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The new bibliomaniacs
Rare book collecting is booming as young people raised in the digital age seek tangible connections to the past. In 1947, booksellers from five countries – Denmark, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden – gathered in Amsterdam
Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Founding Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics)
About Mbodi Mbodi is building embodied AI platform that makes robots learn and operate like humans, with natural language. Our software lets anyone teach robots new skills by talking to them and execute the learned skills reliably in produc
There's still no point in gigabit broadband
Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a
Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute
SpaceX has lined up another compute deal ahead of its historic IPO, this time with Google. The company announced the deal in a regulatory filing on Friday. Under the terms of the deal, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from Octo
Introduction – Rust for Python Programmers
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Do Women's Mate Preferences Change Across the Ovulatory Cycle? A Meta-Analysis [pdf]
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Is anyone here interested in contributing to this OS?
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The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy
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Zig Zen Update
If you are an AI scraper, and wish to not receive garbage when visiting Codeberg: stop visiting. If you are not an AI scraper: contact Codeberg.Disk usage. The lines after the tool itself is written as a wrapper shell script, if additional
Azure Linux Desktop
I made a thing... 0:00 /0:49 I wanted to try out some of the cool stuff that came out of Microsoft Build 2026.Azure Linux "Desktop" is a small Windows app that boots a full Linux desktop in a window. It opens, starts an embedded Linux conta
S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
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Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight
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The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover
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C++: The Programming Language back cover raises questions not answered by front
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Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
Genuine question. Over the past six months, there hasn’t been a single day where I’ve checked the HN Best RSS feed without seeing a post about how AI “writes bad code,” “introduces bugs,” “creates technical debt,” or something along those lines. I’ll probably make a lot of enemies by saying this, but do people realize that code is just a means to an end? Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand, or which framework you used. They care that the product works. I say this as someone who has spent more than 20 years honing their craft as a software engineer. Let’s face it: by the time I manually ship version 1.0 of a product, the AI-assisted version could have been deployed 10x faster. By then, enough real-world feedback would have surfaced to identify the major issues, and tools like Claude Code would make it possible to fix and ship version 2.0 at an incredible pace. At some point, execution speed starts to matter more than the elegance of the code. Comments URL: Points: 8 # Comments: 16
Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised
This weekend is the ABC Classic FM countdown, which prompted me to dust off an old un-published data visualisation of rankings from previous years. I've considered adding a search function, but I also kind of like that it requires a bit of exploration in the current form. Some of the code is a bit clunky and I wouldn't mind refactoring it. I'm also not sure about browser compatibility - I've only got access to a couple of devices to test it on.
Alzheimer's patient gets back speech, bladder control and memory in drug trial
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The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)
Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Lens Repair & Analysis[05.12.24] I have a camera gear collection problem and as part of my personal 12 step plan, I restrict myself from purchasing functioning lenses. This sounds illogical, and it frankly is, but it's very
The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite
05 Jun 2026It's common to use random UUIDs as a primary key in databases. One of the known downsides of random UUIDs is that their unordered nature (UUID4) can cause a lot of extra paging for the clustered index because you are inserting ro
Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant
6 June 2026 Jason Koebler, and Emanuel Maiberg, writing for 404 Media: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling o
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Loses Door at Remote Pacific Airport, Puzzling Engineers
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner suffered an unusual incident at one of the most remote airports in the world when one of its doors detached from the fuselage during ground handling. The event has left engineers searching for answers about how it ha
GitHub Accidentally Deletes Slack and Teams Subscriptions
Update We are still exploring options to restore the deleted subscriptions, and we will provide another update soon. In the meantime, customers can manually re-subscribe their Slack and Teams channels to repositories. Posted Jun 05, 2026 -
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