fp.

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/

341•bilsbie•7h ago•147 comments

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf

177•ronbenton•7h ago•82 comments

Linear Algebra Done Right – Sheldon Axler

https://linear.axler.net/

24•the-mitr•2h ago•7 comments

A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/

468•Narishma•14h ago•243 comments

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

https://meanhamster.com/news/agi-64-brings-sierra-adventures-to-the-commodore-64

68•erickhill•5h ago•9 comments

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

https://reticulum.network/

93•sudo_cowsay•7h ago•23 comments

Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts

629•tosh•18h ago•250 comments

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/rhombus-v1.1.html

64•spdegabrielle•6h ago•22 comments

GIMP Development Update

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/08/16/dev-update-august-2026/

30•lumpa•4h ago•1 comments

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

https://wiki.lowtechlab.org/wiki/Filtre_%C3%A0_eau_c%C3%A9ramique/en

157•Bluestein•5d ago•41 comments

Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device

https://vocalslice.com/

16•terranivium•6d ago•5 comments

Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/taking-tip-plants-eyes

38•gumby•6h ago•7 comments

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

https://pikuma.com/blog/programming-intel-pentium-mmx-simd

110•ibobev•3d ago•43 comments

Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013)

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/02/18/amit-patel-creator-of-solar-realms-elite/

47•bananaboy•1w ago•12 comments

Design 3D-printable parts by talking

https://nurb.dev/

8•mkmk•2d ago•4 comments

$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/12b-of-us-ratepayers-money-wasted

24•_delirium•1h ago•7 comments

Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees

https://github.com/crabbuild/prolly

33•forhappy•6h ago•1 comments

Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024)

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/644cad8a-6c9b-4b02-bcf3-b8b6e8c614c5

9•andsoitis•4h ago•1 comments

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (2012)

https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/122095

39•surprisetalk•5d ago•4 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers

270•mlenhard•16h ago•113 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

https://math-ai-org.github.io/mathcode/

86•homarp•13h ago•28 comments

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/stripe-will-reportedly-acquire-ai-gateway-startup-openrouter-fo...

304•zacharyozer•10h ago•199 comments

Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI

https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/red-queen-hypothesis-new-way-forward-self-improving-ai

45•hardlianotion•11h ago•8 comments

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-lsp

143•theanonymousone•12h ago•93 comments

How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/256212140/how-do-i-permanently-disable-google-photos-pop...

88•dt3ft•3d ago•56 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71yw

64•tobr•1d ago•16 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

https://nnamgreb.de/blog/Clamiga+-+Common+Lisp+for+the+Amiga

104•emptybits•4d ago•14 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-...

193•root-parent•10h ago•89 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios

632•pentagrama•18h ago•254 comments

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

440•stagas•13h ago•113 comments

Open in hackernews

Design 3D-printable parts by talking

https://nurb.dev/

8•mkmk•2d ago

Comments

noduerme•30m ago

which part of this is the innovation?

protocolture•29m ago

Looks cool.

I have had issues with language CAD stuff before, often not performing as advertised and would love to tinker with it.

And whats great here is that I cant test the web version, and because its for mac silicon only, I also cant test the local version.

So Kudos? I guess?

voidUpdate•19m ago

> "It asks for the real dimension instead of inventing one."

Shortly after

> "Make an adapter that connects my shop vac hose to the dust port on my table saw" > "Done: Ø57.6 → Ø35.0 · 74 mm"

is interesting. When did it ask for the dimensions?