fp.

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/

508•bilsbie•10h ago•234 comments

On A.I. regulation and messaging

https://twitter.com/DarioAmodei/status/2088758816376807762

65•jacquesm•8h ago•107 comments

A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/

516•Narishma•17h ago•269 comments

HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons

https://duti.dev/blog/2026/spr/

45•mindracer•3h ago•36 comments

The continuing "Q collar" scandal

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/13/we-should-probably-be-doing-more-coverage-of-sc...

13•luu•3d ago•1 comments

Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversi...

291•ropbear•12h ago•286 comments

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

https://reticulum.network/

131•sudo_cowsay•10h ago•41 comments

Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts

666•tosh•21h ago•256 comments

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

https://meanhamster.com/news/agi-64-brings-sierra-adventures-to-the-commodore-64

89•erickhill•8h ago•10 comments

Gakutensoku

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gakutensoku

32•benbreen•3d ago•3 comments

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/rhombus-v1.1.html

87•spdegabrielle•9h ago•28 comments

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

https://wiki.lowtechlab.org/wiki/Filtre_%C3%A0_eau_c%C3%A9ramique/en

187•Bluestein•5d ago•53 comments

Linear algebra done right

https://linear.axler.net/

86•the-mitr•5h ago•36 comments

How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/256212140/how-do-i-permanently-disable-google-photos-pop...

123•dt3ft•3d ago•81 comments

Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device

https://vocalslice.com/

46•terranivium•6d ago•30 comments

Design 3D-printable parts by talking

https://nurb.dev/

21•mkmk•2d ago•11 comments

SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX

https://pikuma.com/blog/programming-intel-pentium-mmx-simd

119•ibobev•3d ago•50 comments

GIMP Development Update

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/08/16/dev-update-august-2026/

179•lumpa•7h ago•129 comments

Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/taking-tip-plants-eyes

46•gumby•10h ago•14 comments

Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013)

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/02/18/amit-patel-creator-of-solar-realms-elite/

59•bananaboy•1w ago•14 comments

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (2012)

https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/122095

43•surprisetalk•5d ago•5 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers

294•mlenhard•19h ago•119 comments

Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI

https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/red-queen-hypothesis-new-way-forward-self-improving-ai

64•hardlianotion•14h ago•16 comments

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

519•stagas•16h ago•143 comments

Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees

https://github.com/crabbuild/prolly

45•forhappy•9h ago•3 comments

Protobuf has LSP support

https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-lsp

155•theanonymousone•15h ago•107 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

https://math-ai-org.github.io/mathcode/

91•homarp•16h ago•28 comments

Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024)

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/644cad8a-6c9b-4b02-bcf3-b8b6e8c614c5

11•andsoitis•7h ago•1 comments

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/stripe-will-reportedly-acquire-ai-gateway-startup-openrouter-fo...

365•zacharyozer•14h ago•223 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

https://nnamgreb.de/blog/Clamiga+-+Common+Lisp+for+the+Amiga

115•emptybits•4d ago•19 comments