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Counter-Based random number generator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-based_random_number_generator
1•binyu•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Interactive Heatsink Area Calculator by Geometric Profile

https://specled.com/en/w/heatsink-profile-area-calculator-by-geometric-profile/
1•Specled•4m ago•0 comments

Demobscene

https://demobscene.com/
1•fatliverfreddy•4m ago•0 comments

Write Amplification Explained

https://everything.explained.today/Write_amplification/
1•ankitg12•4m ago•0 comments

Mosh in a Lift (2012)

https://mosh.org/elevator.txt
1•gavide•5m ago•0 comments

Having fun with oh my pi, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, GPT-5.6 Luna and Antigravity CLI

https://flashblaze.xyz/posts/having-fun-with-omp-deepseek-luna-and-agy/
2•flashblaze•8m ago•0 comments

Yes you can measure engineering

https://www.rubick.com/valuesum-metric/
1•meetpateltech•9m ago•0 comments

Security Flaw Placed 30 Years of DNA Evidence at Risk of Hacking

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/security-flaw-placed-30-years-of-dna-evidence-at-risk-of-h...
1•impish9208•13m ago•1 comments

The Impending, Inescapable Deluge of A.I

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/29/technology/ai-chips-data-center-boom.html
2•bookofjoe•13m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A fixed harness for comparing LLM agent memory systems

https://github.com/AML-memory/agent-memory-leaderboard
1•IreneAI•14m ago•0 comments

VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/vc-backed-startups-commit-more-fraud-and-researchers-think-they...
1•richardchilders•14m ago•0 comments

Mozilla's Inaugural 'State of Open Source AI' Report Is Here

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-state-of-open-source-ai-report/
1•nlpnerd•15m ago•0 comments

Stack Trace for Distributed Systems

https://github.com/leandromoreira/distributed-stack-trace/tree/main
1•dreampeppers99•22m ago•0 comments

Claude on Political Compass

https://utopiagov.com/blog/political-compass
1•makosst•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What cloud agents do you use?

1•mopatches•29m ago•0 comments

Cross compiling Swift (including SwiftUI) to WASM

https://github.com/patch-release/patch-swift
2•jasolomon•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: DFAH-Bench – same agent decision, different tool paths

https://github.com/ibm-client-engineering/output-drift-financial-llms
1•raffisk•29m ago•0 comments

The Triangle Game, from Zero

https://muchmirul.github.io/conjectures/multicolor-ramsey/
1•jdkee•33m ago•0 comments

Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI

https://ykiko.me/en/articles/692886292/
1•rramadass•34m ago•1 comments

Waymo Bites Passenger

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbGsc_yicao/
6•liamnorm•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Turn a Nintendo Joy-Con into a Codex Micro Alternative

https://github.com/Jinjiang/joy-con-codex-micro
1•jinjiang•34m ago•0 comments

China Crosses Energy Milestone as Coal Falls Below 50% of Power

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/china-crosses-energy-milestone-as-coal-falls-below-50-...
2•thunderbong•36m ago•0 comments

ImHex: Visualizing Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers

https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
1•zdw•36m ago•0 comments

Adam Aleksic: Why are people starting to sound like ChatGPT? [video]

https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_aleksic_why_are_people_starting_to_sound_like_chatgpt
4•fagnerbrack•40m ago•1 comments

Ursula K. Le Guin: A Rant About "Technology" (2005)

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology
53•jamesgill•41m ago•13 comments

Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks

https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/finding-zombies-in-our-systems-a-real-world-story-of-cpu...
1•fagnerbrack•41m ago•0 comments

YouTube AI slop prevention targeting known good channels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX1yHmeLPy8
4•savrajsingh•41m ago•0 comments

Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI

https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/dare-snot/
3•Brajeshwar•43m ago•0 comments

A Cross-Platform Rust UI Framework via Qt's Bridging Technology

https://www.qt.io/blog/rust-ui-framework-via-bridging-technology
1•mellosouls•44m ago•0 comments

An old-new take on argument parsing in Rust

https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/hello-getoptsargs
1•supermatou•45m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

RFC/The future of Abstract Wikipedia

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/The_future_of_Abstract_Wikipedia
2•quuxplusone•52m ago

Comments

alberto-m•43m ago
I've been away from the Wikipedia environment for more than a decade, but this seems the n-th chapter of the WMF implementing something that the contributor community does not want, but will help to pad the CVs of managers and developers of the Foundation itself. Just like LiquidThreads, the Media Viewer, etc.