fp.

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/blog/articles/how-i-use-llms-to-learn/

245•laurentiurad•3h ago•130 comments

The Hacker's Renaissance

https://phrack.org/issues/72/19#article

41•yu3zhou4•2h ago•21 comments

The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-main-way-ive-seen-people-turn

39•mef•2h ago•26 comments

New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

https://propelmusic.co.nz/articles/the-sound-went-quiet-nz-music-media

28•berghoffer•1h ago•11 comments

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

139•david927•5h ago•511 comments

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

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

515•satvikpendem•9h ago•235 comments

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition

46•simonpure•2h ago•16 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

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

146•Klaster_1•7h ago•29 comments

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

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

127•jader201•7h ago•94 comments

Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS7CxAtV5Ks

15•jackdoe•2d ago•7 comments

Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

https://tuxedono2.com

12•smartmic•1h ago•2 comments

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

https://openchamber.dev/

85•hexomancer•5h ago•46 comments

I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

https://mynoise.net/vlog.php?ep=20260803

32•gregsadetsky•3h ago•7 comments

How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/10/silence-kate-mcloughlin-book-review

25•tintinnabula•3d ago•6 comments

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

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

109•Kiboneu•8h ago•65 comments

Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

https://github.com/yegors/deGDID

48•campuscodi•2h ago•29 comments

Everything you do is being recorded

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/

158•ike_usawa•11h ago•133 comments

When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/when-compilers-disagree-about-utf8

21•rbanffy•4d ago•4 comments

Touring the Consensus, Six Months In

https://theconsensus.dev/blog/2026/08/05/touring-the-consensus-six-months-in.html

3•tosh•3d 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...

287•akyuu•7h ago•243 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

98•Rochus•9h ago•16 comments

Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices

https://blog.raed.dev/posts/motocycle/

11•Raed667•2h ago•9 comments

The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv5441

7•toomuchtodo•1h ago•4 comments

Crickets as pets

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

68•Michelangelo11•4d ago•31 comments

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html

104•tremguy•10h ago•83 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

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

176•gukoff•15h ago•28 comments

Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/09/ransomware-gangs-skip-the-ceo-head-straight-for-t...

61•joebuckwilliams•3h ago•26 comments

Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win

https://alphabetsoup.club

13•johnchinjew•2h ago•9 comments

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

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

The Hacker's Renaissance

The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)

New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

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

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]

Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

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

Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

Everything you do is being recorded

When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8

Touring the Consensus, Six Months In

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

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

Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices

The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle

Crickets as pets

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win

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

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

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How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

The Hacker's Renaissance

The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)

New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

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

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]

Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

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

Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

Everything you do is being recorded

When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8

Touring the Consensus, Six Months In

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

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

Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices

The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle

Crickets as pets

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win

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

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port