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Get your Minitel back, the COMPUTEL videotex BBS is back

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For the impatient… the server can be reached at+33 1 8421 8116(original french version)After sleeping more...
For the impatient… the server can be reached at+33 1 8421 8116(original french version)After sleeping more than 30 years and 5 years after the “official” shutdown of the Minitel (actually the shutdown of the “Télétel kiosk”, the famous 3615 and others) here is how I restarted my COMPUTEL videotex BBS on Apple IIe as...

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Even Republicans are falling out of love with Tesla

economist.com
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Show HN: Index – new SOTA Open Source browser agent

github.com
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Mt Ontake

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MCP on AWS Lambda with MCPEngine

featureform.com

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming the standard for enabling LLMs to call external tools....
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming the standard for enabling LLMs to call external tools. It’s built around clean, declarative tool definitions—but most current implementations fall short of being production-ready. Every official MCP server in the Anthropic repo, for instance, runs locally and communic...
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Yagri: You are gonna read it

scottantipa.com

April, 2025 YAGNI, or, You aren't gonna need it, is a standard piece of advice that...
April, 2025 YAGNI, or, You aren't gonna need it, is a standard piece of advice that warns against over engineering and building too many features too early. I think its great and saves you from wasting time, which can kill a project. However, there's an exception that I call YAGRI, or, "You are gonna read it". It me...
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Is Linux under the control of the USA gov?

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Show HN: Document agent example that can parse and chat over unstructured data

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Show HN: Nowrite.fun – If you stop typing, your text disappears

nowrite.fun
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Willy Ley was a prophet of space travel

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You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we...
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Willy Ley wrote prolifically about the potential of space travel, translating complex astrophysics and rocketry concepts for the public.Credit...via Smithsonian National Air an...

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Lucene University

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Doge Worker's Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower

krebsonsecurity.com

A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon...
A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency’s sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said accounts created for DOGE at the NLRB downloaded three code r...
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Google blocked Motorola use of Perplexity AI, witness says

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Samurai Cops: Inside Edo's Police Force During Feudal Japan

tokyoweekender.com

After Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan, established the Tokugawa shogunate, and moved the capital to Edo —...
After Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan, established the Tokugawa shogunate, and moved the capital to Edo — modern-day Tokyo — in the early 17th century, he ended hundreds of years of civil war and senseless killings. Weirdly, though, people still kept murdering each other. Plus, there were all these other crimes being ...
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Ninth Circuit Takes a Wrecking Ball to Internet Personal Jurisdiction Law

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Let’s start with a tiny piece of good news. The majority says: “The parties agree among...
Let’s start with a tiny piece of good news. The majority says: “The parties agree among themselves that we need not develop an internet-specific standard for personal jurisdiction. We also agree.” No need for Internet exceptionalist rules. Yay! With that out of the way, bring on the tissues. Briskin made a purchase ...
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First Successful Lightning Triggering and Guiding Using a Drone

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News Highlights: ◆We have achieved the world's first successful lightning triggering and guiding using a drone...
News Highlights: ◆We have achieved the world's first successful lightning triggering and guiding using a drone by harnessing electric field fluctuations. ◆We developed and validated a lightning protection cage design that prevents malfunction or damage even when the drone is struck directly by lightning. This design...
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Sustain your creative drive in the face of technological change

thecreativeindependent.com

For a non-programmer, tell me about how you go about using a programming language to make...
For a non-programmer, tell me about how you go about using a programming language to make generative art. This will touch on something that is unusual about how I use programming languages in general. The common practice in the industry is one that involves very slow feedback loops, these things we call compile-test...
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C++26: more constexpr in the core language

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Moon photovoltaics utilizing lunar regolith and halide perovskites

cell.com
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The Cost of AI Coding

terriblesoftware.org

“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments...
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.” — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi I know I’ve posted some upbeat content about AI before...
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You Wouldn't Steal a Font

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MIT engineers print synthetic "metamaterials" that are both strong and stretchy

mit.edu

In metamaterials design, the name of the game has long been “stronger is better.”Metamaterials are synthetic...
In metamaterials design, the name of the game has long been “stronger is better.”Metamaterials are synthetic materials with microscopic structures that give the overall material exceptional properties. A huge focus has been in designing metamaterials that are stronger and stiffer than their conventional counterparts...

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Show HN: Body Controlled 3D Dino Game

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To Avoid Deer Strikes, Finland Is Painting Deer Antlers with Reflective Paint

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