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The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

https://remapradio.com/articles/the-lost-treasure-of-sid-meiers-pirates/
73•spankibalt•2h ago•23 comments

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

https://encore.dev/blog/firecracker-apple-silicon
65•signa11•3h ago•31 comments

The August 17 outage

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/
529•0xedb•14h ago•590 comments

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

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick
731•Ariarule•2d ago•303 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
805•encyclopedism•1d ago•189 comments

The case against a C alternative (2022)

https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8486-the_case_against_a_c_alternative
25•theanonymousone•4d ago•18 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/
496•abhisek•20h ago•423 comments

Version Control for Everything

https://tyoverby.com/posts/version-control-for-everything-else/
39•evakhoury•3d ago•34 comments

Ox Alpha

https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha
157•mtokmak06•10h ago•116 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...
38•wise_blood•4h ago•18 comments

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
282•tyre•16h ago•107 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...
156•rdmuser•4h ago•69 comments

Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo

https://www.toxel.com/tech/2026/08/07/flat-chair-by-sara-paculdo/
6•surprisetalk•3d ago•2 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
182•rafaelc•15h ago•256 comments

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

https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/
310•danielvaughn•14h ago•163 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...
401•EwanG•1d ago•245 comments

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

https://github.com/runvendo/vendo
37•yousefh409•18h ago•20 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...
19•osnium123•6h ago•1 comments

Captain Zilog

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

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

https://github.com/zachahn/vomit
257•Bluestein•18h ago•253 comments

Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/062dcd2aead00c3b47c14ff5b6c40313f7a775f5/etc/HISTORY
23•birdculture•1h ago•4 comments

Linux 7.2

https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html
254•mariuz•18h ago•100 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html
970•emctech•23h ago•306 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09762
239•nunodonato•1d ago•172 comments

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

https://blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/
167•speckx•18h ago•126 comments

Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

https://github.com/vivekhaldar/seed
23•gandalfgeek•4h ago•9 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
40•supermagnet•6d ago•11 comments

Better Batteries

https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/20/better-batteries.html
3•olexsmir•2h ago•0 comments

Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes

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

Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/37674
133•TheP1000•6h ago•48 comments
Open in hackernews

Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo

https://www.toxel.com/tech/2026/08/07/flat-chair-by-sara-paculdo/
6•surprisetalk•3d ago

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esperent•19m ago
It's cool but that rounded seat looks very uncomfortable. I could imagine it as a great item for a child's room though, if they could build it themselves from the flat sheet.
speps•14m ago
Ad-free link from original creator: https://paculdo.com/innovative-housewares-inside-out-design-...