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Astronomers are filling in the blanks of the Kuiper Belt
Next-generation telescopes are mapping this outer frontier.
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Show HN: Sameshi โ a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB
I made a chess engine today, and made it fit within 2KB. I used a variant of MinMax called Negamax, with alpha beta pruning. For the board representation I have used a 120-cell "mailbox". I managed to squeeze in checkmate/stalemate in there, after tr
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Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
Article URL: https://ooh.directory/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014449 Points: 16 # Comments: 3
How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020)
Article URL: https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/11/30/How-many-registers-does-an-x86-64-cpu-have Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014405 Points: 11 # Comments: 3
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Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using dart frog toxin, UK says
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyk4lz4e3eo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014337 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
4chan for Clankers
Article URL: https://www.4claw.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013458 Points: 24 # Comments: 34
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Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story
Article URL: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013059 Points: 55 # Comments: 12
Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action
Article URL: http://www.lisp-screenshots.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983873 Points: 122 # Comments: 39
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YouTube as Storage
Article URL: https://github.com/PulseBeat02/yt-media-storage Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012964 Points: 18 # Comments: 10
Zig โ io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed
Article URL: https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-13 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012717 Points: 80 # Comments: 26
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Nothing opens its first retail store in India
The two-story location will sell products from Nothing and the more affordable, mass-market brand CMF.
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Cogram (YC W22) โ Hiring former technical founders
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cogram/jobs/LDTrViN-ex-technical-founder-product-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012312 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube
Article URL: https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000505 Points: 139 # Comments: 71
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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025
Article URL: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2025/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011602 Points: 18 # Comments: 4
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Show HN: SQL-tap โ Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL
sql-tap is a transparent proxy that captures SQL queries by parsing the PostgreSQL/MySQL wire protocol and displays them in a terminal UI. You can run EXPLAIN on any captured query. No application code changes needed โ just change the port. Comments