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https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html

296•satvikpendem•3h ago•132 comments

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981

43•iamnothere•1h ago•5 comments

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32

61•Rochus•4h ago•15 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

26•Klaster_1•2h ago•2 comments

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/

41•Kiboneu•3h ago•17 comments

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/

12•shayonj•1h ago•1 comments

Honey, I shrunk the embeddings: Matryoshka vs. PCA

https://dylancastillo.co/posts/matryoshka-vs-pca

58•dcastm•6d ago•11 comments

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them

6•eighttrigrams•1h ago•1 comments

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

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59•akyuu•1h ago•40 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html

144•gukoff•9h ago•19 comments

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https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-read...

100•evo_9•1h ago•72 comments

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/

451•seg6•18h ago•212 comments

I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won

https://jorypestorious.com/blog/portable-agent-factory/

15•calmhive•2h ago•14 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword

132•BruceEel•11h ago•57 comments

Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/

55•Thorondor•1h ago•14 comments

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

https://os8088.com/

223•jggonz•17h ago•146 comments

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/8/4/the-grid-that-doubles-the-strength-of-the-ground

101•michaefe•4d ago•28 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/

328•jmusall•18h ago•35 comments

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spa...

25•jader201•1h ago•18 comments

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html

324•bobbiechen•1w ago•37 comments

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html

57•Lammy•7h ago•40 comments

Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue

https://github.com/uber/submitqueue/

64•handfuloflight•1w ago•51 comments

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https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/a-partial-digestion-of-the-hrt-counterexample/

6•ijustlovemath•2h ago•1 comments

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/fcc-moves-to-ban-lidar-equipped-foreign-drones-...

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Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation

https://airy.so

23•login588•7h ago•12 comments

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations

304•adletbalzhanov•18h ago•204 comments

Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/willoughbyland-englands-forgotten-south-amer...

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

Honey, I shrunk the embeddings: Matryoshka vs. PCA

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

My server is a phone now

I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

Dithered QR Codes

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony

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Banksy works cost public almost £150k

Stylized GGX Shading

Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony

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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

Honey, I shrunk the embeddings: Matryoshka vs. PCA

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

My server is a phone now

I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

Dithered QR Codes

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony

Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future

Banksy works cost public almost £150k

Stylized GGX Shading