fp.

Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating

https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/

437•theanonymousone•4h ago•206 comments

Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack

https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2026/08/05/dnr-closes-additional-areas-of-cunningham-falls-state-pa...

49•bookofjoe•1h ago•17 comments

Fastmail offers EU data region

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/

287•groomlake•6h ago•129 comments

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-pro...

58•MarcoDewey•3h ago•12 comments

A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/

317•shaunpud•9h ago•125 comments

Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/08/want-energy-efficiency-dude-youre-getting-a-dell/

135•gumby•6h ago•53 comments

LinkedIn Feed Blocker

https://github.com/andrewpollack/linkedin-feed-blocker

152•andrewpollack•6h ago•91 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves

24•hakkikonu•3d ago•5 comments

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/

352•bhavansig•13h ago•108 comments

Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/preventing-misfolding-preventing-folding

34•surprisetalk•4d ago•1 comments

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/

299•882542F3884314B•12h ago•300 comments

Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/25-26/12urenloop-uwb/

27•robinpdev•1w ago•1 comments

TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

https://classicbits.net/coding-and-software/my-software/monosol/

40•skibz•5h ago•11 comments

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/

121•electricant•9h ago•22 comments

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country

175•geox•5h ago•84 comments

Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-part-2/

91•rfarley04•10h ago•69 comments

US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with...

204•rbanffy•12h ago•321 comments

DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler

https://github.com/GrammaTech/ddisasm

3•aboardRat4•5d ago•1 comments

“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers

497•senko•8h ago•333 comments

A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/

413•aanet•3d ago•97 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731

754•tosh•1d ago•451 comments

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge

322•epestr•15h ago•93 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/

964•RickJWagner•1d ago•1134 comments

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf]

https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/The%20Unreasonable%20Effectiveness%20of%20Mathematics%20(EP%2...

12•pseudolus•2h ago•4 comments

From your doorbell to your home network

https://adepts.of0x.cc/eufy-doorbell-hacking/

69•mmoogle•3d ago•10 comments

Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator

https://zaneham.github.io/voyager-fds-emulator/

71•rahen•9h ago•12 comments

BYOC Is Not Just 'Deploy into Their Cloud'

https://omnistrate.com/blog/byoc-anywhere-the-spectrum-of-bring-your-own-cloud-deployments

64•kkgupta•4d ago•10 comments

Message your other Claude Code sessions

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging

36•mfiguiere•7h ago•18 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/

338•moelf•1d ago•143 comments

Python string literals are kinda funny

https://sebsite.pw/w/20260806-pystrings.html

57•jandeboevrie•2d ago•42 comments

Open in hackernews

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf]

https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/The%20Unreasonable%20Effectiveness%20of%20Mathematics%20(EP%20Wigner).pdf

12•pseudolus•2h ago

Comments

sixtyj•44m ago

Nine pages without subheadlines, long lines of text with heavy paragraphs.

Could someone be so kind and make tldr; version? Please.

eointierney•26m ago

Math good, strangely effective, much science, reality deeply weird, needs more stochastic approximation of real valued functions.

Edit: em dashes available on request

tim333•2m ago

It's that it's surprising physical behavior fits with mathematical equations so well.

My guess is it's because the universe is maths in some sense.

lapcat•7m ago

(1960)