Industry 4.0

Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could

Now, that's a lot of word processing. But under the hood it's still at least PDP-8 adjacent, even considering its oddities and incompatibilities, and you can make it do many of the things a full-size Eight can. We'll take this basic unit, convert the floppy drives to solid state, tap the video output, and put it through its paces.

Can You Stop a Hypersonic Missile?

Can You Stop a Hypersonic Missile? The headlines say yes. Patriot crews shot down a Kinzhal over Kyiv on the night of May 4, 2023.

Show HN: Ktx – Open-source executable context layer for data agents

'Peddi' box office Day 5: Ram Charan and Janhvi starrer narrowly misses Rs 250 cr global mark

Ram Charan starrer 'Peddi' had a massive first weekend at the box office. The movie arrived in theatres on Thursday, June 4, 2026, and has been amassing big numbers in collections. Though the mass actioner has received criticism over the portrayal of the female lead, Janhvi Kapoor, it has not stopped the audience from watching the film in theatres.

The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)

Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Lens Repair & Analysis [05.12.24] I have a camera gear collection problem and as part of my personal 12 step plan, I restrict myself from purchasing functioning lenses. This sounds illogical, and it frankly is, but it's very hard for me to resist heavily discounted lenses.

A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Drafters without GPU)

A 10 year old Xeon is all you need 17 minutes read The previous post covered getting Gemma 4’s MTP drafters quantized and paired with a verifier. This one is about running the result on a machine that has no business running it. I have a recycled server.

PlayStation Architecture

Supporting imagery A quick introduction Sony knew that 3D hardware could get very messy to develop for. Thus, their debuting console will keep its design simple and practical… Although this may come at a cost!

Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

I've made a number of ceramic molds for slumping fused glass into bowls. As well as wooden templates for ceramic mugs. I've devised a few carrying tools to move glass frit paintings from my studio down to my barn where the kilns sit without spilling the glass.

MLB post-hype check-in: What to make of former big...

Players like Corbin Carroll, Paul Skenes, Nick Kurtz and now Kevin McGonigle have spoiled it for all hyped Major League Baseball prospects in recent years: We expect instant stardom from them, forgetting that baseball, as the great Jimmy Dugan once said, is "supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it."

22 World Cup items, 22 stories

FIFA won't reveal how, but after every game at the 2026 World Cup this summer, it will be collecting items that will one day document the tournament. It already has the net from the 2018 World Cup final, for example, as well as the tracksuit that Pelé wore at his first World Cup in 1958. The items live in FIFA's various museums, ranging from Vancouver and Miami to Zurich and Hong Kong.