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How the words we teach English language learners changed

Differences between “essential vocabulary” lists, 1953 vs. 2023

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F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language

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Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops

Bor v0.8.0 is out. This release adds three new policy types — Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge for Business, and Firewalld zones — alongside a full web UI overhaul,…

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Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side

Meshdiff compares two versions of a 3D model and shows exactly what changed: added material, removed material, and dimensional drift. Free, in-browser voxel and surface-heatmap diffing for STL, 3MF, and OBJ files — nothing is uploaded.

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GE-97 Terminal: The Old Internet

Boot a Windows 98 in your browser, dial up, and surf the 1990s web. Plus a Saudi family archive and live satellite telemetry from 7Z1FP.

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Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language

A statically-typed functional language that compiles to native code through GRIN and LLVM.

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Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2

Homepage of 8bitbubsy. ProTracker 2 clone, Fasttracker II clone, source codes and so on...

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Folding Paper Globes

Free print-ready folding paper globe templates: the Moon, Mars, Earth at night, and more. Download, print, cut, fold, glue.

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Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

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Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N

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Norway Salmon

Norway's salmon industry is a global behemoth 18 times the size of Tasmania's. But the country's success holds a warning for Australia.

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Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Demand Gen Manager

About Great Question: Great Question is the all-in-one AI customer research platform for understanding your customers. Our platform enables teams to recruit participants, run research, and share insights – all in one place. Backed by world-class investors and trusted by industry-leading teams like Gusto, Experian, Canva, and Brex, we’re building the future of customer research. We believe AI is a multiplier for creativity, speed, and scale. Everyone on the team is encouraged to lean into AI, not just to be more efficient, but to push boundaries and unlock new possibilities. Whether you’re writing, designing, coding, or analyzing, we expect you to explore how AI can elevate your craft. Our culture is built on high trust, high agency, and

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When transit passes were designed by hand

A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, and community in the graphic arts.,In the 1930s–60s, Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company offered trolley and bus riders a weekly burst of color and hand lettering. About 300 of these tickets are now in our collection.

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Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

An interactive tour of what’s new in Go 1.27: every notable language, runtime, and standard library change, with short runnable examples you can edit and …

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Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

3D Printed Cycloidal Gearbox . Contribute to tom-ilan/cycloidal_gearbox development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM

Userspace macOS translation layer for Linux ARM64. Contribute to wie-project/kakehashi development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark

Use Nix and NixOS on your DGX Spark! Contribute to graham33/nixos-dgx-spark development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Karpathy’s Pelican

We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget (~$10) and asked for,Embedded video

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Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in *The Matrix*, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne Lawrence-Mathers investigates the *Ars notoria*, its supposed powers, and the demonic influence it had upon some users.

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On this day

At least 146 people are killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

How the words we teach English language learners changed

F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language

Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops

Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side

GE-97 Terminal: The Old Internet

Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language

Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2

Folding Paper Globes

Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective

Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N

Norway Salmon

Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Demand Gen Manager

When transit passes were designed by hand

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM

Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark

Karpathy’s Pelican

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

On this day

At least 146 people are killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.

Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames, leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.

Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-43 to deploy the TDRS-5 satellite.

Iraqi invasion of Kuwait: Iraq invades Kuwait and temporarily establishes the Republic of Kuwait puppet state on the orders of Saddam Hussein, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.

A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.

Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.

The Helsinki Metro, the first rapid transit system of Finland, is opened to the general public.

A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.

A flash fire kills 50 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.

An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.

A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.

World War II: The Potsdam Conference ends.

ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in North Macedonia.

World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.

The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.

World War II: After the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri, Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.

Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.

The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.

The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.

U.S. Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes president upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.

A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing more than 50,000 people.

The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.

World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

World War I: The German occupation of Luxembourg begins.

End of the Tragic Week in Barcelona, a series of antiwar and antigovernment protests in Spain and especially in Barcelona.

The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.

Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.

The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.

Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.

The Government of India Act 1858 replaces Company rule in India with that of the British Raj.

July Revolution: Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.

French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.

The first United States Census is conducted.

The first British mail coach service runs from Bristol to London.

American Revolution: The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress takes place.

During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay.

The Jews are expelled from Spain: 40,000–200,000 leave. Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire, learning of this, dispatches the Ottoman Navy to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly to the cities of Thessaloniki (in modern-day Greece) and İzmir (in modern-day Turkey).

Thomas Grey is executed for participating in the Southampton Plot.

Russian troops are defeated by forces of the Blue Horde Khan Arapsha in the Battle on Pyana River.

After the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson sells her estates and raises a force of men with which to attack French shipping and ports.

Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.

After a two-year siege, the city of Toledo, in Spain, surrenders to the forces of the Caliph of Córdoba Abd al-Rahman III, assuming an important victory in his campaign to subjugate the Central March.

Western Roman Emperor Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer.

Julius Caesar defeats Pharnaces II of Pontus in the battle of Zela.

Caesar, who marched to Spain earlier in the year, leaving Marcus Antonius in charge of Italy, defeats Pompey's general Afranius and Petreius in Ilerda (Lerida) north of the Ebro river.

The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.

A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeats the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.

On this day

At least 146 people are killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.

Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames, leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.

Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-43 to deploy the TDRS-5 satellite.

Iraqi invasion of Kuwait: Iraq invades Kuwait and temporarily establishes the Republic of Kuwait puppet state on the orders of Saddam Hussein, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.