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How the Hindenburg Ran a Smoking Room Inside a Hydrogen Airship
The Hindenburg, despite carrying seven million cubic feet of hydrogen, had a dedicated smoking lounge on B Deck. Engineers isolated it behind a double-door airl
Jank gains a Clojure-aware custom IR to close the gap with the JVM
Jank, a native Clojure dialect compiled through LLVM, has shipped its own intermediate representation tailored to Clojure semantics. Until now, the project lean
Mercurial at 20: Why the VCS Git Fans Wrote Off Is Still Shipping
A FOSDEM 2026 talk takes on the widespread assumption that Mercurial died when Git won the distributed version control wars in the 2010s. The reality is messier
Prolog's Coding Horrors: Why Impure Constructs Break Logic Programs
A Prolog advocate catalogs the language features that quietly sabotage programs written in it. The core sin is reaching for impure, non-monotonic constructs lik
Searchable archive collects 333 hours of astronaut Q&A footage
A new web project, Ask an Astronaut, aggregates 333 hours of question-and-answer footage with astronauts into a single searchable archive hosted at issinrealtim
Semble: CPU-only code search MCP server cuts agent token use by 98%
Semble is an open-source code search library aimed at coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. Instead of having an agent grep for keywords and read e
Tesla quietly abandons Solar Roof after hitting 0.3% of its weekly install target
Nearly a decade after Elon Musk unveiled the Solar Roof in 2016 with a goal of 1,000 installs per week by end of 2019, Tesla has deployed only around 3,000 syst
Two Navy EA-18G Growlers Collide Mid-Air at Idaho Airshow; All Four Crew Eject Safely
Two U.S. Navy EA-18G Growlers from Electronic Attack Squadron 129, based at Whidbey Island, collided during an aerial demonstration at the Gunfighter Skies airs
Vermont engineer revives pay phones with VoIP for cell-dead rural towns
Beta Technologies engineer Patrick Schlott has installed seven free-to-use pay phones across rural Vermont, routing calls over local internet connections throug
Vigilantes Take Vice Grips to Flock Cameras as ICE Backlash Spreads
At least 25 Flock Safety license-plate cameras have been physically destroyed across five states since April 2025, with incidents documented in California, Oreg
Why localhost TCP connections sometimes throw ECONNRESET — and how to fix it
A developer traces an intermittent ECONNRESET between two local services down to a subtle TCP behavior: when a server closes a socket while unread data is still
A native Apple dev's case for Electron when text is the product
A longtime macOS/iOS developer recounts trying to build something deceptively simple in pure Swift: a chat view with Markdown that lets users select an entire m