fp.

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

https://remapradio.com/articles/the-lost-treasure-of-sid-meiers-pirates/

63•spankibalt•2h ago•17 comments

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

https://encore.dev/blog/firecracker-apple-silicon

57•signa11•2h ago•23 comments

The August 17 outage

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/

520•0xedb•14h ago•583 comments

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick

729•Ariarule•2d ago•298 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/

797•encyclopedism•1d ago•190 comments

Version Control for Everything

https://tyoverby.com/posts/version-control-for-everything-else/

37•evakhoury•3d ago•25 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/

493•abhisek•20h ago•419 comments

The case against a C alternative (2022)

https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8486-the_case_against_a_c_alternative

19•theanonymousone•4d ago•5 comments

Ox Alpha

https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha

144•mtokmak06•9h ago•111 comments

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/

282•tyre•15h ago•107 comments

The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)

https://philipdick.com/resources/miscellaneous/the-religious-experience-of-philip-k-dick-by-r-cru...

34•wise_blood•3h ago•13 comments

Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-inte...

130•rdmuser•4h ago•64 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier

174•rafaelc•14h ago•252 comments

CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_per...

398•EwanG•1d ago•245 comments

Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product

https://github.com/runvendo/vendo

35•yousefh409•18h ago•19 comments

Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise

https://investors.micron.com/news/press-release/2026/Micron-Unveils-Micron-Research-Labs-a-U-S--B...

16•osnium123•5h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/

305•danielvaughn•14h ago•162 comments

Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

https://github.com/zachahn/vomit

254•Bluestein•18h ago•250 comments

Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/062dcd2aead00c3b47c14ff5b6c40313f7a775f5/etc/HISTORY

20•birdculture•1h ago•1 comments

Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

https://github.com/vivekhaldar/seed

20•gandalfgeek•4h ago•8 comments

Linux 7.2

https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html

250•mariuz•17h ago•99 comments

Captain Zilog

https://www.zilog.com/captain_zilog/

52•rbanffy•3d ago•6 comments

Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K

https://journals.aps.org/prab/abstract/10.1103/4nhs-bkwh

40•supermagnet•6d ago•10 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html

967•emctech•23h ago•300 comments

Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09762

236•nunodonato•1d ago•167 comments

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

https://blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/

162•speckx•18h ago•118 comments

Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/37674

132•TheP1000•6h ago•45 comments

Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/08/13/speeding-up-ruby-hashes.html

53•arto•1w ago•0 comments

SpacetimeDB: a short technical review

https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/

94•hurrrr•14h ago•20 comments

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html

330•Cider9986•6h ago•238 comments