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BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments
Article URL: https://github.com/pIat0n/BareMetal-RAM-Dumper Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787201 Points: 41 # Comments: 22
Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels
76 points, 20 comments on Hacker News
"Beyond the limit": Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky
112 points, 203 comments on Hacker News
Game Boy Advance Dev: Logging to the Console
Article URL: https://www.mattgreer.dev/blog/gba-dev-logging/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787001 Points: 16 # Comments: 1
Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years
Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/06/30/finlands-last-analogue-landline-phones-go-silent-after-150-years Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786868 Points: 76 # Comments: 19
Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
Article URL: https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archive/-/work_items/234 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786838 Points: 240 # Comments: 122
Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years
70 points, 25 comments on Hacker News
Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/cheyenne-suspends-data-center-fill-and-flush-and-closed-loop-discharges-after-meta-contractor-contaminated-its-reuse-water-system Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786782 Points: 184 # Comments: 65
Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
Article URL: https://javoriuski.com/post/youtube Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786781 Points: 393 # Comments: 194
The GNU Emacs Architecture
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Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System
Article URL: https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-06-30 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786638 Points: 80 # Comments: 14
Curveball
Article URL: https://mightyburger.net/projects/curveball/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786495 Points: 37 # Comments: 8
Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D
39 points, 14 comments on Hacker News
Airplane Boneyards List and Map
29 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world
47 points, 13 comments on Hacker News
EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet?
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Do Wavy Walls Really Use Fewer Bricks? I Tested It in Blender
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Is Israel's 'buffer zone' inside Lebanon an attempt to grab gas reserves?
Article URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/6/12/is-israels-buffer-zone-inside-lebanon-an-attempt-to-grab-gas-reserves Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785858 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc)
Article URL: https://github.com/maximqaxd/wince-dc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785840 Points: 72 # Comments: 15
Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/74066 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785485 Points: 104 # Comments: 35
How working memory could give rise to consciousness
Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-working-memory-could-give-rise-to-consciousness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785478 Points: 17 # Comments: 15
A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it's not clear why
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/a-martian-rock-has-lots-of-carbon-on-it-and-its-not-clear-why/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785459 Points: 17 # Comments: 1
EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster
42 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
U.S. Government Entity Paid Kairos $1 Million in Data-Theft Extortion Case
A U.S. government entity paid about $1 million to keep stolen files from being leaked, according to a new case study by Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC, built on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left. The odd part: the group that took the money calls itself Kairos, but it may not be a ransomware gang at all. Krishnan found no sign that it ever locked a single
Who's Hiring? - Support Edition - Q3 2026
Welcome to the trial post of a "Who's Hiring?" call for non-software engineer positions! As we try to kick this off, I would love community input on things like; What other details would you like employers to provide in their initial reply? What frequency do we want? Quarterly? Monthly? Every other week? Are there any other roles that should be considered for these posts? Any job postings should be geared towards needed company roles other than Software Engineer, such as customer support, data entry, field technician, marketing, purchasers, etc...that list can get quite long, depending on the size of the company and type of business. We'll keep this initial post conversational for the sake of getting community input about what we want to see and refining the template. Should this garner enough interest and stick, future posts should result in only/mostly job postings in the comments. Post Template Company Website: [ url ] Culture: [ brief description of company mission and culture ] Av
Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux
Article URL: https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784777 Points: 142 # Comments: 18
Reducing Assumptions, Exploding Your Code
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Developer Verification – LineageOS
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North Korean Hackers Publish 108 Malicious Packages and Extensions in PolinRider Campaign
The North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed publishing 108 unique packages and web browser extensions spanning npm, Packagist, Go, and Google Chrome as part of an ongoing activity referred to as PolinRider. "The campaign remains active, and new malicious packages are likely to continue appearing as threat actors compromise maintainer accounts,
In-browser programmable robot simulator
10 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
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