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Reframe an AI Short Film [video]
Re:We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works
on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @02:55PM (#48737569)
I'm still nostalgic for the times when I had to enter the bootloader using the keys on front panel of the PDP-11 to then loaded the OS from paper tape. (not to mention multi pass compilers using paper tape between the phases...)
Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Re:Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah
on Sunday May 24, 2026 @08:47AM (#48256861)
Who can forget the CEO Francis J. Sellinger and his 'Taste My Schlitz' commercials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NPxny7no4c
Wittgenstein's Contribution to Philosophy [video]
Re:Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @03:42PM (#47417278)
Where will all those Meta Avatars go? Is there a retirement home in the Metaverse?
Re:The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @03:53PM (#46980772)
When I want to motivate myself I look at this https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-scariest-climate-plot-...
Re:Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed
on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @04:11AM (#46957127)
more context here https://c20society.org.uk/news/if-not-now-when-c20-renews-34...
Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed
Re:The Olivetti Company โ By Bradford Morgan White
on Sunday January 18, 2026 @10:55AM (#46668802)
I have fond memories from my Acorn days of staying in the 'typewriter' hotel on visits to Ivrea - it became derelict, but perhaps it has been revived...
https://zoningthegardenstate.wordpress.com/2020/10/04/the-pr...
Pickleball Paddle Technology in 2025
Jeffrey Hudson the Court Dwarf of the English Queen Henrietta Maria of France
Simple wearable calms Parkinson's symptoms
It is time to 'Correct the Map'
The Doves Type
Re:Bayeux Tapestry Will Return to the U.K. In 950 Years
on Sunday July 13, 2025 @05:01AM (#44548707)
At least I will be able to visit the exhibition and count them myself: https://allthatsinteresting.com/bayeux-tapestry-penises
Re:Show HN: A 50% Undercut
on Friday July 11, 2025 @04:27AM (#44529635)
My mind wandered to these more interesting "undercuts" https://uk.pinterest.com/ideas/lesbian-undercut-designs/9549...
Re:Panjandrum: The 'giant firework' built to break Hitler's Atlantic Wall
on Sunday June 08, 2025 @03:51PM (#44219119)
I always preferred the thinking behind the 'Conundrum' used in Operation Pluto. No big bangs but excellent logistics - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pluto
Literal Fuck Hats Saved the Peregrine Falcon
South Korea Is over [video]
Re:The Great Hobby Lobby Artifact Heist
on Monday March 24, 2025 @01:04PM (#43463143)
Story also covered in a BBC podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002883z