fp.

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

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

291•bilsbie•6h ago•121 comments

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

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

167•ronbenton•6h ago•73 comments

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

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

60•erickhill•4h ago•8 comments

A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

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

450•Narishma•13h ago•233 comments

Claude: System Prompts

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

614•tosh•17h ago•248 comments

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

https://reticulum.network/

79•sudo_cowsay•6h ago•18 comments

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

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

52•spdegabrielle•5h ago•19 comments

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

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

151•Bluestein•5d ago•40 comments

Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”

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

35•gumby•6h ago•2 comments

Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013)

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

45•bananaboy•1w ago•9 comments

How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/256212140/how-do-i-permanently-disable-google-photos-pop...

79•dt3ft•3d ago•42 comments

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

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

105•ibobev•3d ago•42 comments

Linear Algebra Done Right – Sheldon Axler

https://linear.axler.net/

4•the-mitr•1h ago•0 comments

$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/12b-of-us-ratepayers-money-wasted

15•_delirium•1h ago•3 comments

Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024)

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/644cad8a-6c9b-4b02-bcf3-b8b6e8c614c5

8•andsoitis•3h ago•0 comments

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (2012)

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

38•surprisetalk•5d ago•3 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

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

264•mlenhard•15h ago•111 comments

Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device

https://vocalslice.com/

11•terranivium•6d ago•4 comments

Design 3D-printable parts by talking

https://nurb.dev/

3•mkmk•2d ago•0 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

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

83•homarp•12h ago•26 comments

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

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

138•theanonymousone•11h ago•91 comments

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/stripe-will-reportedly-acquire-ai-gateway-startup-openrouter-fo...

285•zacharyozer•10h ago•194 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

38•hardlianotion•10h ago•6 comments

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

https://github.com/crabbuild/prolly

24•forhappy•5h ago•0 comments

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

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

62•tobr•1d ago•16 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

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

104•emptybits•4d ago•13 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-...

184•root-parent•9h ago•84 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

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

83•lermontov•2d ago•22 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

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

619•pentagrama•17h ago•252 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...

182•toomuchtodo•15h ago•133 comments