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Holes (1996-2025)
Article URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934261
Points: 26
# Comments: 6
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Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server
pi pod runs sessions of the pi coding agent in isolated sandboxes ("pods") on a server you run, in composable environments. ---- Since moving my company towards AI-native work, I have been really frustrated by the state of "agentic engineering" environments. Products by the labs (claude code, codex) lock you into a single provider for your tokens. Agnostic solutions (factory, devin, arguably cursor) make you pay per-token costs. None of these products allow you to fully customize the harness, an...
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Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)
Article URL: http://www.darbiansphotography.com/woking-electrical-control-room-urbex
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938399
Points: 106
# Comments: 18
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The characters of plastics (2024)
Article URL: https://yarchive.net/blog/plastics/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941764
Points: 5
# Comments: 2
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Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706
Points: 359
# Comments: 247
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FTL: A new operating system for clouds
https://github.com/nuta/ftl
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944912
Points: 114
# Comments: 48
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City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2
Article URL: https://www.radical-elements.com/minor-epiphanies/city-building-games-have-a-soul-problem-pt2
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945323
Points: 109
# Comments: 106
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RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/retailready/jobs/bFcgIe4-implementations
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945904
Points: 0
# Comments: 0
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Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf]
Article URL: https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946069
Points: 76
# Comments: 2
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Vx – One Language, Every Chip
Article URL: https://vxlang.org/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946076
Points: 19
# Comments: 12
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Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase
Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/system76-bans-ai-generated-code-across-many-of-its-cosmic-codebases/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946321
Points: 54
# Comments: 35
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Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields
Article URL: https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946393
Points: 49
# Comments: 15
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ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/30CC4826561366615BFAEC807CDE28A7/S0007125026108046a.pdf/adhd-autism-or-complex-trauma-the-complicated-nature-of-the-question.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946403
Points: 141
# Comments: 92
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Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers
Article URL: https://aviationa2z.com/index.php/2026/08/19/two-american-airlines-flights-end-up-with-same-flight-numbers-again/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946827
Points: 10
# Comments: 3
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Our AI Midwife
Article URL: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/our-ai-midwife
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946873
Points: 6
# Comments: 0

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