fp.

Rewriting a production compiler's IR with AI agents in five weeks

https://github.com/CommanderTvis/writing/tree/main/rr-truffle-rewrite

1•CommanderTvis•2m ago•0 comments

A $21B 'Kids in Chips' Startup Is Scooping Up Nvidia Talent

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/a-21-billion-kids-in-chips-startup-is-scooping-up-nvidia-talent-4d099f12

1•_tk_•4m ago•0 comments

Prompt Injection in VirusTotal's Code Insights API

https://exploiting.systems/posts/2026-08-08-prompt-injection-in-virustotals-code-insights-api

1•ropbear•8m ago•0 comments

Conlang

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

1•svenfaw•9m ago•0 comments

As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/as-wisconsin-cities-flee-flock-its-shared-camera-netw...

7•xoa•11m ago•1 comments

KDE's bookmark search ignores Brave because of one unmatched string

https://balint.blog/krunner-brave/

1•balintkorosi•11m ago•0 comments

Constantine's Bridge Has Surfaced from Beneath the Danube

https://thedebrief.org/a-mile-long-ancient-roman-engineering-marvel-has-suddenly-surfaced-from-be...

1•bookofjoe•13m ago•1 comments

Democracy vs. the machine: birth of digital age,the warnings that were ignored

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/18/the-long-read-democracy-v-the-machine-digital-age-wa...

3•pseudolus•13m ago•0 comments

Searching for Answers from the Man Accused of Sabotaging Alaska's Senate Race

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/politics/dan-sullivan-alaska-senate-primary.html

1•dataflow•17m ago•0 comments

Wound/wait deadlock-proof mutex design

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/locking/ww-mutex-design.html

1•teleforce•18m ago•0 comments

Suicide hotlines don't seem to help

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35601

2•root-parent•23m ago•2 comments

US LLCs for founders whose country Stripe/Shopify don't support

https://open-entity.com

1•Doccc•24m ago•0 comments

Who bears the risk in Nvidia's $500B financing platform?

https://www.sascha-steffen.de/updates/nvidia-500bn-ai-financing-credit-risk

2•root-parent•25m ago•0 comments

AI Used to Verify Toughest Mathematics Proof Yet

https://spectrum.ieee.org/axiom-math-246-theorem-formalization

1•pseudolus•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kitsunagu – A platform to find English-speaking professionals in Japan

https://kitsunagu.com/

2•byra•29m ago•1 comments

The most complex time in 20 years to build an enterprise software startup

https://eportnoy.substack.com/p/the-chaotic-enterprise-startup-period

1•eliportnoy•31m ago•0 comments

The hyperscalers' exploding 'purchase commitments' reach $1.5T

https://www.ft.com/content/1fbe47a6-bbf1-4de1-973b-8ce5baea591d

2•root-parent•32m ago•2 comments

Fredkin's Paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredkin%27s_paradox

1•throw0101a•34m ago•0 comments

Handover of In-Context Learning State Across Session Boundaries

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14528

1•ninadwrites•35m ago•0 comments

We still don't know how people are using AI

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142226/how-people-use-ai/

4•joozio•36m ago•0 comments

Daron Acemoğlu: We Are "At the Cusp of Losing" Liberal Democracy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvOfGzNn3-0

4•mertbio•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AirStats – Mac menu bar system monitor, 0.046% CPU idle, MIT

https://github.com/byrencheema/airstats

2•byrencodes•38m ago•0 comments

The Case for Deep Conversation in a World of Small Talk

https://thewalrus.ca/small-talk/

1•pseudolus•40m ago•0 comments

Data driven essay: Misogyny kills; misandry kills at scale

https://socialsommentary.substack.com/p/misogyny-kills-misandry-hurts-feelings

1•dandare•40m ago•0 comments

ARM64 BBML3 Feature Ready with Linux 7.3, Nvidia Olympus Workarounds

https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-7.3

2•rbanffy•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ImageSage – Find the screenshot you want from 10k messy screenshots

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mt89hd9s6sm?hl=en-US&gl=US

1•ringlochid•46m ago•0 comments

Bootstrappable Builds: How and Why

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1088279/ada6cd53d01cdafa/

1•6581•50m ago•0 comments

Security Through Obscurity

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

2•thuva4•53m ago•0 comments

Meta faces pivotal kids' safety trial

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/18/meta-faces-pivotal-kids-safety-trial-01039903

2•0in•54m ago•0 comments

Each degree of warming could add a month of intolerable heat for 1B people

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-degree-month-intolerable-billion-people.html

5•geox•56m ago•0 comments