fp.

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf

24•ronbenton•51m ago•1 comments

A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"

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

363•Narishma•8h ago•190 comments

Claude: System Prompts

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

528•tosh•12h ago•222 comments

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

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

68•ibobev•3d ago•30 comments

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

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

89•Bluestein•5d ago•23 comments

A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/zkp/

39•evakhoury•2d ago•14 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

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

222•mlenhard•10h ago•88 comments

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

https://w4g1.dev/blog/models-are-getting-dumber-on-purpose

257•hruvhwe•6h ago•146 comments

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

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

104•theanonymousone•6h ago•77 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

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

54•homarp•6h ago•17 comments

Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee

https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-scales-back-250-billion-openai-data-center-guarantee-wsj-...

92•root-parent•4h ago•23 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

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

81•emptybits•3d ago•9 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

https://commonreader.wustl.edu/winning-and-losing-at-the-great-game-of-intimacy/

58•lermontov•2d ago•13 comments

Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71yw

44•tobr•1d ago•12 comments

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence

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

5•surprisetalk•5d ago•1 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios

528•pentagrama•12h ago•217 comments

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

270•stagas•7h ago•64 comments

Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-16/stripe-nears-deal-to-buy-ai-firm-openrouter-fo...

178•zacharyozer•4h ago•129 comments

St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

https://www.wptv.com/news/treasure-coast/region-st-lucie-county/saint-lucie-nuclear-power-plant-u...

156•toomuchtodo•9h ago•118 comments

NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ending-key-grant-budding-clinical-researchers

136•brandonb•8h ago•67 comments

The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later

https://ivan-gavran.github.io/0-social-processes-paper

78•ghuntley•4h ago•70 comments

Asus Bike Booster

https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/

609•wiradikusuma•4d ago•429 comments

Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone

https://brennan.day/webmaster-a-manifesto-for-everyone/

9•OuterVale•1h ago•2 comments

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

https://ei3lh.eu/2026/08/16/a-true-telnet-bbs-on-a-casio-calculator/

84•austinallegro•12h ago•9 comments

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08421

82•matt_d•4d ago•34 comments

Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/before-rightmove-there-was-the-cosmorama-londons-forgotten-p...

24•brod_ie•5d ago•3 comments

Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware

https://hwbusters.com/news/comma-ai-egpu-dock-runs-open-source-firmware-249-bare-799-with-an-rx-9...

134•txrx0000•3d ago•39 comments

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering

https://tasklet.ai/careers/head-of-design-engineering

1•mayop100•11h ago

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

https://www.highereddive.com/news/inside-the-federal-keyword-lists-that-canceled-billions-in-rese...

7•walrus01•55m ago•0 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...

140•ropbear•3h ago•142 comments