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In the Shadow of the (Berlin) Wall

https://www.slowtravelberlin.com/in-the-shadow-of-the-berlin-wall/
9•yitchelle•3d ago

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yitchelle•3d ago
The Berlin Wall was built right outside The Neumanns‘ apartment overnight. They lived on its shadow and survived to see it fall. Herbert Neumann documented it all (illegally) on camera. Interview by Thalia Gigerenzer.

The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later

https://ivan-gavran.github.io/0-social-processes-paper
37•ghuntley•1h ago•22 comments

A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/
247•Narishma•4h ago•132 comments

Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts
449•tosh•9h ago•195 comments

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-lsp
70•theanonymousone•3h ago•41 comments

SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX

https://pikuma.com/blog/programming-intel-pentium-mmx-simd
34•ibobev•3d ago•8 comments

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

https://wiki.lowtechlab.org/wiki/Filtre_%C3%A0_eau_c%C3%A9ramique/en
32•Bluestein•5d ago•11 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers
191•mlenhard•7h ago•70 comments

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

https://w4g1.dev/blog/models-are-getting-dumber-on-purpose
174•hruvhwe•2h ago•110 comments

Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-16/stripe-nears-deal-to-buy-ai-firm-openrouter-fo...
47•zacharyozer•1h ago•30 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

https://math-ai-org.github.io/mathcode/
36•homarp•3h ago•12 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

https://nnamgreb.de/blog/Clamiga+-+Common+Lisp+for+the+Amiga
67•emptybits•3d ago•6 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

https://commonreader.wustl.edu/winning-and-losing-at-the-great-game-of-intimacy/
50•lermontov•1d ago•7 comments

St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

https://www.wptv.com/news/treasure-coast/region-st-lucie-county/saint-lucie-nuclear-power-plant-u...
131•toomuchtodo•6h ago•95 comments

Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71yw
30•tobr•1d ago•7 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios
461•pentagrama•8h ago•194 comments

Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee

https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-scales-back-250-billion-openai-data-center-guarantee-wsj-...
14•root-parent•44m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

185•stagas•4h ago•48 comments

Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200B 2028 revenue forecast

https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-ipo-valuation-hinges-190-200-billion-2028-revenue-fore...
14•root-parent•51m ago•9 comments

Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/before-rightmove-there-was-the-cosmorama-londons-forgotten-p...
20•brod_ie•5d ago•2 comments

Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maine-forest-fire-maps/
21•samclemens•3d ago•3 comments

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering

https://tasklet.ai/careers/head-of-design-engineering
1•mayop100•8h ago

The weekend is 100 years old

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/aug/16/the-weekend-is-100-years-old-skiveday-fridays-and-h...
156•lentil_soup•6h ago•89 comments

In the Shadow of the (Berlin) Wall

https://www.slowtravelberlin.com/in-the-shadow-of-the-berlin-wall/
9•yitchelle•3d ago•1 comments

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

https://ei3lh.eu/2026/08/16/a-true-telnet-bbs-on-a-casio-calculator/
74•austinallegro•9h ago•9 comments

Asus Bike Booster

https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/
595•wiradikusuma•4d ago•417 comments

Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware

https://hwbusters.com/news/comma-ai-egpu-dock-runs-open-source-firmware-249-bare-799-with-an-rx-9...
123•txrx0000•2d ago•35 comments

NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ending-key-grant-budding-clinical-researchers
116•brandonb•5h ago•60 comments

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08421
73•matt_d•4d ago•31 comments

Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22kidney+disappointment%22
342•Alifatisk•9h ago•122 comments

The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains

https://www.wunc.org/environment/2026-08-10/road-to-nowhere-great-smoky-mountains
17•yareally•3d ago•5 comments