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Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0

https://github.com/yaroslav/kino
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It will be interesting to see the Ruby Rails direction on ractor vs Fiber. Shopify is testing on Falcon / Fiber for production already.

Edit: Turns out they are working on Ractor as well

( https://railsatscale.com/2026-08-11-ractors-on-rails/)

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/
157•dares2573•1h ago•35 comments

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

https://annas-archive.pk/blog/physical-destruction.html
101•darccio•2h ago•42 comments

TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering

https://ixuvo.com/blog/tigerbeetle-core-system-architecture-performance-engineering
23•ksec•45m ago•2 comments

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

https://htmlcat.net/
81•marcomezzavilla•2h ago•19 comments

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

https://remapradio.com/articles/the-lost-treasure-of-sid-meiers-pirates/
138•spankibalt•5h ago•69 comments

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

https://encore.dev/blog/firecracker-apple-silicon
109•signa11•5h ago•52 comments

Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0

https://github.com/yaroslav/kino
9•ksec•1h ago•1 comments

The August 17 outage

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/
571•0xedb•17h ago•631 comments

Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo

https://www.toxel.com/tech/2026/08/07/flat-chair-by-sara-paculdo/
46•surprisetalk•3d ago•16 comments

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

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick
777•Ariarule•2d ago•319 comments

The Mystery of Dark Oxygen

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-mystery-of-dark-oxygen
8•rbanffy•4d ago•0 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
879•encyclopedism•1d ago•201 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...
60•wise_blood•6h ago•38 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/
517•abhisek•23h ago•445 comments

Ox Alpha

https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha
184•mtokmak06•12h ago•144 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...
56•osnium123•8h ago•9 comments

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
301•tyre•18h ago•113 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
210•rafaelc•17h ago•297 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...
253•rdmuser•6h ago•138 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...
420•EwanG•1d ago•255 comments

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

https://github.com/runvendo/vendo
46•yousefh409•20h ago•20 comments

Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

https://github.com/vivekhaldar/seed
38•gandalfgeek•7h ago•12 comments

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

https://github.com/zachahn/vomit
266•Bluestein•21h ago•261 comments

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

https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/
334•danielvaughn•17h ago•178 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09762
259•nunodonato•2d ago•210 comments

Linux 7.2

https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html
267•mariuz•20h ago•113 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html
984•emctech•1d ago•313 comments

Captain Zilog

https://www.zilog.com/captain_zilog/
60•rbanffy•3d ago•8 comments

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

https://blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/
178•speckx•21h ago•134 comments

Better Batteries

https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/20/better-batteries.html
14•olexsmir•4h ago•11 comments