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31. Scientists observe a 300M-year-old brain rhythm in several animal species
32. Soviet Tektronix 7000-series oscilloscope copies
Back in 1970, Tektronix introduced their '7000' series of oscilloscopes. Their clever plug-in architecture offered unmatched performance and flexibility, and they quickly became an industry standard. They were ubiquitous in well-heeled electronics labs in the 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s, at least in the US and UK. I've still got three examples in regular…
33. uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
Maintained - uBlock Origin filter list to hide YouTube Shorts - i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
34. 5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools
A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested.
35. Inner-Platform Effect
36. Linux kernel 7.0 abandons the 28-year-old Intel 440BX chipset
... But the legacy still lives on.
37. Show HN: Copy-and-patch compiler for hard real-time Python
Tracing based copy-and-patch compiler for Python. Contribute to Nonannet/copapy development by creating an account on GitHub.
38. The Mega-Rich Are Turning Their Mansions into Impenetrable Fortresses
39. Amsterdam Compiler Kit
The Amsterdam Compiler Kit. Contribute to davidgiven/ack development by creating an account on GitHub.
40. One Server. Small Business
More than a decade ago, I built a small Rails app to run my curated newsletters. Today it serves over 100,000 subscribers, sends hundreds of thousands of emails each month, and still runs on a single $30 server. In this post, I walk through how I deploy, secure, back up, and monitor it — and why I still prefer owning the stack over using a managed platform.
41. Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music
During my first trip to Eastern Europe, I found an "Orpheus"  electric guitar leaning against a wall in the basement of a music shop in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.  Half of its parts were missing and dust was gathering on its sparkly-orange plywood body. I bought it for the equivalent of $20 and carried it around in two pieces…
42. OpenAI should build Slack
a quiet day lets us answer a Sam Altman question: what should he build next?
43. Breaking the spell of vibe coding
Sinister variations on the positive state of flow
44. How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?
As exciting as full-body MRIs seem, many in medicine are skeptical. But there are useful cases.
45. Internet Increasingly Becoming Unarchivable
46. Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
A collection of 2,385 blogs about every topic
47. A Visual Source for Shakespeare's 'Tempest'
Shakespearo Furioso
48. The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming
49. Shipping Htmx in Production (A Post-Mortem)
How I built a high-speed “Cognitive Control Plane” with Hypermedia and Autonomous AI Pipelines
50. Western Digital sells out 2026 HDD capacity as AI demand pushes prices higher
Western Digital has sold out its HDD production capacity for 2026, thanks to major agreements with cloud companies and hyperscalers. The rapid growth
51. A Review of M Disc Archival Capability. With long term testing results
An extensive test and review of M Disk archival durability.
52. Discord Distances Itself from Peter Thiel's Palantir Age Verification Firm
The third-party company Discord could use for their ID collection is mired in surveillance concerns and links to Epstein via one of its investors
53. Descent, Ported to the Web
54. MDST Engine: run GGUF models in the browser with WebGPU/WASM
55. Evolving Git for the Next Decade
56. Windows NT/OS2 Design Workbook
57. The Three Year Myth
58. How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020)
59. Vim 9.2 Released
60. NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed