Multiple stories are presented, each with a main character facing challenges and obstacles. The stories involve mystery, action, adventure, and romance, set in various locations and time periods.

EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors

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Dr Patrick Breyer warns of a double-attack on secure messaging in the EU, with President Roberta Metsola pushing for mass surveillance and EU governments rushing a new scanning mandate. Citizens can email EU lawmakers and government representatives through fightchatcontrol.eu to stop this threat.

More evidence is consistent with possible ancient life on Mars (2025)

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Scientists have found potential evidence of life on Mars, but no conclusive proof, with the latest discovery being two chemicals formed by microbial activity or chemical reactions. The possibility of life on Mars has been tantalizing humans for over a century, with many previous claims debunked, but new research suggests life could exist underground.

Programmable Probabilistic Computer with 1M p-bits

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Researchers built a large Ising machine with one million p-bits by networking FPGAs, achieving over a trillion flips per second. The machine's performance depends on a timing ratio of boundary-exchange frequency to local p-bit update frequency.

The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online

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The KIDS Act package includes bills that require age verification, government-directed moderation, and new rules for private communications. This could lead to restrictive age-checking practices, reduced online privacy, and limited free expression.

Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers

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Michigan Senate Bill 948, the Workplace Employee Boundaries Act, aims to protect workers from constant availability demands. It would prevent employers from requiring employees to access work-related matters outside assigned hours.

Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

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Marfa Public Radio creates a sleep podcast reading boring documents to fundraise for the station. Listeners can donate at marfapublicradio.org/donate to keep the station awake.

Linux Kills Strncpy

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The C string library is compact and fast but prone to buffer overrun errors if not used carefully. Linux kernel has fixed string usage issues and improved the string library's API to prevent security weaknesses.

Trade, merchants, and the lost cities of the Bronze Age (2019) [pdf]

C o m q e a r t i.c.e. - b s d l n h / 1 3 4 3 1 4 5 5 4 2 0 4 8 4. our gravity estimates for the location of lost cities all lie within their admissible regions, with the exception of puru schaddum, which has large and imprecise con fi

DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded

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A bug in shell32.dll was initially blamed for a large number of crashes in a third-party program. However, the actual cause was a rogue force-unload of a DLL, which led to a recursive crash loop and stack overflow.

The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It

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The US is being left behind in the electric vehicle market due to restrictive regulations and tariffs that prevent affordable Chinese EVs from being imported. American companies like Aptera are struggling to compete with Chinese manufacturers like BYD and Xiaomi, which have invested heavily in vertically integrated supply chains and battery factories.