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America.gov

Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.

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Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet

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Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

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Pi.dev: You Said No MCP

Pi now supports MCP. Why we changed our minds, what changed in MCP and in Pi, and what Codemode is.

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U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

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Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course

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Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available

Whether you’re a first-time Linux user, experienced developer, academic researcher, or enterprise administrator, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is the best way to benefit from the latest advancements in the Linux ecosystem on a stable foundation. As with all LTS releases of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS represents the consolidation of fix […]

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Mathematical Origami

Explore the beautiful world of Origami and mathematics. Be amazed by stunning photographs, try our folding instructions, or learn about the mathematical background.

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Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

One of nature's beautiful patterns captured in dancing lights

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Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use

The vast majority of data centers in Europe keep information about their environmental impact secret, according to a study by Lighthouse Report in collaboration with Trouw and other European media. In the Netherlands, less than a quarter of larger data centers publish data about their electricity and drinking water usage.The researchers spent a year trying to obtain data on data centers’ environmental impact in Europe, invoking freedom of information laws in various European countries. Their attempts have yielded no results.

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Solving Factorio Quality

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Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot

JBR-001 is an open-source desktop companion robot powered by the Arduino® UNO™ Q and built to make robotics, computer vision, edge AI, and physical AI fun to explore.

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SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

The real difference between texture-atlas, SDF, MSDF, and Slug glyph rendering on the GPU: how each works, where each breaks, and when to use which.

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Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026

Explore Q2 2026 failure rates across 354,415 Backblaze drives, plus standout models and emerging CMR, SMR, and HAMR storage technologies.

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Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

Spread across thousands of ordinary homes, Vermont's virtual power plant has become its largest power source. It's protecting owners from outages and providing cheaper, cleaner energy.

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NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

Nearly 27 years after the final Blackbird flight, NASA quietly launched a project last summer to return an SR-71A to flight.

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How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

Since 2002, Delhi has transformed its power grid from a dysfunctional, electricity-leaking mess to a world-class system. Here's how they did it.

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Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

Benchmark for tracking model capability after release. - ninjahawk/livenerf

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Dots: Always-on agents

Dots by OpenAI are proactive assistants that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.

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September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy

How a Pole sees the world in September 2026: a scrolling essay that follows one closed strait into fuel, food, bonds, defence and demography.

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On this day

Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

America.gov

Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet

Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

Pi.dev: You Said No MCP

U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course

Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available

Mathematical Origami

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use

Solving Factorio Quality

Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot

SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026

Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

Dots: Always-on agents

September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy

On this day

Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.

Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.

The 7.6 Mw Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.

Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper.

Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.

The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.

Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-68.

The 6.2 Mw Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.

Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

Finnair Flight 405 is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland.

Malév Flight 240 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while on approach to Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 60.

Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.

The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.

Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.

The Flintstones, the first prime-time animated sitcom, premieres on ABC television.

The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.

The Berlin Airlift ends.

The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.

Pakistan joins the United Nations.

The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43.

World War II: the Germans commence a counter offensive to retake the Nijmegen salient, this having been captured by the allies during Operation Market Garden.

The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by President Roosevelt.

World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.

World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.

NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.

Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".

American journalists Herbert R. Ekins, reporter for the New York World-Telegram, Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of The New York Times start the race to travel around the world on commercial airline flights. The race takes 18 ½ days.

The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.

The Elaine massacre in Arkansas commences.

Ukrainian War of Independence: Insurgent forces led by Nestor Makhno defeats the Central Powers at the battle of Dibrivka.

World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.

The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.

The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.

The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, is established in La Coruña, Spain.

Friedrich Nietzsche finished writing The Antichrist, with the 7 propositions Law Against Christianity, marked by him as a Day of Salvation, Day and Year 1 of a new calendar.

Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant, the Vulcan Street Plant, begins operation.

Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles, premieres in Paris.

The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.

France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly.

War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia.

The Lebanese Council of 1736 begins, a major turning point in the reform of the Maronite Church. In the following three days, the assembled Maronite and Latin clergy presided by Yusuf ibn Siman as-Simani discuss various reforms and elaborate rules and canons.

The Venetians under Girolamo Corner take the city of Herceg Novi from the Ottoman Empire.

A coup by the military establishment of Japan's Ōuchi clan forces their lord to commit suicide, and their city is burned.

Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.

Suleiman the Magnificent becomes sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Henry IV is proclaimed king of England.

Battle of Morlaix is fought in the Hundred Years' War.

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes the Caucasus mountains in the Seljuk Empire, causing mass destruction and killing up to 300,000 people.

Election of Pope Alexander II following the death of Pope Nicholas II two months prior.

The Türgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus, and capture their baggage train.

The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time.

On this day

Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.

Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.

The 7.6 Mw Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.

Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper.