FACTFLOW

Tech

The Russian who invented semiconductors 25 years before the USA

Article URL: https://www.semidoped.com/p/til-the-man-who-invented-the-future Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431367 Points: 14 # Comments: 3

Tech

Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo

Article URL: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2026/cloned-polo-horses Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431286 Points: 30 # Comments: 12

Tech

Show HN: TakoVM – Isolated model and tool execution used by enterprises

Article URL: https://github.com/las7/TakoVM Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431257 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

Tech

How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time

Article URL: https://hyperallergic.com/how-liminalism-became-the-defining-aesthetic-of-our-time/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431085 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

Tech

Show HN: Oproxy – inspect and modify network traffic from the browser

Article URL: https://github.com/sauravrao637/oproxy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431079 Points: 17 # Comments: 1

Tech

Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14470 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430923 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Tech

An Ohio Valley 100k-Watt FM Signal Is Severed in Broad Daylight – Radio World

Article URL: https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/an-ohio-valley-100000-watt-fm-signal-is-severed-in-broad-daylight Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430860 Points: 10 # Comments: 0

Tech

Show HN: DomainTasker – avoid losing domains and surprise renewals

Article URL: https://domaintasker.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430693 Points: 9 # Comments: 5

Tech

Public Domain Image Archive

Article URL: https://pdimagearchive.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430539 Points: 17 # Comments: 2

Tech

Context Sculpting

Article URL: https://perceptiontheory.bearblog.dev/context-sculpting/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430070 Points: 10 # Comments: 3

Tech

DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List

Article URL: https://www.military.com/dod-officially-drops-180-faiths-from-militarys-recognized-religion-list Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430212 Points: 25 # Comments: 9

Tech

Show HN: Ironwall, a safety-first native programming language and compiler

Hi HN, I have been working on a new programming language and compiler. Website: https://ironwall-lang.dev GitHub: https://github.com/3WyUFvDOdCbBw7gOZHwcfgKF/ironwall Why a new language is still needed: https://ironwall-lang.dev/en/motivation The com

Tech

Show HN: Keybench – Scriptable, extensible performance tool for key value stores

I've been working with storage engines for quite a while and really there was no similar tool to sysbench and or HammerDB for key-value storage engines. Thus I introduce a POC called keybench. I hope you check it out, and do give it a run to drive

Tech

Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation

Article URL: https://mashable.com/tech/motorola-wifi-routers-stop-working-motosync-plus-app-down Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425611 Points: 46 # Comments: 16

Tech

OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks

Even with Lockdown Mode, ChatGPT could be still vulnerable to prompt injections, but the goal is to reduce the likelihood that sensitive data gets shared in the process.