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I built Ponytrail, a local audit trail for AI coding-agent edits (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-22 | tags: ponytrail, ai coding-agent, cli

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'Fungalpunk' RPG Signet City isn't afraid to be weird and political (engadget.com)

2026-06-22 | by Igor Bonifacic | tags: fungalpunk, citizen sleeper, signet city

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How Roomba started a robot revolution (theverge.com)

2026-06-21 | by David Pierce | get iRobot Roomba Robot Vacuum → | tags: irobot, roomba, robovac

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The Story of Semicolon (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-19 | tags: semicolon, venice printer, punctuation history

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My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-19 | tags: computer programming, 1992, software development

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The journey to a no-compromise foldable smartphone (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-19 | get Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 → | tags: foldable smartphone, smartphone history, form factors

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Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-17 | tags: carlo ginzburg, history, obscure

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Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-17 | get Color Name Dictionary → | tags: named colors, pigment catalogue, provenance

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How we learned to stop worrying* and love the autonomous future (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-17 | get Autonomous Vehicle Model Kit → | tags: autonomous future, tech history, human guide

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AI is making answers cheap. Curiosity is priceless (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-16 | get AI Chatbot Assistant → | tags: artificial intelligence, answers, leadership

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Egyptian Fractions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-15 | get Egyptian Fractions Puzzle Book → | tags: egyptian fractions, ahmes papyrus, greedy algorithm

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‘Every box has been opened’: London botanic gardens digitizes 7 million specimens (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-15 | by Castelvecchi | get Botanical Specimen Digitization Kit → | tags: kew gardens, plant specimens, global biodiversity

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Computer History Museum recalls ‘astonishing’ retro haul recovered from abandoned German warehouse — over 2,000 artifacts spanning the 1930s to 1980s required seven tractor-trailers after a WWII bomb scare (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-14 | by Mark Tyson | get Vintage Computer Museum Model → | tags: computer history museum, castrop-rauxel, wwii bomb

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Taylor Swift set a trend at the NBA Finals with her custom New York Knicks shirt (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-11 | get NBA Finals Fan Shirt → | tags: blowing, blowing social, comeback

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Google will save your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio for AI training (theverge.com)

2026-06-10 | by Emma Roth | get Google Lens Photo Backup → | tags: google, history, interactions

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The viral Knicks chant united New York City. Now it needs a new ending (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-09 | get Knicks City Chant T-Shirt → | tags: annals, annals history, bagel

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The new bibliomaniacs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-06 | tags: book, books, booksellers

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Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-02 | get Fidonet Network Kit → | tags: fidonet, technology, tools

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The Success of ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Might Be a Historic Moment in Film History (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-01 | get Backrooms Puzzle Game → | tags: backrooms, obsession, youtube

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Meta's AI training effort is capturing employee emails and browsing history, not just mouse clicks (techspot.com)

2026-06-01 | get Meta Data Privacy Toolkit → | tags: meta, model capability initiative, ai training

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A New Book Chronicles the Birth of ‘E.T.’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-31 | get E.T. Movie Poster Puzzle → | tags: e.t., spielberg, max evry

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Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-30 | get Korean Historical Data Book → | tags: joseon dynasty, observability dashboard, mandarin of heaven

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A letter from the Duke of Wellington to the British Foreign Office (1809) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-29 | get Historical Document Replica → | tags: duke of wellington, british foreign office, 1809

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Testing the WWI concrete ships and WWII concrete barges (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-29 | get Concrete Ship Model Kit → | tags: wwi concrete ships, wwii concrete barges, naval engineering

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How the Library of Congress packed 250 years of U.S. history into a vial the size of a quarter (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-29 | get Library of Congress History Book → | tags: library of congress, synthetic dna, star-spangled banner

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The Science of Weather and the Nature of Science (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-28 | by Jessica Riskin | get Weather Science Kit → | tags: stanford university, jean-baptiste lamarck, epigenetics

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Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-28 | tags: tron, legacy, film

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‘Widow’s Bay’ Pulls the Past Into the Present in Hilariously Gruesome Ways (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-27 | tags: apple tv, widow’s bay, horror comedy

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How AI inhibits our curiosity, and what to do to regain it, according to science (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-27 | get AI Curiosity Boost Kit → | tags: curiosity, scientific breakthrough, human history

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Franklin Pierce by David W. Blight (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-27 | by In Pursuit | tags: franklin pierce, bowdoin college, american presidency