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31. A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks
If you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you'll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underlying infrastructure and then chronologically. You'll also notice that within the section on wired networks, there are two sub-sections: one for electrical wire and another…
32. Fixing retail with land value capture
33. Partial 8-Piece Tablebase
63 TiB of chess knowledge sent across the Atlantic and now available on the Lichess analysis board
34. Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
Warcraft III Peon voice notifications (+ more!) for Claude Code, Codex, and other IDEs. Stop babysitting your terminal. - PeonPing/peon-ping
35. Synthesizer Cartridge for the Atari 2600
36. The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
37. D Programming Language
D is a general-purpose programming language with static typing, systems-level access, and C-like syntax.
38. Run Pebble OS in Browser via WASM
39. Shut Up: Comment Blocker
40. Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
41. Lifetime Lead Exposure Can Triple Alzheimer's Risk
42. Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube
43. Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser
Instruction-driven generative wall drawings in a spatial web gallery, a tribute to Sol LeWitt.
44. I Wrote a Scheme in 2025
45. Interlock (Engineering)
46. The Nature of the Beast
Movies about dog owners and their canine companions have always been a popular cinema subgenre, especially in recent years as witnessed by such feel good entertainments as Arthur the King (2024), Dog (2022), Togo (2019), Megan Leavey (2017) and A Dog’s Purpose (2017). Taking an entirely different approach to family dramas like these is the…
47. Mapping the Moon: The Apollo Transforming Printer
Using materials from the Geography & Map Division's Frederick Doyle Papers, this post explores the role NASA’s Apollo Transforming Printer played in creating maps of the moon from panoramic photographs.
48. Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
49. Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings
What exists is a matter of public opinion
50. ai;dr
51. How to Make a Living as an Artist
An essay by fnnch on making a living as an artist.
52. WolfSSL Sucks Too, So Now What?
OpenSSL sucks. The BoringSSL and AWS-LC forks are Googled and Amazoned to death; they don't care about anyone but their own use cases. I can't remember ever having a good experience with software using GnuTLS. LibreSSL is incomplete... What happened now? Last year an article from Haproxy about how terribly …
53. Show HN: rari, the rust-powered react framework
rari is a performance-first React framework powered by Rust. Build web applications with React Server Components, zero-config setup, and runtime-accelerated rendering infrastructure.
54. Meta Plans 'Name Tag' Facial Recognition for Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
Meta plans to add a facial recognition feature to its Ray-Ban smart glasses as soon as this year, reports The New York Times ($). According to people involved in the plans who spoke to the publication, the feature is internally called "Name Tag," and would let wearers identify people and get information about them via Meta's artificial intelligence assistant. Mark Zuckerberg reportedly wants the feature to differentiate the devices and to make the AI assistant in the glasses more useful.
55. ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could
The DHS and its components want to find non-white people to deport by any means necessary. Of course, "necessary" is something that's on a continually sliding scale with Trump back in office, which means everything (legal or not) is "necessary" if it can help White House advisor Stephen Miller hit his self-imposed 3,000 arrests per…
56. The missing digit of Stela C
One bad thing about archeologists is that some of the successful ones get a big head. People used to think the Olmecs, who made these colossal stone heads, were contemporary with the Mayans. But in 1939, an archaeologist couple, Marion and Matthew Stirling, found the bottom half of an Olmec stone that had part of…
57. I asked Claude Code to remove jQuery. It failed miserably
I asked Claude Code to remove Jquery. It failed miserably. - Thursday, 12 February 2026 - Alex's blog'
58. HeyWhatsThat
59. Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
60. Discord Just Killed Anonymity