fp.

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

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/

147•bilsbie•4h ago•60 comments

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf

112•ronbenton•3h ago•44 comments

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

https://meanhamster.com/news/agi-64-brings-sierra-adventures-to-the-commodore-64

22•erickhill•2h ago•3 comments

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

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

403•Narishma•10h ago•222 comments

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/rhombus-v1.1.html

31•spdegabrielle•3h ago•12 comments

Claude: System Prompts

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

573•tosh•15h ago•238 comments

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

https://reticulum.network/

38•sudo_cowsay•3h ago•9 comments

Gmail might partially be to blame for receiving emails from other Sean Conners

https://boston.conman.org/2026/08/11.1

3•dmarto•34m ago•0 comments

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

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

121•Bluestein•5d ago•32 comments

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

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/02/18/amit-patel-creator-of-solar-realms-elite/

22•bananaboy•1w ago•3 comments

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

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

80•ibobev•3d ago•39 comments

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence

https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/122095

27•surprisetalk•5d ago•1 comments

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

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

128•theanonymousone•9h ago•85 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

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

245•mlenhard•13h ago•94 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

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

75•homarp•9h ago•24 comments

Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees

https://github.com/crabbuild/prolly

7•forhappy•2h ago•0 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...

142•walrus01•3h ago•39 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-...

144•root-parent•6h ago•55 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

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

94•emptybits•4d ago•11 comments

Applying a photosynthetic process to treat "dry eye"

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/taking-tip-plants-eyes

5•gumby•3h ago•0 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

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

72•lermontov•2d ago•16 comments

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

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

55•tobr•1d ago•16 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

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

567•pentagrama•14h ago•237 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

21•hardlianotion•7h ago•2 comments

A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs

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

58•evakhoury•2d ago•29 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...

233•zacharyozer•7h ago•166 comments

The Marvelously Inventive Life of Mária Telkes (2023)

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/sun-queen-marvelously-inventive-life-maria-t...

3•mooreds•3d ago•0 comments

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

324•stagas•10h ago•87 comments

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

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

288•hruvhwe•8h ago•163 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...

166•toomuchtodo•12h ago•128 comments