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The case against a C alternative (2022)

https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8486-the_case_against_a_c_alternative
9•theanonymousone•4d ago

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leni536•3m ago
Pretty unconvincing arguments overall. Mostly boils down to "any new language will start as new and not mature". Dismisses any "killer feature" in C's design space. Ignores that there is already a well established C alternative: C++.

But obviously nothing will replace C in the sense that C will cease to exist.

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

https://remapradio.com/articles/the-lost-treasure-of-sid-meiers-pirates/
47•spankibalt•1h ago•11 comments

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

https://encore.dev/blog/firecracker-apple-silicon
45•signa11•1h ago•8 comments

The August 17 outage

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/
503•0xedb•13h ago•568 comments

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick
723•Ariarule•2d ago•295 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
784•encyclopedism•1d ago•188 comments

Version Control for Everything

https://tyoverby.com/posts/version-control-for-everything-else/
31•evakhoury•3d ago•19 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/
489•abhisek•19h ago•417 comments

Ox Alpha

https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha
137•mtokmak06•9h ago•103 comments

The case against a C alternative (2022)

https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8486-the_case_against_a_c_alternative
9•theanonymousone•4d ago•1 comments

The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)

https://philipdick.com/resources/miscellaneous/the-religious-experience-of-philip-k-dick-by-r-cru...
29•wise_blood•3h ago•11 comments

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
273•tyre•15h ago•105 comments

Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-inte...
116•rdmuser•3h ago•56 comments

CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_per...
394•EwanG•1d ago•242 comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/
303•danielvaughn•13h ago•157 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
165•rafaelc•14h ago•242 comments

Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product

https://github.com/runvendo/vendo
34•yousefh409•17h ago•19 comments

Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise

https://investors.micron.com/news/press-release/2026/Micron-Unveils-Micron-Research-Labs-a-U-S--B...
14•osnium123•5h ago•1 comments

Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

https://github.com/zachahn/vomit
250•Bluestein•17h ago•246 comments

Captain Zilog

https://www.zilog.com/captain_zilog/
50•rbanffy•3d ago•6 comments

Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K

https://journals.aps.org/prab/abstract/10.1103/4nhs-bkwh
39•supermagnet•6d ago•10 comments

Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

https://github.com/vivekhaldar/seed
18•gandalfgeek•3h ago•7 comments

Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/062dcd2aead00c3b47c14ff5b6c40313f7a775f5/etc/HISTORY
9•birdculture•37m ago•0 comments

Linux 7.2

https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html
249•mariuz•17h ago•97 comments

Show HN: Argentic – An L402 Lightning toll booth for AI scraping agents

https://Argentic.network
7•Ag0146•2h ago•4 comments

Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/37674
130•TheP1000•5h ago•43 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html
960•emctech•22h ago•299 comments

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html
317•Cider9986•6h ago•225 comments

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

https://blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/
160•speckx•17h ago•113 comments

Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09762
230•nunodonato•1d ago•163 comments

Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/08/13/speeding-up-ruby-hashes.html
51•arto•1w ago•0 comments