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

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

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

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/
201•Narishma•3h ago•111 comments

Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts
427•tosh•8h ago•188 comments

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

https://w4g1.dev/blog/models-are-getting-dumber-on-purpose
130•hruvhwe•1h ago•76 comments

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-lsp
42•theanonymousone•2h ago•16 comments

The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later

https://ivan-gavran.github.io/0-social-processes-paper
6•ghuntley•11m ago•1 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers
180•mlenhard•6h ago•69 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...
123•toomuchtodo•5h ago•83 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

https://math-ai-org.github.io/mathcode/
29•homarp•2h ago•9 comments

NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ending-key-grant-budding-clinical-researchers
105•brandonb•4h ago•51 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

https://nnamgreb.de/blog/Clamiga+-+Common+Lisp+for+the+Amiga
60•emptybits•3d ago•4 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

https://commonreader.wustl.edu/winning-and-losing-at-the-great-game-of-intimacy/
43•lermontov•1d ago•5 comments

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71yw
25•tobr•1d ago•6 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios
432•pentagrama•7h ago•187 comments

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

https://pikuma.com/blog/programming-intel-pentium-mmx-simd
8•ibobev•3d ago•0 comments

ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/16/ricardo-parias-ice-detention-journalist-los-angeles/
27•Jimmc414•45m ago•1 comments

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

123•stagas•3h ago•35 comments

Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama

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

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

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maine-forest-fire-maps/
20•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•7h 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...
144•lentil_soup•5h ago•82 comments

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

https://ei3lh.eu/2026/08/16/a-true-telnet-bbs-on-a-casio-calculator/
68•austinallegro•8h ago•9 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...
121•txrx0000•2d ago•34 comments

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08421
70•matt_d•4d ago•28 comments

Asus Bike Booster

https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/
584•wiradikusuma•4d ago•410 comments

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

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22kidney+disappointment%22
309•Alifatisk•8h ago•114 comments

The Trumps' Crypto Project Just Got One Step Closer to Becoming a Bank

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/donald-trump-world-liberty-regulatory-approval/
14•rib3ye•1h ago•11 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
13•yareally•3d ago•4 comments

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work

https://duckdb.org/2026/07/31/asynchronous-io
262•pdet•6d ago•28 comments

Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?

https://brandur.org/fragments/postgres-without-pgbouncer
122•abelanger•4d ago•80 comments