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How Sony and JR East Engineered Suica, Japan's Battery-Free Transit Card
Suica, the contactless IC card millions tap at Japanese station gates, is a quietly remarkable piece of 1990s engineering. Each card stores only two things loca
htmx 4.0 Ships: Explicit Attribute Inheritance, fetch() Internals, Morph Swaps
After eight months of work, the htmx team has released version 4.0, a major update that nonetheless leaves most day-to-day usage untouched. The three changes th
Italian activist tech collective A/I flags U.S. sanctions atop its manifesto
Autistici/Inventati (A/I) is a volunteer-run Italian collective, founded in 2001 out of the autonomous anticapitalist movement, that provides free communication
Keyboard-Driven Is a Choice, Not a TUI Perk: The Case for Fully Navigable GUIs
Responding to a recent Hacker News debate over whether developers should build terminal UIs or graphical ones, the author pushes back on one specific pro-TUI cl
M5Stack ships PaperMono, an ESP32-S3 E-Ink terminal with NFC and LoRa
M5Stack has released PaperMono, a compact development terminal built around the ESP32-S3R8 and a 3.97-inch, four-level grayscale E-Ink display with touch input
Open-source engine revives TIE Fighter — and X-Wing Alliance — on modern hardware
OpenTIE is a clean-room reimplementation of 1994's Star Wars: TIE Fighter that runs the original game data natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It ships no co
Orbify demos patent-pending 'warping' 3D navigation that bends the map
Orbify, a Norwegian company (Orbify AS), is showing off an interactive 3D navigation demo built around what it calls patent-pending 'warping' technology — the v
Pollen Robotics' Microduck: a $399 open-source biped you train with RL
Pollen Robotics has opened pre-orders for Microduck, a 25 cm, 800 g bipedal robot whose every behavior is a reinforcement-learning policy the owner can retrain.
Show HN: Voronoi Go — no summarizable content available
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SSRI Withdrawal Was Downplayed for Decades — Now Guidelines Are Being Rewritten
SSRIs were adopted as the safe successor to older antidepressants like tricyclics, trading serious cardiac and toxicity risks for milder side effects. That repu
Stanford's Terminal-Bench-Science tests AI agents on real research — top model hits 30%
Terminal-Bench-Science is a new benchmark from Stanford researchers and the Terminal-Bench team that measures how well AI agents handle actual scientific work r
Stripe-led consortium walks away from $50B PayPal takeover bid
Stripe and its investment partners — a group that, per Bloomberg's reporting, included private-equity firm Advent International — have dropped a roughly $50 bil