fp.

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

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

46•ronbenton•1h ago•16 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/

43•bilsbie•2h ago•16 comments

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

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

376•Narishma•8h ago•200 comments

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/rhombus-v1.1.html

13•spdegabrielle•1h ago•5 comments

Claude: System Prompts

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

544•tosh•13h ago•228 comments

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

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

73•ibobev•3d ago•32 comments

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

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

92•Bluestein•5d ago•25 comments

Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of "Solar Realms Elite"

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/02/18/amit-patel-creator-of-solar-realms-elite/

9•bananaboy•1w ago•1 comments

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

https://reticulum.network/

12•sudo_cowsay•1h ago•2 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

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

226•mlenhard•11h ago•89 comments

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

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

270•hruvhwe•6h ago•153 comments

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence

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

11•surprisetalk•5d ago•1 comments

A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs

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

46•evakhoury•2d ago•20 comments

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...

45•walrus01•1h ago•2 comments

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

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

109•theanonymousone•7h ago•80 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

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

62•homarp•7h ago•19 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

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

86•emptybits•3d ago•10 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-...

102•root-parent•4h ago•30 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

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

64•lermontov•2d ago•13 comments

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

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

48•tobr•1d ago•14 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

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

538•pentagrama•12h ago•221 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...

199•zacharyozer•5h ago•145 comments

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

286•stagas•8h ago•69 comments

Red queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI

https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/red-queen-hypothesis-new-way-forward-self-improving-ai

11•hardlianotion•5h ago•1 comments

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

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

1•mayop100•12h ago

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

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

87•austinallegro•13h ago•9 comments

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08421

84•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...

25•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

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work

https://duckdb.org/2026/07/31/asynchronous-io

272•pdet•6d ago•31 comments

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

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

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

Claude: System Prompts

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

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of "Solar Realms Elite"

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

The AI Credit Resale Economy

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence

A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

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

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

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

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

Red queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI

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

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama

Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work

Hyper-Typing

Comments

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

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

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

Claude: System Prompts

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

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of "Solar Realms Elite"

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

The AI Credit Resale Economy

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence

A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

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

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

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

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

Red queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI

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

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama

Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work