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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

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

318•satvikpendem•4h ago•135 comments

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

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

58•iamnothere•1h ago•15 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

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

42•Klaster_1•2h ago•3 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

65•Rochus•4h ago•15 comments

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

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

50•Kiboneu•3h ago•20 comments

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

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

15•shayonj•1h ago•2 comments

Honey, I shrunk the embeddings: Matryoshka vs. PCA

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

60•dcastm•6d ago•12 comments

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

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

9•eighttrigrams•1h ago•1 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

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

145•gukoff•10h ago•20 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...

120•evo_9•2h ago•82 comments

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

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364...

85•akyuu•2h ago•63 comments

My server is a phone now

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

455•seg6•18h ago•215 comments

Crickets as Pets

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

7•Michelangelo11•4d ago•0 comments

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

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

65•Thorondor•2h ago•18 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword

134•BruceEel•12h ago•59 comments

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

https://os8088.com/

230•jggonz•17h ago•149 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•29 comments

AI Code Is Insane Trash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwLW11Ucnps

10•root-parent•14m ago•2 comments

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

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

31•jader201•2h ago•24 comments

Dithered QR Codes

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

329•jmusall•18h ago•36 comments

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

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

58•Lammy•7h ago•41 comments

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

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

328•bobbiechen•1w ago•37 comments

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

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

7•ijustlovemath•3h 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-...

18•f-serif•59m ago•1 comments

Banksy works cost public almost £150k

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2vnny7j5zo

10•alvis•51m ago•15 comments

Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue

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

64•handfuloflight•1w ago•53 comments

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

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

310•adletbalzhanov•18h ago•207 comments

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

https://airy.so

24•login588•7h ago•12 comments

Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony

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

7•benbreen•1w ago•1 comments

Stylized GGX Shading

https://alexandrelamure.github.io/graphics-posts/stylized-ggx-shading.html

56•ibobev•5d ago•0 comments

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

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

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

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

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

My server is a phone now

Crickets as Pets

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

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

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

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

AI Code Is Insane Trash

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

Dithered QR Codes

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

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

Banksy works cost public almost £150k

Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

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

Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony

Stylized GGX Shading

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

Comments

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

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

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

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

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

My server is a phone now

Crickets as Pets

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

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

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

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

AI Code Is Insane Trash

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

Dithered QR Codes

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

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

Banksy works cost public almost £150k

Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

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

Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony

Stylized GGX Shading