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The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters
87 points, 29 comments on Hacker News
Folding in Parallel
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Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled
101 points, 30 comments on Hacker News
Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/modern-blu-ray-drives-can-now-rip-gamecube-wii-and-xbox-360-games-to-pc-third-party-firmware-unlocks-game-rips-from-physical-media-on-select-players Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284032 Points: 59 # Comments: 7
Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer
7 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Stop advertising in your commits
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Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us
57 points, 32 comments on Hacker News
Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
Article URL: https://sherwood.news/tech/stack-overflow-forum-dead-thanks-ai-but-companys-still-kicking-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282709 Points: 116 # Comments: 167
Sage Care (YC S24) Is Hiring Software Engineers
1 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle
3 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT
54 points, 17 comments on Hacker News
Software For My New Home Server
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What Happened to the Locusts?
107 points, 24 comments on Hacker News
The real cost of owning a home
191 points, 469 comments on Hacker News
Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?
Article URL: https://dynomight.net/crc-rates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281539 Points: 139 # Comments: 146
What color is your function? (2015)
76 points, 84 comments on Hacker News
MuddyWater Uses DLL Side-Loading in Espionage Campaign Targeting 9 Countries
The Iranian hacking group known as MuddyWater has been linked to a new campaign affecting at least nine organizations across nine countries on four continents in the first quarter of 2026. The activity targeted industrial and electronics manufacturing, education and public-sector bodies, financial services, and professional services, per the Threat Hunter Team from Symantec and Carbon Black.
The Ballad of TIGIT
85 points, 16 comments on Hacker News
A sleep-like consolidation mechanism for LLMs
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26099 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281226 Points: 164 # Comments: 122
'Incredible' milestone reached as Sweden becomes a smoke-free country
Article URL: https://www.thelocal.se/20260525/incredible-milestone-reached-as-sweden-becomes-a-smoke-free-country Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281199 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Avoid Using "< [Cdata[ ]]>" in RSS
17 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
Building an AsyncIO executor for the 3DS
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Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale
Hey we’re Faiz and Saheed and we built Minicor so AI companies who need to integrate to desktop systems with no API can quickly build scalable desktop RPAs. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD0GHZIJ1cw We were working on non-RPA integrations when a customer promised to sign a deal in 2 days if we could unblock a sale of theirs that involved integrating with a clinic’s Windows based medical record system. We didn’t know it at the time but it turns out that building desktop RPAs at scale is extremely difficult because scripting is hard (learning the system, defining the automation, UIs changing constantly), orchestration is hard (is the VM up? queuing, parallelizing) and debugging is hard (zero observability, false positives, cascading failures). 30%+ failure rates are not uncommon. At scale we’ve seen cases of failed RPAs leading to thousands of support tickets a month. To solve the problems we were facing, we built an MCP that Claude Code/Codex can use to navigate a virtual machin
Don't Subscribe So Casually
Article URL: https://thebestworstcase.substack.com/p/dont-subscribe-so-casually Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280636 Points: 35 # Comments: 29
Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player
Article URL: https://www.intelligenceonline.com/europe-russia/2026/05/26/stockholm-poised-to-become-leading-european-geospatial-intel-player,110772386-eve Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280561 Points: 16 # Comments: 3
Coalton is an efficient, statically typed Lisp with ideas from Haskell and OCaml
45 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
Interleaved Deltas
40 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
readable.css
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C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead "Camera View"
Article URL: https://retrogamecoders.com/overhead-camera-view/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279842 Points: 25 # Comments: 2
Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us
19 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
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