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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

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

351•satvikpendem•4h ago•147 comments

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

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

77•iamnothere•2h ago•25 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

14•david927•31m ago•30 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

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

58•Klaster_1•3h ago•6 comments

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

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

60•Kiboneu•4h ago•22 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

70•Rochus•5h ago•15 comments

Production Imminent: 40 Solar-Charging Aptera EVs Coming Soon

https://frequal.com/aptera/ProductionImminent.html

6•TeaVMFan•35m ago•2 comments

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

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

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Every fast write moves work somewhere else

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

19•shayonj•2h ago•7 comments

Crickets as Pets

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

18•Michelangelo11•4d ago•7 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

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148•gukoff•10h ago•21 comments

My server is a phone now

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

457•seg6•19h ago•217 comments

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

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

84•Thorondor•2h ago•28 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...

139•evo_9•2h ago•98 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword

138•BruceEel•12h ago•59 comments

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

https://os8088.com/

234•jggonz•18h ago•150 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-...

31•f-serif•1h 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...

44•jader201•2h ago•28 comments

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https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/seven-literary-sins

5•lermontov•3d ago•1 comments

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

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

12•ijustlovemath•3h ago•1 comments

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

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

60•Lammy•7h ago•41 comments

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12•dosinga•3h ago•0 comments

Dithered QR Codes

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

337•jmusall•18h ago•37 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

104•michaefe•4d ago•29 comments

Google Caught AI Faking Creativity in Every Office in America [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_O6Lwj1yjQ

6•Bender•32m ago•0 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...

106•akyuu•2h ago•89 comments

Banksy works cost public almost £150k

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

15•alvis•1h ago•25 comments

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

https://airy.so

26•login588•8h ago•12 comments

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

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

312•adletbalzhanov•19h ago•210 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

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

158•hakkikonu•4d ago•77 comments

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

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

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

Production Imminent: 40 Solar-Charging Aptera EVs Coming Soon

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

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

Crickets as Pets

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

My server is a phone now

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

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

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

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

Literary Sins

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

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

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

Dithered QR Codes

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

Google Caught AI Faking Creativity in Every Office in America [video]

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

Banksy works cost public almost £150k

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

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

Making difficulty curves in games

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

Comments

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

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

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

Production Imminent: 40 Solar-Charging Aptera EVs Coming Soon

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

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

Crickets as Pets

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

My server is a phone now

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

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

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

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

Literary Sins

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

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

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

Dithered QR Codes

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

Google Caught AI Faking Creativity in Every Office in America [video]

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

Banksy works cost public almost £150k

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

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

Making difficulty curves in games