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Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA

Article URL: https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/zsst-voodoo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719938 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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Lucasart's Afterlife

Article URL: https://togameforlife.wordpress.com/2023/12/09/on-lucasarts-afterlife/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

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The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA's expectations

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is the first NASA observatory designed for in-space refue...

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The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Article URL: https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/15/engineering-behind-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve Comments URL: http...

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The AI data center boom is colliding with cities scarred by big industry 

National outcry against data center construction has spread to Philadelphia, where officials suggested possible construc...

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AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

https://archive.is/Ay7RJ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719249 Points: 35 # Comments: 6

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German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol

Article URL: https://rheinmetall.github.io/onboardapi-documentation/9.10.0/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

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Jean-Pierre Serre is 100 years old today

Article URL: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Serre/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

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My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it

Article URL: https://jakeasmith.com/blog/http-build-url/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49718773 Po...

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Microsoft announces Windows and Surface event for October 7th

It's been more than two years since the last major Windows event, so Microsoft is heading to San Francisco next month to...

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“Filmmaker” suing PassThePopcorn may be banned user out for revenge

Allegedly fake filmmaker targeted trackers like PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, and HDBits. ...

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What if social media isn’t hurting kids?

Two years ago, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt released his New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation. The boo...

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Meta now lets AI agents handle the boring parts of WhatsApp Business setup

A new WhatsApp Business MCP server lets developers use AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT to handl...

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How much oil-market buffer is left?

Article URL: https://www.depletion.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49718025 Points: 29 # Comment...

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Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

Article URL: https://codyho.dev/blog/gpu-driver/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717638 Points: 5 ...

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WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages

Article URL: https://github.com/GraafHenk/numberwang Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717605 Points...

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Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster

Article URL: https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

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The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World

Article URL: https://patrickwyman.substack.com/p/the-siberian-ice-maiden-and-the-scythian Comments URL: https://news.yc...

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Learning to solve hard problems in RL for LLMs by never giving up

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13443 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717280 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy 'super app' launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut...

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18-year-old dies of measles in PA from severe neurological complication

Teen developed acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a known measles complication. ...

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SpaceX declares Starship ready for orbit, sets launch date next week

Reaching orbit would mark a significant milestone.

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Chop Up Your Books

Article URL: https://attainablefelicity.mattkirkland.com/20260915/cut-up-your-books.html Comments URL: https://news.yco...

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Kia’s electric van lineup is getting more interesting with reveal of PV7

You may not know it, but minivans are making a comeback in the US. Look around, and you'll start to notice an uptick in ...

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Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers

Robots can start working outside physical cages and without safety barriers. ...

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US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035

The AI frenzy could push U.S. data centers to become one of the largest consumers of natural gas in the world.

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How AI tool calling works (40 lines of vanilla JavaScript)

Article URL: https://buttercup.sh/lessons/2026-09-15-lesson-2-tool-calling.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

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SpaceX will try to put Starship in orbit for the first time on September 22

Elon Musk's company will also attempt to deploy the first V3 Starlink satellites into its orbital internet constellation...

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Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract

City: Flock enabled "nationwide lookup" despite contract requiring it to be disabled. ...

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We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes

Article URL: https://www.strix.ai/blog/baseten-harbor-github-pat-takeover Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...