fp.

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

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

293•Narishma•5h ago•152 comments

Claude: System Prompts

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

472•tosh•10h ago•208 comments

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

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

84•theanonymousone•4h ago•53 comments

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

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

47•ibobev•3d ago•19 comments

Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversi...

53•ropbear•1h ago•34 comments

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

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

56•Bluestein•5d ago•13 comments

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

https://w4g1.dev/blog/models-are-getting-dumber-on-purpose

210•hruvhwe•3h ago•128 comments

The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later

https://ivan-gavran.github.io/0-social-processes-paper

61•ghuntley•2h ago•51 comments

A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/zkp/

11•evakhoury•2d ago•0 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

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

205•mlenhard•8h ago•76 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

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

46•homarp•4h ago•13 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...

88•zacharyozer•2h ago•69 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-...

42•root-parent•1h ago•4 comments

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

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

43•tobr•1d ago•10 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

https://commonreader.wustl.edu/winning-and-losing-at-the-great-game-of-intimacy/

53•lermontov•1d ago•10 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

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

69•emptybits•3d ago•7 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

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

485•pentagrama•10h ago•207 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...

32•root-parent•1h ago•29 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...

140•toomuchtodo•7h ago•104 comments

Stop Turning every purchase into a tip request

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/america-needs-stop-turning-every-purchase-uncomfortable-tip-request

24•gist•1h ago•15 comments

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

215•stagas•5h ago•55 comments

Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/before-rightmove-there-was-the-cosmorama-londons-forgotten-p...

22•brod_ie•5d ago•3 comments

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

https://ei3lh.eu/2026/08/16/a-true-telnet-bbs-on-a-casio-calculator/

80•austinallegro•10h ago•9 comments

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

https://tasklet.ai/careers/head-of-design-engineering

1•mayop100•9h ago

Asus Bike Booster

https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/

602•wiradikusuma•4d ago•423 comments

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

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maine-forest-fire-maps/

24•samclemens•4d ago•3 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...

128•txrx0000•3d ago•35 comments

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08421

78•matt_d•4d ago•32 comments

The weekend is 100 years old

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/aug/16/the-weekend-is-100-years-old-skiveday-fridays-and-h...

166•lentil_soup•7h ago•98 comments

Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?

https://brandur.org/fragments/postgres-without-pgbouncer

135•abelanger•4d ago•85 comments