Why “forge” is being discussed
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EU and Canada forge 'alliance for the future' at Montreal summit
by vrganj · Oct 31, 2026 · 6 points
One of my favorite scenes came from "Hollow Pursuits", in which Picard castigates Riker and La Forge for wanting to dismiss the problematic Lt. Barclay from the crew. Picard sta…
by bitwize · Oct 31, 2026
> I am building a code forge myself Isn't everyone else doing that too? * https://cursor.com/docs/origin * https://tangled.org/blog/forge…
by bluerooibos · Oct 30, 2026
GitHub CI is a very weird product. My team pays a decent bit of money for it, and we are nowhere near hitting the minutes limit, but at the same time we easily run into the stor…
by crote · Oct 30, 2026
There are tons of youtube videos about this. much harder than it sounds to forge at scale. The feds are very good at coming down on forgery. Also, it would provoke strong action…
by paulpauper · Oct 30, 2026
like clockwork! right now on the frontpage: The federated code forge ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305573 )
by nerdypepper · Oct 30, 2026
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A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located. The forge is used by the smith to heat a piece of metal to a temperature at which it becomes easier to shape by forging, or to the point at which work hardening no longer occurs. The metal is transported to and from the forge using tongs, which are also used to hold the workpiece on the smithy's anvil while the smith works it with a hammer. Sometimes, such as when hardening steel or cooling the work so that it may be handled with bare hands, the workpiece is transported to the slack tub, which rapidly cools the workpiece in a large body of water. However, depending on the metal type, it may require an oil quench or a salt brine instead; many metals require more than plain water hardening. The slack tub also provides water to control the fire in the forge. Read more on Wikipedia