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Literary Fiction Has Lost the Plot

https://devonhalliday.substack.com/p/literary-fiction-has-lost-the-plot

2•anarbadalov•59m ago

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anarbadalov•50m ago

For the record, I haven't read either of the two books discussed here ("Switzy" by Emma Cline and "Ply" by Hernan Diaz). And the one book of literary fiction i did read this month (Nelio Biedermann's much-hyped "Lazar") did not fall into these traps and is wonderful. You can find the first page of that one in Google Preview if you're curious.

The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/27/the-flat-pack-skyscraper-how-wood-can...

1•pseudolus•1m ago•0 comments

Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming

https://web.archive.org/web/20260314210910/https://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html

1•r3trohack3r•1m ago•0 comments

PS1 type rendering in Godot 4

https://calinp.eu/blog/psx-type-rendering/

1•Funes-•2m ago•0 comments

London: Drawn Like a Painting

https://sheets.works/data-viz/london

1•lordbubbles•5m ago•0 comments

How to Deploy Your Model

https://htdym.sailresearch.com/

1•bobstax•6m ago•0 comments

Anthropic Announces Hardware Interface Standard (Model Hardware Standard, MHS)

https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/2093038426140651791

2•zof3•8m ago•0 comments

History of the Atlantic Cable and Undersea Communications

https://atlantic-cable.com/

1•CaesarA•8m ago•0 comments

Poll: Are You Aphantastic

1•andrewla•9m ago•2 comments

A Training Cluster for This Economy

https://derekrodriguez.dev/a-training-cluster-for-this-economy/

1•dwrodri•10m ago•0 comments

Don't use a free iPhone that just turns up at your home

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/08/27/psa-dont-use-a-free-iphone-that-just-turns-up-at-your-...

2•speckx•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Scrub Every Single Mention of Agents from the Browser

1•aihatterer•13m ago•0 comments

CIA Has a Gen Z Problem – Young Spies Are Just Not 'Feeling It'

https://spyscape.com/article/the-cia-has-a-gen-z-problem-young-spies-are-just-not-feeling-it

2•jumpocelot•15m ago•0 comments

Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-order-rename-lake-ontario-lake-america-2026-08-27/

5•cdrnsf•16m ago•3 comments

ClickHouse winning this observability "war"?

https://clickhouse.com/blog/is-clickhouse-winning-the-observability-wars

1•gingenio•17m ago•0 comments

Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force

https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/nvidia-starts-a-pac-as-ai-chip-maker-buids-influe...

2•rarisma•18m ago•0 comments

Danrh: A blog won't give you an edge anymore

https://danrh.net/posts/2026-05-18-a-blog-is-not-enough/

1•speckx•18m ago•0 comments

Blogging with (Actual) Paper

https://jhuleatt.com/posts/blogging-with-actual-paper/

1•jhuleatt•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Husk a Local-first, open-source, security scanner

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1•PatrikTang•19m ago•0 comments

The Caped Billboard Bandit of Chicago

https://slate.com/life/2026/07/chicago-superheroes-smoking-cigarettes-black-americans.html

1•bryanrasmussen•19m ago•0 comments

In Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible – Charlie Wood, Quanta

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-hilbert-space-all-things-are-quantumly-possible-20260826/

1•unprovable•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Easily deploy vibecode apps through MCP

https://zerolith.io/

1•yojukawa•20m ago•0 comments

A Fetishist's Guide to the Monochrom (Part 1) (2012)

https://leica-camera.blog/2012/10/23/fegor-a-fetishists-guide-to-the-monochrom-part1/

1•multisport•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Z, minimal agentic harness for engineers that just works

https://github.com/computerex/z

1•computerex•24m ago•0 comments

Aether – live visual su Mac. Create what you hear

https://centroscs.it/pages/aether.php

1•mkovideolab•25m ago•1 comments

Y Combinator's Ankit Gupta faces backlash over H-1B comments

https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/08/27/y-combinators-ankit-gupta-faces-backlash-over-h-1b-co...

5•Tabular-Iceberg•27m ago•0 comments

Temporal at Loop

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1•vzhou842•27m ago•0 comments

The AI 'Ghosts' Contaminating Academic Publishing

https://www.404media.co/the-ai-ghosts-contaminating-academic-publishing/

2•saikatsg•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Memorial for Athena Strand. She will always be remembered

https://athena-strand.org

2•computerex•29m ago•1 comments

Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4523

3•slantedview•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Collaborate with your team on Claude and ChatGPT artifacts

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3•miradu•30m ago•0 comments