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Agents built from alloys (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6y9Ke
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Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body (2024) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xVjH
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ICE is getting unprecedented access to Medicaid data (🔥 Score: 155+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xZJU
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Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on? (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6xZiB
COBOL legacy systems in finance and government are somewhat of a meme. However, I've never actually met a single person who's day job is to maintain one. I'd be curious to learn what systems are you working on?
CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released as Free Download (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xYVk
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Archaeologists discover tomb of first king of Caracol (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xJeF
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USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021) (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xY7J
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Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xYgR
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My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs (Score: 153+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xXNx
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All AI models might be the same (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xWBM
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Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024) (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xW2W
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Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users (🔥 Score: 161+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xXpq
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The patterns of elites who conceal their assets offshore (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xWYm
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Show HN: A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' written in Emacs Org Mode (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xTSS
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I authored and developed an interactive children's book about entrepreneurship and money management. The journey started with Twinery, the open-source tool for making interactive fiction, discovered right here on HN. The tool kindled memories of reading CYOA style books when I was a kid, and I thought the format would be awesome for writing a story my kids could follow along, incorporating play money to learn about transactions as they occurred in the story.
Twinery is a fantastic tool, and I used it to layout the story map. I really wanted to write the content of the story in Emacs and Org Mode however. Thankfully, Twinery provided the ability to write custom Story Formats that defined how a story was exported. I wrote a Story Format called Twiorg that would export the Twinery file to an Org file and then a Org export backend (ox-twee) to do the reverse. With these tools, I could go back and forth between Emacs and Twinery for authoring the story.
The project snowballed and I ended up with the book in digital and physical book formats. The Web Book is created using another Org export backend.
Ten Dollar Adventure: https://tendollaradventure.com
Sample the Web Book (one complete storyline/adventure): https://tendollaradventure.com/sample/
I couldn't muster the effort to write a special org export backend for the physical books unfortunately and used a commercial editor to format these.
Twiorg: https://github.com/danishec/twiorg
ox-twee: https://github.com/danishec/ox-twee
Previous HN post on writing the transaction logic using an LLM in Emacs: https://blog.tendollaradventure.com/automating-story-logic-w...
Twinery 2: <https://twinery.org/> and discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32788965
Doing Hard Things (❄️ Score: 153+ in 3 days)
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Peep Show is the most realistic portrayal of evil I have seen (2020) (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
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Section 174 is reversed, mostly (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world (❄️ Score: 153+ in 4 days)
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lsr: ls with io_uring (🔥 Score: 155+ in 3 hours)
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NYPD Bypassed Facial Recognition Ban to ID Pro-Palestinian Student Protester (🔥 Score: 155+ in 2 hours)
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Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016) (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
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NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)
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Signs of autism could be encoded in the way you walk (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
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People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report (2020) (🔥 Score: 152+ in 3 hours)
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Perfume reviews (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
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Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025 (Score: 154+ in 6 hours)
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Inside the box: Everything I did with an Arduino starter kit (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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How I Use Kagi (🔥 Score: 156+ in 3 hours)
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ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action (🔥 Score: 157+ in 1 hour)
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