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This Month in Ladybird – August 2026

Article URL: https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-08-31/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571096 Points: 135 # Comments: 27
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Decapitating a MacBook (2025)

Article URL: https://mm-dev.rocks/series/decapitating-macbook-an-odyssey/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583381 Points: 52 # Comments: 36
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Catching Crumbs from the Table (2000)

https://web.archive.org/web/20150719010624/http://www.nature... https://www.scribd.com/document/893921964/CHIANG-Catching-Cr... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584053 Points: 11 # Comments: 3
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Schemy Lisp En DOS

Article URL: https://sled.neocities.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49586139 Points: 26 # Comments: 5
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Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds

Article URL: https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/icy-moons-are-ocean-worlds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49586207 Points: 119 # Comments: 10
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The Dataflow Model Revisited

PDF: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p4953-fernandez-moctezuma.p... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49589190 Points: 78 # Comments: 14
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Macbeth and His Problems

Article URL: https://porticoquarterly.com/essay/macbeth-and-his-problems/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49602716 Points: 30 # Comments: 9
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Working on Economics with Fable 5

Article URL: https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/08/03/working-on-economics-with-fable-5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49603086 Points: 36 # Comments: 20
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Six years later, Sony revisits its legendary XM4 headphones

Six years ago Sony and Bose were in the middle of a noise-canceling battle, with each new model of headphones better than the last. In the fall of 2020, Sony released the WH-1000XM4 headphones to wide acclaim. They sat atop best headphones lists for years, thanks to their great sound, competitive ANC, and compact size, […]
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A secret new Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns Telluride

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's secret Elizabeth Holmes documentary, "You Can See Everything," stunned Telluride audiences Sunday night with its generous access to the Theranos founder.
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Base64 Decode: Choosing the Right Method for Every Situation

A developer hits an unfamiliar string in a log file, an API response, or a query parameter and needs it readable before the day ends. The job looks tiny on paper, yet the path matters more than people expect. Pick the wrong approach and you'll burn an afternoon on whitespace; pick a thoughtful one and the same task takes thirty seconds. This guide compares the realistic options — manual work, a spreadsheet, command-line utilities, and a dedicated web helper — and gives an honest recommendation f...
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I got tired of losing good jobs to timing, so I built a pipeline that scores LinkedIn listings against my CV and emails me the best matches

A job posting gets 200+ applicants in 48 hours. By the time LinkedIn's daily digest hits your inbox, the window is already closing. I kept finding great matches days after they were posted. So I built SnapplAI: it scrapes fresh LinkedIn listings, sends each one to Gemini to score it against your CV, and emails you only the top matches, before the crowd even sees them. How it works Four steps, one pandas DataFrame, no frameworks: Scrape — fresh listings from LinkedIn based on your f...
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Why your progress bar's ETA lies, and the survey-sampling trick that fixes it

We've all trusted a progress bar that said "5 minutes left," walked away, and come back an hour later to find it barely moved. It's not a bug. It's built into how progress bars estimate. Here's the core problem, and it's more interesting than it looks. The lie every progress bar tells A normal progress bar computes ETA like this: "I've done 2,000 of 10,000 items in 10 minutes, so the remaining 8,000 will take about 40 more." That assumes the rest of the job looks like the part...