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How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA, had a hard time remembering numbers and numbers, so instead he decided to name his products. Naming products started as a practical solution, but over time it has become an important part of our identity and expression at IKEA. Our naming methodTo ensure consistent use of namesWe work purposefully to create a strong and unique identity for IKEA. Everything we do โ€“ including naming our products โ€“ helps us build and strengthen IKEA as a brand. That's why we follow…
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Where Human Sleep Went Wrong

Where Human Sleep Went Wrong

โœจ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: When evolutionary anthropologist David Samson was living and working among the Hadza tribe in northern Tanzania, he noticed something puzzling: Their sleep was highly fragmented, short in duration, and low in โ€œefficiency,โ€ or actual time spent sleeping versus time in bed. This broken sleep was partly the consequence of activity and noise well into the night in the camps. People stayed up late telling stories, sharing food, and dancing. Yet, the Hadza uniformly reported high satisfaction with their sleep. It challenged the so-called Paleo sleep…
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Open source, open cloud, open silicon

Open source, open cloud, open silicon

โœจ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Four and a half years ago, Modular made a bet: AI would not run on one kind of silicon forever, and the software stack would need to be rearchitected for a world of heterogeneous hardware and increasingly complex AI workloads.At the ModCon keynote this morning, we showed what that bet has become. The Modular Platform is now production-ready, serving billions of tokens per minute and powering real enterprise deployments. Weโ€™re opening more of the platform to the ecosystem, extending it across entirely new classes of…
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How teams build โ€“ Linear

How teams build โ€“ Linear

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111112222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333344444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444455555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555556666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888889999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999EDITION 01 - TIM QI (2026)Tens of thousands of teams build software inside Linear every day. Over six years thatโ€™s given us a detailed picture of how product development happens, from before AI was widely adopted to now.Model companies and coding tools have published plenty on token usage and code volume, but that captures only one layer of the work. Weโ€™re unusually well placed to see the entire workflow behind building a product, from the first issue to the pull request that closes it. What…
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Vietnam Binh Chau Tang Wreck

Vietnam Binh Chau Tang Wreck

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: By: NK Koh Published: 17 Jan 2016 | Updated & Revised: 26 May 2026 Discovery and Initial Recovery In 2013, a violent storm exposed a shipwreck on the beach of Binh Chau in Quang Ngai province, central Vietnam. The discovery quickly drew the attention of local villagers, triggering a frantic wave of illicit pot-hunting. Consequently, most of the artifacts salvaged from the site suffered varying degrees of damage. Amid this chaos, local ceramics collector Mr. Lam Du Xenh seized the opportunity to acquire a diverse…
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Your Logitech mouse, finally local.

Your Logitech mouse, finally local.

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: FAQQuestions, answered.Is OpenLogi made by Logitech?No. It's an independent, open-source project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Logitech. "Logitech", "MX Master" and "Options+" are their trademarks.Do I have to quit Logi Options+?Yes. OpenLogi and Options+ both speak HID++ to the same device, and only one can own a receiver at a time โ€” quit Options+ (including its menu-bar agent) first.Which mice are supported?MX Master 4, 3S and 3, MX Anywhere 3, Signature M650 and Ergo M575 โ€” over a Logi Bolt, Unifying or Lightspeed receiver,…
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katiahayati/lucasartsifier: Static analysis for Sierra adventure games: finds softlocks by abstract interpretation of decompiled SCI scripts, derives and verifies guards, recompiles them into the game ยท GitHub

katiahayati/lucasartsifier: Static analysis for Sierra adventure games: finds softlocks by abstract interpretation of decompiled SCI scripts, derives and verifies guards, recompiles them into the game ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Static analysis for 30-year-old adventure games. This tool decompiles a Sierra SCI game, abstract-interprets the decompiled scripts into a graph of guarded room transitions, item movements and plot-flag writes, finds the softlocks โ€” states where the game still accepts input but victory has quietly become impossible โ€” and derives, verifies, compiles and installs guards that prevent them. Nothing about any title is declared: the start room, the victory room, the death signal and the debug flags are all discovered from the game's own code. Sierra…
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Palomar โ€“ a registry of Lean verified mathematics

Palomar โ€“ a registry of Lean verified mathematics

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: In recent months there has been a proliferation of AI-generated proofs of various old and new results, some of which have been formalized in the proof assistant language Lean. However, checking that a given Lean repository actually proves the claimed statement is somewhat non-trivial, especially for an audience which is not expert in the use of Lean: one has to first check that the claimed formal Lean statements have proofs that typecheck, that the proofs do not contain any โ€œcheatsโ€ such as adding additional axioms,…
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Literary Hub ยป On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

Literary Hub ยป On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

โœจ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Shakespeare and friends would call punctuation โ€œdistinctions,โ€ according to the Latin tradition, or โ€œpointing,โ€ because of the medieval practice of placing dots or points at different levels of the line.ย The first occurrence of the word โ€œpunctuationโ€ happens in theย French dialogue book Orthoepia Gallica from 1593 by translator and language teacher John Eliot, whose funny and colloquial conversations in facing columns on the page influenced Shakespeareโ€™sย witty repartee. Eliot challenges London French teachers to โ€œfind faultโ€ with his โ€œpricks, nicks, and tricks,โ€ referring to his punctuation and…
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DePIN is Dead. Long Live Infrastructure-as-a-Service. ยท Konstantin Tkachuk

๐Ÿš€ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Every infrastructure sector in modern history developed using the same playbook. Someone builds raw capacity ahead of demand. The raw resource commoditizes and gets cheaper forever. And the money moves to whoever sells guaranteed, contracted service on top of it. So far, cloud ran it, telecom ran it, even chip makers did it to an extent. Crypto infrastructure is attempting to repeat it right now.Motivation to continue this research came from a news article a couple of weeks ago. Storj, one of the actually working…
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