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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
207•satvikpendem•2h ago•86 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
45•Rochus•3h ago•13 comments

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

https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
21•Kiboneu•1h ago•5 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html
130•gukoff•8h ago•20 comments

Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue

https://github.com/uber/submitqueue/
52•handfuloflight•1w ago•34 comments

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
427•seg6•16h ago•196 comments

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

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
48•Lammy•5h ago•25 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword
120•BruceEel•10h ago•53 comments

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

https://os8088.com/
217•jggonz•16h ago•143 comments

Honey, I shrunk the embeddings: Matryoshka vs. PCA

https://dylancastillo.co/posts/matryoshka-vs-pca
24•dcastm•6d ago•1 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
88•michaefe•4d ago•19 comments

Fastmail offers EU data region

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/
472•groomlake•23h ago•273 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
308•jmusall•16h ago•32 comments

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html
313•bobbiechen•1w ago•33 comments

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html
75•tremguy•4h ago•57 comments

When the apartment listing is too good to be true

https://blog.denv.it/posts/when-the-apartment-listing-is-too-good-to-be-true/
17•denysvitali•5d ago•11 comments

Protopia

https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/protopia
42•surprisetalk•5d ago•39 comments

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
285•adletbalzhanov•17h ago•189 comments

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-read...
7•evo_9•27m ago•0 comments

TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics

https://theoremdb.org/
73•frozenseven•14h ago•8 comments

The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)

http://longbets.org/601/
184•doubletwoyou•11h ago•87 comments

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

https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/
7•Thorondor•37m ago•0 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves
147•hakkikonu•4d ago•65 comments

Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260807-should-i-stop-cracking-my-knuckles
94•tchalla•17h ago•99 comments

Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-025-00171-5
76•davidbarker•6d ago•25 comments

Stylized GGX Shading

https://alexandrelamure.github.io/graphics-posts/stylized-ggx-shading.html
47•ibobev•5d ago•0 comments

CSS: The bomb inside your inbox

https://portswigger.net/research/css-the-bomb-inside-your-inbox
71•ashurandi•5h ago•21 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...
179•MarcoDewey•20h ago•57 comments

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

https://airy.so
17•login588•6h ago•11 comments

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
197•electricant•1d ago•44 comments