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Monday, July 27, 2026
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Graceful Liberty▲ 71

Teaching Kids Forth

Forth is uncommonly used to teach programming to kids. Scripting languages like Python and visual environments like Scratch are far more popular options. But when I got the opportunity to introduce middle and high school students to programming, I chose the stack-oriented concatenative language from 1970. I was ecstatic about this opportunity. I'm passionate about giving people just a bit more control over the potential locked up in the devices they carry with them every day. When people know more about computers in general and about making their own software in particular, whole worlds open up. This gave me the…

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TechSpot▲ 471

US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search

The case centers on Tunick's use of GrapheneOS, an open-source operating system that works on Google Pixel phones and lets users enter a passcode to wipe a...

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Nikolay Semenov▲ 354

PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

An explorable 3D city that shows how PostgreSQL actually works — backends, shared buffers, WAL, checkpoints, autovacuum and replication, all running live in your browser.

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Beyondloom▲ 275

Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS

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France 24▲ 267

French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

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github user▲ 102

Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg

This project simulates cassette tape audio profiles using ffmpeg - AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation

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Vercel▲ 88

Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary

TypeScript-to-Native Compiler. Contribute to vercel-labs/scriptc development by creating an account on GitHub.

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HN — Best of the Week

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Kill The Cookie Banner▲ 890

Kill The Cookie Banner

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TechSpot▲ 431

US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search

The case centers on Tunick's use of GrapheneOS, an open-source operating system that works on Google Pixel phones and lets users enter a passcode to wipe a...

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Nikolay Semenov▲ 315

PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

An explorable 3D city that shows how PostgreSQL actually works — backends, shared buffers, WAL, checkpoints, autovacuum and replication, all running live in your browser.

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Aerospace Global News▲ 274

London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

London Gatwick is the first UK airport to launch robotic parking. Passengers can keep their keys while autonomous robots park their cars.

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France 24▲ 248

French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

The gigantic wildfire ravaging southwest France has created an extremely dangerous "pyrocumulonimbus" -- a phenomenon never before seen in the country -- the spokesman for the country's…

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The Climate Brink▲ 233

The Strongest El Niño Ever

With all the July runs in, dynamical models give a ~90% chance of a record-setting event

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English Mapn▲ 224

Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory

Romanian Ministry of National Defence. It contains news from MoND, the structure of the ministry, the military forces

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Stephano▲ 216

Design is compromise

Compromise is neither good nor bad, it’s something we do every day. It’s decision making. Prioritizing. It’s finding the right balance between two competing ...

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