fp.

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

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

384•bilsbie•8h ago•172 comments

GIMP Development Update

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/08/16/dev-update-august-2026/

78•lumpa•4h ago•26 comments

A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

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

483•Narishma•15h ago•251 comments

Linear Algebra Done Right – Sheldon Axler

https://linear.axler.net/

45•the-mitr•2h ago•22 comments

On A.I. regulation and messaging

https://twitter.com/DarioAmodei/status/2088758816376807762

12•jacquesm•6h ago•0 comments

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

https://reticulum.network/

107•sudo_cowsay•8h ago•23 comments

Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversi...

186•ropbear•10h ago•183 comments

Claude: System Prompts

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

635•tosh•19h ago•252 comments

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

https://meanhamster.com/news/agi-64-brings-sierra-adventures-to-the-commodore-64

73•erickhill•6h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device

https://vocalslice.com/

27•terranivium•6d ago•17 comments

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

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

69•spdegabrielle•7h ago•24 comments

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

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

168•Bluestein•5d ago•43 comments

Gakutensoku

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

9•benbreen•3d ago•0 comments

How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/256212140/how-do-i-permanently-disable-google-photos-pop...

95•dt3ft•3d ago•61 comments

Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees

https://github.com/crabbuild/prolly

41•forhappy•7h ago•2 comments

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

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

112•ibobev•3d ago•47 comments

Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/taking-tip-plants-eyes

40•gumby•7h ago•9 comments

$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/12b-of-us-ratepayers-money-wasted

35•_delirium•2h ago•14 comments

Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013)

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

48•bananaboy•1w ago•12 comments

Design 3D-printable parts by talking

https://nurb.dev/

10•mkmk•2d ago•6 comments

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (2012)

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

40•surprisetalk•5d ago•5 comments

Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024)

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/644cad8a-6c9b-4b02-bcf3-b8b6e8c614c5

9•andsoitis•5h ago•1 comments

Protobuf has LSP support

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

147•theanonymousone•13h ago•98 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

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

277•mlenhard•17h ago•113 comments

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

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

184•ronbenton•7h ago•90 comments

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

462•stagas•14h ago•118 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

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

87•homarp•13h ago•28 comments

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/stripe-will-reportedly-acquire-ai-gateway-startup-openrouter-fo...

321•zacharyozer•11h ago•204 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

50•hardlianotion•12h ago•10 comments

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

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

66•tobr•1d ago•17 comments