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Show HN: Curiosity – DIY 6" Newtonian Reflector Telescope

A DIY Newtonian reflector telescope with dobsonian mount. A fun to do hobby project taking us closer to the moon and beyond. A lot of plans ahead on how to make it much better and portable but this ...

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Technology Mar 8, 2026

To the Polypropylene Makers

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HQTueNS4mLaGy3BBL/here-s-to-the-polypropylene-makers Comments URL: https:/...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

A roadmap for AI, if anyone will listen

The Pro-Human Declaration was finalized before last week's Pentagon-Anthropic standoff, but the collision of the two eve...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

Sem – Semantic version control. Entity-level diffs on top of Git

Article URL: https://github.com/ataraxy-labs/sem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294924 Points: 9 ...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug

Article URL: https://github.com/Dieu-de-l-elec/AngstromIO-devboard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

Push for $40 smartphones builds momentum, but still faces cost hurdles

A coalition of telecom operators and device makers is pushing $40 smartphones to bring up to 20 million people online, b...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

Fatbikes are wreaking havoc in Sydney's wealthy beach suburbs

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8l1d221evo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294487...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/world/middleeast/israel-iran-oil-strikes.html Comments URL: https://new...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

Revisiting Time: UT1, UTC, NTP and NTS

Article URL: https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2026-03/nts.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4729398...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

Will Claude Code ruin our team?

Article URL: https://justinjackson.ca/claude-code-ruin Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293938 Poin...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games

Article URL: https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293682 Points: 7...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

Iranian Women Graduate in Stem 3× the Rate of U.S. Women and Has 5× More PhDs

Article URL: https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/iranian-women-graduate-in-stem-at Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

They all said Hormuz closure would be brief. What if they were wrong?

Article URL: https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1156532/They-all-said-Hormuz-closure-would-be-brief-What-if-they-were-wrong C...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

"Warn about PyPy being unmaintained"

Article URL: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/17643 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293415 Poi...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

Pushing and Pulling: Three reactivity algorithms

Article URL: https://jonathan-frere.com/posts/reactivity-algorithms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?

Article URL: https://www.typebarmagazine.com/science-fiction-is-dying-long-live-post-sci-fi/ Comments URL: https://news...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers

Article URL: https://devblog.ecuadors.net/cloud-vm-benchmarks-2026-performance-price-1i1m.html Comments URL: https://ne...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package

Most of it is tied to performance, including new stock incentives linked to Waymo and Wing, its drone delivery venture.

Technology Mar 8, 2026

I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/will-my-job-still-exist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Mar 8, 2026

Ghostmd: Ghostty but for Markdown Notes

Article URL: https://mimoo.github.io/ghostmd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292841 Points: 7 # C...

Technology Mar 7, 2026

Why developers using AI are working longer hours

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours/ Comments URL:...

Technology Mar 7, 2026

How to run Qwen 3.5 locally

Article URL: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292522 Points:...

Technology Mar 7, 2026

Put the Zipcode First

Article URL: https://zipcodefirst.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292485 Points: 66 # Comments...

Technology Mar 7, 2026

Caitlin Kalinowski: I resigned from OpenAI

Article URL: https://twitter.com/kalinowski007/status/2030320074121478618 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology Mar 7, 2026

Grammarly’s ‘expert review’ is just missing the actual experts

A recently-added feature in Grammarly purports to improve users’ writing with help from the world's great writers and ...

Technology Mar 7, 2026

Why the Ratio Four Series Two Is What I Use to Test New Coffees

A new generation of home machines has made good old drip coffee a place for connoisseurs. For more than a year, the Four...

Technology Mar 7, 2026

Lisp-style C++ template meta programming

Article URL: https://github.com/mistivia/lmp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292029 Points: 6 # Co...

Technology Mar 7, 2026

Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper?

Article URL: https://slashdot.org/submission/17345398/does-apples-m5-max-really-destroy-a-96-core-threadripper Comments...

Technology Mar 7, 2026

Microscopes Can See Video on a LaserDisc

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZuR-772cks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291876 Po...

Technology Mar 7, 2026

$3T Blind Spot: US nonprofits

Article URL: https://charitysense.com/insights/the-3-trillion-blind-spot Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...