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Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

https://reticulum.network/
16•sudo_cowsay•2h ago

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thisisauserid•1h ago
Was also the name of the internet in Neal Stephenson's Anathem.
childintime•14m ago
The resistance is out there somewhere?
Gigachad•12m ago
> Reticulum does not use source addresses. No packets transmitted include information about the address, place, machine or person they originated from.

Sure, but if it’s anything like MeshCore, a few observer nodes will be able to see which repeaters the message first entered the network from and from that know roughly where it was located.

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf
55•ronbenton•1h ago•19 comments

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

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/
55•bilsbie•2h ago•21 comments

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

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/
377•Narishma•9h ago•202 comments

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/rhombus-v1.1.html
15•spdegabrielle•1h ago•7 comments

Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts
547•tosh•13h ago•229 comments

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

https://meanhamster.com/news/agi-64-brings-sierra-adventures-to-the-commodore-64
3•erickhill•23m ago•0 comments

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

https://pikuma.com/blog/programming-intel-pentium-mmx-simd
75•ibobev•3d ago•33 comments

Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of "Solar Realms Elite"

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/02/18/amit-patel-creator-of-solar-realms-elite/
11•bananaboy•1w ago•1 comments

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

https://wiki.lowtechlab.org/wiki/Filtre_%C3%A0_eau_c%C3%A9ramique/en
95•Bluestein•5d ago•26 comments

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

https://reticulum.network/
16•sudo_cowsay•2h ago•3 comments

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-lsp
114•theanonymousone•7h ago•81 comments

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

https://www.highereddive.com/news/inside-the-federal-keyword-lists-that-canceled-billions-in-rese...
55•walrus01•1h ago•4 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers
227•mlenhard•11h ago•89 comments

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence

https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/122095
11•surprisetalk•5d ago•1 comments

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

https://w4g1.dev/blog/models-are-getting-dumber-on-purpose
275•hruvhwe•7h ago•154 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

https://math-ai-org.github.io/mathcode/
63•homarp•7h ago•19 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

https://nnamgreb.de/blog/Clamiga+-+Common+Lisp+for+the+Amiga
86•emptybits•3d ago•10 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-...
104•root-parent•5h ago•35 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

https://commonreader.wustl.edu/winning-and-losing-at-the-great-game-of-intimacy/
65•lermontov•2d ago•13 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71yw
48•tobr•1d ago•15 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios
542•pentagrama•13h ago•222 comments

A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/zkp/
48•evakhoury•2d ago•20 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...
205•zacharyozer•5h ago•146 comments

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

292•stagas•8h ago•70 comments

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

https://tasklet.ai/careers/head-of-design-engineering
1•mayop100•12h ago

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

https://ei3lh.eu/2026/08/16/a-true-telnet-bbs-on-a-casio-calculator/
88•austinallegro•13h ago•9 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
11•hardlianotion•6h ago•1 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...
160•toomuchtodo•10h ago•125 comments

Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/before-rightmove-there-was-the-cosmorama-londons-forgotten-p...
26•brod_ie•5d ago•3 comments

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08421
85•matt_d•4d ago•35 comments