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Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s
41 points, 14 comments on Hacker News
Train and run transformers directly on Apple's Neural Engine
Article URL: https://github.com/christopherkarani/Espresso Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794803 Points: 14 # Comments: 3
It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
221 points, 164 comments on Hacker News
Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland
Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/2026/07/05/italy-could-be-the-next-country-to-build-a-solar-railway-after-switzerlands-successful-tri Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794704 Points: 9 # Comments: 3
Organic Maps
Article URL: https://organicmaps.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794446 Points: 165 # Comments: 48
Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
Article URL: https://raymii.org/s/blog/Run_Windows_2000_for_Dec_Alpha_on_a_new_es40_fork.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794302 Points: 18 # Comments: 2
Phosh 0.56.0
Article URL: https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.56.0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794179 Points: 108 # Comments: 28
Home made GPU escalated quickly [video]
37 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: KiCad in the Browser
KiCad, a PCB EDA suite is now working in a browser, you can try it at the link, there's a demo project or you can bring your own. Firefox is best, Chrome is good, Safari is "working". We’re Emergence Engineering, a dev shop from Hungary, mostly working with rich text editors, CRDTs. PCBJam started as my (Viktor, CTO, ex-electrical engineer) hobby project but as time went on I put more and more energy into it, and a product started shaping up in my head, in the last few months we’ve started to focus on this project a bit more, and this is the first MVP~ish result. This project is a ton of fun, ton of learning, ton of improvements over improvements: - I thought there must be ways to emulate the PCB canvas OpenGL code on the web. And yes, there are a lot of ways, all of them very buggy. Turns out it’s faster to just write WebGL code that works with KiCad’s Graphics Abstraction Layer if you add the right intermediate debugging steps. I (with Claude) implemented the features and compared th
Cannabis Users Face Substantially Higher Risk of Heart Attack (2025)
Article URL: https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2025/03/17/15/35/cannabis-users-face-substantially-higher-risk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793492 Points: 85 # Comments: 104
Introduction to Compilers and Language Design
Article URL: https://dthain.github.io/books/compiler/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793454 Points: 112 # Comments: 13
EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track
Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Chat-Control-1-0-EU-Council-forces-messenger-scans-via-fast-track-11353659.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793393 Points: 69 # Comments: 13
Spain's cadastre API is SOAP from 2003, so I built a JSON wrapper (+MCP)
Article URL: https://prediohq.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793298 Points: 14 # Comments: 7
Pi square is nearly 10
Article URL: https://mihai.page/pi-square-is-10/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793073 Points: 37 # Comments: 35
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid
82 points, 10 comments on Hacker News
ABI vs. API (2004)
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How is Zig working out after 3 years and 100k lines of game code?
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AWS Introduces Amazon S3 Annotations
AWS recently announced Amazon S3 Annotations, a feature that lets teams attach rich, searchable context such as summaries, classifications, compliance data, or AI-generated insights directly to S3 objects. Annotations can be updated independently of the object and queried across datasets, reducing the need for separate metadata systems. By Renato Losio
Claude Design System Prompt
Article URL: https://github.com/Trystan-SA/claude-design-system-prompt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792399 Points: 103 # Comments: 28
Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made
123 points, 50 comments on Hacker News
Apocketlypse
Article URL: https://0dd.company/galleries/triumph/1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792352 Points: 13 # Comments: 1
Claude Reaches GA on Microsoft Foundry: European Enterprises Cannot Deploy It
Claude models reached GA on Microsoft Foundry with Azure-native billing and governance, but no European data zone exists. Anthropic's own documentation confirms data residency guarantees apply to Bedrock and Vertex AI but not Foundry. European practitioners from banking and healthcare report the offering is unapproved for production. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Web-based cryptography is always snake oil
Article URL: https://www.devever.net/~hl/webcrypto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792203 Points: 15 # Comments: 13
Knowledge Should Not Be Gated
Article URL: https://www.formaly.io/blog/knowledge-should-not-be-gated Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792195 Points: 61 # Comments: 42
Programmers need to start meditating now
Article URL: https://jacob.gold/posts/programmers-need-to-start-meditating-now/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792080 Points: 20 # Comments: 8
Fast Software, the Best Software
Article URL: https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792008 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
small details in my mastodon client that i wanted more people to notice
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Is The Economist Always Wrong?
Article URL: https://economist.com/interactive/finance-and-economics/2026/07/02/is-the-economist-always-wrong Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791799 Points: 38 # Comments: 32
EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Miles
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/ev-batteries-are-defying-expectations-after-hundreds-of-thousands-of-miles-8579de13 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791755 Points: 49 # Comments: 43
sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/5/sqlite-utils-fable/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791708 Points: 44 # Comments: 49
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