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stack

A smokestack.

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Born ~1969 · 1 year of recorded use
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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK

A smokestack.

You took me to your library and kissed me in the stacks.
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  • “23-yr-old student in Taiwan halted 4 high-speed trains for 48 min using a €25 SDR + laptop + 11 handhelds. He hijacked TETRA's General Alarm signal — keys not rotated in 19 years. Same stack runs EU police, metros, railways. https://newsgroup.site/?p=8087”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Kraken parent Payward closes $550 million Bitnomial deal, securing full CFTC derivatives stack The deal gives Payward a full CFTC-regulated derivatives stack in the U.S. #cftc #crypto #kraken”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Mmmm look at those bonuses stack. It's only been a few hours, and players have already smashed our highest score in Thornhold! Wave 32?! chaostheorygames.itch.io/thornhold #combo #incremental #indiegame #roguelike #deckbuilder #autobattler #towerdefense”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “And context matters. Software development today is hard: • Security concerns • Exploits • Scalability • Complex stacks Compared to 25 years ago, being a true full-stack developer is significantly more demanding. So where does AI fit?”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “🔮 Capricorn's May 05 Celestial Guidance: Steady climb beats noisy urgency. Long build times and approval chains test resolve, yet disciplined execution turns an outdated stack into momentum and a promotion packet into leverage. #techbro, #horoscope, #astrology, #Capricorn”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK

(heading) In computing.

They paid him a stack of money to keep quiet.
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#3·Apr 27, 2026UK

(heading) A pile.

A boat's-crew landed one time upon one of the stacks with the intention of attacking the seals.
Origin: [[File:Margaret Hamilton - restoration.jpg|thumb|Margaret Hamilton standing next to a stack with the listings of the software that she and her MIT team produced for the Apollo Project, 1969.]] thumb|A limestone stack in Poland From , stacke, stakke, stak, from , from . The data structure sense is a , introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra. Cognate with , , , . Related to stake and sauna. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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  • “Arch-Based Omarchy 3.7 Released with Steam, RetroArch, Lutris, and Heroic Launcher Omarchy, the opinionated Arch Linux-based setup that ships pre-baked with a Hyprland tiling window manager and a developer-friendly stack of tools and defaults, has just pushed out version 3.7.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Notable move. DFlow brings institutional order flow infrastructure that addresses a key gap in Solana's trading stack. This signals MoonPay is building toward full-stack crypto services on Solana rather than just payment rails. Infrastructure consolidation continues accelerating.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “They like guns but dislike girlbosses. Maybe they'd have a stack overflow and just crash.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “when model railroaders take 7-8 city classics or DPM rowhouse kits and stack them on top of each other to create a skyscraper, you get this:”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Once the screen is clear, you have a choice to make. Hyperwired lets you stack advantages to keep up with the scaling chaos.  The best part? You don't have to fly solo. If you rescue ships during your run, they’ll link up and add their firepower to yours.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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