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The Invention of Buses
The weird, wild story of humanity's obsession with gold
In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident
Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments
I've built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub
ThinkPad: From IBM's Bento Box to Lenovo's AI Workstations
Legacy Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems
Sam Sianis, Chicago's most famous saloonkeeper, has died
Citroën Metropolis concept car (2010)
Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels
Why is Charlie Stross's site named Antipope?
What Were Ancient Greco-Roman Curse Tablets?
δ-Mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models
England Runestones
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Fossils show millipede and centipede ancestors evolved legs underwater
Computer Hobby Movement in Canada
Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer
The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube
A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began
Bliss (Photograph)
Gode Cookery – Authentic Medieval Recipes
Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did
Chindogu: Weird and Useless Japanese Inventions
The Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism
Internet Archive Switzerland
Roadside Attraction
Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive
The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis
The first photo published in a newspaper
Farewell to a Giant of Botany
Jonathan Swift's Last Joke
Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets
San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names
Canonical Under Attack
Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930
Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s
Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h
New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,300 years ago, discovered in Rome
Universal patterns emerge across 22 languages, mapping how vocabularies evolve
How an Oil Refinery Works
The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life
For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa
GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts
Withnail's Coat and I
The biggest insect ever was a "dragonfly"
Spanish archaeologists discover trove of ancient shipwrecks in Bay of Gibraltar