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1•marcoparisi•11s ago

Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B

https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
1•embedding-shape•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TAMX – Personal Tamagotchi

1•riteshgharat•3m ago•0 comments

Complete WordStar 7.0 Archive, by science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer (2024)

https://sfwriter.com/ws7.htm
1•emigre•5m ago•0 comments

Zoetrope

https://zoetrope.alexander4.io/
1•daniel-alexande•5m ago•1 comments

'One Night Only' Director Cut Out Nudity BC People Dislike Sex on Screen

https://variety.com/2026/film/features/one-night-only-director-removed-nudity-1236827870/
1•randycupertino•6m ago•1 comments

Website that plays bangers from Indian barbershops

https://saloon.wtf/
1•dsr12•7m ago•0 comments

Supersonic Trebuchet [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co57SfcT-h0
1•simonebrunozzi•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Minimalist turn-based survival game

https://claustrophobe.cc/
1•spaghetti-code•12m ago•0 comments

Ford Fathom

https://www.ford.com/electric/fathom/
1•ryanhn•14m ago•0 comments

I got a 1998 CD-ROM world atlas running on Windows 11

https://trevmex.com/post/824245295374303232/my-son-found-a-world-atlas-in-a-thrift-store-so-i
1•birdculture•14m ago•0 comments

FrameJS – interactive JavaScript visualizations that live in a URL

https://framejs.io
1•dionjw•14m ago•0 comments

Why most IPOs are not worth the hype

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/04/why-most-ipos-are-not-worth-the-hype
4•andsoitis•22m ago•0 comments

Email Is Easy

https://e-mail.wtf/#repost
2•semiquaver•25m ago•0 comments

Writing with AI Is Stupid

https://lambdaland.org/posts/2026-08-07-ai-writing-stupid/
3•ashton314•25m ago•0 comments

Europe readies for solar eclipse dip in power generation

https://www.thelocal.com/20260808/europe-readies-for-solar-eclipse-dip-in-power-generation
1•geox•32m ago•0 comments

Steve Yegge's Google Platform rant (2011)

https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
3•simonebrunozzi•33m ago•1 comments

A live tracker of Seattle's ~1,400 buses, trains, and ferries

https://charm.ing/michael-magan/seattle-transit-live
1•grouchy•33m ago•0 comments

Why Are Women Leaving Computer Science?

https://cacm.acm.org/news/why-are-women-leaving-computer-science/
4•visha1v•34m ago•3 comments

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition
3•andsoitis•36m ago•0 comments

Feedback required – New Word game on the block Wordfighter

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fintasticapps.wordfighter&hl=en_US
1•AbhinavDAIICT•37m ago•0 comments

Experiments with Isolation on Blue Pill

https://l0puh.github.io/log/2026/08/04/experiments_with_isolation/
1•lopuh•39m ago•0 comments

Woman Pulled from Car at Gunpoint by Police After Mistaken Flock Alert – Twice

https://m.slashdot.org/story/456862
3•MilnerRoute•40m ago•0 comments

A Lot of the Attacks on Higher Ed Are Unfair. Not This One

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/opinion/cambridge-plagiarism-arday-higher-education.html
2•Michelangelo11•47m ago•0 comments

Bastrop's City Council Holds Meetings over 100 Miles Away

https://texasscorecard.com/local/bastrops-city-council-holds-meetings-over-100-miles-away/
1•bob1029•48m ago•0 comments

'AI Escaped Its Sandbox' — What Does That Actually Mean?

https://unpredictabletokens.substack.com/p/ai-escaped-its-sandbox-what-that
2•jac08h•49m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A probabilistic programming language with exact inference and loops

https://github.com/kccqzy/probabilistic-program-inference/blob/master/README.md
1•kccqzy•49m ago•0 comments

The Cosplay Economy

https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/cosplay/
3•rossdavidh•50m ago•0 comments

Pick

1•ronniojunior•51m ago•1 comments

My MacBook Aged Three Years in Three Months of Vibe Coding

https://generativeai.pub/my-macbook-aged-three-years-in-three-months-of-vibe-coding-64e7ab92123d
1•ako•52m ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers
5•senko•56m ago

Comments

thomasjeff1•25m ago
Exactly! Try reading a large C code base.
distantprovince•3m ago
I think there is a de-facto distinction between different kind of programmers, we just need a clear names for them. Like, "builders" for folks who ship products and see code as an annoying intermediate step and "engineers" for people who build technically sound software.