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The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf
26•ronbenton•57m ago

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LastTrain•6m ago
There isn’t much to study - it didn’t succeed or fail on the merits - someone didn’t like it because he didn’t create it so it got axed.
ronbenton•3m ago
I disagree wholeheartedly that there isn’t much to study. Direct File was actually a resounding success, especially when you consider how much difficulty governments tend to have shipping good software products. There is a lot of good information in here that government entities can learn from.
mixdup•1m ago
Including how and why it died. That is an important lesson for the entire governmental enterprise, including all decision-makers, to learn: that government CAN deliver something good and one single person should not be in totalitarian control

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf
26•ronbenton•57m ago•3 comments

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

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/
365•Narishma•8h ago•190 comments

Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts
530•tosh•12h ago•222 comments

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

https://pikuma.com/blog/programming-intel-pentium-mmx-simd
68•ibobev•3d ago•31 comments

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

https://wiki.lowtechlab.org/wiki/Filtre_%C3%A0_eau_c%C3%A9ramique/en
89•Bluestein•5d ago•23 comments

A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/zkp/
40•evakhoury•2d ago•15 comments

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

https://w4g1.dev/blog/models-are-getting-dumber-on-purpose
259•hruvhwe•6h ago•147 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers
223•mlenhard•10h ago•88 comments

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-lsp
104•theanonymousone•6h ago•77 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

https://math-ai-org.github.io/mathcode/
54•homarp•6h ago•18 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-...
94•root-parent•4h ago•25 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

https://nnamgreb.de/blog/Clamiga+-+Common+Lisp+for+the+Amiga
81•emptybits•3d ago•9 comments

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

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/
7•bilsbie•1h ago•2 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71yw
44•tobr•1d ago•12 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios
530•pentagrama•12h ago•218 comments

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence

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

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

271•stagas•7h ago•64 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...
156•toomuchtodo•9h ago•118 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...
179•zacharyozer•4h ago•133 comments

Asus Bike Booster

https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/
609•wiradikusuma•4d ago•429 comments

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

https://ei3lh.eu/2026/08/16/a-true-telnet-bbs-on-a-casio-calculator/
84•austinallegro•12h ago•9 comments

Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone

https://brennan.day/webmaster-a-manifesto-for-everyone/
9•OuterVale•1h ago•2 comments

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08421
82•matt_d•4d ago•34 comments

Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/before-rightmove-there-was-the-cosmorama-londons-forgotten-p...
24•brod_ie•5d 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...
134•txrx0000•3d ago•39 comments

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work

https://duckdb.org/2026/07/31/asynchronous-io
271•pdet•6d ago•31 comments

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

https://tasklet.ai/careers/head-of-design-engineering
1•mayop100•11h ago

The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later

https://ivan-gavran.github.io/0-social-processes-paper
78•ghuntley•4h ago•73 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...
8•walrus01•1h ago•0 comments