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🔗 Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video] 👍 195 💬 203 🔗 https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/AGWUVH-mercurial-aint-you-dead-yet/

🔗 Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools 👍 735 💬 318 🔗…

🔗 The SGI Buyer's Guide (2003) 👍 24 💬 10 🔗 https://hardware.majix.org/computers/sgi/buyers-guide.shtml

🔗 Colossus: The Forbin Project 👍 232 💬 95 🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

🔗 VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025) 👍 153 💬 48 🔗 https://spectrum.ieee.org/payphone-voip

🔗 Étienne Ghys: The Shape of Letters: From Leonardo da Vinci to Donald Knuth 👍 30 💬 4 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OIxzewWilc

I built a German-hosted Calendly alternative because I was tired of US data processors — looking for beta testers Hey 👋 I'm based in Germany and run a small SaaS/telco company. For years I've used…

🔗 A nicer voltmeter clock 👍 341 💬 45 🔗 https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-nicer-voltmeter-clock

🔗 Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD 👍 94 💬 98 🔗 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260514-how-hallucinogenic-ibogaine-helps-veterans-overcome-ptsd

🔗 Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena? 👍 5 💬 1 🔗 https://www.reddit.com/r/pasadena/s/94BHlkE84r

🔗 High-Entropy Alloy 👍 134 💬 23 🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-entropy_alloy

🔗 Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries 👍 65 💬 21 🔗 https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-id-corkscrew-killer-behind-gruesome-seal-deaths

🔗 I don't think AI will make your processes go faster 👍 581 💬 400 🔗 https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2026-05-15-i-dont-think-ai-will-make-your-processes-go-faster/

🔗 Hindenburg’s Smoking Room 👍 198 💬 158 🔗 https://www.airships.net/hindenburg-smoking-room/

ClawPing - Telegram watchdog for home servers without opening ports I built ClawPing for a specific failure mode I kept running into with home boxes: the monitor is often sitting on the same machine…

🔗 CUDA Books 👍 190 💬 42 🔗 https://github.com/alternbits/awesome-cuda-books

🔗 Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon 👍 253 💬 41 🔗 https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/prolog-basics-pokemon/

🔗 Build a Radio Wave Detector with Balls of Aluminum Foil 👍 9 💬 1 🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/build-a-radio-wave-detector-with-balls-of-aluminum-foil/

🔗 Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015) 👍 108 💬 49 🔗 https://www.rogerebert.com/streaming/magical-realism-nothern-exposure-25-years-later

🔗 Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels 👍 247 💬 251 🔗 https://electrek.co/2026/05/14/tesla-solar-roof-promise-vs-reality-pivot-panels/