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Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel

https://sankalp.bearblog.dev/autoresearch/
179•tosh•4h ago•51 comments

Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul

https://alexrios.me/blog/writergate/
24•signa11•1h ago•8 comments

The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

https://conic.al/writing/the-other-sean-byrne-doesnt-exist/
292•rdl•11h ago•141 comments

Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding

https://allen.bargi.org/notes/working-with-ai-feels-like-leadership/
75•allenb•4h ago•60 comments

The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves

https://linebender.org/blog/hyperbezier/
92•raphlinus•5d ago•10 comments

Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3rprx2wl4o
30•m-i-l•1h ago•27 comments

Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents

http://www.stephen-cresswell.com/2026/08/15/Yadda-3.0.0-BDD-in-the-Age-of-AI-Agents.html
14•scresswell•1h ago•5 comments

The Color of White Light

https://ludens.cl/photo/spectra/spectra.html
41•xk3•3d ago•26 comments

The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve...
5•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum

https://baselashraf81.github.io/eigendrum/
86•BaselAshraf81•4d ago•17 comments

Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR

https://hypnagogic-quasicrystals.github.io/
9•r34•1h ago•5 comments

Xorshift Generators

https://www.alanzucconi.com/2026/08/15/xorshift-generators/
8•tobr•2h ago•1 comments

Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/everything-is-about-to-go-dark/
401•vslira•18h ago•196 comments

Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II

https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-07-14.html
50•uecker•7h ago•32 comments

Could a computer scientist build a brain?

https://stankerstjens.github.io/could-a-computer-scientist-build-a-brain/
5•ogundipeore•2h ago•2 comments

A Planet Position Widget

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/08/a-planet-position-widget/
6•speckx•2d ago•1 comments

In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a73358518/nazi-rocket-scientist-disappearance/
83•bookofjoe•3d ago•50 comments

Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline

https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm/blob/main/home-mixer/filters/brazil_2026_election_filter.rs
36•LorenDB•2h ago•31 comments

The Problem

https://intelligence.org/the-problem/
10•Bluestein•3h ago•9 comments

Möbius Strips and Differential Equations

https://hidden-phenomena.com/articles/monodromy
19•mbustamanter•5d ago•1 comments

T3X/0 a Minimal Procedural Language

https://t3x.org/t3x/0/index.html
9•AlexeyBrin•3h ago•0 comments

Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption

https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/
449•u1hcw9nx•23h ago•268 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8
1260•erdaltoprak•1d ago•740 comments

Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-brain-rem-eeg.html
24•gmays•2h ago•4 comments

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3212428/firefox-is-now-the-last-major-browser-that-still-supports...
1397•DemiGuru•20h ago•539 comments

Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

https://chenxiachan.github.io/thoughtdag/
81•chatchan•10h ago•25 comments

388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/388-years-ago-galileo-worked-out-why-human-giants-cant...
22•beardyw•2h ago•20 comments

Understanding WCAG 2.2 as ePub and PDF

https://doeken.org/wcag-ebook
43•doekenorg•3d ago•3 comments

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/
325•rustdesk•23h ago•136 comments

eigendrum

https://eigendrum.com/#p=circle
206•bookofjoe•17h ago•59 comments
Open in hackernews

Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul

https://alexrios.me/blog/writergate/
22•signa11•1h ago

Comments

Jowsey•36m ago
So many Claude-isms in one post. Please stop.
Nail2680•32m ago
Needing to manually call flush seems like a major issue, is there a friendlier wrapper in the std lib to print and flush and use some static storage for the buffer? Since that seems like it would become step one of any zig project
eptcyka•10m ago
It mirrors the C interface.
KolmogorovComp•9m ago
I agree, the less batterie-complete STD become, the more everyone get its own half-baked utility one.
sarreph•29m ago
As someone who doesn't write Zig (but is hoping to soon!), I'm struck when reading this that the new interface seems much more verbose than the old interface... i.e. 6 LoC vs the previous implementation's 3 LoC.

I was under the impression that verbosity was something that Zig tries to reduce, but perhaps this is not emblematic of other updates to the language?

wmedrano•7m ago
Zig is more about "no hidden control flow" than conciseness.

https://ziglang.org/learn/overview/#small-simple-language

delusional•20m ago
This reads either AI generated, or written by someone who has gotten too used to AI writing. The structure is off and filled with "Here's what happened next" and "Why that matters" and "X happens, not Y" without context for why I'd care, or why I'd expect Y.
bayesnet•5m ago
For someone who doesn’t write Zig, I wish the code examples gave type annotations for the writers so I could see the difference between the old generic API and the new `std.Io` interface.